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by Marc Wilhelm Küster last modified 2010-08-28 19:49
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  • Born in 1970 in Minden / Westphalia / Germany
  • 1994: Diplom thesis in physics on gas-surface-interactions at the University Osnabrück
  • 1997: Master in philology and history on the French literary journal Divan at the University Osnabrück
  • 1997-2001: Work at the University Tübingen's Computing Centre in the department of Literary and Documentary Data Processing
  • 2001-2005: Co-founder and co-director of the XML service provider Saphor GmbH
  • In parallel dissertation on the tradition of alphabetic ordering from cuneiform to computers ("Geordnetes Weltbild") at the Faculty of Modern Philology at the University Tübingen
  • Since 2005: Professor for Web Services and XML Technologies at the Faculty for Computer Science and Telecommunications at the University of Applied Sciences Worms
  • Since 2008: On leave for a project in the Office des Publications of the European Union (central metadata management)
  • Current research interests include:
    • In computer science:
      • Web Services, especially heterogeneous distributed systems (digital ecosystems)
      • XML technologies, especially XML data modelling and rendering of XML data
      • Semantic Web, especially distributed metadata registries, metadata modelling and handling, topic maps
    • Application of information technology in the humanities (eHumanities / Digital Humanities)
    • In the humanities: writing and its theory (grammatology)

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