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Research Assistant

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

• Coordinator of the DFG-funded coordination project Further development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods for historical prints (OCR-D), (http://www.ocr-d.de)
• Coordination and supervision of OCR software module projects with a focus on Ground Truth for OCR training
• Preparation of guidelines and calls for proposals DFG call for proposals (https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2017/info_wissenschaft_17_13/index.html)
• Organization of workshops to coordinate, supervise and evaluate module projects and to communicate project results at conferences
• Conversion of specific metadata and metadata used in other contexts into standard-compliant metadata based on METS and development of specific metadata based on METS
• Project and software documentation based on DITA and Markdown
• Instruction and training of employees
• Full-text digitization of specific holdings, including typescripts from archive and libaries e.g. Akademie der Künste Berlin
• Expansion of the existing text corpora of the German Text Archive (DTA) through the creation and curation of text resources for linguistic and other historical research (corpora: Digital Collection of German Colonialism (DSDK), Funeral sermon)

• Best Paper Award DATeCH 2019 for OCR-D

Research Assistant

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

• Coordinator of the DFG-funded German Text Archive (DTA) project (http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de)
• Areas of responsibility:
• Text production XML based
• Creation of documentation on the basis of DITA
• Tendering and coordination with service providers
• Supervision of the following projects:
• AEDit (https://tinyurl.com/2292x5sm)
• Full text digitization of the Hamburgischer Unpartheyischer Correspondent (https://tinyurl.com/yhndnw2m)
• Conception and collaboration in the application process for new projects
• Instruction and training of employees

Research Assistant

Humboldt-University, Department of Library and Information Science

• Research Assistant at the Department for Library and Information Science of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Teaching area: Digital Library Responsibilities:
• Teaching courses in the fields of:
• Information databases (MySQL, Lucene/Solr, Greenstone)
• Introduction to scientific work - Automatic indexing
• Fundamentals of information and communication technology
• Digitization of the Americas Service (http://www.amerikahaus-archiv.de)
• Organization of workshops
• Conception and collaboration in the application process for new projects

Research Assistant

Humboldt-University, Computer and Media Service

• Research assistant at the Computer and Media Service of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in various projects (Digital Dissertation Project, DissOnline, ProPrint, Reuse)
• Areas of responsibility:
• Development and implementation of digitization projects of historically valuable books from the holdings of the University Library of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Development of an SGML/XML-based publication concept for dissertations and scientific journals
• Programming and maintenance of document templates in MS-Word, Star- and OpenOffice for dissertations and scientific journals
• Planning and supervision of publication projects
• Conception and project management of the print-on-demand project ProPrint
• Development of a business plan for a university publisher at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• Preparation and implementation of training courses for authors and employees

Student assistant

Humboldt-University, Computer and Media Service and University Library

• Student assistant in the DFG Project Digital Dissertation.
• Responsibilities:
• Implementation of a workflow for the conversion of dissertations to SGML, presentation of dissertations via the document and publication server of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Magister

Humboldt-University

Art History and Library and Information Science