Interoperability Focus Officer (University of Bath)
Emma Tonkin is an Interoperability Focus Officer working for UKOLN at the University of Bath. She is working towards a PhD at the University of Bristol, in the area of wearable and ubiquitous computing. Her current project is the IEMSR, a metadata schema registry designed to support registration, use and reuse of DC and LOM metadata schemas and profiles. She serves as co-moderator of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's Schema Registry community, and as a member of the DCMI advisory board. As her background is in human-computer interaction, her major interest is in developing an understanding of user behaviour and the factors that influence the uptake and use of these technologies.