Peter Kraker is a post-doc at Know-Center research center in Graz. In the area of social computing, Kraker researches scientific communication on the Web, altmetrics, and innovative tools for finding literature and resources. He uses various open science tools in his research, which allow him to further develop the open source visualization system Head Start. As the coordinator of Open Knowledge Austria’s working group on open science and a member of the Core Team of the Open Access Network Austria (OANA), Kraker actively contributes to incorporating open science into the knowledge landscape.
Ina Blümel has been lecturing in information management as a visiting professor at Hochschule Hannover since 2014 and is the international coordinator of the university’s department of information and communication. Blümel carries out research and development in the open science lab of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). The focuses of her research and teaching are e-Science, research information and digital libraries. Blümel conducts projects with students on the provision and use of research information. She also provides reviews for international conferences and journals, gives lectures, and publishes work primarily on the aforementioned topics.
Gregor Hagedorn is head of the science program Digital World and Information Science at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The main focuses of his research are object digitization, biodiversity informatics, information networking and data publication. One example of his projects is an app that makes urban nature more accessible to broad sections of the population. Hagedorn is a member of the Council for Information Infrastructures within the Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the federal and state governments.
Claudia Müller-Birn is head of the Institute of Computer Science’s Human-Centered Computing (HCC) lab research group at Freie Universität Berlin. She researches questions relating to computer-supported cooperative work and social computing. The goal of her research is to develop new interaction concepts based on a greater understanding of the existing knowledge processes in online communities. In this way, she establishes close ties between data analysis carried out by online communities (e.g. Wikidata, genius) and the design of collaborative software (e.g. neonion). One area of application for her research is that of scientific collaboration, where she advocates a more sustainable approach to the use of research data, through linked data, for example.
Daniel Mietchen is a biophysicist working for the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia on the integration of scientific workflows with the Web through open research and open science, particularly in the field of biomedical research data. Daniel is co-editor of the scientific journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO). He is active across Wikimedia platforms and particularly involved with WikiProject Open Access, which tries to improve Wikipedia coverage of topics related to open access and open science and to facilitate the reuse of materials from open access and open science resources in Wikimedia projects.
Isabella Peters is Professor of Web Science at ZBW Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Already during her studies of information science, she has dealt with user-generated content and social media and has been promoted with a work on folksonomies in knowledge representation and information retrieval. Her research interests today include Science 2.0, Open Science, Scientific Communication and Social Media-Based Evaluation of Science ("Altmetrics"). Isabella leads the LIBER working group on Metrics in Open Science, was a member of the EU expert group on Altmetrics and is a founding member of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0.
Sandra Hofhues is Professor of Media Didactics / Media Pedagogy in the Department of Educational and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne. In the collaborative project OERlabs, together with the TU Kaiserslautern, she is researching how alternative forms of (media) appropriation can contribute to more cooperation and knowledge sharing in teacher training. In addition, she has been involved in open education initiatives, especially student publishing, for several years, and is supporting student media projects on their way to institutionalization. Further information about Sandra can be found on her personal weblog at: www.sandrahofhues.de.
Benedikt Fecher leads the "Knowledge Dimension" program as well as the research project "Open Science" at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). He wrote his dissertation at the German Institute for Economic Research on "Open Data in Academic Research". In 2016, he was a scientific adviser on open access and research data at the Leibniz Association. From 2015 to 2016 Benedikt was fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science with a scholarship from DARIAH-DE.
Since 2006 Jakob Voß has been working at the Head Office of the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV) in Göttingen where he is responsible for research and development. As a library and information scientist, he is primarily concerned with metadata and information systems, in particular in the form of open formats and free data. The joint creation of knowledge resources has become a matter of course for him due to many years of work in several projects and techniques.
The sociologist Katja Mayer works at the interface between science, technology and society. Her research focuses on how social science methods and society interact. She is currently working intensively on Computational Social Science and Big Data. As a member of Open Knowledge and the Open Access Network Austria OANA, she advocates public access to scientific knowledge and open licenses in science and technology.
