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ao.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter KOCH
Angewandte
Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
Klosterwiesgasse
32/I
A
8010 Graz
Austria
http://www.aitbiz.com
TEL:+43(316)835359-0
FAX:+43(316)835359-75
Mobile:+43.664.3556521
kochw@ait.co.at
AIT
Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH is a software and
research company which is based in Graz, Austria, since 1983
Research
work is done primarily in the field of information management (e.g.: distributed
databases, collection management). This is carried out within EU (e.g. IST,
Ten-Telecom) or on national and regional level.
Project
examples:
From
1997 to 1998 the company participated in the European Union TEN-Telecom project
MOSAIC (Museums Over States and vIrtual Culture).
From
2000 onwards AIT was partner in the
EU-funded project COVAX - Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML (EU
IST-Programme - Information Society Technologies). The purpose of COVAX was to
analyse and draw up the technical solutions required to provide access through
the Internet to homogeneously-encoded document descriptions of archive, library
and museum collections based in the application of SGML/XML.
From
2001 onwards AIT was project coordinator of the European Union IST-Project
REGNET – Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks. The project included 23
partners from 12 European countries, including Russia, and the overall project
budget was above 5 Mio EUR. REGNET aimed to set up a functional network of
service centres in Europe which provide IT-services dedicated to Cultural
Heritage organisations and worked as an enabler of e-Business activities for CH
organizations. The project finished successfully in April 2003 (http://www.regnet.org).
On
the information services level AIT works closely together with the Graz-based
Cultural Service Centre Austria. Here we provide the technical infrastructure
and know-how for another series of well-know European projects like CULTIVATE EU,
CULTIVATE CEE or OpenHeritage.
Industry
The
company is specialized in information engineering and development of information
systems tailored to the complex environments for clients in very different
markets. We developed automation systems for numerous projects in the fields of
public administration and industry management applications. Due to our
comprehensive experience we also successfully carried out change management of
IT-environments.
Our
customer base comes from the industry as well as from the public administration.
Industry
projects include for example the automation of the production process of a
window producing company, sawmills or automation of the administration of sales
departments at a newspaper company, a record distributor or a jeweller's shop.
3.2
Contribution to CARiMan
AIT
will support the management of the network of excellence CARiMan internally with
its long-term experience in international project management. For the project
intern there will set up an intranet containing a discussion list and an
internal web site with a document repository
for the communication and event coordination of the project partners. On
the external side we propose to set up a project web site together with a forum
and a discussion list function. This will reinforce awareness of the project and
enhance the corresponding community.
Further
on we will contribute to the JPA MA – Mountain Accidents our knowledge on data
acquisition and management tools as well as communication systems and knowledge
presentation.
Curricula vitae
Prof.
Walter Koch
Dr.
Walter Koch was born on the 16th of February 1947 in Graz. He received a PhD in
Mathematics and Physics from University of Graz in 1970. He is president of the
CSC-Cultural Service Centre Austria, shareholder and director for AIT Ltd. (Angewandte
Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH) and is an ao.Univ.-Professor at
the University of Graz and a Guest Professor at the University of Krems.
Furthermore he is chairperson of the CSC Europe EEIG and head of the Steinbeis
Transferzentrum (IMCHI – Information Management and Cultural Heritage
Informatics).
Prof.
Koch's relevant experience includes:
·From
1976 to 1998: Head of different research institutes at JOANNEUM RESEARCH Ltd. In
Graz:
·Consultant
and contractor to different national and international organizations (eg UNESCO,
DFG, EC, ESA, Austrian ministries, Graz municipality)
·Member
of several international and international scientific associations (eg. ICOM,
ÖGDI, ONORM, VÖB)
·Project
experience: bibliographic information, information systems, IT-management, EU
Projects (TAP, Raphael, TenTelecom, IST – Information Society Technologies:
COVAX
- Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML, OpenHeritage - Enabling the
European Culture Economy, CULTIVATE - Cultural Heritage Application Network,
REGNET – Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks (Coordinator)), CIMI, EUREKA -
is a pan-European network for market-oriented, industrial R&D.
·Project
management and scientific consulting of the cataloguing and digitising project
for cultural heritage in South Tyrol (Bolzano).
Mag.
Gerda Koch
Gerda
Koch was born in Graz on 16 July 1970 and received a Master of Arts in English
with a combination of studies in Economics and Law at the University of Graz,
and also received an academic degree in a course of studies on Multimedia at the
University of Graz. Since 1991 Mag. Koch is employed at AIT, Applied Information
Technique Ltd. There she worked for diverse informatics projects as e.g. a
production automation system for a window-producing company, or the database
publishing production of the yearly published Austrian Statistics on
Non-University Education. She also collaborated in the European Union TenTelecom
project MOSAIC (Museums Over States And vIrtual Culture) for the Austrian
partner of the project. Since 1998 Mag. Koch is managing director of AIT Ltd.
She focuses on cultural digital content provisions as she worked for the
national project MODOK (Modular Documentation System) for the Austrian Ministry
of Science and Traffic and the EU-project COVAX (Contemporary Culture Virtual
Archive in XML). Since April 2001 Mrs. Koch is engaged in the financial and
administrative coordination of the EU IST-Project REGNET (Cultural Heritage in
REGional NETworks), one of the largest European projects in the cultural
heritage field with 23 partners in 12 European states.
DI
Martin Bogensperger
Martin
Bogensperger studied technical mathematics (branch of study: information
processing) at the technical university of Graz till October 1999 (diploma
thesis: pattern recognition via multilayer perceptron of spiking neurons).
During his studies he occasionally worked for the AL-ATIS in Leoben witch deals
with Warehouse Management Systems. His job was to develop and implement new WMS
in a small team. He programmed in C/C++ and also used SQL on a Oracle DB. Since
August 2000 he works for the AIT in Graz. He is involved in the EU-project
(IST-Information Society Technologies) COVAX, a Contemporary Culture Virtual
Archive in XML. The project defined and established a search machine for
cultural archives. Therefore it had to deal with several data structures and
protocols (XML, XER, Dublin Core, Z39.50, …) and functionalities for the
search machine in Java. Within the Project REGNET – Cultural Heritage in
REGional NETworks he was involved in the development of an eBusiness and
eAuction solution as well as a TopicMap generation tool.
Dr.
Henriette Kurschel
Henriette
Kurschel was born on the 19th of May 1965 in Graz. She received a PhD in History
of the Medieval Ages and in Informatics for Historians at the University of Graz.
1994-2000 she was working in a research project at the University of Graz aiming
at database-based publishing of medieval sources in the web. 2000 she worked in
a consulting company (B+B Beratung und Bildung, Graz) in the fields of cultural
tourism and development of regions. End of 2001 Henriette Kurschel joined
Angewandte Informationstechnik and is mainly dealing with data standards, data
exchange, topic map generation, visualization of topic maps and cultural
heritage applications in general. She was involved in this field in national
projects as well as within the EU IST-project REGNET.
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