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Hi, I'm Matthew West and I've created these pages to provide
some information about myself for friends and colleagues who
are interested in what I get up to both personally and professionally.
 | If there is any news I am reporting,
recent pictures, or specific documents I am making available,
you will find them in the next column here.
| Recent changes to the web site will be logged on the Change log and Credits page. I also
list the tools and services I have used to build and manage this
site.
| I didn't always look like this, so in case you have found
this in a search for a particular Matthew West, I provide some
information in "Do you know me?"
about when I was where so you can see if there is a match.
| I say something about my home life. There is a little about
immediate family members and where
we live.
| My Grandfather did a lot of work looking into the West
family history. I made much of this work available including an extensive family
tree, a written history of the family, the story of the school in
Wrangle, and the Jottings of Isaac Elsom, who mentions many of the
Wests. |
| I say something about my interests.
I have catholic tastes, and apart from church,
I have usually taken up what was available locally. So because
I live near the Solent - one of the best sailing areas in the
world, sailing is my current major
sport/hobby.
| The education and professional
section just provides the sort of information you would find
on a Curriculum Vitae, for those who are interested, so you can find
out what I did to become Dr Matthew West.
| I have spent all my working life with Shell.
I provide a brief potted history of my time at Shell and more
stuff that you might find in an informal CV.
| Since 1990 I have been involved in developing standards
and guidelines for information management, and in particular for data
models, initially for Shell,
but by 1993 for the engineering industry in general, and the
process industry in particular. A focus for this work has been ISO TC184/SC4 - Industrial
Data where I have been a significant technical contributor to the
data model in ISO
15926. I have also taken an interest in ontology, a key
organisation I participate in is ONTOLOG.
| At the beginning of 2001 I had conferred on me the title
of Visiting Professor to the Keyworth
Institute at the University of Leeds. I talk here briefly
about the Keyworth Institute, and the role I play.
| Finally, I provide a list of publications.
Some are not readily available elsewhere. Also I provide a list
of references to other
works, together with why I think they are worth reading.
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If you are looking for something
in particular, you can search just this site, or the web using
Google here.
If you have any comments on these pages, such as things that
don't work, or errors, or if there is information you would like
to see here, please let me know at:
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News
| I will be retiring from Shell at the end of June 2008.
| Enterprise Architecture paper added to Publications. |
| FOMI paper and DAMA presentation on Shell's Downstream Data
Model added to Publications. |
| Presentation and podcast introducing ISO 15926 available in Publications. |
| OWL (Web Ontology Language) is gaining interest in ontology
development and publication. A paper about an OWL version of ISO
15926 is given in Publications. |
| I've recently been giving the site a major makeover. I hope you
like the new look. |
| Jottings
by Isaac Elsom added to the the family history.
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