Leslie Carr is a senior lecturer in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia at the University of Southampton. Since the 1980's I have experimented with multimedia information systems, novel ways of constructing hypertexts, digital libraries and knowledge management systems.

As a practical application of the above ideas (time to change the world instead of just thinking deep thoughts), I am working with Open Access and Institutional Repositories. My goal is to encourage researchers and scientists to become responsible curators of their own intellectual assets, and to build the information environments that enable that goal and also that take advantage of it (repositories, literature analysis services, community maps, new idea trackers).

I'm fascinated by the way that humans can take advantage of new information sources (like Google or the Semantic Web) and whether these things can help to make us genuinely smarter. Can Google make someone behave like an expert? And if so, can we change the way that we teach children or undergraduates ?

Activities in brief: I am a fellow of the Web Science Research initiative and co-director of the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre, the technical director of the EPrints Repository software team and last year's Open Repositories conference chair. I am the manager of the ECS repository and I also blog about the experience as RepositoryMan.

I am Course Leader for the MSc in Web Technologies and the MSc in Web Science. I teach on the Foundations of Web Science, the Web Science Research Methods, the Scripting Languages (JavaScript), and the Hypertext and Web Technologies modules in our degrees courses, as well as supervising undergraduate and postgraduate projects. I also co-lead the School's student induction activities. I am also the manager of the ECS Computer Science Teaching labs and I develop the Animated Code Annotater for teaching on these courses.

Recent Publications

Tarrant, D., Brody, T. and Carr, L. (2009) Ten Years of Digital Preservation with EPrints. In: Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group - Fall 2009, Oct 7-9 2009, San Francisco.
Vesse, R., Hall, W. and Carr, L. (2009) Preserving Linked Data Integrity on the Semantic Web by application of techniques from Hypermedia. In: ISWC 2009. (Submitted)
Tarrant, D., Hitchcock, S. and Carr, L. (2009) Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 meet format risk management: P2 registry. In: iPres2009: The Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, October 5th and 6th, 2009., San Francisco. (In Press)
Davis, H., Carr, L., Hey, J., Howard, Y., Millard, D., Morris, D. and White, S. (2009) Bootstrapping a Culture of Sharing to Facilitate Open Educational Resources. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies . (In Press)
Glaser, H., Millard, I. and Carr, L. (2009) RKBExplorer: Repositories, Linked Data and Research Support. In: Eprints User Group, Open Repositories 2009, 20/05/2009, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Tarrant, D., Hitchcock, S. and Carr, L. (2009) EPrints Preservation 2010. In: Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group - Summer 2009, June 24-26 2009, Malta.
Tarrant, D., O'Steen, B., Brody, T., Hitchcock, S., Jefferies, N. and Carr, L. (2009) Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications. The Code4Lib Journal, 6 . ISSN 1940-5758
Tarrant, D., Brody, T. and Carr, L. (2009) From the Desktop to the Cloud: Leveraging Hybrid Storage Architectures in your Repository. In: The 4th annual international Open Repositories Conference (or09), May 18th - 21st, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia. (Submitted)
Tarrant, D., Carr, L. and Hitchcock, S. (2008) EPrints and Preservation (December 2008). In: Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Managers, 12th December 2008, London.
Carr, L. and Hitchcock, S. (2007) EPrints: repositories for grassroots preservation. In: The Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (Sun PASIG), 14-16 Nov 2007, Paris, France.

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