"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

Job Title

Research Officer, Application Profiles Support project

Contact Details

UKOLN
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY
tel: +44 (0) 1225 385105
fax: +44 (0) 1225 386838
Skype:talat.chaudhri
email: t.chaudhri@ukoln.ac.uk

Biography

Talat joined UKOLN in September 2008. His role is to support and co-ordinate the implementation and continued development of the various Dublin Core Application Profiles (DCAPs) that have been created through JISC funding for different types of repository content. The intention is to encourage interoperability between different resource types through the adoption of appropriate standards where it may be of practical benefit to the repository community. Working with repository managers and the developers of the major repository platforms, the project aims to assess the feasibility of complex metadata models in institutional repositories in terms of acquiring and maintaining high quality metadata, as well as the potential for developing new services on the basis of a common core metadata set for application profiles.

Before joining UKOLN, Talat worked as Repository Advisor at Aberystwyth University, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining the university's research repository CADAIR and for advocacy work both within the institution and externally. In addition to the acquisition of substantial new research content and promoting self-archiving, he negotiated the mandatory deposit of research theses, the ingest of RAE submissions and the transfer of research content from the merger with IGER (the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research). He worked with senior management towards a proposal for the adoption of a Current Research Information System (CRIS) to co-ordinate all research activity across the university.

Talat previously worked as a library assistant in Aberystwyth and had responsibility for supporting distance learners in the Department of Information Studies. He completed his PhD in the Department of Welsh during this time.

For further details see: personal staff page

Publications

Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles, Ariadne [ISSN 1361-3200] 58, January 2009

Further Information

Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP)
    UKOLN, University of Bath

Images Application Profile (IAP)
    Mick Eadie, Visual Arts Data Service

Geospatial Application Profile (GAP)
    James Reid, EDINA

Time Based Media Application Profile (TBM-AP)
    Gayle Calverley, University of Manchester

Learning Materials Application Profile Scoping Study (LMAP)
    Phil Barker, CETIS

Scientific Data Application Profile Scoping Study
    Alex Ball, UKOLN

Talat's experience in Windows and Linux systems, as well as in (X)HTML, CSS and XML mark-up, is largely derived from various personal and community projects. He has some ability with PHP, Javascript and C based languages, although he would not claim to be a proficient programmer. He has considerable experience in translation work, with specific expertise in technical subjects. He provided the Welsh translations for DSpace 1.4, DSpace 1.5 (JSP UI), EPrints 3.0, MetaLib (Ex Libris) and Voyager 7 (Ex Libris).