anglerfinch

Writing & Communication

I have extensive experience as an author of technical and scientific information. This includes books, peer‑reviewed research, technical articles, technical documentation, educational materials, blogging, and more. I served as Project Editor for two ISO/IEC standards on user documentation and agile development practices. I also have extensive experience as a presenter, workshop lead, and teaching including:

• Scientific and technical conferences
• Scientific and technical workshops
• Educational and activity workshops for schools and teacher outreach
• Guest lecturing for Imperial College, London and the University of Southampton
• Training for new graduates and lunch & learn at IBM
• Associate lecturer for the Open University

Books

• Recording Science in the Digital Era: From Paper to Electronic Notebooks and Other Digital Tools
• WebSphere Message Broker Basics
• Migrating to WebSphere Message Broker Version 6.0
• WebSphere InterChange Server Migration Scenarios
• WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker Basics

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• AI4Green4Students: Promoting Sustainable Chemistry in Undergraduate Laboratories with an Electronic Lab Notebook
• Data accessibility in the chemical sciences: an analysis of recent practice in organic chemistry journals
• Digital research environments: a requirements analysis
• Data management matters
• eScience Infrastructures in Physical Chemistry
• Encouraging and Facilitating Laboratory Scientists to Curate at Source
• Documentation and Visualisation of Workflows for Effective Communication, Collaboration and Publication @ Source
• Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?
• Using Metadata Actively
• Effects of using structured templates for recalling chemistry experiments
• Annalist: A practical tool for creating, managing and sharing evolving linked data
• Collection, Curation, Citation at Source: Publication@Source 10 Years On
• User-Defined Metadata: Using Cues and Changing Perspectives
• Creating Context for the Experiment Record. User-Defined Metadata: Investigations into Metadata Usage in the LabTrove ELN
• Experiences with a researcher-centric ELN
• Data Curation Issues in the Chemical Sciences
• Laboratory notebooks in the digital era: the role of ELNs in record keeping for chemistry and other sciences
• Smart Meetings: Experimenting with Space
• Human Aspects of Smart Spaces for Knowledge Transfer
• Smart Meeting Spaces for Knowledge Transfer

Theses

• PhD Thesis, University of Southampton 2015: Asking the right questions: Designing digital tools to support researchers recording scientific experiments
• MSc Environmental Analysis and Health Thesis, University of Wales, Swansea 1997: Analysis of the Impacts of Mine Drainage and its Remediation on a Selection of Rivers in South Wales
• BSc Geology (Honours) Thesis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1996: Environments of Deposition in the Carboniferous Limestone of South East Gower

Articles

• Agile Development. A Guide for Technical Communicators Part 2, Southern Communicator
• Agile Development. A Guide for Technical Communicators Part 1, Southern Communicator
• More than words, Communicator Magazine
• Developing user documentation in an agile environment:An International Standard, Communicator Magazine
• Standards for User Documentation from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG2
• Making technology accessible for people with disabilities, Southampton University

International Standards

Editor

• ISO/IEC 26513:2009 Systems and software engineering – Requirements for testers and reviewers of user documentation (also available as IEEE 26513-2010)
• ISO/IEC 26515:2011 Systems and software engineering – Developing user documentation in an agile environment

Contributor

• ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Software and systems engineering — Software testing
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 26511 Systems and software engineering — Management of information for users of systems, software, and services
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 26512 Systems and software engineering — Requirements for acquirers and suppliers of information for users
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 26514 Systems and software engineering — Design and development of information for users
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289 Systems and software engineering — Content of life-cycle information items (documentation)
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 Systems and software engineering — Vocabulary

Miscellaneous

• Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure Knowledge Base
• IBM WebSphere Message Broker Information Centre

Patents

Granted

• Generating a taxonomy for documents using tag data (US8620922, US8346776, US8874583)
• Document taxonomy generation from tag data using user groupings of tags (US8645381)

Filed

• Socialized help for computing applications

Presentations

• Accessibility in a physical sciences data infrastructure: Challenges and metadata-driven opportunities (PSDI)
• Evolving Data Management Plans (DMPs): Smart, active, integrated, useful!
• DRI Webinar: Getting to know the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure
• Introduction to PSDI
• Data accessibility in the chemical sciences: an analysis of recent practice in organic chemistry journals
• Data Management Plans in Physical Sciences
• Open Science Explained: Why it Matters and How to Get Started
• Pitfalls of templates for ERNs
• Universal Usability
• Human aspects of Units, Symbols, Terminology
• Documentation and visualisation of workflows for effective curation@source
• Encouraging and Facilitating Laboratory Scientists to Curate at Source
• User-defined metadata: Using cues and changing perspectives
• ELNs for researchers and students: A user perspective on ELNs in academic environments
• Knowledge and memory: a study of what students remember about chemistry experiments
• Changing perspective: How do we make sure students record the most useful information about their experiments?
• Generating metadata for an experiment: using a tablet ELN
• Creating context for the experiment record: user-defined metadata
• Towards a global open scientific notebook infrastructure
• User Perspectives of Metadata Use in Electronic Notebooks
• Human aspects of smart spaces for knowledge transfer
• Agile development, a guide for writers
• Developing user documentation in an agile environment
• Progressive disclosure of information: Making products easier to use
• Usability and Mobile Interfaces
• Usability Issues for Web and Mobile Interfaces
• Testing and reviewing user documentation
• Introduction to usability and accessibility
• What is usability and how do you test for it?
• Day in the Life of an Information Architect
• sTAGr Extreme Blue project
• Making information technology accessible for people with disabilities
• Web 2.0
• SOA for mortals
• User Assistance in Eclipse
• Standards and ISO/IEC/SC7/WG2
• Blogging
• Usability in complex middleware
• Engineering for the user
• WebSphere Message Broker Externals Workshop