Interoperability, Metadata and Research Officer
Max Planck Digital Library, Germany.
Max Planck Digital LibraryInvalidenstr. 35, D- 10115 Berlin. GermanyTel.: +49 30 288867789Fax: +49 30 288867790Email: traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.deURL: 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
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 Editorial Board , Associate Editor, of "International Journal on Digital Libraries" (IJDL) , publ. by Springer. 2002- (free electronic alert and sample copy available) 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-
Member of the Editorial Board of the KIM-DINI TechWatch Report, 2008-
Theme Editor Information Discovery of the electronic peer reviewed journal "Journal of Digital Information" (JoDI). 2000-2009Special 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.
Member of the Steering Committee of ECDL, the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003-
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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.
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.
Knowledge organization, classification and indexing (thesauri). Authority files. Ontologies. Terminology. Participatory approaches, tagging, folksonomies
Methods of automatic classification
Semantic web
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)
KIM-AG IM, Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (DFG Projekt). Co-chair
Technology Watch Report: Standards in Metadata and Interoperability, EditorTWR wiki
KIM 2, Arbeitspaket "Strukturierte Vokabulare in Metadaten
Further projects:
Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services, NKOS
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
ISO 25964 “Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies”. ISO TC46 SC9 WG8
Editorial Board of International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), publ. by Springer
Member of the "Knowledge Discovery and Digital Library Research Group (KnowLib)" at the Department of Information Technology, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
At UKOLN, I was primarily working on:
eBank UK: Supporting the scholarly knowledge cycle by describing and linking research data, provenance and scholarly publications. Integrating research datasets into digital libraries (funded by the Semantic Grid Programme, JISC, UK) Terminology reporteBank UK Metadata Application ProfileeBank UK namespace
JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR): a pilot project to investigate the requirements of a Service Registry for the Information Environment. A machine readable registry of electronic resources (part of the JISC Shared Services Programme, UK)
Terminology Services and Technology. JISC State-of-the-Art Study (UKOLN and University of Glamorgan)
Terminology Services and Technology. JISC state of the art review. 2006. 96pp. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/terminology/JISC-review2006.html | PDF version at JISC
StORe: Source-to-Output Repositories (funded by the JISC Digital Repositories Programme and CURL, UK)
Earlier projects:
DESIRE (EU project, Telematics For Research). 1995-1998. WP3: Resource description, Metadata, Indexing, Discovery and Retrieval. State-of-the-Art report on Internet search services, harvesting and indexing The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery Presentation on DESIRE and WP3
DESIRE II. 1998-2000. WP T3.6: Automatic classification. Central information system for the whole project (at Bristol).Overview of resultsDemonstration pageThe construction of a robot-generated subject index. Working Paper 1Automatic classification of full-text HTML-documents from one specific subject area. Working Paper 2Deliverable D3.6 at the DESIRE websitePlanPresentation on DESIRE II and automatic classification
EULER: European Libraries and Electronic Resources in Mathematical Sciences (EU project, Telematics For Libraries). 1998-2000.
NORDIC METADATA PROJECT (Supported by NORDINFO). 1996-2002. DC Metadata Creator. Presentation on Metadata and Dublin Core. Presentation on the Nordic Metadata ProjectFinal reportNORDIC METADATA PROJECT II. Project plan
NISBIG: Nordic Interconnected Subject-Based Information Gateways (Nordic project supported by NORDINFO). 2000.
ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC LIBRARY SWEDEN (EELS. The Swedish Univ. of Technology Libraries). 1994-2002.Combined searching of the quality service EELS and the robot-generated Internet Engineering Index "All" Engineering
ECDL 2003. Seventh European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries , August 17-22, 2003, Trondheim, NorwayProgram Chair
SEMKOS: Semantic enabling by advanced Knowledge Organization Systems for largescale information integration in scientific and cultural digital libraries. Application for an Integrated project in the EU 6. Framework Program 2003. Continued as an Informal network.
E-Culture Net . European Network of Centres of Excellence for Research and Education in Digital Culture (EU IST 2002 III.5.
RENARDUS: Integrated European Subject Gateway Access (EU project, IST), incl. the Renardus service. 2000-2002. Maintenance: 2002-Member of the Management Group of the Renardus Consortium Presentation on Subject gatewaysPresentation on RenardusNetLab's Renardus pageRenardus pilot at NetLabRenardus DDC mapping effort, WP 7.4Renardus Management GroupIMesH
DELOS: Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries. Workpackage 5: Knowledge Extraction & Semantic Interoperability and Workpackage 8: Dissemination, Events, Workshops, Website etc. January 2004 until April 2005. (EU 6. Framework Program)
Intelligent Components in a Distributed Digital Library (KLIC-DDL) (funded by VINNOVA, Verket foer Innovationssystem, Sweden 2002-09-01 - 2005-08-31), incl. automatic classification research. Partners: IT department Lund Univ. and BTJ.
Ontology-driven Interoperability. Task 5.5 of: DELOS: Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries. Workpackage 5: Knowledge Extraction & Semantic Interoperability (EU 6. Framework Program)
"Journal of Digital Information" (JoDI) , electronic peer reviewed journal: Theme Editor Information Discovery
PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, PAPERS, COURSES, WORKSHOPS etc., given and planned
2009-09-15 MPG Names and CoNE meeting, Berlin
2009-09-24 KIM Projekt meeting, DNB Frankfurt
2009-09-27 - 10-02 ECDL 2009 and NKOS workshop, Corfu, Greece
2009-10-22/23 MPG escience seminar on concept registries, Goettingen
List of all PUBLICATIONS, including links to fulltext versions, in many cases.
Publications indexed by Google Scholar
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_07Manuscript 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-kochAvailable 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
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, 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
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 1998The 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]
Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available on the WWW (Version 2003; Was at: http://www.lub.lu.se/metadata/subject-help.html between 1996 and 2005)
5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at ECDL 2006 incl. European NKOS archive
Browsing and Searching Internet Resources
Detailed description of important search services. Typology etc.
Advanced features of search services
Literature about search services (Comparisons, About search services and retrieval, Indexing the Internet)
EU-Project DESIRE, Resource discovery and European WWW Index
Dublin Core Metadata Creator
Description of the form and content of resources: Metadata (Literature)
Metadata related tools
NISBIG: Nordic Interconnected Subject-Based Information Gateways
Nordic Library Information Systems (WWW servers etc.)
Library Online catalogues
Finding Internet resources in the subject area of "Library and Information Science/Librarianship"
Electronic library projects
Libraries and Internet: Electronic text collection
Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden (EELS)
Nordic Net Centre for Libraries: News and Email Conferences
Committees, Editorial boards etc. | Affiliations | Areas of interest | Projects | Publications and presentations |
Traugott Koch (email: traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.de).Created: 1993Last updated: Aug 28, 2009
URL: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/