Panayiota Polydoratou
Honorary Visiting Fellow
Dr Panayiota Polydoratou Honorary Visiting Fellow
Room: A304
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
P.Polydoratou@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 3905
fax: +44 20 7040 8584
Panayiota has now moved to Greece and is currently a member of staff at ATEI. Further information can be found at her ATEI webpage The current page is no longer updated.
Panayiota is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Department of Information Science. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from City University, awarded in 2006, and a MSc. in Information & Library studies from University of Strathclyde.
Panayiota is currently a member of staff at the Max Planck Society. Specifically, she is a member of the project team working on theStudy of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) at the Max Planck Digital Library. Her current contact details can be found here.
She has previously worked on projects such as Data Audit Framework and RIOJA at University College London (UCL).
Until 2007, Panayiota was a member of staff at Imperial College London (IC) and contributed to projects such
as StORe and
Defining Image Access.
She has also contributed to the IC interim e-theses' project and the VERSIONS project, which was led by London School of Economics (LSE).
Previously to those she has assisted as research staff in the Digital health programme.
Research Interests
Panayiota's research interests lie within the broad area of digital information applications. Inevitably that includes metadata standards, their applications and current implementations. Issues associated with those such as interoperable information systems, usability studies and evaluation processes are of particular interest to her. The main focus of her research and her research interests are the users of such systems and information.
Recent Publications
Below you can find a selected list of some of Panayiota's latest publications:
- Polydoratou, P. (2009). Experimenting with the trial of a research data audit: some preliminary findings about data types, access to data and factors for long term preservation. Forthcoming at the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2009), 10-12 June, Milano.
- Polydoratou, P. (2009). The UCL Data Audit Framework (DAF) pilot implementation project. D-Lib, January/February, Vol.15 (1). Available at D-Lib Magazine
- Polydoratou, P. and Martin Moyle (2008).Scientific journals, overlays and repositories: a case of costs and sustainability issues, in, George Buchanan, Masood Masoodian, Sally Jo Cunningham (Eds.): Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information, 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2008, Bali, Indonesia, December 2-5, 2008. Proceedings. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Volume 5362) Available at the UCL ePrints archive
- Polydoratou, Panayiota; Moyle, Martin (2008) Publishing scientific research: is there ground for new ventures?, ELPUB2008. Open Scholarship: Authority, Community, and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Toronto, Canada 25-27 June 2008 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Susanne Mornatti. ISBN 978-0-7727-6315-0, 2008, pp. 79-89 http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?079_elpub2008
- Polydoratou, P. and Martin Moyle (2008). Exploring aspects of scientific publishing in astrophysics and cosmology: the views of scientists, in, Sicilia, M.-A. and Lytras, M.D. (eds.) Metadata and Semantics. Springer publications. ISBN 978-0-387-77744-3 Available at the UCL ePrints archive
- Polydoratou, P. (2008). Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives: results from an online questionnaire survey. Research report. UCL (University College London), London, UK. Available at the UCL ePrints archive
- Polydoratou, P.(2007). Use of digital repositories by chemistry researchers: results of a survey.Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 41 (4), pp386-399.
- Polydoratou, P., Pendleton, M. and David Nicholas (2007). Using web log transactions to assess a metadata registry system’s use: the case of the Environmental Data Registry and the System of Registries.
OCLC Systems & Services , Vol. 23 (1), pp.79-91.
My list of publications can be found here.Recent News
- Call for papers at the 3rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2009). Information available here: MTSR 2009
- The papers presented at the MTSR 2007 can be found at the conference's site at: http://www.mtsr.ionio.gr/proceedings/papers_by_sessions.html
- The RIOJA project's news and publications can be found at:
- the project's website RIOJA website and
- the UCL Eprints Archive respectively.
- The StORe project's publications can be found at: Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)
- The VERSIONS project's reports will be available on the VERSIONS website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/versions