Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger

Projects

• Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Educational Science
• Contextualized Information Processing of Educational Content Using Automatic Summarization (Methods)
• Database for Quality of Schools
• Development of a Research Data Centre (RDC) for Education: FDZ Bildung
• Educational Resources Clearinghouse
• ICE / International Cooperation in Education
• InfoWeb Weiterbildung (IWWB / Search Engine Continuing Education)
• Information Extraction From Spoken and Informal Language
• Information Practice in Educational Research
• Information needs and use of information in web searches for instructional purposes
• Monitoring of Web 2.0 Services
• National Educational Panel Study
• Ontology Based Query Expansion – Retrieval Support for the Domain of Educational Research
• Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies Round 1
• Research data in video-based instructional research
• Scientometrics
• Searching for Educational Information in the Internet and the German Education Server II (BISIBS II)
• Specialised information service “Educational Science and Educational Research”
• Technology Based Assessment
• Virtual Research Environment for Research in the History of Education

Personal Information and Work Experience

Since 2012	Deputy Executive Director of DIPF
2008 - 2012	Executive Director of DIPF
Since 2005	Director of Information Center for Education at DIPF
Since 2005	Professor of Information Management at DIPF and the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
2002 - 2005	Professur Filière Information documentaire, Haute Ecole de Gestion, Genève
2001 - 2002	Chair of Information Science as a stand-in professor, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
2000 - 2002	Manager Steinbeis Transfer Center IMIE
1995 - 2001	Assistant professorship, Chair of Information Science, Constance University
1995	PhD thesis on the topic of „Online database selection. A search interface for the online retrieval service integrated into the Constance hypertext system”
1989 - 1994	Research assistant, Chair of Information Science, University of Konstanz
	Postgraduate studies of Information Science, University of Konstanz, major subject: Information Retrieval
	Studies of Physics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), major subject: Theoretical Nuclear Physics
1962	Year of Birth

Current/Key activities and fields of research

• Applied research in the areas of Information Retrieval and Information Quality
• Research & development projects of the Information Center for Education

Positions in committees

• Member of the Governing Board of the University Association for Information Science
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim
• Member of the strategic board eHumanities at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Member of the Research Advisory Board of SWP (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik / German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of OstDok
• Salto committee at DOSB

Publications

Publications since 2004 (DIPF database of publications)