Daniel Alexander Smith MEng (Hons.) MACM MBCS

About Me

I am a researcher in the IAM group, at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

I am primarily concerned with research into the exploration of large heterogeneous data sets, with additional research interests including the Semantic Web, hypertext, multimedia and HCI.

My publications are available at EPrints, The ACM Portal and DBLP.

I have an Erdös Number of 6. (chain detailed here).

Offsite Links

Daniel shows WSRI his knowledge of sushi

Research and Software Engineering Projects

sotondocks: A twittering bot that updates ship movements in Southampton docks.

Rich Tags: Supporting better exploration of Digital Repositories with Semantic Social Tagging. Rich Tags is a project to develop a system to better support exploratory search (as opposed to keyword search) across digital repositories.
mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information. I was the project manager on the mSpace Classical Music Browser, an implementation of the mSpace interaction model on the web. This software was created using an AJAX front-end, which has recently grown to support Internet Explorer as well as gecko-based browsers such as FireFox, Netscape and Camino.
mSpace Mobile is a handheld geolocation application that allows the user to discover their surroundings. mSpace Mobile utilises an innovative fisheye zooming interface, and harnesses the power of the Semantic Web. By using the Semantic Web elements of projects such as The Open Guide To London, The Open Guide To Southampton and The FOAF Project, it allows for community collaboration by both users of the web, and users of handheld devices, through the mSpace Mobile application.
Citiesberg is a market data service for the TotL Four Cities Game. It provides APIs for the data, the ability to create graphs of almost any combinations of dates, items and markets and a service to determine the cheapest market location for a specific item.

Personal Metadata Feeds

There are a variety of services that record metadata about me and the contexts that I find myself in:

last.fm records what I listen to.
twitter records what I am doing.
flickr records what I photograph.
Del.icio.us records what I bookmark.