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| Name: Holger Brocks Date of Birth: 06.10.1972 Place of Birth: Gronau/Nordrhein-Westfalen Nationality: German Martial Status: Not married, no children |
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Summary
Holger Brocks is a computer scientist who graduated from the Universität Trier at the department of computer science in February 2000. His master thesis was created at the Institut für Telematik, a subsidiary of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
From 2000 to 2006 he worked at Fraunhofer IPSI in the DELITE
(Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments) and ConTec
(Intelligent Content Technologies) divisions. In 2006 he joined the
chair of multimedia and internet applications at FernUniversität in
Hagen.
His research interests cover digital libraries, digital preservation, process-oriented knowledge management, multi-agent systems, collaborative working environments and semantic web technologies in general.
Education
Diplom, Mathematische Informatik, University Trier,
10/1993-02/2000
Concentrations: Databases and Knowledge-Based Systems, Computational
Linguistics
Thesis: Ein Framework für Komponentenbasierte Entwicklung von
Java-Clients (Universität Trier/Institut für Telematik)
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Civil Service, Bethesda Altenheim Gronau, 10/1992-10/1993
Abitur, Alexander-Hegius Gymnasium Ahaus, 09/1983-06/1992
Professional Experience
Employment
Research Associate, FernUniversität in Hagen, 07/2006-
Research Associate, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, 06/2000-05/2006
Consultancy
Projects
EFG (European Film Gateway), 2008-
PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe, FP7-2007-223758), 2008-
SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg, FP7-ICT-216736), 2008-
EMTO (Early Modern Thought Online), 2008-
Links4Science Feasibility Study, 2006
nestor Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources, 2006-
DPE (DigitalPreservationEurope, IST-2005-2.5.10), 2006-
Conweaver software suite for semantic search solutions, internal project, 2005-2006
Semantic search for the internal technology portal of Bilfinger Berger AG, 2005-2006
Intelligent Helpdesk, internal project, 2004-2006
DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, 2004-2006
BRICKS (Building resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services, IST-2002-2.3.1.12), 2004-2006
Local organization ECDL2001 Conference (European Conference on Digital Libraries), 2001
COLLATE (Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and
Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material, IST-1999-20882),
2000-2003
Teaching
Seminars/Practicals
FernUniversität in Hagen
Digitale Langzeitarchivierung
Informations- und Wissensmanagement im Internet
Multimediatechnologien
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Das Semantic Web – Intelligente Suche auf strukturierten Datenkollektionen, WS03/04, SS04
Agententechnologie im WWW: Intelligente Beratungssysteme und Recommender, SS04
Das Semantic Web – Wissensmanagement mit RDF, SS02, WS02/03, SS03
Konversationale Empfehlungssysteme im WWW: Agenten und Chatterbots, SS01
Wissensmanagement in digitalen Bibliotheken und Multimedia-Archiven, WS00/01, WS01/02
Lectures
FernUniversität in Hagen
Multimediainformationssysteme I (Steinmetz/Brocks/Hemmje), 2008
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Industrielle Wissensanwendungen (Kamps/Brocks/Rostek), 2004
Deutsche Informatik-Akdademie
Informationsaufbereitung und -suche im Web (Brocks/Everts/Frommholz), 2002
Technische Universität Wien
Multimedia Informationssysteme (Neuhold/Brocks/Everts), 2001
Supervised Theses
FernUniversität in Hagen
Langzeitarchivierung im Grid - Anforderungen, Konzepte, Lösungsansätze, Lars Müller, 2008
Technische Universität Darmstadt/Fraunhofer IPSI
Kollaboration in wissensintensiven Prozessen, Tilman Laschinger, 2006
Wissenbasierte Konfiguration von Benutzerschnittstellen, Gerhard Bauer, 2006
Eine Multi-Agenten-Umgebung für die flexible Ausnahmebehandlung in wissensintensiven Prozessen, Sonja Kempf, 2006
Agentenbasierte Entwicklung flexibler Aktivitätsbausteine für ein System zur Unterstützung wissensintensiver Prozesse, Katja Bayer, 2006
Prozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement – Semantische Technologien zur Unterstützung wissensintensiver Prozesse, Henning Meyer, 2005
Berufsakademie Mannheim
Erstellung einer servicebasierten Middleware-Infrastruktur für die semantische Integration heterogener Datenquellen und Dienste, Michael Keller, 2005
Skills and Qualifications
Computer Skills
Programming Languages
Fortran, C, C++, JAVA, PROLOG, LISP, Modula 2, Pascal, Perl, Smalltalk, Jess
Standards
SQL, XML, SOAP, RDF(S), OWL, LaTeX, Petri-Nets, BPML, UML, JSP, Struts, METS
Development Environments
Borland JBuilder, IBM Rational Rose, Protégé, K-Infinity, Eclipse, XMLSpy, Apache Tomcat
Database Management Systems
MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle
Project Management
Acquisition
SHAMAN, PARSE.Insight, EFG, EMTO
Workpackage Leadership
SHAMAN WP3 - Context Capturing, Representation, and Management
PARSE.Insight WP4 - Gap Analysis
Technical Coordination
SHAMAN, COLLATE, EMTO
Additional Training
Trade fair training, Fraunhofer Marketing Netzwerk, 2003
Second DELOS International Summer School on Digital Library Technologies, 2002
Qualification programme for project managers, Kempkes Gebhard Organisationsberatung, 2000-2002
Languages
German: native tongue
English: fluent
French: basic
Driving License
A, B