Dr Vincent Smith

Dr Vincent Smith

Research Leader, Informatics; Head of Division

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Diversity and Informatics Division
Specialisms: Biodiversity informatics, Phthiraptera., co-phylogeny, data publishing, digitisation, lice
Other email: vince@vsmith.info
Phone: 0207 942 5127

Summary

Dr Vince Smith is a Research Leader and Head of Digital, Data and Informatics at the Natural History Museum, London. He has developed the Museum's informatics group since 2006 and was formerly a research scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey and a Wellcome Trust junior research fellow at the University of Glasgow.

Vince applies digital technologies to the study of taxonomy and biodiversity, specialising in systems to share and manage natural history data. He played a leading role in developing the Museum's Collections Digitisation Programme, which published its five millionth specimen in 2021. Vince leads and runs the Museum's open access Data Portal, which has served over 34 billion records in more than 600 thousand datasets since April 2015 and is at the forefront of developing new approaches to the mass digitisation of the museum's 80 million specimens. In addition, Vince coordinates SYNTHESYS+, the fourth iteration of the European Commission-funded programme, providing access to a series of European natural science collections since 2004. He also leads a series of research activities across a portfolio of EC-funded projects (e.g. ICEDIG and DiSSCo Prepare); is the editor-in-chief of the Biodiversity Data Journal, which is an online platform incentivising publication of natural history data; and is a founding developer of the Scratchpad system, accelerating the sharing of structured biodiversity data.

Vince's taxonomic expertise is on parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera), and he works on the Museum's louse collection (>100k specimens) to better understand the cospeciation of these parasites on their bird and mammal hosts. Between 2014 and 2020, Vince was elected to the Executive for CETAF, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, that promotes training, research and understanding in systematic biology and palaeobiology. He also played a vital role in the founding of DiSSCo, the Distributed System of Scientific Collections, coordinating efforts to transform Europe's Natural History collections into an integrated pan-European research infrastructure across 120+ institutions in 21 countries. As part of DiSSCo, Vince leads DiSSCo UK, the United Kingdom's contribution to this international initiative and is also a representative of the UK's GBIF node.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1996 - 2000
  • BSc (Hon.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 1993 - 1996

Employment history

    Academic

  • Cybertaxonomist, Natural History Museum, Entomology, United Kingdom, 2006 - 2013
  • Research Scientist, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Center for Biodiversity, United States, 2004 - 2006
  • Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow (Biodiversity), University of Glasgow, Institute of biomedical and Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2001 - 2004

Grants

SYNTHESYS+ Synthesis of systematic resources
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Knapp S
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £10,000,000 (to Museum £1,561,559.53)
Dates: 2019 - 2023

SYNTHESYS3: Synthesis of Systematic Resources
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - Capacities
Total value £6,000,000 (to Museum £1,443,966.75)
Dates: 2013 - 2017

Wikimedian in Residence
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Baker E
Funding: Wikimedia UK
Total value £8,723.99 (to Museum £8,723.99)
Dates: 2013 - 2014

Systema Dipterorum
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Smithsonian Institution
Total value £50,000 (to Museum £50,000)
Dates: 2011 - 2012

Facilitating "Scratchpad User Support" process from NHM London to RBINS, Brussels
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Total value £57,659.21 (to Museum £57,659.21)
Dates: 2011 - 2013

ViBRANT: Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - Capacities
Total value £4,750,000
Dates: 2010 - 2013

Global Biodiversity Resource for Monocot Plants (eMonocot)
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: NERC
Total value £346,992.48 (to Museum £346,992.48)
Dates: 2010 - 2014

Cophylogeography of ecological replicates: the co-evolution and biogeography of Galapagos mockingbirds and their ectoparasites.
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £173,416.47 (to Museum £173,416.47)
Dates: 2009 - 2011

Setting natural science data free: scoping a UK collections approach
Role: Principal investigator

UMBEL: E-Taxonomy of Sino-Himalayan Umbelliferae (Apiaceae)
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People

Distributed System of Scientific COllections - Preparatory Phase Project
Role: Principal investigatorKoureas D
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £4,916,406.25 (to Museum £409,594)
Dates: 2020 - 2023

MOBILISE: Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: COST
Total value £500,000
Dates: 2018 - 2022

ICEDIG: Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £2,999,755 (to Museum £324,430)
Dates: 2018 - 2020

Streamlining Fungus Gnat (Diptera: Sciaroidea: Lygistorrhinidae) Taxonomy
Role: Principal investigatorBlagoderov V
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
Total value £6,720 (to Museum £6,720)
Dates: 2009 - 2010

Editorships

Editor in chief, Biodiversity Data Journal, Pensoft, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Smith V, French L, Vincent S, Woodburn M, Addink W, Arvanitidis C, Bánki O, Casino A, Dusoulier F, Glöckler F, Hobern D, Kalfatovic MR, Koureas D, Mergen P, Miller J, Schulman L, Juslén A (null) Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10 : doi: 10.3897/bdj.10.e82953

(null) A streamlined workflow for conversion, peer review, and publication of genomics metadata as omics data papers. GigaScience, doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab034

de Moya RS, Allen JM, Sweet AD, Walden KKO, Palma RL, Smith VS, Cameron SL, Valim MP, Galloway TD, Weckstein JD, Johnson KP (2019) Extensive host-switching of avian feather lice following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event.. Communications biology, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0689-7

Scott B, Baker E, Woodburn M, Vincent S, Hardy H, Smith VS (2019) The Natural History Museum Data Portal. Database, 2019 : doi: 10.1093/database/baz038

Allan EL, Livermore L, Price B, Shchedrina O, Smith V (null) A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7 : doi: 10.3897/bdj.7.e32342

Baker E, Dupont S, Smith V (null) Ecological interactions in the Scratchpads virtual research environment. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7 : doi: 10.3897/bdj.7.e47043

de Moya RS, Allen JM, Sweet AD, Walden KKO, Palma RL, Smith VS, Cameron SL, Valim MP, Galloway TD, Weckstein JD, Johnson KP (null) Extensive host-switching of avian feather lice following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Communications Biology, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0689-7

Allan EL, Price BW, Shchedrina O, Dupont S, Livermore L, Smith V (null) A Low Cost Approach to Specimen Level Imaging of Natural History Microscope Slides using a DSLR System. null, doi: 10.31219/osf.io/dvmsh

Price BW, Dupont S, Allan EL, Blagoderov V, Butcher AJ, Durrant J, Holtzhausen P, Kokkini P, Livermore L, Hardy H, Smith V (null) ALICE: Angled Label Image Capture and Extraction for high throughput insect specimen digitisation. Center for Open Science

Ancillotto L, Studer V, Howard T, Smith VS, McAlister E, Beccaloni J, Manzia F, Renzopaoli F, Bosso L, Russo D, Mori E (2018) Environmental drivers of parasite load and species richness in introduced parakeets in an urban landscape. Parasitology Research, 117 (11) : 3591 - 3599. doi: 10.1007/s00436-018-6058-5

Güntsch A, Hyam R, Hagedorn G, Chagnoux S, Röpert D, Casino A, Droege G, Glöckler F, Gödderz K, Groom Q, Hoffmann J, Holleman A, Kempa M, Koivula H, Marhold K, Nicolson N, Smith VS, Triebel D (2017) Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects. Database, 2017 : doi: 10.1093/database/bax003

Chatzigeorgiou G, Faulwetter S, Dailianis T, Smith V, Koulouri P, Dounas C, Arvanitidis C (null) Testing the robustness of Citizen Science projects: Evaluating the results of pilot project COMBER. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4 : e10859 - e10859. doi: 10.3897/bdj.4.e10859

Hudson LN, Blagoderov V, Heaton A, Holtzhausen P, Livermore L, Price BW, van der Walt S, Smith VS (null) Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections. PLOS ONE, 10 (11) : e0143402 - e0143402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143402

Mori E, Ancillotto L, Groombridge J, Howard T, Smith VS, Feneru F, Menchetti M (2015) Erratum to: Macroparasites of introduced parakeets in Italy: a possible role for parasite-mediated competition. Parasitology Research, 114 (9) : 3563 - 3563. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4571-3

Mori E, Ancillotto L, Groombridge J, Howard T, Smith VS, Menchetti M (2015) Macroparasites of introduced parakeets in Italy: a possible role for parasite-mediated competition. Parasitology Research, 114 (9) : 3277 - 3281. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4548-2

Baker E, Price BW, Rycroft SD, Hill J, Smith VS (2015) BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. Database, 2015 : doi: 10.1093/database/bav054

Martinu J, Roubova V, Novakova M, Smith VS, Hypsa V, Stefka J (null) Characterisation of microsatellite loci in two species of lice, Polyplax serrata (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) and Myrsidea nesomimi (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae). Folia Parasitologica, 62 : doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.016

Smith VS (2015) E-publishing descriptive taxonomy: the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases, In: Descriptive Taxonomy, Cambridge University Press : 272 - 295.

Lisong W, Vincent SS, Hongrui Z, Xianchun Z (2014) Scratchpads 2.0:a virtual research environment for biodiversity sciences in the Internet era. Biodiversity Science, 22 (3) : 264 - 264. doi: 10.3724/sp.j.1003.2014.14012

Baker E, Rycroft S, Smith V (null) Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives. Biodiversity Data Journal, 2 : e1039 - e1039. doi: 10.3897/bdj.2.e1039

Stoev P, Komerički A, Akkari N, Liu S, Zhou X, Weigand A, Hostens J, Hunter C, Edmunds S, Porco D, Zapparoli M, Georgiev T, Mietchen D, Roberts D, Faulwetter S, Smith V, Penev L (null) Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. n. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data. Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 : e1013 - e1013. doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e1013

Smith V, Georgiev T, Stoev P, Biserkov J, Miller J, Livermore L, Baker E, Mietchen D, Couvreur T, Mueller G, Dikow T, Helgen KM, Frank J, Agosti D, Roberts D, Penev L (null) Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 : e995 - e995. doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e995

Edmunds SC, Hunter CI, Smith V, Stoev P, Penev L (2013) Biodiversity research in the “big data” era: GigaScience and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description. GigaScience, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1186/2047-217x-2-14

Hardisty A, Roberts D (2013) A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecology, 13 (1) : 16 - 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-16

Smith V (2013) Cybertaxonomy, In: The Future of Scholarly Communication, Shorley D, Jubb M (Eds). Facet Publishing : London. 63 - 74.

Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Livermore L, Simonsen T, Smith V (null) No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys, 209 : 133 - 146. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3178

Blagoderov V, Smith V (null) Bringing collections out of the dark. ZooKeys, 209 : 1 - 6. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3699

Johnson KP, Shreve SM, Smith VS (2012) Repeated adaptive divergence of microhabitat specialization in avian feather lice. BMC Biology, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-52

Blagoderov V, Smith V (2011) No Specimens Left Behind. Presented at Life and Literature.

Brake I, Duin D, Van de Velde I, Smith V, Rycroft S (null) Who learns from whom? Supporting users and developers of a major biodiversity e-infrastructure. ZooKeys, 150 : 177 - 192. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2191

Penev L, Mietchen D, Chavan V, Hagedorn G, Remsen D, SMITH VS, Shotton D (2011) Pensoft Data Publishing Policies and Guidelines for Biodiversity Data Published online by Pensoft on 25th of May 2011. Pensoft Publishers, http://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/Pensoft_Data_Publishing_Policies_and_Guidelines.pdf :

Smith VS, Ford T, Johnson KP, Johnson PCD, Yoshizawa K, Light JE (2011) Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K–Pg boundary. Biology Letters, 7 (5) : 782 - 785. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0105

Smith V, Penev L (null) Collaborative electronic infrastructures to accelerate taxonomic research. ZooKeys, 150 : 1 - 3. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2458

Smith V, Rycroft S, Brake I, Scott B, Baker E, Livermore L, Blagoderov V, Roberts D (null) Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science. ZooKeys, 150 : 53 - 70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2193

Štefka J, Hoeck PEA, Keller LF, Smith VS (2011) A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (1) : 284 - 284. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-284

Roberts D, Smith VS (2010) Copyright.

Penev L, Roberts D, Smith V, Agosti D, Erwin T (null) Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research. ZooKeys, 50 : 1 - 4. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.543

Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Simonsen T, Smith VS (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd.. : Nature Precedings7.

Blagoderov V, Brake I, Georgiev T, Penev L, Roberts D, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Agosti D, Catapano T, Smith V (null) Streamlining taxonomic publication: a working example with Scratchpads and ZooKeys. ZooKeys, 50 : 17 - 28. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539

Blagoderov V, Kitching IJ, Simonsen T, Smith V (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd. Nature Precedings

BLAGODEROV V, Georgiev T, Penev L, RYCROFT S, SCOTT B, SMITH V (2010) Streamlining Taxonomic Publication. EDIT Newsletter, 24 : 10 - 12.

Light JE, Smith VS, Allen JM, Durden LA, Reed DL (2010) Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (1) : 292 - 292. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-292

Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Miller J, Blagoderov V, Roberts D, Smith V, Brake I, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Johnson N, Morris R, Sautter G, Chavan V, Robertson T, Remsen D, Stoev P, Parr C, Knapp S, Kress WJ, Thompson F, Erwin T (null) Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys, 50 : 1 - 16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538

Roberts D, SMITH VS (2010) ViBRANT -Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. In Tools for identifying biodiversity: progress and problems. Nimis PL, Lebbe RV (Eds). Proceedings of the International Congress, September 20-22, 2010,

ROBERTS D, SMITH VS (2010) VIBRANT - Virtual Biodiveristy Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. Nimis PL, Vignes Lebbe R (Eds). Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems,

Smith VS (2010) Systema Naturae 250—The Linnaean Ark. Systematic Biology, 59 (6) : 757 - 760. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syq038

Smith VS, Duin D, Self D, Brake I, Roberts D (2010) Motivating Online Publication of Scholarly Research Through Social Networking Tools. Stevens G, Pipek V, Rohde M (Eds). Webcentives: Incentives and Motivation for Web- Based Collaboration. In the 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Workshop Proceedings of 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 7 (1) : IISI - International Institute for Socio-Informatics : 329 - 339.

Smith VS, Roberts D, Rycroft SD (2010) Small pieces loosely joined: Getting louse research on the Web. Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4),, Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. 34 (Supplement 1) : 6 - 6.

SMITH VS, Palma RL (2010) In Memoriam: Robert C. Dalgleish, Nigel Hill, Mitchell Durno Murray and Robert LC Pilgrim. Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey.. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 34 :

Smith VS (2009) Data publication: towards a database of everything. BMC Research Notes, 2 (1) : 113 - 113. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-113

Smith VS, Rycroft SD, Harman KT, Scott B, Roberts D (2009) Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics, 10 (S14) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-s14-s6

SMITH VS, LIGHT JE, DURDEN LA (null) Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 95 (3) : 598 - 610. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01069.x

Rycroft S, Smith V, Roberts D (null) Scratchpads: getting biodiversity online, redefining publication. Jones AC (Eds). Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge, 107 7 - 10 7 7http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/proceedings2008.html

Beccaloni GW, Smith VS (2008) Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace's role. Nature, 451 (7182) : 1050 - 1050. doi: 10.1038/4511050d

Mayo S, Allkin R, Baker W, Blagoderov V, Brake I, Clark B, Govaerts R, Godfray HCJ, Haigh A, Hand R, Harman K, Jackson M, Kilian N, Kirkup DW, Kitching IJ, Knapp S, Lewis GP, Malcolm-Tompkins P, von Raab-Straube E, Roberts DM, Scoble MJ, Simpson D, Smith CR, Smith V, Villalba S, Walley L, Wilkin P (2008) Alpha e-taxonomy: responses from the systematics community to the biodiversity crisis. Kew Bulletin, 63 : 1 - 16.

ROBERTS D, RYCROFT SD, BRAKE I, HARMAN K, Scott B, SMITH VS (2008) Getting Taxonomy onto the Web. The Systematist, 30 : 3 - 10.

SMITH VS (2008) The New Taxonomy. Systematic Biology, 57 : 660 - 663.

SMITH VS, Light JE, Durden LA (2008) Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 63 : 1 - 16.

SMITH VS, RYCROFT SD, ROBERTS D (2008) Scratchpads: Getting Biodiversity online, redefining publication. Proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) 2008 "Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modeling and managing biodiversity knowledge",

Cohn DL, Smith V, Pizarro M, Jones-Engel L, Engel G, Fuentes A, Shaw E, Cortes J (2007) Pediculosis in Macaca sylvanus of Gibraltar. Veterinary Parasitology, 145 (1-2) : 116 - 119. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.12.008

SMITH VS, Dalgleish RC, Cruickshank RH (2007) Fossil lice reconsidered - Erratum. Systematic Entomology, 32 :

Lane RS, Kucera TF, Barrett RH, Mun J, Wu C, Smith VS (2006) WILD TURKEY (MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO) AS A HOST OF IXODID TICKS, LICE, AND LYME DISEASE SPIROCHETES (BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO) IN CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 42 (4) : 759 - 771. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-42.4.759

SMITH VS (2006) Phthiraptera. McGraw-Hill Professional : New York. 489 - 491.

SMITH VS, DALGLEISH RC, CRUICKSHANK RH (2007) Fossil Lice Reconsidered - Erratum. Systematic Entomology, 32 (1) : 196 - 196. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2007.00371.x

Smith VS (2005) DNA Barcoding: Perspectives from a “Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy” (PEET) Debate. Systematic Biology, 54 (5) : 841 - 844. doi: 10.1080/10635150500354894

Koh LP, Dunn RR, Sodhi NS, Colwell RK, Proctor H, Smith VS (2004) Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis. Science, 305 (5690) : 1632 - 1634. doi: 10.1126/science.1101101

Johnson KP, Yoshizawa K, Smith VS (2004) Multiple origins of parasitism in lice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (1550) : 1771 - 1776. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2798

Wappler T, Smith VS, Dalgleish RC (2004) Scratching an ancient itch: an Eocene bird louse fossil. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (suppl_5) : doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0158

Smith VS (2004) The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview.—R. D. Price, R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton. 2003. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. x+501 pp. ISBN 1–882932–08–0. $35.00 (hard cover).. Systematic Biology, 53 (4) : 666 - 668. doi: 10.1080/10635150490468521

Smith VS, Page RDM, Johnson KP (2004) Data incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta, 33 (3) : 239 - 259. doi: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00149.x

Page RDM, Cruickshank RH, Dickens M, Furness RW, Kennedy M, Palma RL, Smith VS (2004) Phylogeny of “Philoceanus complex” seabird lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30 (3) : 633 - 652. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00227-6

Reed DL, Smith VS, Hammond SL, Rogers AR, Clayton DH (null) Genetic Analysis of Lice Supports Direct Contact between Modern and Archaic Humans. PLoS Biology, 2 (11) : e340 - e340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020340

Smith V (null) Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice. Meeting on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders, Entomologische Abhandlungen 61 : 150 - 151.

Smith V (null) Phthiraptera: Chewing and sucking lice., In: Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Gale Group : 249 - 257.

Smith VS (2003) Ex Cathedra Cladistics. Heredity, 91 (2) : 96 - 97. doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800321

Johnson KP, Cruickshank RH, Adams RJ, Smith VS, Page RDM, Clayton DH (2003) Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 26 (2) : 231 - 242. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00342-1

Smith VS (2003) Scratching a thirty-year itch!: a review of the Second International Congress on Phthiraptera. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 30 : 327 - 331.

Cruickshank RH, Johnson KP, Smith VS, Adams RJ, Clayton DH, Page RDM (2001) Phylogenetic Analysis of Partial Sequences of Elongation Factor 1α Identifies Major Groups of Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19 (2) : 202 - 215. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0928

SMITH V (2001) Avian louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): a cladistic study based on morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132 (1) : 81 - 144. doi: 10.1006/zjls.2000.0264

Smith VS (2000) Basal ischnoceran louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Goniodidae and Heptapsogasteridae). Systematic Entomology, 25 (1) : 73 - 94. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2000.00095.x

Cocks N, Livermore L, Smith V, Woodburn M (null) Technical capacities of digitisation centres within ICEDIG participating institutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e55522

Dixey K, Woodburn M, Hardy H, Livermore L, Smith V (null) Identification of provisional Centres of Excellence for digitisation of European natural science collections. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e57750

Smith V, Dupont S, Woodburn M (null) Towards Community Collections Management. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 4 : doi: 10.3897/biss.4.59341

Courses taught

MSc: Taxonomy and Biodiversity
2/2013.

Awards

Linnean Bicentenary Medal, 22/5/2015.

Ebbe Nielsen Prize, 4/11/2008.

Best student paper presented at the 1999 Systematics Association Conference, 27/8/1999.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, Inselect - applying computer vision to facilitate rapid record creation and metadata capture, Entomological Collections Network 2016 annual meeting: Orlando, United States, 24/9/2016.

Inselect: an innovative tool for automating digitisation of natural history collections, SPNHC Conference 2015 - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use: 21/5/2015.

Making molehills out of mountains: Crowdsourcing digital access to natural history collections, SPNHC Conference 2014 - Progress in Digitisation: 26/6/2014.

Click to submit: rapid publication through Scratchpads and the Biodiversity Data Journal, MONOCOTS V: 5th International Conference on Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons: 8/7/2013.

Introduction

Summary

Dr Vince Smith is a Research Leader and Head of Digital, Data and Informatics at the Natural History Museum, London. He has developed the Museum's informatics group since 2006 and was formerly a research scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey and a Wellcome Trust junior research fellow at the University of Glasgow.

Vince applies digital technologies to the study of taxonomy and biodiversity, specialising in systems to share and manage natural history data. He played a leading role in developing the Museum's Collections Digitisation Programme, which published its five millionth specimen in 2021. Vince leads and runs the Museum's open access Data Portal, which has served over 34 billion records in more than 600 thousand datasets since April 2015 and is at the forefront of developing new approaches to the mass digitisation of the museum's 80 million specimens. In addition, Vince coordinates SYNTHESYS+, the fourth iteration of the European Commission-funded programme, providing access to a series of European natural science collections since 2004. He also leads a series of research activities across a portfolio of EC-funded projects (e.g. ICEDIG and DiSSCo Prepare); is the editor-in-chief of the Biodiversity Data Journal, which is an online platform incentivising publication of natural history data; and is a founding developer of the Scratchpad system, accelerating the sharing of structured biodiversity data.

Vince's taxonomic expertise is on parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera), and he works on the Museum's louse collection (>100k specimens) to better understand the cospeciation of these parasites on their bird and mammal hosts. Between 2014 and 2020, Vince was elected to the Executive for CETAF, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, that promotes training, research and understanding in systematic biology and palaeobiology. He also played a vital role in the founding of DiSSCo, the Distributed System of Scientific Collections, coordinating efforts to transform Europe's Natural History collections into an integrated pan-European research infrastructure across 120+ institutions in 21 countries. As part of DiSSCo, Vince leads DiSSCo UK, the United Kingdom's contribution to this international initiative and is also a representative of the UK's GBIF node.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1996 - 2000
  • BSc (Hon.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 1993 - 1996

Employment history

    Academic

  • Cybertaxonomist, Natural History Museum, Entomology, United Kingdom, 2006 - 2013
  • Research Scientist, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Center for Biodiversity, United States, 2004 - 2006
  • Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow (Biodiversity), University of Glasgow, Institute of biomedical and Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2001 - 2004
Projects

Grants

SYNTHESYS+ Synthesis of systematic resources
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Knapp S
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £10,000,000 (to Museum £1,561,559.53)
Dates: 2019 - 2023

SYNTHESYS3: Synthesis of Systematic Resources
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - Capacities
Total value £6,000,000 (to Museum £1,443,966.75)
Dates: 2013 - 2017

Wikimedian in Residence
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Baker E
Funding: Wikimedia UK
Total value £8,723.99 (to Museum £8,723.99)
Dates: 2013 - 2014

Systema Dipterorum
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Smithsonian Institution
Total value £50,000 (to Museum £50,000)
Dates: 2011 - 2012

Facilitating "Scratchpad User Support" process from NHM London to RBINS, Brussels
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Total value £57,659.21 (to Museum £57,659.21)
Dates: 2011 - 2013

ViBRANT: Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - Capacities
Total value £4,750,000
Dates: 2010 - 2013

Global Biodiversity Resource for Monocot Plants (eMonocot)
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: NERC
Total value £346,992.48 (to Museum £346,992.48)
Dates: 2010 - 2014

Cophylogeography of ecological replicates: the co-evolution and biogeography of Galapagos mockingbirds and their ectoparasites.
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £173,416.47 (to Museum £173,416.47)
Dates: 2009 - 2011

Setting natural science data free: scoping a UK collections approach
Role: Principal investigator

UMBEL: E-Taxonomy of Sino-Himalayan Umbelliferae (Apiaceae)
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People

Distributed System of Scientific COllections - Preparatory Phase Project
Role: Principal investigatorKoureas D
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £4,916,406.25 (to Museum £409,594)
Dates: 2020 - 2023

MOBILISE: Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: COST
Total value £500,000
Dates: 2018 - 2022

ICEDIG: Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £2,999,755 (to Museum £324,430)
Dates: 2018 - 2020

Streamlining Fungus Gnat (Diptera: Sciaroidea: Lygistorrhinidae) Taxonomy
Role: Principal investigatorBlagoderov V
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
Total value £6,720 (to Museum £6,720)
Dates: 2009 - 2010

Professional activities

Editorships

Editor in chief, Biodiversity Data Journal, Pensoft, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Publications

Smith V, French L, Vincent S, Woodburn M, Addink W, Arvanitidis C, Bánki O, Casino A, Dusoulier F, Glöckler F, Hobern D, Kalfatovic MR, Koureas D, Mergen P, Miller J, Schulman L, Juslén A (null) Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10 : doi: 10.3897/bdj.10.e82953

(null) A streamlined workflow for conversion, peer review, and publication of genomics metadata as omics data papers. GigaScience, doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab034

de Moya RS, Allen JM, Sweet AD, Walden KKO, Palma RL, Smith VS, Cameron SL, Valim MP, Galloway TD, Weckstein JD, Johnson KP (2019) Extensive host-switching of avian feather lice following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event.. Communications biology, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0689-7

Scott B, Baker E, Woodburn M, Vincent S, Hardy H, Smith VS (2019) The Natural History Museum Data Portal. Database, 2019 : doi: 10.1093/database/baz038

Allan EL, Livermore L, Price B, Shchedrina O, Smith V (null) A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7 : doi: 10.3897/bdj.7.e32342

Baker E, Dupont S, Smith V (null) Ecological interactions in the Scratchpads virtual research environment. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7 : doi: 10.3897/bdj.7.e47043

de Moya RS, Allen JM, Sweet AD, Walden KKO, Palma RL, Smith VS, Cameron SL, Valim MP, Galloway TD, Weckstein JD, Johnson KP (null) Extensive host-switching of avian feather lice following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Communications Biology, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0689-7

Allan EL, Price BW, Shchedrina O, Dupont S, Livermore L, Smith V (null) A Low Cost Approach to Specimen Level Imaging of Natural History Microscope Slides using a DSLR System. null, doi: 10.31219/osf.io/dvmsh

Price BW, Dupont S, Allan EL, Blagoderov V, Butcher AJ, Durrant J, Holtzhausen P, Kokkini P, Livermore L, Hardy H, Smith V (null) ALICE: Angled Label Image Capture and Extraction for high throughput insect specimen digitisation. Center for Open Science

Ancillotto L, Studer V, Howard T, Smith VS, McAlister E, Beccaloni J, Manzia F, Renzopaoli F, Bosso L, Russo D, Mori E (2018) Environmental drivers of parasite load and species richness in introduced parakeets in an urban landscape. Parasitology Research, 117 (11) : 3591 - 3599. doi: 10.1007/s00436-018-6058-5

Güntsch A, Hyam R, Hagedorn G, Chagnoux S, Röpert D, Casino A, Droege G, Glöckler F, Gödderz K, Groom Q, Hoffmann J, Holleman A, Kempa M, Koivula H, Marhold K, Nicolson N, Smith VS, Triebel D (2017) Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects. Database, 2017 : doi: 10.1093/database/bax003

Chatzigeorgiou G, Faulwetter S, Dailianis T, Smith V, Koulouri P, Dounas C, Arvanitidis C (null) Testing the robustness of Citizen Science projects: Evaluating the results of pilot project COMBER. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4 : e10859 - e10859. doi: 10.3897/bdj.4.e10859

Hudson LN, Blagoderov V, Heaton A, Holtzhausen P, Livermore L, Price BW, van der Walt S, Smith VS (null) Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections. PLOS ONE, 10 (11) : e0143402 - e0143402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143402

Mori E, Ancillotto L, Groombridge J, Howard T, Smith VS, Feneru F, Menchetti M (2015) Erratum to: Macroparasites of introduced parakeets in Italy: a possible role for parasite-mediated competition. Parasitology Research, 114 (9) : 3563 - 3563. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4571-3

Mori E, Ancillotto L, Groombridge J, Howard T, Smith VS, Menchetti M (2015) Macroparasites of introduced parakeets in Italy: a possible role for parasite-mediated competition. Parasitology Research, 114 (9) : 3277 - 3281. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4548-2

Baker E, Price BW, Rycroft SD, Hill J, Smith VS (2015) BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. Database, 2015 : doi: 10.1093/database/bav054

Martinu J, Roubova V, Novakova M, Smith VS, Hypsa V, Stefka J (null) Characterisation of microsatellite loci in two species of lice, Polyplax serrata (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) and Myrsidea nesomimi (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae). Folia Parasitologica, 62 : doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.016

Smith VS (2015) E-publishing descriptive taxonomy: the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases, In: Descriptive Taxonomy, Cambridge University Press : 272 - 295.

Lisong W, Vincent SS, Hongrui Z, Xianchun Z (2014) Scratchpads 2.0:a virtual research environment for biodiversity sciences in the Internet era. Biodiversity Science, 22 (3) : 264 - 264. doi: 10.3724/sp.j.1003.2014.14012

Baker E, Rycroft S, Smith V (null) Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives. Biodiversity Data Journal, 2 : e1039 - e1039. doi: 10.3897/bdj.2.e1039

Stoev P, Komerički A, Akkari N, Liu S, Zhou X, Weigand A, Hostens J, Hunter C, Edmunds S, Porco D, Zapparoli M, Georgiev T, Mietchen D, Roberts D, Faulwetter S, Smith V, Penev L (null) Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. n. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data. Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 : e1013 - e1013. doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e1013

Smith V, Georgiev T, Stoev P, Biserkov J, Miller J, Livermore L, Baker E, Mietchen D, Couvreur T, Mueller G, Dikow T, Helgen KM, Frank J, Agosti D, Roberts D, Penev L (null) Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 : e995 - e995. doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e995

Edmunds SC, Hunter CI, Smith V, Stoev P, Penev L (2013) Biodiversity research in the “big data” era: GigaScience and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description. GigaScience, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1186/2047-217x-2-14

Hardisty A, Roberts D (2013) A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecology, 13 (1) : 16 - 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-16

Smith V (2013) Cybertaxonomy, In: The Future of Scholarly Communication, Shorley D, Jubb M (Eds). Facet Publishing : London. 63 - 74.

Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Livermore L, Simonsen T, Smith V (null) No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys, 209 : 133 - 146. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3178

Blagoderov V, Smith V (null) Bringing collections out of the dark. ZooKeys, 209 : 1 - 6. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3699

Johnson KP, Shreve SM, Smith VS (2012) Repeated adaptive divergence of microhabitat specialization in avian feather lice. BMC Biology, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-52

Blagoderov V, Smith V (2011) No Specimens Left Behind. Presented at Life and Literature.

Brake I, Duin D, Van de Velde I, Smith V, Rycroft S (null) Who learns from whom? Supporting users and developers of a major biodiversity e-infrastructure. ZooKeys, 150 : 177 - 192. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2191

Penev L, Mietchen D, Chavan V, Hagedorn G, Remsen D, SMITH VS, Shotton D (2011) Pensoft Data Publishing Policies and Guidelines for Biodiversity Data Published online by Pensoft on 25th of May 2011. Pensoft Publishers, http://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/Pensoft_Data_Publishing_Policies_and_Guidelines.pdf :

Smith VS, Ford T, Johnson KP, Johnson PCD, Yoshizawa K, Light JE (2011) Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K–Pg boundary. Biology Letters, 7 (5) : 782 - 785. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0105

Smith V, Penev L (null) Collaborative electronic infrastructures to accelerate taxonomic research. ZooKeys, 150 : 1 - 3. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2458

Smith V, Rycroft S, Brake I, Scott B, Baker E, Livermore L, Blagoderov V, Roberts D (null) Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science. ZooKeys, 150 : 53 - 70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2193

Štefka J, Hoeck PEA, Keller LF, Smith VS (2011) A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (1) : 284 - 284. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-284

Roberts D, Smith VS (2010) Copyright.

Penev L, Roberts D, Smith V, Agosti D, Erwin T (null) Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research. ZooKeys, 50 : 1 - 4. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.543

Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Simonsen T, Smith VS (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd.. : Nature Precedings7.

Blagoderov V, Brake I, Georgiev T, Penev L, Roberts D, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Agosti D, Catapano T, Smith V (null) Streamlining taxonomic publication: a working example with Scratchpads and ZooKeys. ZooKeys, 50 : 17 - 28. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539

Blagoderov V, Kitching IJ, Simonsen T, Smith V (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd. Nature Precedings

BLAGODEROV V, Georgiev T, Penev L, RYCROFT S, SCOTT B, SMITH V (2010) Streamlining Taxonomic Publication. EDIT Newsletter, 24 : 10 - 12.

Light JE, Smith VS, Allen JM, Durden LA, Reed DL (2010) Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (1) : 292 - 292. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-292

Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Miller J, Blagoderov V, Roberts D, Smith V, Brake I, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Johnson N, Morris R, Sautter G, Chavan V, Robertson T, Remsen D, Stoev P, Parr C, Knapp S, Kress WJ, Thompson F, Erwin T (null) Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys, 50 : 1 - 16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538

Roberts D, SMITH VS (2010) ViBRANT -Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. In Tools for identifying biodiversity: progress and problems. Nimis PL, Lebbe RV (Eds). Proceedings of the International Congress, September 20-22, 2010,

ROBERTS D, SMITH VS (2010) VIBRANT - Virtual Biodiveristy Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. Nimis PL, Vignes Lebbe R (Eds). Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems,

Smith VS (2010) Systema Naturae 250—The Linnaean Ark. Systematic Biology, 59 (6) : 757 - 760. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syq038

Smith VS, Duin D, Self D, Brake I, Roberts D (2010) Motivating Online Publication of Scholarly Research Through Social Networking Tools. Stevens G, Pipek V, Rohde M (Eds). Webcentives: Incentives and Motivation for Web- Based Collaboration. In the 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Workshop Proceedings of 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 7 (1) : IISI - International Institute for Socio-Informatics : 329 - 339.

Smith VS, Roberts D, Rycroft SD (2010) Small pieces loosely joined: Getting louse research on the Web. Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4),, Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. 34 (Supplement 1) : 6 - 6.

SMITH VS, Palma RL (2010) In Memoriam: Robert C. Dalgleish, Nigel Hill, Mitchell Durno Murray and Robert LC Pilgrim. Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey.. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 34 :

Smith VS (2009) Data publication: towards a database of everything. BMC Research Notes, 2 (1) : 113 - 113. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-113

Smith VS, Rycroft SD, Harman KT, Scott B, Roberts D (2009) Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics, 10 (S14) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-s14-s6

SMITH VS, LIGHT JE, DURDEN LA (null) Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 95 (3) : 598 - 610. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01069.x

Rycroft S, Smith V, Roberts D (null) Scratchpads: getting biodiversity online, redefining publication. Jones AC (Eds). Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge, 107 7 - 10 7 7http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/proceedings2008.html

Beccaloni GW, Smith VS (2008) Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace's role. Nature, 451 (7182) : 1050 - 1050. doi: 10.1038/4511050d

Mayo S, Allkin R, Baker W, Blagoderov V, Brake I, Clark B, Govaerts R, Godfray HCJ, Haigh A, Hand R, Harman K, Jackson M, Kilian N, Kirkup DW, Kitching IJ, Knapp S, Lewis GP, Malcolm-Tompkins P, von Raab-Straube E, Roberts DM, Scoble MJ, Simpson D, Smith CR, Smith V, Villalba S, Walley L, Wilkin P (2008) Alpha e-taxonomy: responses from the systematics community to the biodiversity crisis. Kew Bulletin, 63 : 1 - 16.

ROBERTS D, RYCROFT SD, BRAKE I, HARMAN K, Scott B, SMITH VS (2008) Getting Taxonomy onto the Web. The Systematist, 30 : 3 - 10.

SMITH VS (2008) The New Taxonomy. Systematic Biology, 57 : 660 - 663.

SMITH VS, Light JE, Durden LA (2008) Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 63 : 1 - 16.

SMITH VS, RYCROFT SD, ROBERTS D (2008) Scratchpads: Getting Biodiversity online, redefining publication. Proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) 2008 "Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modeling and managing biodiversity knowledge",

Cohn DL, Smith V, Pizarro M, Jones-Engel L, Engel G, Fuentes A, Shaw E, Cortes J (2007) Pediculosis in Macaca sylvanus of Gibraltar. Veterinary Parasitology, 145 (1-2) : 116 - 119. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.12.008

SMITH VS, Dalgleish RC, Cruickshank RH (2007) Fossil lice reconsidered - Erratum. Systematic Entomology, 32 :

Lane RS, Kucera TF, Barrett RH, Mun J, Wu C, Smith VS (2006) WILD TURKEY (MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO) AS A HOST OF IXODID TICKS, LICE, AND LYME DISEASE SPIROCHETES (BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO) IN CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 42 (4) : 759 - 771. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-42.4.759

SMITH VS (2006) Phthiraptera. McGraw-Hill Professional : New York. 489 - 491.

SMITH VS, DALGLEISH RC, CRUICKSHANK RH (2007) Fossil Lice Reconsidered - Erratum. Systematic Entomology, 32 (1) : 196 - 196. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2007.00371.x

Smith VS (2005) DNA Barcoding: Perspectives from a “Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy” (PEET) Debate. Systematic Biology, 54 (5) : 841 - 844. doi: 10.1080/10635150500354894

Koh LP, Dunn RR, Sodhi NS, Colwell RK, Proctor H, Smith VS (2004) Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis. Science, 305 (5690) : 1632 - 1634. doi: 10.1126/science.1101101

Johnson KP, Yoshizawa K, Smith VS (2004) Multiple origins of parasitism in lice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (1550) : 1771 - 1776. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2798

Wappler T, Smith VS, Dalgleish RC (2004) Scratching an ancient itch: an Eocene bird louse fossil. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (suppl_5) : doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0158

Smith VS (2004) The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview.—R. D. Price, R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton. 2003. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. x+501 pp. ISBN 1–882932–08–0. $35.00 (hard cover).. Systematic Biology, 53 (4) : 666 - 668. doi: 10.1080/10635150490468521

Smith VS, Page RDM, Johnson KP (2004) Data incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta, 33 (3) : 239 - 259. doi: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00149.x

Page RDM, Cruickshank RH, Dickens M, Furness RW, Kennedy M, Palma RL, Smith VS (2004) Phylogeny of “Philoceanus complex” seabird lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30 (3) : 633 - 652. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00227-6

Reed DL, Smith VS, Hammond SL, Rogers AR, Clayton DH (null) Genetic Analysis of Lice Supports Direct Contact between Modern and Archaic Humans. PLoS Biology, 2 (11) : e340 - e340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020340

Smith V (null) Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice. Meeting on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders, Entomologische Abhandlungen 61 : 150 - 151.

Smith V (null) Phthiraptera: Chewing and sucking lice., In: Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Gale Group : 249 - 257.

Smith VS (2003) Ex Cathedra Cladistics. Heredity, 91 (2) : 96 - 97. doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800321

Johnson KP, Cruickshank RH, Adams RJ, Smith VS, Page RDM, Clayton DH (2003) Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 26 (2) : 231 - 242. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00342-1

Smith VS (2003) Scratching a thirty-year itch!: a review of the Second International Congress on Phthiraptera. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 30 : 327 - 331.

Cruickshank RH, Johnson KP, Smith VS, Adams RJ, Clayton DH, Page RDM (2001) Phylogenetic Analysis of Partial Sequences of Elongation Factor 1α Identifies Major Groups of Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19 (2) : 202 - 215. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0928

SMITH V (2001) Avian louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): a cladistic study based on morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132 (1) : 81 - 144. doi: 10.1006/zjls.2000.0264

Smith VS (2000) Basal ischnoceran louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Goniodidae and Heptapsogasteridae). Systematic Entomology, 25 (1) : 73 - 94. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2000.00095.x

Cocks N, Livermore L, Smith V, Woodburn M (null) Technical capacities of digitisation centres within ICEDIG participating institutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e55522

Dixey K, Woodburn M, Hardy H, Livermore L, Smith V (null) Identification of provisional Centres of Excellence for digitisation of European natural science collections. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e57750

Smith V, Dupont S, Woodburn M (null) Towards Community Collections Management. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 4 : doi: 10.3897/biss.4.59341

Teaching and students

Courses taught

MSc: Taxonomy and Biodiversity
2/2013.

Impact and outreach

Awards

Linnean Bicentenary Medal, 22/5/2015.

Ebbe Nielsen Prize, 4/11/2008.

Best student paper presented at the 1999 Systematics Association Conference, 27/8/1999.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, Inselect - applying computer vision to facilitate rapid record creation and metadata capture, Entomological Collections Network 2016 annual meeting: Orlando, United States, 24/9/2016.

Inselect: an innovative tool for automating digitisation of natural history collections, SPNHC Conference 2015 - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use: 21/5/2015.

Making molehills out of mountains: Crowdsourcing digital access to natural history collections, SPNHC Conference 2014 - Progress in Digitisation: 26/6/2014.

Click to submit: rapid publication through Scratchpads and the Biodiversity Data Journal, MONOCOTS V: 5th International Conference on Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons: 8/7/2013.