Brigitte Jörg, M.A. (Information Science)
Information Systems, Economics

DFKI GmbH
Language Technology Lab

Projektbüro Berlin
Alt-Moabit 91c
10559 Berlin
Germany

fon: +49 (30) 238 95 1834
fax: +49 (30) 238 95 1810
mail: brigitte.joerg @ dfki.de

Current Areas of Interest:
Scientific Information, Research Information Systems, Systems Design, Conceptual Modeling, Research Infrastructures, Semantics, Research Semantics, Formal Semantics, Semantic Web, Standardization, Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Transfer.

Projects:

Technologies for the Multilingual European Information Society (META): 02/10 - 01/13
Management Virtual Information Center

Technologies for Advanced Knowledge Extraction (TAKE): 01/09 - 12/11
Ontology-driven Knowledge Management

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) / D-SPIN: 01/08 - 12/10
Metadata Management and Integration

Language Technology World - (LT World III): 01/07 - ongoing
Ontology-driven Portal Architecture, News Releases, Content Management,
Secure Access and User Management.

Knowledge Base for RTD Competencies in IST - (IST World): 04/05 - 11/07
Project Acquisition, Project Coordination (Financial + Management Reports)

Language Technology World - (LT World II): 01/06 - 12/06
News Releases, Content Management, Ontology-driven Portal Architecture

dropping knowledge: Mar 05 - Sep 06
CMS-based intranet setup and maintenance, User Access Management

Language Technology World - (LT World I): Apr 01 - Dec 05
Portal Architecture, Content Management, Monthly news releases

Student Project: Nietzsche Online
Website Design, Layout and Implementation, XML Integration of FAQs and Portraits.

Publications:

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Geert van Grootel. Towards a Sharable Research Vocabulary (SRV) - A Model-driven Approach. In Proceedings: Metadata & Semantics Research Conference (MTSR'11), Yasar University, Izmir - TURKEY, October 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Brigitte Jörg. The Common European Research Information Format Model (CERIF). CRISs for the European e-Infrastructure. Data Science Journal, Volume 9, pp. 24 -- 31, Special Issue, Keith Jeffery and Anne Asserson (Eds). August, 2010.

Brigitte Jörg. CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Insight into the CERIF 2008 - 1.1 Release. 10th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2010). June 2-5th, 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.

Peter Spyns, Geert Van Grootel, Brigitte Jörg, Stijn Cristiaens. Realising a Flemish government innovation information portal with Business Semantics Management. InProceedings: CRIS 2010: Connecting Science with Society. The Role of Research Information in a Knowledge-Based Society. 10th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2010). June 2-5th, 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.

Stephen Grace, Brigitte Jörg. Research Assessment in CERIF. Workshop at CRIS 2010: Connecting Science with Society. The Role of Research Information in a Knowledge-Based Society. 10th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2010). June 2-5th, 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.

Brigitte Jörg, Hans Uszkoreit, Alastair Burt. LT World: Ontology and Reference Information Portal. InProceedings: LREC 2010: 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. May 19-21 2010, Valetta, Malta.

Geert Van Grootel, Peter Spyns, Stijn Cristiaens, Brigitte Jörg. Business Semantics Management supports government innovation information portal. OnTheMove Workshops (OTM 2009). Meersmann R., Herrero P., et al. (Eds). Proceedings of the OTM 2009 Workshops, LNCS, Volume 5872/2009, pp 757-766, Springer Verlag.

Brigitte Jörg. CERIF: Common European Research Information Format. Formal Contextual Relations to guide through the maze of Research Information. Invited paper and keynote presentation. InProceedings: International Conference Research Information Systems in the EU. Bratislava, Slovakia, April 23rd, 2009. ISBN No. 978-80-89354-02-03. Centrum vedecko-technických informácií SR, Bratislava 2009.
In print translated into Slovak language.
CERIF: Spoloczný format informácií o výskume. Formálne kontextuálne vzt'ahy na prechod cez labyrint vedeckých poznatkov.

Brigitte Jörg. Towards the Nature of Citations. In: Poster Proceedings: 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2008). October 31st. - November 3rd, 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Brigitte Jörg. CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Insight into the CERIF 2008 Release. 9th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2008). June, 5-7th, 2008, Maribor, Slovenia.

Brigitte Jörg, Jure Ferlez, Hans Uszkoreit, Mitja Jermol. Analyzing European Research Competencies in IST: Results from a European SSA Project. InProceedings: CRIS 2008: Get the Good CRIS going: Ensuring Quality of Service in the ERA. 9th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2008). June 5-7th, 2008, Maribor, Slovenia.

Brigitte Jörg, Mitja Jermol, Hans Uszkoreit, Marko Grobelnik, Jure Ferlež, Atanas Kiryakov. Analytic Information Services for the European Research Area. In: Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies, PT.1-2, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunninghamf (Eds.), 2006. IOS Press, Amsterdam. IOS Press Amsterdam, ISBN 1-58603-682-3. This book has been produced in association with eChallenges (www.eChallenges.org).

Nuria Bertomeu, Hans Uszkoreit, Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Brigitte Jörg. Contextual phenomena and thematic relations in database QA dialogues: results from a Wizard-of-Oz Experiment. In: Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Interactive Question Answering, New York, pp. 1--8.

Brigitte Jörg, Jure Ferlež, Edward Grabczewski, Mitja Jermol. IST World: European RTD Information and Service Portal. In Proceedings: CRIS 2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League. 8th international Conference on Current Research Information Systems, May 11-13, 2006. Bergen, Norway.

Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Berthold Crysmann, Brigitte Jörg, Ulrich Schäfer. Question Answering from Structured Knowledge Sources. In: Journal of Applied Logic, Special Issue on Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Amsterdam, 42 pages.

Gregor Erbach, Mitja Jermol, Brigitte Jörg, Hans Uszkoreit, Marko Grobelnik. Network Approaches to Current Research Information Systems. In: Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, Volume 2., Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), 2005. IOS Press Amsterdam, ISBN: 1-58603-563-0

Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Berthold Crysmann, Brigitte Jörg, Ulrich Schäfer. Querying Structured Knowledge Sources. In: Proceedings of AAAI-05. Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005.

Brigitte Jörg and Hans Uszkoreit. The Ontology-based Architecture of LT World, a Comprehensive Web Information System for a Science and Technology Discipline.
In: Leitbild Informationskompetenz: Positionen - Praxis - Perspektiven im europäischen Wissensmarkt. 27. Online Tagung (zugleich 57. Jahrestagung) der DGI. Frankfurt am Main, 23.-25. Mai, 2005.

Brigitte Jörg. Methodologie, Architektur und Umsetzung eines webbasierten Fachinformationssystems mit dem Beispiel Sprachtechnologie. Magisterarbeit at the University of Saarbrücken - 5.6 Information Science, October 2003.

Hans Uszkoreit, Brigitte Jörg, Gregor Erbach. An Ontology-based Knowledge Portal for Language Technology. In: Proceedings of ENABLER/ELSNET Workshop "International Roadmap for Language Resources". Paris, 2003.

Hans Uszkoreit and Brigitte Jörg. A Virtual Information Center for Language Technology: Ontology, Datastructure, Realization. In: Nordisk Sprogteknologi 2002. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Kobenhavns Universiteit, 2003.

Joanne Capstick, Thierry Declerck, Gregor Erbach, Anthony Jameson, Brigitte Jörg, Reinhard Karger, Hans Uszkoreit, Wolfgang Wahlster, Tillmann Wegst. COLLATE: Competence Center in Speech and Language Technology. InProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02). May 28-31, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, 2002

Standardization / Specification Publications:

CERIF2008 - 1.3 Full Data Model (FDM) - Model Introduction and Specification. euroCRIS, November 2011. to appear

CERIF2008 XML - 1.2 Data Exchange Format Specification. euroCRIS, November 2011. to appear

CERIF2008 -1.3 Semantics. euroCRIS, November 2011. to appear

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Geert van Grootel, Anne Asserson, Jan Dvorak, Henrik Rasmussen: CERIF2008 - 1.2 Full Data Model (FDM) - Model Introduction and Specification. euroCRIS, November 2010.

Brigitte Jörg, Geert van Grootel, Keith Jeffery, Jan Dvorak: CERIF2008 XML - 1.2 Data Exchange Format Specification. euroCRIS, November 2010.

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson, Geert van Grootel, Henrik Rasmussen, Jan Dvorak, Danica Zendulkova, Adrian Price, Thomas Vestam, Mikael Karstensen Elbæk, Nikos Houssos, Rita Voigt, E.J. Simons: CERIF2008 -1.2 Semantics. euroCRIS, November 2010.

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Geert van Grootel, Anne Asserson. CERIF2008 - 1.1 Full Data Model (FDM) - Model Introduction and Specification. euroCRIS, March 2010.

Brigitte Jörg, Geert van Grootel, Keith Jeffery. CERIF2008XML - 1.1 Data Exchange Format Specification. euroCRIS, March 2010.

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson, Geert van Grootel, Henrik Rasmussen, Adrian Price, Thomas Vestam, Mikael Karstensen Elbæk, Nikos Houssos, Rita Voigt, E.J. Simons, Jan Dvorak. CERIF2008 -1.1 Semantics. euroCRIS, March 2010.

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson, Geert van Grootel. CERIF2008 - 1.0 Full Data Model (FDM) - Model Introduction and Specification. euroCRIS, April 2009.

Brigitte Jörg, Ojars Krast, Keith Jeffery, Geert van Grootel. CERIF2008XML - 1.0 Data Exchange Format Specification. euroCRIS, April 2009.

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson, Geert van Grootel, Henrik Rasmussen, Adrian Price, Thomas Vestam, Mikael Karstensen Elbæk, Nikos Houssos, Rita Voigt, E.J. Simons. CERIF2008-1.0 Semantics. euroCRIS, January 2009.

Brigitte Jörg, Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson, Geert van Grootel, Edward Grabczewski. CERIF2006-1.1 Full Data Model (FDM) - Model Introduction and Specification. euroCRIS, October 2007.

Brigitte Jörg, Ojars Krast, Keith Jeffery, Geert van Grootel. CERIF2006XML -1.1 Data Exchange Format Specification. euroCRIS, April 2007.

Public IST World Deliverables:

Jure Ferlež, Milena Yankova, Brigitte Jörg. D5.4 Portal with Advanced Functionality. WP5 Portal Setup. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, March 2007.

Jure Ferlež, Brigitte Jörg, Atanas Kiryakov. D5.3 Portal with full Functionality. WP5 Portal Setup. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, November 2006.

Jure Ferlež, Brigitte Jörg. D5.2 Enhanced Version of the Portal. WP5 Portal Setup. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, March 2006.

Edward Grabczewski, Brigitte Jörg. D3.2 Base Set of Data. WP3 Data Acquisition. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, October 2005.

Jure Ferlež, Brigitte Jörg, Mitja Jermol. D5.1 First Version of the Portal. WP5 Portal Setup. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, October 2005.

Brigitte Jörg, Jure Ferlež, Edward Grabczewski. D1.2 Data Model for Knowledge Organisation. WP1 Data Model. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, September 2005.

Brigitte Jörg. D3.1 Formal Import and Export Specification. WP3 Data Acquisition. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, August 2005.

Atanas Kiryakov, Edward Grabczewski, Jure Ferlež, Hans Uszkoreit, Brigitte Jörg. D1.1 Central Database Structure. WP1 Data Model. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, July 2005.

Brigitte Jörg, Hans Uszkoreit. D0.1 Project Presentation. IST World (Knowledge Base for RTD competencies in IST) project, WP0 Project Management, July 2005.

Invitations:

Vortrag: CERIF Overview, ARMA Workshop CERIF in Practice, December 7th, 2011, Jesmond Dene Conference Center, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Vortrag: Übersicht Systeme in Europa, Workshop Forschungsinformationssysteme Forschungsinformation in Deutschland: Anforderungen, Stand und Nutzen existierender Forschungsinformationssysteme, November 22. und 23., 2011, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe.

Workshop Forschungsinformationssysteme: Weiterbildungskurs (forschungsreferenten intensiv), Leibniz Universität Hannover, 14./15., Oktober, 2011.

Hands-on CERIFy project @ UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, July 2011.

2nd Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and Institutional Repositories "Integrating Research Information: CRIS + OAR". Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS-CNR), Rome Italy, May 23rd + 24th, 2011. Database-based: CERIF.

Hands-On MICE (Measuring Impact in CERIF) project @ King's College, London, April, 2011.

Keynote Talk: CERIF - The Common European Research Information Format @ Fourth Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR2010). Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20th - 22nd, 2010. University of Alcalá, Spain.

Integration of Contextual Information @ Workshop on Research Metadata in Context. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, September 7./8., 2010.

Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and Institutional Repositories. Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS-CNR), Rome Italy, May 10th + 11th, 2010. Formalizing a CERIF Semantics to connect CRISs and IRs.

Workshop: CERIF XML at Main Library at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 21st, 2010.

Tutorial: CERIF 2008 1.0 Introduction Tutorial at MPI, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, January 14th, 2010.

Keynote Talk: Formal Contextual Relations to guide through the maze of Research Information Systems @ International Conference Research Information Systems in the EU - Standardization and Compatibility. Bratislava, Slovakia, April 23rd, 2009. Medzinárodná konferencia CVTI SR: Informacné systémy o vede v Európskej únii.

Seminar: Standardization and Compatibility of Research Information Systems. Bratislava, Slovakia, April 22nd, 2009. Medzinárodná konferencia CVTI SR: Informacné systémy o vede v Európskej únii.

Visit with Richard Papik and Martin Soucek: Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University, Prague. Lectures in Scientometric Studies, CERIF and Research Information Interchange, Current Research Information Systems in the European Union, March 09.

Talk: Alternative models of collecting and disseminating research activities and outcomes. iConnectEU Final Workshop. Hotel Bloom, Brussels. October 16th, & 17th, 2008.

Talk: IST World: European RTD Information and Service Portal. Cistrana Workshop: Portals for Information Dissemination and Taxonomies for Classification. CCLRC, Abingdon (near Oxford), United Kingdom. February 20-21, 2006.

Tutorials:

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format (1.3). Tutorial held at the euroCRIS Members Meeting, Université Sciences humaines et sociales, Charles-de-Gaulle, November 2nd/3rd, 2011, Lille, France.

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Tutorial held at the euroCRIS Members Meeting, CINECA, May 26th/27th, 2011, Bologna, Italy.

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Insight into the CERIF 2008 - 1.2 Release. Tutorial held at the euroCRIS Members Meeting, Hotel Expo, November 8th/9th, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic.

CERIF 2 R4R Mapping @ King's College, London, July 14th, 2010.

Advanced CRIS @ Course Imperial College London, July 12th, 2010.

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Insight into the CERIF 2008 - 1.1 Release. Tutorial held at the 10th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2010). June 2nd, 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. CERIF 'Modules' with CERIF 2008 - 1.0. Tutorial held at the euroCRIS Members Meeting, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, November 11th, 2009.

CERIF advanced Course @ King's College, London. September 4th, 2009

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Presentation of the final version of Release 2008 - 1.0. Tutorial held at the euroCRIS Members Meeting, National Documentation Center (EKT), Athens, May 11th, 2009.

The Interchange Format CERIF. Seminar held at Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (STI), Bratislava, Slovakia, April 22nd, 2009.

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Insight into the CERIF 2008 Semantic Layer. Tutorial held at euroCRIS Members Meeting, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CEMI-RAS), Moscow, October 8th, 2008.

CERIF: The Common European Research Information Format. Insight into the CERIF 2008 Release. Tutorial held at the 9th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2008). June 4th, 2008, Maribor, Slovenia.

Teaching:

SS 2009: Informationswissenschaft und Informationssysteme. Vorlesung und Übung: Computerlinguistik, 1. Studienabschnitt. For Bachelor (B.Sc.) students. University of Saarbrücken.

Journal Reviews:

Enjeux actuels de la communication scientifique - Numéro spécial des "Cahiers du Numèrique" (appel a articles). Les Cahiers du Numérique. Vol. 5 n°2/2009 Information Scientific et Technique. Sous la direction de Joachim Schoepfel.

Programme Committees:

Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories and Infrastructures at MTSR 2011, 5th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, Izmir, Turkey, October 12th-14th, 2011.

Connecting Science with Society - The Role of Research Information in a Knowledge-Based Society (CRIS 2010), 10th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2nd-5th, 2010.

Misc:

Alastair Burt, Brigitte Jörg. Automatic Generation of a Content Management System from an OWL ontology and RDF import and export. Participation in Triplify Challenge.

Brigitte Jörg, Mitja Jermol. Discover RTD Competencies. Coordination of Networking Session @ IST Event 2006, Helsinki, Finland. November 21-23, 2006; and Information Stand.

Academic Education:

Pre-academic Work and Education:

1991 - 1992
Work, study and travel abroad, US and France

1989 - 1991
CEO-Secretary at BHS-Voith GmbH (Machinery Industry), Sonthofen

1987 - 1989
Apprenticeship as an Industrial Clerk at BHS Bayerische Berg- Hütten- und Salzwerke AG, Sonthofen

1983 - 1987
Secondary Level School Certificate at Mädchenrealschule Maria Stern, Immenstadt

Further Work Experience:

BOSCH (Financial Department), Homburg
POS Consulting (Call Center), Saarbrücken
BOSCH (Educational Department), Stuttgart
BASF (Logistics Department), Würzburg