Johannes Hercher

Web Developer & Systems Librarian // Open Science Enthusiast

Berlin Metropolitan Area

About

Specialties: Metadata and interoperability; knowledge organization, Digital Libraries, Research Data, Discovery Systems, Semantic Web, Cultural Heritage

Experience

  • Data Processing / Discovery Systems at Freie Universität Berlin | Library

    Integration of various datasources into the discovery system primo. Maintenance of the ILS to build a better user experience.

  • Diplomand at Software und Support Verlag

    Analysis of metadata generation and management workflows of an publisher in the IT domain. Exploration of tools and possibilities for automated metadata generation, esp. to describe contents and to generate recommendations for "further-reading". I developed suggestions to reorganize the information architecture of the publisher. Close collaboration with the internal development team to improve their customized content management systems.

  • Researcher at Hasso-Plattner-Institute

    In charge of metadata and interoperability issues. My research covers ontology engineering and semantic web technologies and has a focus on the audio-visual domain and non-fictional films.