Norman’s projects

Current PI/CoI

No current externally-funded projects.

Industrial

2014–2019: working with Anacail, a university spin-out/startup company, developing microprocessor-based machine-control software.

Past PI/CoI

Digital sensitivity review

A cluster of ‘Knowledge exchange’ projects, working with GU Computing Science, and The National Archives, 2013–2015. A mixture of funding, starting with KE funding from Glasgow University.

MaRDI-Gross

Managing Research Data Infrastructures – Big Science, October 2011 – March 2012. Canonical URL: http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mardi-gross. Funded by JISC, £66 764 (approx 8 staff months), as part of the 2011–2013 Managing Research Data programme. Co-I with Roger Jones, University of Lancaster, and Juan Bicarregui, STFC e-Science Centre, RAL. [project blog]

AstroDAbis

Stand-off annotation for astronomical catalogues, April–October 2011. Funded by JISC, £74 024 (approx 8 staff months), as part of the 2011 e-Content Programme. Co-I with Bob Mann, University of Edinburgh [ project blog, current code home ].

MRD-GW

Managing Research Data – Gravitational Waves, December 2009 – February 2011. Canonical URL: https://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw. Funded by JISC, £137 164 (13.5 staff months), as part of the Managing Research Data programme. Co-I with Graham Woan, Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

Explicator

Intelligent access to foreign data models, July 2007 – September 2009. Funded by EPSRC, £205 280 (33 staff months). Co-I with I Ounis, Computer Science, University of Glasgow.

SKUA

Semantic Knowledge Underpinning Astronomy, January 2008 – July 2009. Funded by JISC, £310 752 (33 staff months). Co-I with Tony Linde, University of Leicester [DOAP and code home]

AGAST

Advanced Grid Authorisation through Semantic Technologies, 2008 – March 2009. Funded by JISC, £132 637 (16 staff months). Co-I with Richard Sinnott, NeSC [JISC project page]

Other involvement

VO-TECH

European Virtual Observatory technology project. Employed from November 2005 to the project’s end in late 2009, via the AstroGrid project.

IVOA

International Virtual Observatory Alliance. Participation from 2003; Semantics Working Group vice-chair and chair, 2008–2011.

Starlink Project

Astronomical data reduction. Employed from 1998 to the project's end in 2005.