Klaus Thoden is a Visiting Consultant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He received his Magister Artium (MA) in German language and linguistics from the Humboldt University, Berlin in 2008.
Klaus is the technical coordinator of Edition Open Access, a publishing platform for open access publications. During a two-year-project (2018-2019), he headed a small team that fundamentally remodeled the whole publication infrastructure (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, grant number 16OA061).
At the MPIWG, he has also been involved in developing an infrastructure for digitizing sources for the ECHO environment and between 2012 and 2017 was involved in national and international infrastructure projects (DM2E, TextGrid, DARIAH-DE). The focus of his research is the influence of computers and the internet on the way scholars perform their work. This includes usability studies, modeling research activities (e.g., TaDiRAH, Scholarly Domain Model), impact studies (e.g., Impactomatrix), and most recently, research on the publication process in the humanities.
Klaus is committed to open science and open-source software. Code he has authored or co-authored can be found at molgen github, gwdg gitlab, and microsoft github.
Projects
Selected Publications
Thoden, Klaus, Juliane Stiller, Natasa Bulatovic, Hanna-Lena Meiners, and Nadia Boukhelifa (2017). “User-Centered Design Practices in Digital Humanities: Experiences from DARIAH and CENDARI.” ABI Technik 37 (1): 2–11. https://doi.org/10.1515/abitech-2017-0002.
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Bulatovic, Natasa, Timo Gnadt, Matteo Romanello, Juliane Stiller, and Klaus Thoden (2016). “Usability in Digital Humanities - Evaluating user interfaces, infrastructural components and the use of mobile devices during research process.” In Research and advanced technology for digital libraries, ed. N. Fuhr, L. Kovács, T. Risse, and W. Nejdl, 335–346. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_26.
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Schmidle, Wolfgang, Martina Siebert, Martin Hofmann, Klaus Thoden, and Malcolm D. Hyman (2009). Data entry specs for Chinese text : version 2.0.1 (22nd June 2009). MPIWG Pythia. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002A-DADA-6.
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Past Events
Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
DHd 2017 – Digitale Nachhaltigkeit, Bern
TPDL 2016 – Overcoming the Limits of Digital Archives, Hannover
Incontro di studi e digital humanities, Firenze
DHd 2016 – Modellierung Vernetzung Visualisierung, Leipzig
DHd 2016 – Modellierung Vernetzung Visualisierung, Leipzig
DARIAH Workshop on Intelligent Annotations, Köln
Semantic technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences (STRiX), Göteborg
6. Arbeitstreffen – Netzwerk Internetlexikografie: Fragen der Darstellung und Gestaltung von Internetwörterbüchern
Everything is on the Move: The “Mamluk Empire” as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks, Department of Islamic Studies, Annemarie-Schimmel-Kolleg, University of Bonn
Philology in the Digital Age: 2011 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium, Würzburg
107. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Berlin 2018
"Our Shared Open Future: Building from Tradition", 21st Fiesole Retreat, Florence, Italy
23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) 2019