OceanExpert ID : 1945
Mrs Pauline SIMPSON
IEEE France, Project Consultant
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Rue de la Tour 14
75016 Paris
France
Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Email(s)
Please login to see the email.
Telephone
+44 7715 113930
ORCID :
0000-0003-2551-5740
ResearcherID :
0000-0003-2551-5740
Geology with Oceanography (Bachelor)
Information Management & Library
Operational Support (technical)
Research Support Services
- Digital repositories,
- Virtual research environments,
- Marine science information management,
- Library sciences,
- Education,
- Research support services,
- Research infrastructures
- Research data management
- Data publication;
- Data citation
- Metadata
- Machine actionability
- Ocean Best Practices
- Project Management
- Programme coordination
- IODE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
- Programme coordination,
- Project management
- Information management and library,
- Marine science data and information,
- Digital repositories,
- Virtual research environments,
- Marine science information education,
- Research data management,
- Data publication,
- Data citation;
- Research support services
English
Pauline Simpson is an information scientist with a wealth of experience in marine science data and information management; her education is in geology and oceanography and information sciences. Her career was at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK as Head of Information Services and Head of Libraries and Archives, NERC and additionally on the University |of Southampton Libary Management Team with responsibility for the Faculty of Mathematics and Science. She has participated in many national and international information technology projects and now contributes under the IEEE France Project umbrella. Recent and present projects: Iliad DIgital Twins of the Ocean, Blue Cloud 2026, OBSEA4CLIM, BioGeoSea etc and the new European Commission Standards and Best Practices in Ocean Observation.
In 2014 as a volunteer, she implemented the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Ocean Best Practices System Repository (IOC-OBPS) providing the ocean community with an open access, full text archive of methodological documents, multimedia files and other digital records. The vision of IOC-OBPS is to have agreed and broadly adopted methods across ocean research, operations, applications and data management - interoperability and reproducibility of practices is a high priority to support the move to a global ocean observing system.
From 2019 - 2024, Pauline was appointed Project Manager and Repository Manager of the IOC Ocean Best Practices System. Previously, in her work at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, she was a recognized early advocate of the Open Access/Digital Repository movement in the UK, was involved in the early design of the EPrints repository software and over the years has implemented institutional, thematic (2 x marine and aquatic sciences), research council and professional society repositories.
During her long voluntary tenure as Chair of the UNESCO/IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Group of Experts on Marine Information, she also participated in Training coordination/lecturing/expert in Ocean Sciences, in the following subject areas: Data and Information Management. Pauline initiated and still is involved with many of the IODE flagship digital information products.
Previous:National Oceanography Centre, Southampton UK
Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Cayman Islands