===== My Research ===== ==== Papers ==== Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas, Tobias Redmann: Developing Topic Maps Applications: Lessons Learned from a Digital Library Project. In: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society 2009, Barcelona, Spain, February 25-28, 2009, S. 51 - 59, ISBN: 978-972-8924-78-2 Markscheffel, B.; Thomas H.:\\ **Ranking Approach for Search Engine Result Sets for a Semi-Automated Generation of Occurrences in Topic Maps.**\\ In: Prof. S. Husain (eds.): Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management and Information Management, Volume 2, Number 1, June 2007, Taru Publications, New Delhi, India, ISSN: 0973-7766 Markscheffel, B.; H. Thomas:\\ **COLDLib - A concept for a global knowledge space for the COLLNET community.**\\ In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics, and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting 28 July - 1 August 2008 Berlin **TMchartis - a Tool Set for Designing Multiple Visualizations for Topic Maps**\\ Hendrik Thomas, Rike Brecht, Bernd Markscheffel, Stephan Bode, Karsten Spekowius\\ Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications - Scaling Topic Maps\\ (TMRA'07), Leipzig, Germany (2008) \\ to appear in April 2008\\ **Topic Maps und TMAPI: Wissen managen im Semantic Web**\\ //Tobias Redmann, Hendrik Thomas//\\ entwickler press, ISBN-10 3868020101, 2008\\ to appear in late 2009\\ [[http://www.amazon.de/Topic-Maps-TMAPI-managen-Semantic/dp/3868020101|more information ...]] **The Wiki Way of Knowledge Management with Topic Maps.**\\ //Tobias Redmann, Hendrik Thomas//\\ In: Charles A. Shoniregun, Alex Logvynovskiy: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007), o.O., 2007, S. 352-357\\ [[http://www.i-society.org/2007/Contributors/Proceedings.htm|Proceedings Download Proceedings as PDF]] **Controlled semantic tagging – how can topic maps support subject indexing in digital libraries?**\\ //Hendrik Thomas, Tobias Redmann, Bernd Markscheffel//\\ In: Charles A. Shoniregun, Alex Logvynovskiy: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007), o.O., 2007, S. 346-352.\\ [[http://www.i-society.org/2007/Contributors/Proceedings.htm|Proceedings Download Proceedings as PDF]] **TMchartis – a Tool Set for Designing Multiple Visualizations for Topic Maps**\\ //Hendrik Thomas, Rike Brecht, Bernd Markscheffel, Stephan Bode, Karsten Spekowius//\\ Proceedings of [[http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/|3th International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications – Scaling Topic Maps (TMRA'07)]], Leipzig, Germany, 2007 \\ to appear in April 2007. **Why aren’t Topic Maps ruling the world yet?**\\ //Tobias Redmann, Hendrik Thomas, Bernd Markscheffel//\\ Poster Presentation on the 3th International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications – Scaling Topic Maps (TMRA'07), Leipzig, Germany, 2007.\\ [[http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/ta.html#T6C3|View Abstract and Poster]] **Design Principles for a Topic Maps Wiki - The Wiki Way of Knowledge Management with Topic Maps?**\\ //Tobias Redmann, Hendrik Thomas//\\ Poster Presentation on the 3th International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications – Scaling Topic Maps (TMRA'07), Leipzig, Germany, 2007.\\ [[http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/ta.html#T6C5|View Abstract and Poster]] **[[http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/|Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps -- Second International Conference on Topic Map Research and Application (TMRA 2006)]]**\\ //Thea Miller and Hendrik Thomas//\\ Indices, Meaning and Topic Maps: Some Observations,\\ In: Maicher, L, Siegel, A, Garshol, L. M. (eds.): \emph{Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps -- Second International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2006,\\ Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2006}, Berlin Heidelberg New York, Springer (2007) 130-139 **[[http://www.collnet-delhi.de/Program.html| Third International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics and Science and Society]]**\\ //Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas://\\ Ranking Approach for Search Engine Result Sets for a Semi Automated Generation of Occurrences in Topic Maps\\ In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics and Science and Society]], 6-9 March, 2007, New Delhi, India \\ \\ **[[http://www.eswc2005.org/|ESWC 2005]], Heraklion (Greece) - 2nd European Semantic Web Conference**\\ //Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas, Dirk Stelzer://\\ Merlino - a prototype for semi automated generation of occurrences in Topic Maps using Internet search engines\\ In: Demo and Poster Proceedings of ESWS 2005\\ {{member:ht:merlino_abstract_eswc2005_greece.pdf|[PDF] Download the expose (2 pp. / 17 kb)}}\\ View this Paper in the //bibmap Topic Map//bibmap.xtm \\ \\ **[[http://www.eswc2006.org/|ESWC 2006]], Budv (Montenegro) - 3nd European Semantic Web Conference**\\ //Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas, Dirk Stelzer://\\ TMwiki - a Collaborative Environment for Topic Map Development\\ In: Demo and Poster Proceedings of ESWS 2006 \\ \\ **Knowledge Media Technologies - First International Core-to-Core Workshop, (Castle Dagstuhl, Germany)**\\ //Torsten Brix, Ulf Döring, Sabine Trott, Rike Brecht, Hendrik Thomas://\\ The Digital Mechanism and Gear Library: a Modern Knowledge Space.\\ In: Klaus P. Jantke & Gunther Kreuzberger (Eds.): Diskussionsbeiträge des IfMK, TU Ilmenau Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 2006. \\ \\ **Diploma thesis**\\ //Hendrik Thomas//\\ TU-Ilmenau, 2006\\ Konzeption und Entwicklung eines Prototypen zur Generierung von Occurrences in Topic Maps unter Verwendung von Suchmaschinentechnologien {{member:ht:hendrik-thomas_diplomarbeit_2005-01-12.pdf|[PDF] Download my diploma thesis (92 pp. / 859 kb)}} ==== Presentations ===== [[http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/fakmn/Workshop.4369.0.html?&L=1|Core-to-Core Workshop & Digital Games Seminar]]\\ Dagstuhl Castle, Germany July 23-27, 2006\\ // Torsten Brix, Ulf Döring, Sabine Trott, Rike Brecht, Hendrik Thomas://\\ The Digital Mechanism and Gear Library: a Modern Knowledge Space.\\ [[http://infosys.massey.ac.nz/~rkaschek/CfP-KnowledgeMediaScience-2006_ext.pdf|Knowledge Media Science - Information Access & Media Technology]]\\ Landsberg Castle Meiningen, Germany October 2–5, 2006\\ Hendrik Thomas, Bernd Markscheffel, Torsten Brix\\ SIREN – a Concept for a Semantic Information Retrieval Environment for Digital Libraries [[http://www.tmra.de/|TMRA 2006, October 11th-12th 2006, Leipzig, Germany]]\\ Hendrik Thomas, Thea Miller\\ "Indices, Meaning and Topic Maps - some observations"\\ {{member:ht:tmra_indicies_2006-10-10_final.pdf|DownloadPresentation [PDF]}}\\ [[http://www.tmra.de/|TMRA 2006, October 11th-12th 2006, Leipzig, Germany]]\\ Hendrik Thomas, Bernd Markscheffel, Torsten Brix\\ Poster-Presentation " SIREN − a Topic Map based Semantic Information Retrieval Environment for Digital Libraries"\\ [[http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/ta.html#C8|Download Presentation [PDF]]]\\ [[http://www.fitl.htwk-leipzig.de/T/lit06.html|14. Leipziger Informatik-Tage LIV-Jahrestagung 2006 - Digitale Spiele: Herausforderung & Chance]]\\ HTWK Leipzig, Germany, December 1–2, 2006\\ Hendrik Thomas, Bernd Markscheffel\\ A Concept for a Digital Library for Digital Games [[http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/uni/fileadmin/Startseite/USER/uni/downloads/RPOE/Veroeffentlichungen/News/Programm_Medien_dies_07_zu_erledigen.pdf|Ilmenauer Forum Medienwissenschaft]]\\ TU-Ilmenau, Ilmenau, June 5th, 2007\\ Hendrik Thomas, Tobias Redmann\\ Digital Mechanismen und Getriebebibliothek (DMG-Lib) -- ein moderner Wissensraum für die Getriebetechnik ==== Current projects ==== * **SIREN** a Semantic Information Retrieval Environment for the [[http://www.dmg-lib.org|digital mechanism and gear library (DMG-Lib)]] * **TMchartis** - a tool for designing multiple Topic Map Visualisation * **[[projects:merlino|Merlino]]** a prototypical web application that supports a semi automated generation of occurrences using search engines. ==== Research groups ==== **Since June 2004**\\ Member of the research group „Semantic Web“. Leaded by Dr. Bernd Markscheffel at the [[http://www.tu-ilmenau.de|TU-Ilmenau]]\\ Scope of research: Information retrieval, Semantic Web, OWL, RDF, Topic Maps ---- [[member:ht|Back to my member page]]