Lecturer media computer science and information processing
Head of IT-Certificate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
teaching summerterm 2021
professional experience:
- since 01/2020, development of the IT-Certificate for teacher students as part of a Tandem Stifterverband Fellowship for innovations in digital university teaching together with the ZfL Cologne.
- since 10/2008 responsible for the conception, development, implementation and teaching of IT-Certificate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (additional DH program for all students of Faculty of Arts and Humanities) as well as its consolidation and extension.
- 10/2015 - 03/2018 expert advice and student counsellor for studies of Media Computer Science, responsible for organizing study programs and teaching.
- since 04/2003 lecturer Medieninformatik (Media Computer Science) / Informationsverarbeitung University at Cologne
- 08/2006-12/2007: Research Associate
Project: PLANETS Preservation and Long-term access through Networked Services
Digital Preservation Research and Technology
Role: project coordination - 10/2003-12/2004: Research Associate
Project: RETRO EVAL project for the evaluation of national funding program for retrospective digitization
Role: project coordination - 06/2003-09/2003: Research Associate
Employer: Landesarchiv NRW Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf
Role: development and realization of a server for Online Finding Aids with KLEIO - 02/2003-05/2003: Research Associate
Project: E-Culture Net European Network of Centres of Excellence for Digital Culture Research and Education - 04/1989-09/1998: Employer PTA (pharmaceutical technical assistant) at several pharmacies
special interests:
Besides the contents of the Digital Humanities I am especially interested in digital teaching and digital learning as well as in future-oriented methods in the field of mobile and agile learning.
teaching:
Leading and updating regularly the seminar (semester recurrent)
- Basic Systems of Information Processing -1- Texts as Information (semester recurrent)
- Basic Systems of Information Processing - 2 - Non-textual Information
focus on study-programs Media Computer Science and Informationsverarbeitung as well as
- semester recurrent various courses of IT-Certificate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Advanced IT Basics, Advanced Web Basics, Tool & Methods in DH und Digital Object Processing ) for all students of the University.
- Winter semester 2017/18 conception and teaching of the seminar Social Bots: Pestilenz des 21. Jhds? together with Prof. Dr. Ø. Eide (focus on study-program Media Computer Science).
- Summer semester 2003 conception and teaching of the seminar System Analysis and Software Design (focus on study-program Informationsverarbeitung).
publications:
- Digital Humanities
2. Aufl. 2016, XXVI, 313 S.
543 Abb., 520 Abb. in Farbe.© Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016ISBN: 978-3-658-05793-0 (online edition) 978-3-658-05792-3 (printed edition)
→ available as E-Book or printed edition.
see also: website of the book dhbuch.de
- Digital Humanities
Grundlagen und Technologien für die Praxis, XXVII, 292 S. © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015
ISBN: 978-3-658-05793-0 (online edition) 978-3-658-05792-3 (printed edition)
- Evaluierung des bisherigen Verlaufs des Förderschwerpunktes "Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen" , in: zeitenblicke 5 (2006), Nr. 3, [2006-12-03], URL: www.zeitenblicke.de/2006/3/Kurz/index_html URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-9-6556
education:
- 10/1998-01/2003: Study of Informationsverarbeitung (Digital Humanities), Sociology and Philosophy
Institution: University at Cologne
Certificate: Magister Artium; MA thesis: Data mining in www-based statistics archives based on a Java client-server architecture
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller