Max Planck Digital Library

Traugott Koch


Traugott Koch

Interoperability, Metadata and Research Officer

Max Planck Digital Library, Germany.

Contact Details

Max Planck Digital Library
Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG
Faradayweg 4-6, F 1.03
D- 14195 Berlin. Germany
Tel.: +49 30 84133725
Email: traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.de
URL: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/

Persistent name authority record (OCLC LAF): http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n2003-4015.html

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Committees, Editorial boards etc. | Affiliations | Areas of interest | Projects | Publications and presentations

Committees, Editorial Boards etc.:

Institutions, organizations, standards

Member of the Advisory Board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. 1996-

Member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Usage Board (maintenance of DCMI standards). Start - 2005.

Co-chair of KIM-AG IM, Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (DFG Projekt), Germany, 2007-

German representative and expert in the Working Group (WG 8) on Structured Vocabularies, developing ISO 25964 “Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies”, under the auspices of ISO TC46 SC9. 2007-

Guest in the DIN Normenausschuss Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen (NABD) Sektion 9: Beschreibung und Identifizierung von Dokumenten. 2007-

Member of an expert group advising the British Standards Institute on British Standard BS 8723 "Structured vocabularies for information retrieval - Guide". 2005-2006

Berichterstatter und Mitglied einer DFG Pruefgruppe fuer Projekte einer Ausschreibung eines DFG Foerderprogramms im Bereich Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme, (Member of an expert project evaluation group for a programme call in the area of "Scientific Literature and Information Systems", German Research Foundation DFG), 2008.

Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des InformationsZentrums Sozialwissenschaften (IZ) - GESIS, Bonn, Germany. 2002-2006 . (Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Social Sciences Information Centre - GESIS)

Member of the Expert Panel of the JISC funded Names Project

Member of the Advisory Board of the STAR (Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) project, Univ. of Glamorgan and English Heritage, UK

Journals

Member of the Editorial Board , Associate Editor, of "International Journal on Digital Libraries" (IJDL) , publ. by Springer. 2002-
Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience. Vol. 7:1-2, 122pp., 2007

Member of the Editorial Board of "The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia" (NRHM), a refereed annual review journal. Publ. by Taylor & Francis. 2002-

Coordinator and editor of the KIM-DINI TechWatch Report, 2008-

Theme Editor Information Discovery of the electronic peer reviewed journal "Journal of Digital Information" (JoDI). 2000-2009
Special issue on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems, Vol. 1, issue 8, 2001.
Special issue on Metadata - from the Dublin Core 2001 Conference, Vol. 2, issue 2, 2002.
Special issue on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems, Vol. 4, issue 4, 2004.
and many individual papers in the theme Information Discovery.

Conferences

...

Member of the Program Committee of the Eighth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2008, June 15-20, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Member of the Program Committee of the 10th International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference, ISKO 2008, August 5-8, 2008, Montreal, Canada.

Chair of the session on Social Tagging at the Twelfth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2008, September 14-19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark.

Co-organizer, Programme Committee member and chair of the session on Terminology Registries of the 7th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, at the Twelfth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2008, September 19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark.

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2008, September 21-28, 2008, Berlin, Germany.

Organizer and chair of the NKOS Special Session at DC-2008, September 24, 2008, Berlin, Germany.

Co-organizer and chair of the MPG eScience Seminar "Metadata Infrastructures", October 14-15, 2008, Berlin, Germany.

Member of the Program Committee of the 11th International Symposium for Information Science, ISI 2009, April 1-3, 2009, Konstanz, Germany.

Member of the Program Committee of the Nineth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2009, June 15-19, 2009, Austin, TX, USA.

Member of the Programme Committee of the Thirteenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2009, September 27 - October 02, 2009, Corfu, Greece.

Co-organizer, Programme Committee member and chair of the 8th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, at the Thirteenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2009, October 01, 2009, Corfu, Greece.

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2009, October 12-16, 2009, Seoul, Korea.

Member of the Programme Committee of the International UDC Seminar 2009 "Classification at a crossroads: multiple direction to usability", October 29-30, 2009, The Hague, Netherlands.

Member of the Program Committee of the Tenth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2010, Joint JCDL/ICADL International Digital Libraries Conference, June 21-25, 2010, Gold Coast, Australia.

Member of the Programme Committee and chair of the session on Metadata of the Fourteenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2010, September 06-10, 2010, Glasgow, Scotland.

Co-organizer and Programme Committee member of the 9th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, at the Fourteenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2010, September 09-10, 2010, Glasgow, Scotland.

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2010, October 20-22, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Member of the Program Committee of ASIS&T 2010, the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Member of the Program Committee of the 12th International Symposium for Information Science, ISI 2011, March 09-11, 2011, Hildesheim, Germany.

Co-organizer of and chair at the DINI AG KIM Kickoff Workshop, April 27-28, 2011, Mannheim University, Germany.

Member of the Program Committee of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, May 29 - June 2, 2011, Heraklion, Greece.

Member of the Program Committee of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2011, June 13-17, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.

Member of the Review Panel of the ISKO UK biennial conference and Organizer of the NKOS Special Session “What role can KOS play in information retrieval applications?”, July 4-5, 2011, London, UK.

Member of the Programme Committee of the International UDC Seminar 2011 "Classification and Ontology", September 19-20, 2011, The Hague, Netherlands.

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2011, September 21-23, 2011, The Hague, Netherlands.

Member of the Programme Committee of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries,TPDL 2011 (formerly ECDL), September 25-29, 2011, Berlin, Germany.

Responsible organizer, Programme Committee member and session chair of the 10th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011 (formerly ECDL), September 28-29, 2011, Berlin, Germany.

Affiliations

May 2005 - January 2007: Research and Development, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK. Research Officer.

Until April 2005: Digital Library Dept., Lund University Libraries, Head Office

1991-2004: NetLab, Knowledge Technologies Group. Lund University. Senior librarian, Digital Library Scientist.

1984-1990: Lund University Library. Information Scientist and documentalist

March 2000 - August 2002: Digital Library Scientist and Consultant at the Center of Knowledge Technology, Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark (DTV) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), part-time work.

Nov/Dec 2000: Consultancy at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome about the possible use of thesauri in web publishing and knowledge organization.
FAO Headquarters, Dep. GILW

Aug/Sep 2000: Visiting Scientist at the Maastricht McLuhan Institute, European Centre for Digital Culture, Knowledge Organisation and Learning Technology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

1998:

Visiting Distinguished Scholar at OCLC, Office of Research and Special Projects, Dublin, OH. (List of visiting scholars)

Cf. my Short CV for more.

Areas of interest

  • Knowledge organization, classification and indexing (thesauri). Authority files. Ontologies. Terminology. Participatory approaches, tagging, folksonomies

  • Methods of automatic classification

  • Name authorities and identification

  • Semantic web, Linked data

  • Metadata, Dublin Core, resource description

  • Semantic interoperability

  • Digital libraries, digital information resources and services, repositories

  • Information discovery and retrieval (on the Internet)

  • Internet indexing and search services, robots, agents etc.

  • Quality controlled subject gateways on the Internet

  • e-Science

  • Online searching and information retrieval (in general)

Projects

Further activities:

Major completed projects

At UKOLN, I was primarily working on:

Earlier projects:

Publications and presentations

PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, PAPERS, COURSES, WORKSHOPS etc. (1993-2007)

PUBLICATIONS

List of all PUBLICATIONS, including links to fulltext versions, in many cases.

Publications indexed by Google Scholar

Major publications (since 1998):

Koch, Traugott (2009). Report on the 8th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop. In:D-Lib Magazine, 15:11/12, 2009

Lyon, L., Coles, S., Duke, M. and Koch, T. (2008). Scaling Up: Towards a Federation of Crystallography Data Repositories. JISC Project: Ebank UK Phase 3, Final Report.
Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/reports/Ebank3report.pdf

Wright, M., Sumner, T, Moore, R. and Koch, T. (2007). Connecting Digital Libraries to eScience: The future of Scientific Scholarship. In: International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience, Vol. 7:1-2, pp. 1-4, 2007.
Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/index/832616V17076317M.pdf and http://edoc.mpg.de/350222

Tudhope, D., Koch, T. and Heery, R. (2006). Terminology Services and Technology. JISC state of the art review. 96pp.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/terminology/JISC-review2006.html | PDF version at JISC .

Koch, Traugott, Golub, Koraljka and Ardö, Anders (2006). Users Browsing Behaviour in a DDC-Based Web Service: A log analysis. In: Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer: content and Context in the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System. (ed. Joan S. Mitchell and Diane Vizine-Goetz). The Haworth Information Press, 2006.

Koch, Traugott, Golub, Koraljka and Ardö, Anders (2006). Users browsing behaviour in a DDC-based web service: A log analysis. In: Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 42, no. 3-4, 2006, pp.163-186. doi:10.1300/J104v42n03_07
Manuscript at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/t.koch/publ/CCQ-Renardus.doc

Heery, R., Brody, T., Doerr, M., Koch, T., Lyon, L. and Tsinaraki, C. (2006). Report on Digital Repositories: An evaluation study on the development and implementation of community repositories which support research (and learning and teaching). DELOS Deliverable 5.1.1. 93pp.
Available at: http://delos-wp5.ukoln.ac.uk/project-outcomes/WP-5-0-1/d-5-1-1-report.pdf

Koch, Traugott (2006). Report on the 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop.
In: D-Lib Magazine 12:10, October 2006. doi:10.1045/october2006-koch
Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/koch/10koch.html.

Koch, Traugott (2006). Terminology and subject access issues reg. eBank UK. eBank UK Project. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/dissemination/termino-public.html.

Koch, Traugott (2006). Electronic thesis and dissertations services: Semantic interoperability, subject access, multilinguality. Background paper for the E-Thesis Workshop (JISC, CURL, SURF), Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2006.
Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/t.koch/publ/e-thesis-200601.html

Coles, S., Frey, J., Hursthouse,M., Milsted, A., Carr, L., Gutteridge, C., Lyon, L., Heery, R., Duke, M., Koch, T. and Day, M. (2006). Enabling the reusability of scientific data: Experiences with designing an open access infrastructure for sharing datasets.
Designing for Usability in e-Science. International Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26-27 January, 2006.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/dissemination/Usability06-Coles.doc

Patel, Manjula, Koch, Traugott, Doerr, Martin and Tsinaraki, Chrisa (2005). Semantic Interoperability in Digital Library Systems.
DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, European Union, Sixth Framework Programme. Deliverable D5.3.1 Febr./June 2005. 70 pp.
Available: Word http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/t.koch/publ/SI-in-DLs.doc | PDF version at Delos | HTML

Day, M., Koch, T., and Neuroth, H. (2005). Searching and browsing multiple subject gateways in the Renardus Service. In: Cor van Dijkum, Jörg Blasius, and C. Durand, eds., Recent developments and applications in social research methodology: Proceedings of the RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam [CD-ROM]. Opladen: Budrich Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-938094-44-3.
Preprint available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/rc33-2004/renardus-paper-v2.pdf

Tudhope, Douglas and Koch, Traugott (2004). New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems: Introduction to a Special Issue. In: Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) Vol. 4:4, Article No. 286, 2004-02-13.
Available at: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v04/i04/editorial/

Day, M., Koch, T., and Neuroth, H. (2004). Searching and browsing multiple subject gateways in the Renardus Service. In: Cor van Dijkum, Jörg Blasius, Henk Kleijer, and Branko van Hilten, (eds.), Recent developments and applications in social science methodology: proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Logic and Methodology, August 17-20, 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [CD-ROM]. Amsterdam: SISWO Instituut voor Maatschappijwetenschappen. ISBN 90-6706-176-X.
Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/rc33-2004/renardus-paper.pdf

Koch, T., Ardoe, A. and Golub, K. (2004). Browsing and Searching Behavior in the Renardus Web Service: A Study Based on Log Analysis. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, Arizona, June 7-11, 2004.
Available at: http://www.it.lth.se/knowlib/publ/p164-koch.doc

Koch, T., Ardoe, A. and Golub, K. (2004). Log Analysis of User Behaviour in the Renardus Web Service. Libraries in the Digital Age, Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia, May 25-29, 2004. Awarded the Best LIDA 2004 Poster Award.
Available at: http://www.it.lth.se/knowlib/publ/LIDA2004_final.doc

Koch, Traugott and Soelvberg, Ingeborg Torvik (Eds.) (2003). Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 17-22, 2003. Proceedings.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2769). 540pp.
Electronic version in LNCS Online at: http://www.springerlink.com/series/lncs/

Koch, Traugott and Weibel, Stuart (2002). Introduction to a Special Issue on Metadata: Selected papers from the Dublin Core 2001 Conference. In: Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) Vol. 2:2, Article No. 97, 2002-01-04.
Available at: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v02/i02/editorial/

Koch, Traugott, Neuroth, Heike and Day, Michael (2001). Renardus: Cross-browsing European subject gateways via a common classification system (DDC). In: "Subject Retrieval in a Networked Environment". Proceedings of the IFLA Satellite Meeting sponsored by the IFLA Section on Classification and Indexing and the IFLA Section on Information Technology, 14-16 August 2001, Dublin, OH, USA.
UBCIM Publications - New Series Vol. 25, Muenchen 2003. pp25-33.
Manuscript at: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/preifla-final.html

Neuroth, Heike and Koch, Traugott (2001). Metadata mapping and application profile. Approaches to providing the cross-searching of heterogeneous resources in the EU Project Renardus. In: DC 2001. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001, 24-26 October 2001, Tokyo, Japan, pp122-129.
Available at: http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-21.pdf

Neuroth, Heike and Koch, Traugott (2001). Cross-browsing and cross-searching in a distributed network of subject gateways: Architecture, data model and classification. In: Proceedings, ELAG 2001 "Integrating Heterogeneous Resources", European Library Automation Group, June 6-8, 2001, Prague.
Manuscript at: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/neuroth_koch_elag2001.html

Koch, Traugott, Neuroth, Heike and Day, Michael (2001). DDC Mapping Report. Renardus D7.4, Internal report.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~tk213/Mappingreport-d74.htm

Koch, T., Neuroth, H. and Day, M. (2001). DDC Mapping Guidelines. Renardus D7.4 internal deliverable.

Hill, Linda and Koch, Traugott (2001). Networked Knowledge Organization Systems: Introduction to a Special Issue. In: Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) Vol. 1:8, Article No. 53, 2001-04-03.
Available at: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v01/i08/editorial/

Weibel, Stuart L. and Koch, Traugott (2000). The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions. In: D-Lib Magazine, 6:12, Dec 2000.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/weibel/12weibel.html

Koch, Traugott (2000). Dublin Core Metadata Initiative in transition. Report from the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop in Ottawa, Canada, 3-6 October 2000.
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/dc8-report.html

Koch, Traugott (2000). Quality-controlled subject gateways: definitions, typologies, empirical overview. In: Subject gateways, Special issue of "Online Information Review", Vol. 24:1, 2000, pp.24-34.
Manuscript at: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/OIR-SBIG.txt

Cross, Phil, Brickley, Dan and Koch, Traugott (2000). RDF Thesaurus Specification (draft version: 2001-01-24)
http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/01/rdf-thes/

Brickley, Dan, Cross, Phil and Koch, Traugott (2000). Cross-browsing, conceptual relationships and RDF Thesaurus Schema [Enhancements to User Interface] (EU Project DESIRE II D3.6b, Report)
http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D3.6/d36b.html

Koch, Traugott and Ardö, Anders (2000). Automatic classification of full-text HTML-documents from one specific subject area. (EU Project DESIRE II D3.6a, Working Paper 2)
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/DESIRE36a-WP2.html and http://www.it.lth.se/knowlib/publ/DESIRE36a-WP2.html

Vizine-Goetz, Diane, Ardö, Anders, Godby, Jane, Houghton, Andrew, Koch, Traugott, Reighart, Ray and Thompson, Roger (2000). Browsing engineering resources on the Web: a general knowledge organization scheme (Dewey) vs. a special scheme (EI). In: Proceedings of the 6th International ISKO Conference, Toronto, pp.
Manuscript at: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/OCLC_NetLab_ISKO6.html

Koch, Traugott, Ardö, Anders, Berggren, Mårten and Kringstad, Reidun (2000). Nordic Interconnected Subject-Based Information Gateways (NISBIG). Final report. In: NORDINFO Nytt 3, 2000. pp.7-33
Manuscript at: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/nisbig-slutrapport.html

Koch, Traugott (2000). Az internetforrások tökéletesebb leírásához, szervezéséhez és kereséséhez alkalmas osztályozási rendszerek hasnálata.
In: Tudományos és Müszaki Tájékoztatás (tmt) 2000:3, pp.119-128.

Koch, Traugott and Vizine-Goetz, Diane (1999). Automatic Classification and content Navigation Support for Web Services. DESIRE II co-operates with OCLC. In: Annual Review of OCLC Research 1998
The file can be accessed from http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000003489 and:
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/1990-1999.htm

Ardö, Anders and Koch, Traugott (1999). Automatic classification applied to the full-text Internet documents in a robot-generated subject index. In: Online Information 99. Proceedings. 23rd International Online Information Meeting. London, 7-9 Dec 1999. pp.239-246
Manuscript at: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/online99.htm

Koch, Traugott, Ardö, Anders and Noodén, Lars (1999). The construction of a robot-generated subject index. (EU Project DESIRE II D3.6a, Working Paper 1)
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/DESIRE36a-WP1.html

Koch, Traugott and Zettergren, Ann-Sofie (1999). Provide browsing in subject gateways using classification schemes. (EU Project DESIRE II)
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/class.html

Koch, Traugott (1998). Nutzung von Klassifikationssystemen zur verbesserten Beschreibung, Organisation und Suche von Internet Ressourcen. In: Buch und Bibliothek 50:5, pp.326-335. Manuscript: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/bubmanus.html

Hakala, J., Koch, T. et al (1998). The Nordic Metadata Project. Final report. NORDINFO, June 1998. 67pp. (NORDINFO-rapport 1998:1) (T.K.: Ch. 2:1-2 and Annex 4-6.)
[Also available at URL: http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm]

Koch, Traugott and Day, Michael (1997). The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery. (EU Project DESIRE, Deliverable D3.2.3).
Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/classification/classification.pdf

Major Web pages still available, but not maintained anymore:



Committees, Editorial boards etc. | Affiliations | Areas of interest | Projects | Publications and presentations |

Traugott Koch (email: traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.de).
Created: 1993
Last updated: Oct 01, 2010

URL: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/