"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

Contact Details

UKOLN
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY
tel: +44 (0) 1761 439278
fax: +44 (0) 1225 386838
Skype:talat.chaudhri
email: t.chaudhri@ukoln.ac.uk

Biography

Talat joined UKOLN in September 2008. He is currently designing the Technical Foundations web site. He also recently worked on the CERIFy project. He formerly worked on the Application Profiles Support Project and has considerable expertise in the area of metadata and research information management.

Talat supports and contributes to the JISC Researcher Identifiers Task & Finish Group, involving RCUK, HEFCE and other HE partner organisations.

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
• Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles, Ariadne [ISSN 1361-3200] 62, January 2010

Further Information

Talat's experience in Linux, Mac OS X and Windows systems, as well as in (X)HTML, CSS and XML mark-up, is largely derived from various personal and community projects. He has built sites based on Drupal and MediaWiki on LAMP and MAMP servers. He can program proficiently in PHP, Perl, Javascript (including JQuery), and C based languages, although he would not claim to be an experienced developer. He has specific expertise in the OpenSim platform for 3D virtual worlds. He has considerable experience in translation work, especially in technical subjects and in software translation. He provided the Welsh translations for DSpace 1.4, DSpace 1.5 (JSP UI), EPrints 3.1, MetaLib (Ex Libris), Voyager 7 (Ex Libris) and Primo 3.0 (Ex Libris).