Speaking

A short session which I ran at the Northernlands 2 conference in July 2020 discussing forms of data collaboration.

Exploring the relationship and overlaps between open data and open source

A talk delivered for a Royal Society workshop on collaborative maintenance of data

Whether you’re interested in music or maps, comics or comets there are ways that we can all contribute directly to the creation of some unique open datasets. In this talk I’ll be exploring some of those projects to highlight their work, how they’re being used and thinking about what they can teach us about building a sustainable open data commons. Slides

Speaking on a panel during an ODI lunchtime lecture

Data doesn’t just exist on our phones and devices. It’s all around us – in the city, on signs, road markings and equipment – and it’s been there for some time. In this talk, ODI Senior Consultant Leigh Dodds will explain how to be a data magpie, and find small pieces of data that are shared – whether deliberately or accidentally – in our cities. Leigh will also explain how looking at data in its natural habitat can give us insights into our data infrastructure and what the future may bring. See also this blog post

A talk I gave at the Open Data Cities conference in Brighton, 2012. Slides

acebook’s Open Graph, Schema.org, and a recent scramble towards a “Rosetta Stone” for geodata, are all examples of a trend towards linking data across the web. Weaving data into the web simplifies data integration. Big Data offers ways to mine huge datasets for insight. Linked Data creates massively inter-connected datasets that can be mined or drawn upon to enrich queries and analysis. This talk will look at the concept of Linked Data and how a rapidly growing number of inter-connected databases, from a diverse range of sources, can be used to contextualise Big Data. Slides

A talk I gave at BathCamp about Linked Data. Slides

In Winter 2002/Spring 2003 I taught 2 10 week part-time courses in Java programming.