Dr Leslie Carr, Web Science researcher and Open Access advocate

Dr Leslie Carr, Senior Lecturer in Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia at the University of Southampton
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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 Digital 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.

As well as running the courses and modules listed below, and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate projects I 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.