Professional Qualification

Special expertise: Cultural Heritage Informatics / Humanities Computing

• information management - information retrieval (library catalogues, online databases, WWW, expert networks) also: Information architecture and visualization, knowledge management
• information technology - relational databases, meta data, XML, content management, Semantic Web
• multimedia production - music, graphic design / imaging, 2D and 3D animation
• media didactics - content preparation for various target groups (especially 'Public Understanding of Science' and science communication)

• analysis, documentation and improvement of information flows and knowledge structures within an organization (e.g. Intranet Server administration, Wiki-deployment)
• quality manegement / project management

Information Retrieval

• IR in offline and online sources (library catalogues, object data bases, technical databases, WWW, mailing lists/newsgroups, expert directories)
• expert IR in the areas of library and information science, computer science, art and culture, media history and public sector information
• term variation (syntax, flections)
• multi-lingual search
• material selection
• subject cataloging, indexing
• structured documentation (spreadsheet), IR report (text document, e.g. LyX)
• compilation of bibliographies (references database)

• requirements specification (usability context analysis: content search, definition of target groups, selection of delivery format)
• design of storyboards (UML) and development of information architectures
• interface design
• material selection
• digitization of sources (scanning, video and audio recording)
• editing of digitized materials
• creation of multimedial illustrations (e.g. by Macromedia Flash)
• systems integration (via a content management system or similar)
• prototyping in live system
• user testing / usability evaluation

• operating systems (Linux, Windows)
• office software (Open Office, Microsoft Office, LyX)
• programming languages (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, PHP, Python, Visual Basic, Java)
• (Web) development tools (NetBeans, GitLab, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash)
• Internet technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sematic Web, XML, RDF, SPARQL)
• software modelling, data bases, ontology editors, documentation software, bibliographic data bases (MySQL, Sybase, Postgres, Oracle, Prot&eiacute;gé 2000, M-Box, Reference Manager)
• image editing (Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, VRML/X3D, Shockwave, CompuPic Pro)
• audio software (Cool Edit, Audacity, Cakewalk, Finale Allegro)