Projects & Activities
Projects
Initial Inventory Check NS-looted Books for Public Libraries
Period:
01 / 2022 - 01 / 2024
i4G - Shaping the iSchools' Identity and Interaction in a Globalized World
Goal:
A diversity map and a knowledge graph to capture and display the conceptual diversity and the interdisciplinary orientation of the iSchools.
Development of a classification for interdisciplinary research fields within the framework of the Core Data Set Research
re3data COREF (Community Driven Open Reference for Research Data Repositories)
Goal:
Further development of the directory for research data repositories into a central open science service
SoNAR (IDH): Interfaces to Data for Historical Social Network Analysis and Research
Goal:
Examination and evaluation approaches to build and operate an advanced research technology environment supporting Historical Network Analysis and related research.
CLUBS: Overcoming language barriers – Cross-lingual search of bibliographic metadata
Understanding the Information Seeking Behavior and Digital Skills of Refugee Migrants during the Job Seeking Process
- To examine the information seeking behavior of refugee migrants in Germany while pursuing a job, a training position, or following an educational path on the Internet
- To position competencies of refugee migrants on a digital skill scale and analyze how they approach information-seeking tasks
Stiller, J and Trkulja, V
In: iConference 2018
Europeana DSI-2 - Access to Digital Resources of European Heritage
(Task lead 6.8.2 Measure and enhance multilingual performance)
Stiller, J., Manguinhas, H.; Freire, N., Hill, T., Isaac, A. (2017). D6.5: Report on Quality Metrics and Improvement of Multilinguality in Europeana.
Petras, V. and Stiller, J. (2017). A Decade of Evaluating Europeana - Constructs, Contexts, Methods & Criteria. Proceedings of TPDL 2017. Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2017.
Petras, V., Hill, T., Stiller, J., Gäde, M. (2017). Europeana - a Search Engine for Digitised Cultural Heritage Material. Datenbank-Spektrum: 1-6.
Manguinhas, H., Freire, N., Isaac, A., Stiller, J., Charles, V., Soroa, A., Simon, Rainer, Alexiev, V. (2016). Exploring comparative evaluation of semantic enrichment tools for cultural heritage metadata (pp. 266–278). Proceedings of TPDL 2017 the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Springer International Publishing.
Europeana v3.0
(Task lead WP2 Facilitation)
DM2E- Digitized Manuscripts to Europeana
(Project coordination)
Europeana v2.0
(Task lead WP7 Innovation)
Stiller, J., Olensky, M. and Petras, V. (2014). A Framework for the Evaluation of Automatic Metadata Enrichments. Proceedings of MTSR 2014: 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Germany, November 27-29, 2014.
Stiller, J., Petras, V., Gäde, M. and Isaac, A. (2014). Automatic Enrichments with Controlled Vocabularies in Europeana: Challenges and Consequences. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Heritage (EUROMED), Cyprus, November 2014.
PROMISE - Participative Research Laboratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation
(Task lead WP6 Evaluation Activities)
Petras, V., Bogers, T., Toms, E., Hall, M., Savoy, J., Malak, P., Pawlowski, A., Ferro, N., Masiero, I. (2013). Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2013. Forner, P., Müller, H., Paredes, R., Rosso, P., Stein, B. (Eds.) Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization: 4th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2013, Valencia, Spain, September 23-26, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer. [Lecture Notes for Computer Science; 8138]: 192-211.
Järvelin, A. et al. (2013). D2.4 Use case inventory and final specification of the evaluation tasks.
Petras, V., Stiller, J. and Gäde, M. (2012). Building for Success (?) – Evaluating Digital Libraries in the Cultural Heritage Domain. In: Recent Developments in the Design, Construction and Evaluation of Digital Libraries. Colleen Cool & Kwong Bor Ng (Eds.) Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Braschler, M., K. Choukri, N. Ferro, A. Hanbury, J. Karlgren, H. Müller, V. Petras, E. Pianta, M. de Rijke and G. Santucci (2010). A PROMISE for Experimental Evaluation. Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation. International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010. M. Agosti, N. Ferro, C. Peters, M. de Rijke and A. Smeaton Eds.). Padua, Italy, September 2010, Springer. [Lecture Notes for Computer Science; 6360].
GALATEAS - Generalized Analysis of Logs for Automatic Translation and Episodic Analysis of Searches
(Lead WP7 Evaluation)
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EuropeanaConnect
(Lead WP2)
Petras, V. (2011). D2.7.1 Report on Multilingual Access Strategies to Digital Libraries.
Gäde, M., V. Petras and Stiller, J. (2010). Which Log for Which Information? Gathering Multilingual Data from Different Log File Types. Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation. International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010. M. Agosti, N. Ferro, C. Peters, M. de Rijke and A. Smeaton (Eds.). Padua, Italy, September 2010, Springer. [Lecture Notes for Computer Science; 6360].
Events organized by the Research Group
Overcoming language barriers - Cross-lingual retrieval of bibliographic metadata with neural machine translation. Final Project Workshop at Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, 7th June 2019
Charting the Future of Forced Migration Research in Information Science. International Workshop at University of Maryland College of Information Studies, Washington, DC, 31 March 2019
Measuring Change in Digital Humanities: Workshop on Impact Factors and Success Criteria. Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 21-22 June 2018
Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same? Understanding Information Spaces. 15th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2017), Berlin, Germany, 13th—15th March 2017.
Evaluating Cultural Heritage Information Systems. Workshop at the iConference Newport Beach, CA 2015.
Local Organizing Team für die iConference 2014 in Berlin, Deutschland.
http://ischools.org/the-iconference/about-the-iconference/iconference-2014-summary/
Multilinguality in Information Access to Digital Libraries: User Needs and Evaluation of multilingual resources use. MLIA4DL 2009, 9 September 2009, Trento (Italy). Workshop at the International Conference on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009).
Selected Activities
iLab
The iLab is a joint information science research laboratory for information behavior and information retrieval optimized for information experience and usability research.