"Sharing the Knowledge"

International CIDOC CRM Symposium

March 26 - 27, 2003

Andrew Jones

Dr. Andrew Jones is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Cardiff University, UK. He received his PhD in 1992, working in the area of Object-Oriented systems, and subsequently worked on Active Object-Oriented Databases. More recently he has specialised in Biodiversity Informatics. He has worked on the LITCHI project, funded by the UK BBSRC/EPSRC Bioinformatics Panel, which was concerned with using constraints to detect and resolve conflicts in taxonomic checklists; the SPICE for Species 2000 project, funded by the BBSRC/EPSRC Bioinformatics Panel, which has been concerned with building a federated catalogue of life, and the GRAB project, funded by the UK DTI, which has been concerned with demonstrating how sources of differing kinds of data relevant to biodiversity research could be brought together on the GRID in order to solve complex biodiversity-related questions. He is currently involved in the BBSRC-funded BiodiversityWorld project, which has recently commenced. In this project a GRID-based biodiversity problem-solving environment is being built. He is also involved in two new EU-funded biodiversity informatics projects -- EuroCat and ENBI.