Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Math.
Senior scientist and head of the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web at InfAI and Business Information Systems / University of Leipzig. Director of academic studies at Leipzig School of Media for the master studies Content- and Media-Engineering.
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Research Interests
- Knowledge Representation and Management, in particular agile, light-weight methodologies and social semantic collaboration
- Semantic Web, in particular the terminological Knowledge Representation standards RDF, RDF-Schema, OWL (W3C)
- Software engineering, open-source software, scripting languages and adaptive methodologies and tools (Wikis, eXtreme Programming): SemanticScripting.org
- Database and XML technologies
- Open, participatory research and development (see my Open Science slides and OpenResearch.org)
Activities
- Founder (resp. co-founder) of a number of high-impact research and community projects, e.g.: OpenResearch.org (Semantik Wiki for collecting and sharing scientific meta-data), DBpedia.org (transforming Wikipedia into a knowledge base), Cofundos.org (idea and resource pooling for open-source development).
- Principle investigator for the funded research projects OntoWiki (EU-FP7-SME) and LE4SW (BmBF)
- Programme committee member of conferences and workshops, e.g.: ISWC 2010, ESWC 2010, IEEE-ICSC 2010 (see Events)
- Director of academic master studies program “Content- and Media Engineering” at Leipzig School of Media
- W3C's RDF2RDB Working Group (invited expert)
- Open Knowledge Foundation - Protecting and Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age (advisory board member)
- EU's 6th and 7th framework programs (evaluator and reviewer)
- Editorial board member af various journals (Semantic Web Journal, IJAESD, Journal of Software Architecture, JITR, IJSR)
- Supervision of doctoral students: Jens Lehmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Sebastian Hellmann, Michael Martin, Jörg Unbehauen
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