Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza
Electronic lab notebooks and process recording, data stewardship, research data management and FAIR data
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Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza is a Principal Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is the Principal Investigator of the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) and the Pathfinder Lead for Process Recording for the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) programme.
She is also co-lead of the School’s pioneering implementation of electronic lab notebooks.
Samantha works in the interdisciplinary research area of applying computer science techniques to the scientific domain, specifically through the use of semantic web technologies and artificial intelligence.
Her research includes looking at electronic lab notebooks and smart laboratories, to improve the digitisation and knowledge management of the scientific record using semantic web technologies; and using IoT devices in the laboratory.
She has also worked on a number of interdisciplinary Semantic Web projects in different domains, including agriculture, chemistry and the social sciences.
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