{"id":23379,"date":"2020-03-20T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?post_type=person&#038;p=23379"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:33:37","slug":"heaven-rachel-2","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/heaven-rachel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<h2 class=\"clearLeft\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Summary<\/h2>\n<div id=\"summaryBox\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I currently lead tasks in the Geosemantics area of Informatics: the use of Linked Open Data, spatial standards, ontologies and semantic technologies for interoperability, text mining\/analytics and knowledge discovery.<br \/>\nI design and develop spatial database solutions, web and smartphone applications for capture, discovery and visualisation of geoscience data.<br \/>\nI contribute to international working groups to define the vocabularies and schematic standards through which science data is made FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Skills &amp; qualifications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-5\">Awards &amp; associations<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<h2 class=\"clearLeft\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Rachel Heaven&#8217;s biography<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">2000: Software Developer, British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">1995 \u2013 2000: Geophysicist, British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">1991 \u2013 1994: University of Leeds BSc. Geophysical Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;\">Current projects and collaboration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\">2019 \u2013 ongoing: <a href=\"https:\/\/loop3d.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loop consortium<\/a>: brings together geological surveys and research institutions in Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the UK to found a new Open Source initiative to build the next generation of 3D geological modelling tools<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\">2018 \u2013 ongoing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epos-ip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPOS<\/a> (European Plate Observing System) Vocabularies Task Force: harmonising thematic vocabularies for integrated resources<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\">2017 \u2013 ongoing: Text mining to aggregate geographic, stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental data from narrative text and resolve against Linked Open Vocabularies. Collaborations with <a href=\"https:\/\/geodeepdive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GeoDeepDive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/macrostrat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macrostrat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geobiodiversity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geobiodiversity Database<\/a> (GBDB)<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\">2011 \u2013 ongoing: <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/data\/vocabularies\/home.html\">Linked Data publication of BGS vocabularies<\/a> and alignment with international vocabularies<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">2014 \u2013 2019: Supervision of PhD research using BGS vocabularies for semantic annotation, information retrieval and ontology alignment, in partnership with Robert Gordon University<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">2000 \u2013 ongoing: Metadata systems &#8211; capture, validation and publication of metadata describing datasets and services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><h2 class=\"clearLeft\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Published outputs<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/britgeopeople.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/03\/jellyfish-are-dish-of-day-at-envirohack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GeoBlogy entry on EnviroHack 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/743.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Rachel Heaven<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">NGDC Digital Data Deposit and Deposited Data Search applications<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Groundhog web drawing tool: synthetic boreholes and section images from 3D geological model data<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/igeology\/3D.html\">iGeology3D : augmented reality geological map visualisation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<h2 class=\"clearLeft\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Skills<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Geoscience vocabularies and ontologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Linked Data, Linked Open Vocabularies, Semantic Web technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Geographic metadata standards (ISO 19115, 19139, UK GEMINI, INSPIRE)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Database design and development<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Spatial data<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Web and mobile application development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-5\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<h2 class=\"clearLeft\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Boards and committees<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\">2003 \u2013 ongoing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgi-iugs.org\/tech_collaboration\/geoscience_terminology_working_group.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CGI-IUGS Geoscience Terminology Working Group<\/a> (former Multi Lingual Thesaurus Working Group)<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\" style=\"text-align: left;\">2015 \u2013 2016:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2015\/spatial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W3C\/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":22298,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[327],"level":[],"location":[154],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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