Speakers at the DDBforum - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

Here you can find information about the speakers and presenters at the DDBforum.

Leonardo de Araújo (PhD student at the Technology Centre for Computer Science and Information Technology (TZI) at the University of Bremen)

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On the basis of his academic background and his interest in culture and history, Leonardo de Araújo developed the educational game “Hanse 1380“ for the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, the museum application “Interactive Exhibits for the Overseas Museum” in Bremen and other desktop and mobile apps (e.g. "Heuristic Ruler", "Inside Gdansk") in the cultural and tourism sector. From 2007 to 2012 Mr. Araújo worked as an independent software developer in media computer science. Here he was able to use his technical and economic skills as a project and team manager, among other things, and is responsible for the Cinemark mobile app being viewed 42 million times per year.

Session: DDBopen

Stephan Bartholmei (Product Development and Innovation, Project Coordination, German Digital Library, c/o German National Library)

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Stephan Bartholmei heads the Product Development and Innovation section at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. A trained physicist, he has been working for the Project Coordination of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek since 2013, after periods working in research, intellectual property rights as well as teaching in schools and universities. Stephan Bartholmei is one of the founders of the first German cultural data hackathon “Coding da Vinci” and has been a Member of the Europeana Members Council since 2015.

Sessions: DDBaktuell & Use and Transfer of Data

Cosmina Berta (Service Centre and Specialist Department Library, German Digital Library, c/o German National Library)

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Cosmina Berta studied Business Studies and after obtaining her degree in Industrial Management she completed an MBA. She has worked for the Central and Eastern Online Library where she was concerned with the acquisition of new partners and deliveries to Europeana. Since July 2013 she has worked for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek/ German Digital Library/ in the Service Centre and the Specialist Department Library at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / German National Library / with her main focus on the metadata formats DC and ESE.

Session: Ingestion II

Larissa Borck B.A. (University of Hamburg)

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As a master student of cultural anthropology, Larissa Borck is concerned with concepts of digitisation in the cultural heritage sector. Her master thesis addresses the cultural understanding of digitisation in European open-air museums and its implementations. Furthermore, she is a member of the Young Heritage Studio, a cross-generational research project on the interconnections of young people and cultural heritage at the University of Hamburg.

Session: Communication

Helen Buchholz (Specialist field Policy at the Department for Public Relations, State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia)

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From 2007 to 2011 Bachelor degree course at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in the specialist field Information Science with her main focus on archives. From 2011 to 2012 Master degree course at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam with her main focus on the transfer of knowledge and project coordination. Since 2012 she has been employed at the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, first in the Department Westphalia and since 2013 in the specialist field Policy at the Department for Public Relations in Duisburg. In addition to the classical tasks of public relations work, such as planning events and designing print media, she is responsible for supervising the portal Archives in NRW.

Session: Aggregators

Michael Büchner (Project Coordination (Technology), German Digital Library, c/o German National Library)

Michael Büchner studied Applied Computer Science as well as Library and Information Sciences in Jena, Erfurt and Leipzig. Since June 2013 he has worked in the Project Coordination team of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek / German Digital Library/ at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / German National Library /. His main focuses are on the evaluation and also the development of the technologies used by the DDB. Furthermore, Michael Büchner is concerned with the topics “persistent identifiers” (especially in the project “PICHE – Persistent Identifiers for Cultural Heritage Entities”) and “standard data” (especially that of the Integrated Authority File in the project “Entity Facts”).

Session: Media Files in the DDB

Frank Drauschke (Partner Facts & Files, Berlin)

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Frank Drauschke studied History, South Asian Studies and International Relations in Asia at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. During his periods of studying and research in India, Great Britain and the USA he did research in the archives there. In 1999, together with Beate Schreiber, he founded the private historical research institute Facts & Files which specialises in Applied History, that is, historical research and the preparation and presentation of historical content for a wider public. For more than 18 years now Facts & Files have carried out regional and international research projects. Facts & Files plays an active part at the interface between cultural heritage and digital innovation, became a partner of the Europeana Foundation in 2011 and is substantially involved here in the crowdsourcing campaigns Europeana 1914-1918, Europeana 1989 and Europeana Transcribe. Building on this, Olaf Baldini and Frank Drauschke developed the Transcribathon Citizen Science Format and the corresponding online tools.
www.transcribathon.eu
www.factsandfiles.com

Session: Use and Transfer of Data

Frank Dührkohp (Head of Department Digital Library in the Central Office of the Common Library Network (VZG))

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Studied Archaeology and History in Göttingen, Heidelberg and Perugia; 1997–2005 Managing Partner of Dührkohp & Radicke – Text- und Informationslogistik KG (text and information logistics); from 2005 onwards VZG with the function of development of digital sciences for cultural institutions; since 2015 Head of Department Digital Library.

It is the task of the Digital Library to make software applications for digital content available to be used permanently by research and teaching. In this context the VZG was commissioned by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture to develop and manage the portal “Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony”. “Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony” considers itself to be the Lower Saxony aggregator for the DDB. The numismatic content of the DFG project KENOM – Kooperative Erschließung und Nutzung der Objektdaten von Münzsammlungen (Cooperative Indexing and Use of Object Data from Numismatic Collections) (www.kenom.de), collected within the framework of the scheme “Lower Saxony Virtual Numismatic Collection”), should also be made available to the DDB in this context.

Session: Aggregators

Gerke Dunkhase (Dunkhase Media Office)

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Gerke Dunkhase is responsible as product owner for the front end and search functionality at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek / German Digital Library/. Moreover, he also works as a freelance project manager for the German Film Institute and the internet platform on German film www.filmportal.de. In addition he supervises and advises public and private clients in the areas of digital strategies, web analytics and SEO.

Session: Media Files in the DDB

Sigrun Dürr (Project Leader Mapping, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information infrastructure)

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Sigrun Dürr works at the FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information infrastructure - in the department Data Management in the IT, development and applied research sections. She is a graduate librarian for scientific libraries and documentation institutions and was involved in the application programming in setting up a database production system as well as in the coordination and set-up of websites. She has many years of experience as a project leader in mapping and is responsible for the especially complex cases in conceptual mapping for STN databases (STN International). Moreover, she is responsible for the schema development of the in-house xml schema. For the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) / German Digital Library/ she is responsible for the technical mapping of the different DDB formats as well as for ingestions into the database.