Curricula Vitae of the promoter-spokesperson 

Prof. dr. Stefan Gradmann

Institution:KU Leuven

DepartmentLetteren (Arts)

Work address:Blijde-Inkomststraat 21

3000 Leuven

E-mail:stefan.gradmann@kuleuven.be

Phone:+32 16 3 76986

GSM: +32 472 606236

Stefan Gradmann is a full Professor in the Arts department of KU Leuven (Belgium). Besides his continuing focus on knowledge management and semantically based operations his research and teaching  covers digital libraries and web based information architectures, with a special emphasis on the digital humanities and a focus on semiological aspects of meaning and interpretation in the information ecosystem of the WWW. 

Humanities Computing: Stefan was an international advisor for the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and as such has contributed to the report ﾓOur Cultural Commonwealthﾔ. Furthermore, he has been leading the EC funded project Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E).

Europeana: He has been heavily involved in building Europeana, the European Digital Library, from its very beginnings More specifically he was leading work on technical and semantic interoperability and has been a co-author of the graph based Europeana Data Model (EDM) and triggered Europeana's involvement in the LoD community.

His working languages are German, English, French and Dutch.

Academic titles and diplomas 

Education:

1986: PhD German Literature, University Freiburg (Brsg.). Title PhD dissertation: ﾓTopographien: Zur Funktion r￤umlicher Modellbildung in den Werken von Adalbert Stifter und Franz Kafkaﾔ

1983: MA German Literature, University Freiburg (Brsg.)

1979:D.E.U.G (Dipl￴me des Etudes Universitaires g￩n￩rales, mention lettres), Universit￩ Paris VIII

Career:

Since 2013: Director of KU Leuven regular professor (Arts)

2008 ﾖ 2013:Regular professor (Library and Information Science), Humboldt-Universit￤t zu Berlin

2000 ﾖ 2008:CIO and Deputy Director of the Computing Center of Hamburg University

1996 ﾖ 2000:Product and project manager with PICA V.V. (Leiden)

1988 ﾖ 1996:Various managerial positions in the State and University Library Hamburg

10  most relevant publications:

Gradmann,  S.; Hennicke, S.; Tschumpel, G.; Dill, K.; Thoden, K.; Pichler, A.; Morbidoni, C. (2015). Beyond Infrastructure! Modelling the Scholarly Domain. Beyond Infrastructure! Modelling the Scholarly Domain

Oldman, D.; Doerr, M.;.Gradmann, S. (2015). ZEN and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge. Wiley-Blackwell

Gradmann, S.; Iwanowa, J.; Dr￶ge, E.; Hennicke, S.; Trkulja, V.;Olensky, M.; Stein, C.; Struck, A.; Baierer, K.  (2014). Modellierung und Ontologien im Wissensmanagement. Erfahrungen aus drei Projekten im Umfeld von Europeana und des DFG-Exzellenzclusters Bild Wissen Gestaltung an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Dinges & Frick. Information Wissenschaft & Praxis vol:64 issue:2-3 pages:149-165

Gradmann, S. (2012). 'Bibliothek' als Begriff und Metapher: Von der Bchersammlung zur Programmbibliothek. In: Umlauf, K., & Gradmann, S. (Eds.). (2012) Print in preparation.

Doerr, M., Gradmann, S., Hennicke, S., Isaac, A., Meghini, C., Schreiber, G. & van de Sompel, H. (2011). The Europeana Data Model. IFLA 2011 (pp. 1-12). IFLA. Retrieved from http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/149-doerr-en.pdf (print pending due to unresolved problems between editor and publisher)

Concordia, C., Gradmann, S., & Siebinga, S. (2010). Not just another portal, not just another digital library: A portrait of Europeana as an application program interface. IFLA Journal, 36(1), 61-69.

Gradmann, S. (2010). Knowledge = Information in Context?: on the Importance of Semantic Contextualisation in Europeana.  Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/32110457/Europeana-White-Paper-1

Gradmann, S. (2009). Signal. Information. Zeichen. Zu den Bedingungen des Verstehens in semantischen Netzen. Libreas, 1-14. Retrieved from http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docserv/docviews/abstract.php?id=29679

Gradmann, S. (2008). Some thoughts on the importance of Open Source and Open Access for emerging digital scholarship. In H. Hrachovec & A. Pichler (Eds.), Philosophy of the information society?: Proceedings of the 30. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2007 (pp. 275-286). Frankfurt [u.a.]: Ontos-Verl.

Gradmann, S., & Meister, J. C. (2008). Digital document and interpretation: re-thinking ﾓtextﾔ and scholarship in electronic settings. Poiesis Praxis, 5(2), 139-153. doi:10.1007/s10202-007-0042-y

Research funding granted in the last 5 years 

04/2008 ﾖ 03/2011 EU funded project European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI, FP7). Technical co-ordinator and lead of WP6 (testing and evaluation). EC contribution: ﾀ 136.720 

05 / 2009 ﾖ 11 / 2011 EU funded project EuropeanaConnect (ICT PSP). Leader of WP1 (Building the Europeana Semantic Layer). EC contribution: ﾀ 297.693

10 / 2011 ﾖ 02 / 2014 EU funded project Europeana V2.0 (ICT PSP). Participant in WP7 (innovation) and task leader for the further evolution of the EDM. EC contribution: ﾀ 154.080

02 / 2012 ﾖ 01 / 2015 EU funded project Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E, ICT PSP). Project consortium lead. EC contribution: ﾀ 414.000

10 / 2009 ﾖ 9 / 2011 DFG funded project OANetzwerk. Leader of the mORE WP aiming at introduction of the EDM in the federated repository infrastructure. DFG contribution: ﾀ 84.600

(co-)promotership of defended doctoral degrees and doctoral degrees under preparation in the last 5 years 

Ina Blmel, Metadatenbasierte Kontextualisierung archhitektonischer 3D-Modelle (2009-2013 ﾖ co-supervisor Dieter Fellner) 

Jenny  Oltersdorf, Publikationen: Funktion und Repr￤sentation ﾖ Pr￤senz von Kommunikationskan￤len der deutschen Kunstgeschichte in bibliographischen Nachweisinstrumenten (2009-2012, co-supervisor Vivien Petras)

Jakob  Voss, Describing data patterns. A general deconstruction of metadata standards (2009 - 2013, co-supervisor: Felix Sasaki).

Susanne  Dobratz, Langzeitarchivierung digitaler Objekte ﾖ Untersuchungen zur Interoperabilit￤t von Metadatenformaten (2012, co-supervisor: Wolfgang Coy).

Co-promotership of students at other faculties

Marc Bertin, Biblios￩mantique : une technique linguistique et informatique par exploration contextuelle.  (Universit￩ Paris IV Sorbonne 2011)

Tanja  Lange, Netzbasierte Kommunikation und Kooperation in den Geisteswissenschaften:

der Systemkomplex e-Port/NarrPort als Modellversuch. (Department of German Literature, Hamburg University, 2008). 

Experience in research with and management of large-scale research infrastructure, possibly as part of a consortium or in an international context 

Stefan Gradmann was involved in the conception and implementation of Europeana from the very beginning (2007) and namely was responsible for semantic interoperability of this huge pan-european infrastructure for representing cultural heritage of all kinds on the WWW. In this function, he was involved in numerous Europeana related EU funded projects as work package leader as well as consortium coordinator (of the DM2E project).

He is currently investigating the research potential of Europeana for the Digital Humanities and involved in the shaping of Horizon 2020 in this respect.