Category: Science

  • Evaluation of German open data portals

    In the last years, many cities and states in Germany built up portals where they publish data, for instance about how they spend money, to an overview of the trees in their city. This Open government data is becoming more and more important. First, transparency of public institutions is always important and second, data-driven services…

  • Reflections on my PhD

    In this post I want to write down what I learned during my PhD and what might help you too. It is my opinion on the stuff, but I used all of the techniques I described and they helped me. I split this up into four parts: Before you start, finding a supervisor, writing and…

  • The end of the Information Age?

    Last week there was this really interesting article at Heise online, a German tech magazine. It calls for the end of the modern internet, putting it into a postmodern internet. This also tackles the value of information and it’s declining in a postmodern age. In the traditional way, we talk in information science a lot…

  • Fellowship Free Knowledge

    I am happy to announce that I got accepted for being a fellow for free knowledge and open science (Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen), which is sponsored by Wikimedia Foundation. The program includes some money as well as mentoring and opportunities to network with other people, which are enthusiastic about open science. Due to corona, the event…

  • Virtual Open Sym 2020

    Open Sym this year was held online. My collegues from University of Washington, Seattle and me handed in a paper about an evaluation of the ontology I developed during my phd. The conference was organized in a different manner than last time. There were no parallel sessions and the presentations were rather short, abut ten…