Speakers
Felix Boteram is a librarian and research assistant working for the RESEDA project at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. RESEDA aims at developing models for the representation of semantic data in knowledge organization systems.
Stella Dextre Clarke is an independent consultant specializing in the design and implementation of thesauri and other knowledge organization structures. She currently leads ISO NP 25964, the project to update and revise the international standards for thesauri. Previously she was the Convenor of the Working Group which developed BS 8723. In 2006 she won the Tony Kent Strix Award for outstanding achievement in information retrieval, in recognition for her development work on IPSV (Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary), as well as on the vocabulary standards.
Gordon Dunsire is Head of the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a member of IFLA's Classification and Indexing section, and the FRBR Review Group. He is a consultant to the FRBR Namespace project and the ISBD XML TasK Group, and co-chairs the DCMI RDA Task Group. He is also a member of the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA and the CILIP Committee on DDC, and chairs the Technical Issues Working Group of the European DDC Users Group. His research interests are metadata, interoperability, wide area information retrieval and the semantic web.
Claudia Effenberger is a librarian and information scientist. As part of her master's program "Information Science and Engineering" at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, she is doing her internship at the German National Library. Her topic there is the versioning of the DDC for retrieval.
Winfried Gödert is Professor for Subject Indexing and Information Retrieval at the Institute for Information Science at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. His current research interests cover knowledge organization and the development of representational models for semantic data in various contexts of information retrieval. He is head of the CrissCross project, which is a joint project of the German National Library and the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. He is also head of the RESEDA project.
Julia Hauser is a librarian at the German National Library IT Department. She works on representing data in the semantic web.
Jessica Hubrich is team leader of the CrissCross project at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Antoine Isaac is scientific coordinator for Europeana and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has been working for a number of years on using Semantic Web technology in the Cultural Heritage environment, focusing on the representation and interoperability of collections and their vocabularies (STITCH, TELplus and EuropeanaConnect projects). He has been a member of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group, involved in the design of SKOS and currently serves as SKOS community contact for W3C.
Jan-Helge Jacobs is a librarian and works as a research assistant for the CrissCross project at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Yvonne Jahns is working in the department of subject indexing in the German National Library. She is senior research librarian for law and economics. Her responsibilites include the work with the subject authority file (SWD). Over the last years, she has been involved in several mapping projects between the SWD and subject thesauri and also in the implementation of the DDC at the German National Library. She has been a member of the Standing Committee of IFLA's Indexing and Classification Section since 2005.
Ulrike Junger is Head of the Department of Subject Indexing at the German National Library. Previously she was Head of Academic Services and Director of the German Union Catalogue of Serials at the Berlin State Library. From 1995 to 2001 she worked as subject specialist and deputy head for the editorial office for subject indexing and subject authority files for the regional library network GBV at the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen and was Head of Information Services at the Central Office of the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (regional library network in Northern Germany). She completed her training for academic librarianship at the University Library in Konstanz and the Library School in Frankfurt/Main. She has a Diploma in Psychology and Protestant Theology
Helga Karg is working in the department of subject indexing in the German National Library. She is senior research librarian for law. Her responsibilities include the work with the subject authority file (SWD). On behalf of the DNB, she is leading the CrissCross project. She also has been involved in the implementation of the DDC at the German National Library.
Dr. Philipp Mayr is currently a visiting professor (W2) for Information Science at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He is teaching Library and Information Science (LIS) and Computer Science classes. Philipp Mayr is a graduate of the Institute of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin. He studied LIS, computer science and sociology. Since November 2004, he is working as a research associate at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Bonn. Philipp Mayr completed his PhD in information science in February 2009 at Humboldt University Berlin. Since February, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-project “Value-Added Services for Information Retrieval” at GESIS. His research focuses on all aspects of information retrieval, digital library models and informetric analysis of the Web (webometrics).
Tina Mengel is a translator and research assistant working for the CrissCross project at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She also translates updates of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) for the German version of the DDC. From 2002 to 2005 she was part of the project DDC Deutsch that translated the Dewey Decimal Classification into German.
Katrin Müller is a librarian and research assistant working for the CrissCross project at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Dr. Klaus-Dirk Schmitz is Professor of Terminology Studies and Language Technology at the Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is Managing Director of the Institute for Information Management at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Other activities in the field of terminology science include acting as Vice-president of the German Terminology Association (DTT = Deutscher Terminologie-Tag) and Chairman of the German National Standards Committee "Systems for managing terminology, knowledge and content" (DIN NAT AA5).
Dr. Dagobert Soergel is Professor and Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo since 2009, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 1970 – 2010, and Professore Onorario, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento since 2007. He has been working in the area of classification (taxonomy, ontologies) and thesauri both practically and theoretically for over 40 years. He is the author of the still-standard text- and handbook Indexing Languages and Thesauri. Construction and Maintenance (Wiley 1974) and of Organizing Information (Academic Press 1985), which received the American Society of Information Science Best Book Award, and more than 100 papers and presentations in the area of classification / ontologies (including their development and change over time) and more broadly in information science. He was the chief architect for several thesauri, including the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus and the Harvard Business Thesaurus. 1997 Dr. Soergel received the highest award of the American Society for Information Science, the Award of Merit and in 2009 the Contributions to Information Science (CISTA) Award of the Los Angeles Chapter of ASIST.
Dr. Maja Žumer is Professor of Information Science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Before she became a faculty member of LIS at the University of Ljubljana, she was first a systems librarian, then Head of the Research and Development Department at the National and University Library in Ljubljana. Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces, and, particularly, the FRBR model. She has published extensively on these topics. She is a member of the FRBR review Group, chair of the Working Group for Guidelines for national bibliographies in the digital age and co-chair of the FRSAR Working Group.