People

Principal Investigator: Dr Jon Blower (University of Reading) has been the Technical Director of the Reading e-Science Centre since November 2003. He is the PI of the NERC projects MashMyData (Technology Proof-of-Concept) and SHAVER (Knowledge Exchange), which apply open web service standards to problems of environmental data sharing, visualization and intercomparison. He is a Co-I on the e-Research South collaboration. He will be in overall charge of the project and will contribute his technical knowledge of the Godiva2 system, of which he is lead designer and developer.

Prof. Jeremy Frey (University of Southampton) is Professor of Physical Chemistry and deputy head of the Chemical Biology section. As part of his current e-Science research he is PI of the CombeChem project looking at the ways in which e-Science and Grid infrastructure can be developed to provide support for and carry out chemical research. He is applying Web 2.0, social network and semantic web concepts in the Smart Tea Project. He is also a Co-I in e-Research South.

Adit Santokhee (University of Reading) is the Reading e-Science Centre's Data Manager and has worked on many projects concerning the sharing and visualization of environmental data. Adit will modify the Godiva2 system to link with the blogging engine, implement the geospatial database and be the first point of contact with user groups for requirements-gathering and evaluation.

Andrew Milsted (University of Southampton) has developed and provided blog services at the University of Southampton and many other institutions, including RAL, Bangor University and the University of New South Wales, Australia. Andrew's PhD involved an investigation of electronic laboratory notebooks. Andrew will set up the blogging engine for this project and make the necessary modifications to the blog's web service API to allow for the creation of geospatially-linked entries from the Godiva2 system.