Klaus Tochtermann
Klaus Tochtermann (* 22. August 1964 in Heidelberg) is a professor in the Institute for Computer Science at Kiel University and also the director of the ZBW – German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.[1][2]
Education and Career
Klaus Tochtermann is the son of Werner Tochtermann. He graduated from the Kieler Gelehrtenschule in 1983. From 1985 to 1991 he studied computer science at the Kiel University and Dortmund University. At Dortmund University he received his doctorate in computer science with a thesis on A model for hypermedia: description and integrated formalisation of essential hypermedia concepts. Klaus Tochtermann spent the following year as a post-doc at Texas A&M University, Center for the Studies of Digital Libraries, USA with a grant from the Max-Kade-Foundation. His key activities in this time were in the field of web-based tools and services for digital libraries. From 1997 until 2000 he was division head at the FAW Ulm (Research Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing at Ulm University).
From 2001 until 2010 he was the scientific director of the research institute Know-Center, a competence center for information technology-based knowledge management located in Austria. In 2001 founded the I-KNOW conference series in cooperation with Hermann Maurer. In 2002 he received his habilitation in the field of Applied information processing with the thesis Personalisation in the Context of Digital Libraries and Knowledge Management. From 2004 until 2010 he held the chair for Knowledge Management, at the TU Graz (Austria).[3] From 2007 until 2010, he was also head of the Institute for Networked Media at Joanneum Research, an application-oriented research institution located in Graz. Since 2010, Klaus Tochtermann has been the director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and has held a chair for Media Informatics at Kiel University.
In 2012, Klaus Tochtermann initiated the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0.[4] This research alliance addresses the question of how the participatory Internet (e.g. Social Media) changes research and publishing processes, and how information infrastructure institutions can participate in the shaping of these changes.
In 2014, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics headed by Klaus Tochtermann received the national “Library of the Year 2014” award [5] from the German Library Association (dbv).
Klaus Tochtermann is married and lives in Kiel.
Main research focus
- Science 2.0
- Knowledge management and knowledge provision
- Semantic technologies
Selected professional activities
- Member of the ITA Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry for Education and Science, topic “Participation in research and innovation”
- Member of the Council for Information-Infrastructures
- Member of the Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Member of the board of the Know-Center – Graz (Austria)
- Member of the scientific advisory council of Mimos (IT research institition of Malaysia)
- Visiting Professor at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)
- Member of the advisory board “Information and Library” of the Goethe-Institute
Selected publications
- How Science 2.0 will impact on Scientific Libraries. In: it-information Technology, Volume 56, Number 5 (2014), pp. 224–229, ISSN (Online) 2196-7032, ISSN (Print) 1611-2776; DOI: 10.1515/itit-2014-1050, September 2014
- co-authored with Atif Latif and Timo Borst: Exposing data from an Open Access Repository for economics as linked data. D-Lib Magazine, September/October 2014, Volume 20, Number 9/10; DOI: 10.1045/september2014-latif
- co-authored with Atif Latif: Exploring Scientific Publication and Cross-domain Linked Dataset for Similarity – A Case Study. International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, ISSN 2005-8039, Vol. 5, No. 11, pp. 179–187, 2013
- co-authored with Joachim Neubert: Linked Library Data: Offering a Backbone for the Semantic Web. In: Communications in Computer and Information Sciences; Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE 2011), Conference Proceedings Springer, Berlin, 2011
External links
- Literature by and about Klaus Tochtermann in the German National Library catalogue
- CV
References
- ↑ Informatikprofessor übernimmt Ruder der weltgrößten Wirtschaftsbibliothek, Press release ZBW, 2010-06-01.
- ↑ Martina Drexler: Der neue Herr der Bücher In: Kieler Nachrichten, 2010-05-31.
- ↑ Prof. Klaus Tochtermann, In: community of knowledge.
- ↑ ZBW initiates Leibniz Research Network Science 2.0, ZBW press release, 2012-10-09
- ↑ German National Library of Economics named as Library of the Year 2014: excellence and radical innovation convince the jury, ZBW press release, 2014-07-01
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