ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-6941

Academic Background:

since : Research Assistant, Software Development and Research Data Management (Administrative Office—Department of Science and Digital Infrastructure)

Collaborations include work at the following research centers: Heidelberg Epigraphic Database; Philological-Historical Commentary on the Chronicle of Malalas; Melanchthon Regesta Database; German Legal Dictionary; Hindu Temple Legends in South India; ALMA – Knowledge Networks in Medieval Romania)

2019–20: Research Assistant at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2018: Research Assistant at Heidelberg University (GODOT)

2011–2018: Research Associate at Heidelberg University (SFB 933 Material Text Cultures, INF subproject)

1990–2002: Studied Egyptology, Ancient History, and Prehistory and Early History at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; degree: Ph.D.

Main areas of work and research:

• Software Development (Digital Humanities)
  • Python Web Development
  • XML Workflows (eXist-db, XQuery, XPath)
  • Relational databases (MariaDB)
  • NoSQL databases (Neo4j graph database)
  • Linked Open Data
• Research Data Management
  • Data Modeling
  • Data lifecycles
  • Versioning, reproducibility, and scientific citation of research data
  • Reuse of data via application programming interfaces (APIs)
  • Long-term data archiving
  • Standard data
  • Open Access / FAIR Data Principles
• Computer-Assisted Ancient Chronology/Calendar Systems (Data Modeling, Calendar Conversions)

Externally funded projects:

Hagrid -HAdW Web Services – Beaconizer & Discoverer: Text+ Collaboration Project (NFDI, 2025)

GODOT - Graph of Dated Objects and Texts: Graph-based modeling of ancient calendar data (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2018), in collaboration with KU Leuven, King's College London, and ICS London

Article:

Networking as a System of Order. How Hagrid Improves the Discoverability and Interoperability of Research Data, in: Athene. Journal of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , pp. 44–47 (hadw) (co-authored with C. Cascone)

Some Considerations on Research Data Management in Long-term Projects: Creating an RDM Plan for the Project “Hindu Temple Legends in South India”, heiDOK (2024). https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00037522(Presentation at the conference “Research Data in South Asian Studies” organized by the FID South Asia at Heidelberg University Library in November 2024, together with L. Olalde)

Future-Proof Research Data Management in the Digital Humanities, in: Athene. Journal of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , pp. 31–33 (hadw)

GND-based Authority Data Web Service Suite. Text+ Plenary 2023: Connecting People and Data, SUB Göttingen (poster presentation). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10033934

Digital Workshop: Editing Inscriptions, in:Editing and Commenting on Inscriptions: Contributions to Editorial Practice, Methodology, and Theory, edited by Armin Eich, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 169–188. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753684-009(with M. Horster)

Modeling Epigraphy with an Ontology, Zenodo (2021). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4639508(with Bodard; Cayless; Cenati; Cooley; Elliott; Evangelisti; Felicetti; Granados; Gruber; Hershkowitz; Hill; Kiiskinen; Kollatz; Levivier; Liuzzo; Luciani; Mannocci; Mataix; Murano; Murphy; Mylonas; Prag; Razanajao; Stoyanova; Tsolakis; Tupman; Vagionakis; Vitale; Weise)

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg – Data Reuse Options, heiDOK (2019).https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00026599

GODOT - Graph of Dated Objects and Texts: Modeling Ancient Non-Gregorian Calendar Dates Using the Neo4j Graph Database, DARIAH-DE Working Papers 36 (2019).https://d-nb.info/1193434998/34

Report on the second Epigraphy.info workshop held in Zadar, December 14–16, 2018 (Department of History, University of Zadar), heiDOK (2019). https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00026330(together with F. Feraudi-Gruénais / J. Cowey / T. Gheldof / A. Kurilić / P. Liuzzo)

Recommendation for an open collaborative platform for ancient epigraphy - epigraphy.info, heiDOK (2018).https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00024674(in collaboration with F. Feraudi-Gruénais)

Report on the first epigraphy.info workshop in Heidelberg, March 21–23, 2018, heiDOK (2018). https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00024397(in collaboration with F. Feraudi-Gruénais / J. Cowey / J. Lougovaya-Ast)

Digital Epigraphy at a Crossroads? heiDOK (2016).https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00022141(co-authored with F. Feraudi-Gruénais)

GODOT - Graph of Dated Objects and Texts. Building a Chronological Gazetteer for Antiquity, in:Epigraphy Edit-a-thon: Editing Chronological and Geographic Data in Ancient Inscriptions; April 20–22, 2016 / Editor: Monica Berti. Leipzig, 2016. Contribution 6.https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-221532

Data Services for the Humanities, in:Life, Objects, Texts. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition of Collaborative Research Center 933 "Material Text Cultures—Materiality and Presence of the Written Word in Non-Typographic Societies" (2015) (co-authored with C. Forster)

Websites:

• Heidelberg Epigraphic Database
• Melanchthon Regesta Database
• Malala's comment
• GODOT
• Date Converter for Ancient Egypt
• Information Sheet on German-Language Egyptology (in collaboration with Dr. N. Kloth/Heidelberg University Library)