Gavin Bell

Nature

Gavin architects social software for the Nature Publishing Group. A key product is Nature Network which offers the benefits of social software to the scientific community . Gavin has worked in web product development and in the publishing industry for over a decade. He has also worked in academia; in advertising; for Dorling Kindersley and for the BBC. Large scale web applications covering identity management, on-demand media and social software have been the main focus of his work. Gavin lives in London and writes on nascent for Nature and on take one onion. His personal website is gavinbell.com.

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17:30 Tuesday, 2007-05-15

Online distribution of scientific research

BOF Amphitheatre A

Alf Eaton (Nature), Gavin Bell (Nature)

This BOF session will cover several themes important to those developing and promoting tools for scientific research, collaboration and publishing online. Read more.

14:45 Wednesday, 2007-05-16

What is your provenance?

Open data Amphitheatre C

Gavin Bell (Nature)

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Tags are the new links, but do they make sense to anyone but the tagger? What does ubiquity mean for social creatures like us? Can social networks give us a sense of provenance and act as signposts? Read more.