Christoph Schindler

Curriculum Vitae

• Magister degree in anthropology, social sciences and ethnology focussing science and technology studies at Frankfurt University and University of Cyprus (1996 - 2003)

• Activities in webdesign and development (amongst others INM-Institute for New Media, FAZ.NET)

• Master degree in information science at Stuttgart Media University (HdM) (2004 - 2006) focussing usercentred systemdesign and usability-engineering

• Since May 2006 research assistant at the Information Centre Education (DIPF)

• Doctoral candidate at Institut für Informationswissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie (Hildesheim University)
  

Current/Key activities and fields of research

• Evaluation and methods for quality assurance of information systems (requirement engineering, information needs, usability engineering etc.)

• Design of scholarly information infrastructures

• Information- and data practices in reseaerch processes

• Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies

Research projects

• Doctoral project: Ethnographic Case Studies in Educational Research for Designing Information Infrastructures (working title)

• KA-Wiki - Co-Realisation of  an Electronic Learn and Knowledge Environment for the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology (April 2007 – March 2008)

• Evaluation of Education Server of State Hessen (October 2006 - February 2007)