User:Stefan Gradmann

Curricula Vitae of the promoter-spokesperson

Prof. dr. Stefan Gradmann

Institution: KU Leuven

Department Letteren (Arts) Work address: Blijde-Inkomststraat 21

3000 Leuven

E-mail: stefan.gradmann@kuleuven.be

Phone: +32 16 3 76986

GSM: +32 472 606236

Stefan Gradmann

is a full Professor in the Arts department of KU Leuven (Belgium). Besides his continuing focus on knowledge management and semantically based operations his research and teaching covers digital libraries and web based information architectures, with a special emphasis on the digital humanities and a focus on semiological aspects of meaning and interpretation in the information ecosystem of the WWW.

HumanitiesComputing: Stefan was an international advisor for the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Huaities ad “oial “iees, ad as suh has otriuted to the report Our Cultural Cooealth. Furtherore, he has ee leadig the EC fuded projet Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E).

Europeana: He has been heavily involved in building Europeana, the European Digital Library, from its very beginnings More specifically he was leading work on technical and semantic interoperability and has been a co-author of the graph based Europeana Data Model (EDM) and triggered Europeana's involvement in the LoD community.

His working languages are German, English, French and Dutch.

Academic titles and diplomas Education:

1986: PhD German Literature, Univer sit Freiurg Brsg.. Title PhD dissertatio: Topographie: )ur Fuktio räuliher Modellildug i de Werke o Adalert “tifter ud Fraz Kafka

1983: MA German Literature, University Freiburg (Brsg.)

1979: D.E.U.G (Diplôme des Etudes Universitaires générales, mention lettres), Université Paris VIII

Career:

Since 2013: Director of KU Leuven regular professor (Arts)

2008

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2013: Regular professor (Library and Information Science), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2000

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2008: CIO and Deputy Director of the Computing Center of Hamburg University

1996

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2000: Product and project manager with PICA V.V. (Leiden)

1988

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1996: Various managerial positions in the State and University Library Hamburg

10 most relevant publications

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Gradmann, S. (2017). Pédauque +/- Kafka. Beyond Infrastructure! Beyond Infrastructure. https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/572378/1/Pedauque+and+Kafka.2017.02.13_Wuppertal.pdf 

Oldman, D.; Doerr, M.;.Gradmann, S. (2016). ZEN and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge. Wiley-Blackwell

Groep Humane Wetenschappen / Faculteit Letteren Blijde-Inkomststraat 21

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bus 3301 3000 Leuven

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Gradmann, S.; Hennicke, S.; Tschumpel, G.; Dill, K.; Thoden, K.; Pichler, A.; Morbidoni, C. (2015). Beyond Infrastructure! Modelling the Scholarly Domain. Beyond Infrastructure! Modelling the Scholarly Domain

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Gradmann, S.; Iwanowa, J.; Dröge, E.; Hennicke, S.; Trkulja, V.;Olensky, M.; Stein, C.; Struck, A.; Baierer, K. (2014). Modellierung und Ontologien im Wissensmanagement. Erfahrungen aus drei Projekten im Umfeld von Europeana und des DFG-Exzellenzclusters Bild Wissen Gestaltung an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Dinges & Frick. Information Wissenschaft & Praxis vol:64 issue:2-3 pages:149-165

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Doerr, M., Gradmann, S., Hennicke, S., Isaac, A., Meghini, C., Schreiber, G. & van de Sompel, H. (2011). The Europeana Data Model. IFLA 2011 (pp. 1-12). IFLA. Retrieved from http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/149-doerr-en.pdf (print pending due to unresolved problems between editor and publisher)

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Concordia, C., Gradmann, S., & Siebinga, S. (2010). Not just another portal, not just another digital library: A portrait of Europeana as an application program interface. IFLA Journal, 36(1), 61-69.

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Grada, “. . Koledge = Iforatio i Cotet : o the Iportae of “eati Contextualisation in Europeana. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/32110457/Europeana-White-Paper-1 

Gradmann, S. (2009). Signal. Information. Zeichen. Zu den Bedingungen des Verstehens in semantischen Netzen. Libreas, 1-14. Retrieved from http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docserv/docviews/abstract.php?id=29679 

Gradmann, S. (2008). Some thoughts on the importance of Open Source and Open Access for emerging digital scholarship. In H. Hrachovec & A. Pichler (Eds.), Philosophy of the information soiet : Pro ceedings of the 30. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2007 (pp. 275-286). Frankfurt [u.a.]: Ontos-Verl.

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Gradmann, S., & Meister, J. C. (2008). Digital document and interpretation: re- thikig tet ad scholarship in electronic settings. Poiesis Praxis, 5(2), 139-153. doi:10.1007/s10202-007-0042-y

co-)promotership of defended doctoral degrees and doctoral degrees under preparation in the last 5 years

Ina Blümel , Metadatenbasierte Kontextualisierung archhitektonischer 3D-Modelle (2009-2013

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co-supervisor Dieter Fellner)

Jenny Oltersdorf , Publikationen: Funktion und Repräsentation

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Präsenz von Kommunikationskanälen der deutschen Kunstgeschichte in bibliographischen Nachweisinstrumenten (2009-2012, co-supervisor Vivien Petras)

Jakob Voss , Describing data patterns. A general deconstruction of metadata standards (2009 - 2013, co-supervisor: Felix Sasaki).

Susanne Dobratz , Langzeitarchivierung digitaler Objekte

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Untersuchungen zur Interoperabilität von Metadatenformaten (2012, co-supervisor: Wolfgang Coy).

Co-promotershipofstudentsatotherfaculties

Marc Bertin , Bibliosémantique : une technique linguistique et informatique par exploration contextuelle. (Université Paris IV Sorbonne 2011)

Frederik R. N. Schlupkothen, A Genre-aware Document Model for Multichannel Publishing Workflows-(Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, 2013 - 2016) Tanja Lange , NetzbasierteKommunikationundKooperationindenGeisteswissenschaften:

derSystemkomplexe-Port/NarrPortalsModellversuch . (Department of German Literature, Hamburg University, 2008). Experience in research with and management of large-scale research infrastructure, possibly as part of a consortium or in an international context

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Stefan Gradmann was involved in the conception and implementation of Europeana from the very beginning (2007) and namely was responsible for semantic interoperability of this huge pan-European infrastructure for representing cultural heritage of all kinds on the WWW. In this function, he was involved in numerous Europeana related EU funded projects as work package leader as well as consortium coordinator (of the DM2E project).

He is currently investigating the research potential of Europeana for the Digital Humanities and involved in the shaping of Horizon 2020 in this respect.