Tag: Open Science

  • I finished my PhD

    It is done. I finished my PhD. You can find my thesis at the server of University of Hildesheim and my defense presentation on Youtube.

  • What did you do in your PhD? – ECER 2021

    I held a short presentation at ECER 2021, which was online due to the pandemic. This presentation gives a good overview about my PhD work. You can also find the abstract and the slides. I also created a teaser. In short, I developed an ontology or a metadata set for qualitative coding schemas. This ontology…

  • Citizen Science in research about schoolbooks

    As some of you know, we started the project Interlinking Pictura some time ago. We also published an article about this as Bridging citizen science and open educational resources at OpenSym 2018 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3233391.3233539). This was a rather technical article about the project and how we wanted to integrate citizen science. Later, some collegues asked,…

  • From project to infrastructure – the Schularchive-Wiki project funded by the Fellow Program Free Knowledge

    The continuation of the Schularchive-Wiki within the framework of the Fellow-Program Free Knowledge. I wrote this text to reflect on the Fellow-Programm together with my mentor Maximilian Heimstädt. It was first published at the blog of Wikimedia Germany. The Project As part of the Fellow Program Free Knowledge, the project Schularchive (school archives) was funded.…

  • 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…