Presenter

Carole Goble CBE FREng FBCS is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. She leads a team of Researchers, Research Software Engineers and Data Stewards. She has spent 25 years working in e-Science on computational workflows, reproducible science, open sharing, and knowledge and metadata management in a range of disciplines. She has led numerous e-Infrastructure projects and is currently the Head of Node of ELIXIR-UK, the national node of ELIXIR, the European Research Infrastructure for Life Sciences, as well as directing the digital infrastructure for IBISBA, the European Research Infrastructure for Industrial Biotechnology. Both these emphasise the use of computational workflows. Carole led the development of Taverna, one of the first open source computational workflow management systems and myExperiment.org, the first system agnostic web-based sharing platform for workflows and their related data. She was the scientific lead of the EU WF4Ever project which pioneered the notion of workflows as preservable and reproducible Research Objects. She currently co-leads developments in EOSC-Life Cluster Workflow Collaboratory (13 European Research Infrastructures in Biomedical Science lead by ELIXIR) including: the WorkflowHub.eu registry for workflows, the RO-Crate community initiative for packaging, exchanging and publishing workflows as Research Objects and the use of schema.org to mark up workflows. The tools of the Collaboratory are used by other projects from natural history collection digitisation to climate change modelling, and are part of the EU COVID data portal. Carole serves on the Advisory Board of the Common Workflow Language community and is a member of the WorkflowsRI community. In EOSC-Life she is leading developments on FAIR principles and practice applied to Workflows. Carole is also a co-founder of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute and cares about quality research software and reproducibility. She is an author of the Nature paper proposing the seminal FAIR Principles for Scientific Data, contributes to the RDA FAIR4Research Software initiative, and actively nudges policy (OECD, G7, EU) to recognise software as a first class product of research.