Diplom-Ingenieur Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Berlin in 1974 with computer science and digital signal processing as main topics. Research assistant at TUB. From 1976 head of the technical group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics. In 2011 head of the The Language Archive. From 2012 Senior Adviser at MPI. Since 1988 member of the central IT Advisory Board of the Max Planck Society. Member of EC's High level Expert Group on Scientific Data. Currently scientific coordinator of the EUDAT and DASISH Initiatives, and active in RDA.
Areas of expertise: experimental labs, pattern processing and analysis, linguistic processing, data curation and preservation, research and data infrastructure building.
Awards: 2011 the Heinz Billing Award of the Max-Planck-Society for the advancement of scientific computation; 2013 Dr. hc U Tübingen
Teaching: "Intelligent Systems" at the universities Münster/Steinfurt and Nijmegen
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles
Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Exce...
RDA Europe Task Force on Sustainability
This is the PRIVATE working space for the RDA Europe Task Force on Sustainability.
Terms of Reference (Charter)
The main objectives of the Task Force are:
to ...
This is a working area dedicated to the RDA activities, news and events in Germany and German speaking regions.
This working area aims at connecting researchers working with research data on a more lo...
Collection of RDA Use Cases
At this page we collect pointers to the use cases of the RDA Working and Interest Groups.
Please send a short note to the groups’s mailing list or to rainer....
This is a group dedicated to all the Working and Interest Group Chairs
‘RDA Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Meets Chairs’ Meetings
The TAB meets chairs meetings provide RDA group chairs wit...
Webinar – Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure – 18 March 2021
The DFT WG task is to describe...
This WG proposal emerged from the repository registry discussions within the Data Fabric IG. The bootstrapping co-chairs are Michael Witt, Johannes Reetz, Herman Stehouwer and Peter Wittenburg. At P...
The second Working Group Collaboration Meeting was held in the U.S. Nov 13-14 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, which is just north of Washington, DC.
T...
