Contact

You can find me on Mastodon, where I am quite active, and on LinkedIn. I have removed myself from most of the other global social-media systems.

Blog

I have been blogging, intermittently, since 2003. These days, I generally write about my work in the areas of scholarly-communication, open-access repositories, software development & research-data management.

Current Work

Antleaf

My digital consultancy working in the higher-education and research domains, with particular expertise in scholarly communications, repositories and related infrastructure, data and metadata management, and web-system design, prototyping & development.

Rioxx

Rioxx is a metadata profile, designed to aid open-access repositories to share metadata about the scholarly resources they contain.

Rioxx is recommended for use as a "format" in OAI-PMH, but it has also been updated to work well with more modern Web protocols too.

The COAR Notify Protocol

A set of profiles, constraints and conventions around the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.

The Dealing With Bots Web Resource

A web resource to help repository managers understand the challenges posed by bots, and to provide guidance on how to manage bot traffic effectively.

Selected Presentations

Dealing With Bots
12 Feb 2026
Virtual
COAR Notify - PRC Meeting, Lyon
9 Oct 2024
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'information et des Bibliotheques, Lyon
Should repositories participate in the Fediverse?
5 Jun 2024
Clarion Hotel Post, Gothenburg
From Catalogue to Agent
19 Jan 2012
Radcliffe Training & Conference Centre, The University of Warwick
Engaging Developers, Supporting Innovation
1 Mar 2010
VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative), Melbourne University
LondonMet EII Project
9 Jun 2005
Chester Zoo