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Traugott Koch



Traugott Koch

Job Title

Traugott left UKOLN on 25 January 2007.

Research Officer

February 1st 2007, I am starting a new job in Berlin at the Max Planck Digital Library (http://www.mpdl.mpg.de), part of the Max-Planck-Society. Address: Max Planck Digital Library, Invalidenstr. 35, D- 10115 Berlin. Germany
Email: traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.de

Contact Details

UKOLN,
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY, UK

Tel: ++44 (0) 1225 383218
Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256
Email: t.koch@ukoln.ac.uk

URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/t.koch/
Persistent name authority record (OCLC LAF): http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n2003-4015.html


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.

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

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

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

Journals

Theme Editor Information Discovery of the electronic peer reviewed journal "Journal of Digital Information" (JoDI).
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.

Member of the Editorial Board of "International Journal on Digital Libraries" (IJDL) , publ. by Springer. 2002-
Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience. CfP published December 2005

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

Conferences

Member of the Programme Committee and chair of the plenary session "Integrating Advanced Features into Institutional Repository Platforms" of the Delos Joint Workshop on Electronic Publishing, April 14-15, 2005, Lund, Sweden.

Member of the Programme Committee and chair of the Providing Services and Invited speaker sessions of "Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services". 9th DELOS Network of Excellence thematic workshop, May 11-13, 2005, Heraklion, Crete.

Member of the Program Committee and chair of the "Tools & Techniques Track: Applying Machine Learning to Collection Development" of the Fifth Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2005, June 7-11, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Co-organizer and chair of the Special Session "Enhancing the Understanding of Meaning: Practical Applications of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS)" at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2005 , September 13, 2005, Madrid, Spain.

Member of the Programme Committee and chair of the "Text Classification in Digital Libraries" session of the Ninth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2005, September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria.

Member of the Program Committee of the 4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop , at the Ninth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries ECDL 2005, September 22, 2005, Vienna, Austria.
Chair of the session "Mapping between different KOS, semantic interoperability and service protocols".

Member of the Program Committee of the Sixth ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2006, June 11-15, 2006, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Member of the Advisory Board of the workshop "Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories" at the Sixth ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2006, June 15, 2006, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Member of the Programme Committee of the Tenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2006, September 17-22, 2006, Alicante, Spain.

Responsible organizer of the 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop , at the Tenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries ECDL 2006, September 21, 2006, Alicante, Spain.

Member of the Doctoral Consortium Committee at the Tenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2006, September 17, 2006, Alicante, Spain.

Moderator of the strand "Digital Author Identification" at the Knowledge Exchange Expert Workshop on Institutional Repositories, January, 16-17, 2007, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Member of the Program Committee of the 10th International Symposium for Information Science, ISI 2007, May, 30th - June, 1st, 2007, Cologne, Germany.

Member of the Program Committee of the Seventh ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007, June 17-23, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2007, August 27-31, 2007, Singapore.

Member of the Programme Committee of the Eleventh European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2007, September 16-21, 2007, Budapest, Hungary.

Affiliations

1991-2004: NetLab, Knowledge Technologies Group. Lund University. Senior librarian, Digital Library Scientist. Until April 2005: Digital Library Dept., Lund University Libraries, Head Office

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

1998: Visiting Distinguished Scholar at OCLC, Office of Research and Special Projects, Dublin, OH. (List of visiting scholars)

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

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

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.

Cf. my Short CV for more.


Areas of interest


Projects

I am primarily working on:

Further projects:

Major completed projects


Publications and presentations

PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, PAPERS, COURSES, WORKSHOPS etc., given and planned

Conferences, Workshops and meetings:

2006-01-19/20 E-Thesis Workshop (JISC, CURL, SURF), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2006-03-06/07 Digital Libraries and its services. British Library/JISC/UKOLN. London, UK.

2006-03-10 IESR project meeting, Birmingham, UK.

2006-03-22/23 Workshop on Digital Libraries Service Registries. NSF/NSDL. Washington D.C., USA.

2006-03-27/28 2. Digital Repositories Programme meeting. JISC. Warwick, UK.

2006-04-03 GESIS-IZ Sozialwissenschaften, Scientific Board meeting, Bonn, Germany.

2006-05-09 eBank project meeting, Southampton, UK.

2006-06-06 STORe Project Management Board meeting, Edinburgh, UK.

2006-06-11/15 JCDL 2006, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; incl. Metadata Tools workshop.

2006-09-11 GESIS-IZ Sozialwissenschaften, Scientific Board meeting, Bonn, Germany.

2006-09-17/22 Tenth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2006, Alicante, Spain, incl. NKOS workshop and Doctoral Consortium.

2006-10-10 JISC Data Cluster Consultation Workshop "Curating research data", Didcot, UK.

2006-10-20 EBank UK/R4L/SPECTRa Joint Consultation Workshop "Digital repositories supporting eResearch", London, UK.

2006-10-23 Workshop about BS 8723 Structured vocabularies for information retrieval - Guide. Part 5: Interoperability ..., London, UK.

2006-10-25 STORe Project Management Board meeting, Edinburgh, UK.

2006-12-07 IESR project meeting, Manchester, UK.

2007-01-15/17 Knowledge Exchange Expert Workshop on Institutional Repositories, Utrecht, Netherlands.

PUBLICATIONS

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

Publications indexed by Google Scholar

Major publications (since 1998):

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

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.lub.lu.se/~traugott/drafts/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.lub.lu.se/~traugott/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.lub.lu.se/metadata/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.lub.lu.se/~traugott/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.lub.lu.se/desire/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.lub.lu.se/tk/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://nwi.dtv.dk/anders/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.lub.lu.se/~traugott/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.lub.lu.se/desire/DESIRE36a-WP1.html

Koch, Traugott and Zettergren, Ann-Sofie (1999). Provide browsing in subject gateways using classification schemes. (EU Project DESIRE II)
http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/handbook/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.lub.lu.se/tk/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]

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