2006

The SNS cooperation exchanges one partner: Fraunhofer Institute IAIS (was: IMK) leaves, AtosOrigin takes over. So the original team has re-united (AtosOrigin had acquired SchlumbergerSema in 2004)

seit 2006

SOA-screening and consulting in cooperation with Stefan Tilkov, Innoq. 

2005-6

Cooperation with ips-software: Specification and QE for AVIS Germany.

2005

Consortium with Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (IMK): Framework contract on maintenance und development of Semantic Network Service: www.semantic-network.de 

2004/5

Consulting Expert of the Twinning Project between the Czech Ministry of Environment and the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety CENIA

2003/4

Feasablity Study Integration Layer Environmental Observation, Federal Environmental Agency, Germany.

2003

Internet Marketing Study for the The Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany.

with Leitwerk and Nimz, Cologne

Since July 2003

Freelance Consultant

Federal Environmental Agency, Germany;
Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany;
Inter-ministerial Committee for Geo-Information in Germany (IMAGI);
EMPA Sustainable Information Technology Unit (CH);
Knowledge Technologie Web (KTWeb, by ERIN, LU)

2003

Project manager on behalf of the Federal Environmental Agency and Coordination UDK/gein®, Germany

Further development of gein® und SNS.

Since 2002

Solution Manager Knowledge Technologies, SchlumbergerSema, Germany

Registered Expert and Expression of Interest in the 6^th EU Framework Program (FP6): European Environmental: Topic Map Engine with Multilingual Auto-Classification http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=32037

2001 - 2002

Project manager on behalf of the Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

Research project UFOPLAN 201 11 612: Implementation of a Semantic Network Service (SNS) in the context of the German Environmental Information Network (gein®).

Since 2001

Member of the Technical Committee Topic Maps Published Subjects, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) http://www.oasis-open.org

Consulting Expert of the 5^th EU Framework Program (FP5).

2000 - 2001

Project Manager on behalf of Sony Europe

Conceptual design and realization of an XML interface between the European Product and Customer Database and various Internet front ends. Early application of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

Inter-ministerial Committee for Geo-Information in Germany (IMAGI, www.imagi.de)

Consulting expert, later Conceptual design and prototype of GeoMis.Bund, the federal geographical metadata information system of Germany. OGC-Catalog Services and ISO19115-Metadata, in cooperation with latlon, Germany

Constitution and management of the XML Competence Center within Sema Group GmbH.

Performed by Schlumberger Gold Award 2001.

since 2000

Project manager on behalf of the Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

Maintenance and further development of gein®. Among others, in cooperation with design company Leitwerk, Cologne:

• Public relations support (EXPO 2000, CeBIT, ENAC, various presentations and publications, 2000-2003);

• Marketing consultancy (from "GEIN 2000" to gein®), 2002;

• Web design conforming to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), 2002.

1998 - 2000

Project manager on behalf of the Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

Conceptual design and realization of the Portal "German Environmental Information Network", GEIN 2000, later branded as gein®). Inducted by Federal Minister Jürgen Trittin during the EXPO 2000, Hannover.

1994 - 1998

Project manager on behalf of the Environmental ministry of Saxony-Anhalt

Implementation and further development of the environmental Management Information System "VISION-Environment^®".

1992 - 1994

Project manager for Environmental ministries of the German states ("Länder") Lower-Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Hesse.

Conceptual design and prototype of a cooperative, environmental Management Information System (later branded as "VISION-Environment^®").

1987 - 1992

At Sema Group GmbH as a software developer, system administrator, and Desktop Publishing advisor. Technical Author of documentation and user manuals. International product development of a project management tools.

1987 - 2003

Employee of Sema GmbH, later SchlumbergerSema GmbH in various positions, finally Solution Manager Knowledge Technologies, Germany.

1979 - 1987

Working as a scientific assistant (RWTH Aachen) and as a freelance publisher and author. Peter Joseph Lenné Award of the City of Berlin 1984. Advanced training in computer technology and programming.

1979

Graduated Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) Urban Planning, RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Main focus on "Information Sciences" and "System Theory and System Technology in Planning".

2006

with Maria Rüther and Matthias Menger: SNS Environmental Vocabulary – from Terms to Ontology. Semantics 2006. Wien, 28.-30.11.2006 download

2005

Environmental Informatics and the Semantic Web. TIC21, The contribution of information and communication technologies to sustainable development Valenciennes February 3 and 4, 2005 . http://www.tic21.com/uk_index.htm

2004
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Über GeoSemantik. In: Bernard, Fitzke, Wagner (Hrsg.) Geodateninfrastruktur. Grundlagen und Anwendungen von GDI. Wichmann Verlag, 2004.

2004

Die "Wissenslandkarte" der Landkarte: Topic Maps, Semantic Web und OGC Services.
3. Kongress XML Topic Maps. Darmstadt 21. Juni 2004 download

2004
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Das-G2K Profil. UDK/gein® Technologie Workshop. Düsseldorf 21.4.2004 http://www.udk-gein.de/aktuelles.shtml

2004
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Semantic Network Services. UDK/gein® Technologie Workshop. Düsseldorf 21.4.2004 download

2004

With Maria Rüther: SNS. ECOinformatics Initiative, Environmental Thesaurus and terminology workshop (EcoTerm) - Geneva April 14th and 15th 2004. http://ecoinfo.eionet.eu.int

2003
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SNS - der Topic Map Web Service des Umweltbundesamts. 2. German Topic Map Congress, Darmstadt, 13. November 2003. http://www.zgdv.de/zgdv/Seminar/awf/Aktuell/XMLTop

Presentation: download

2003

Five Years of the German Environmental Information Network (gein®). Knowledge Technology Case Study. KTweb, September 2003 download

2003

Sharing Ontology by Web Services: Implementation of a Semantic Network Service (SNS) in the context of the German Environmental Information Network (gein®). First International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (http://swdb.semanticweb.org) (Co-located with VLDB 2003) Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, September 7-8, 2003 download

2003

With A. Farqhuar: Building a Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools. The 6th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Houston, Texas. 31. Mai 2003. http://www.rice.edu/jcdl03/

http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2003workshop/nkos_farquhar_v1.0.ppt

2003

With Maria Rüther: Semantic Network Services. Workshop Environmental Databases of the GI-WG 4.6.1 Informatics in Environmental Protection of the German Informatics Society e.V., Berlin, Mai 2003. http://www.umwelt.schleswig-holstein.de/?AKUmweltdatenbanken

2003

With Maria Rüther: Semantic Network Services (SNS) as a Web Service. Workshop "Thesauri by Web services for a common classification of Environmental Data". Federal Environmental Agency, April 2003, Berlin. http://www.ubavie.gv.at/umweltregister/udk/workshop/02.pdf

2003

(With Wanda Kaye Jackson) Semantic Network Services - Sharing Ontology by Web Services. Web Services for the Integrated Enterprise. OMG’s 2nd Workshop On Web Services. Modelling, Architectures, Infrastructures And Standards. February 10-13, 2003. München, Germany.

http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/workshops/webservices2003europe.htm

2003

Semantic Network Services. ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG2 (Metadata) Open Forum 2003 on Metadata Registries. January 20-24, 2003 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

http://metadata-stds.org/OpenForum2003/

download

2002
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Taxonomie und Topic Maps. Vom Stichwortverzeichnis zur Wissensnavigation. In: XML & Web Services Magazin, Heft 2, 2002.
http://www.xml-magazin.de/itr/online_artikel/psecom,id,331,nodeid,69.html

2002

A Taxi in Knowledge Land. XMLeurope 2002, Barcelona.
download

2002

With Angrick M., Bös R., Rüther M.: Semantic Network Services – Sorting Signal from Noise. Environmental Informatics, Vienna 2002. http://enviroinfo.isep.at

download

2002

European Environmental: Topic Map Engine with Multilingual Auto-Classification. Expression of Interest, 6th EU Framework Program (FP6) http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=32037

2001

Sustainability of Environmental Information. Environmental Informatics. 10. - 12. Oktober 2001, ETH Zürich, Schweiz. http://www.empa.ch/ui01/iep01/Programm_Detail.htm

download

2001

Semantic Network Services (SNS) - sorting signal from noise. CDS and e-EIONET Work Conference 2001, Thun (CH).
http://www.mu.niedersachsen.de/cds/etc-cds_neu/events.html

2001
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Inhaltsanalyse und Navigation im Web - der Broker des German Environmental Information Network. In: Tochtermann, K. / Arndt, H. (eds.): 4th Workshop "Hypermedia in Environmental Protection".

download

2001

European Environmental Topic Map. In: Future Priorities for Research Relating to IST Environmental Applications. 6th Framework Program Consultation Meeting. Brussels (B), April 27^th 2001.

download

2000
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Internet Information Broker am Beispiel German Environmental Information Network.
Expert Hearing for a Meta information system for Geo-data of the Federation (MIS-Bund). November 2000, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Frankfurt am Main. http://www.imagi.de/de/projekte/geomis/c_expertenanhoerung.html

download

2000

Standardization Diversity is a Protected Asset. Workshop 2 "Environmental Markup Language (EML)", Berlin, October 2000.
http://schlemmer.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/xml-eml.nsf/Workshop2EMLIndex

2000

With Hans Knud Arndt, Oliver Günther, Maria Rüther, Thomas Schütz: EML – The Environmental Markup Language. Workshop Symposium on Integration in Environmental Information Systems ISESS 2000. Zell am See, Austria May 30 to June 3, 2000. http://isess.crle.uoguelph.ca/oldisess/2000-program.html

download

2000

With Bös, R., Rüther, M. (2000): The German Environmental Information Network (GEIN). Environmental Informatics, Bonn 2000. http://enviroinfo.isep.at/Umweltinformatik2000.htm

http://enviroinfo.isep.at/UI%20200/Bandholtz-2000-07-18.el.pdf

1999

GEIN 2000 and beyond: Information about the environment in the „semantic web“. In: Environmental Markup Language (EML). Proceedings of Workshop 1, Berlin 1999. download

1999
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Die verteilte Suche in GEIN 2000 (G2K). Workshop Environmental Databases of the GI-WG 4.6.1 Informatics in Environmental Protection of the German Informatics Society e.V. June 1999 in Karlsruhe.

http://www.bandholtz.info/publications/1999-UDB-TB-abs.pdf

1995
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The EIS of Babylon. Contributions to a Federal Environmental Information. GI Anniversary Meeting 1995, Zürich.

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gi/gi95.html (Programm)

Tagungsband der GISI 95 -- Herausforderungen eines globalen Informationsverbundes für die Informatik, Zürich, 1995, F. Huber--Wäschle and H. Schauer and P. Widmayer (Hrsg.), Springer--Verlag, 1995

1995

VISION Environment (VE) - The Integrating Information System for Border-crossing

and Trans-departmental Cooperation. Sema Group White Paper.

download

1994
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Interaktive Visualisierung mit VISION-Umwelt. In: Visualisierung von Umweltdaten, 4. Workshop, 30. Januar - 2. Februar 1994, Schloss Dagstuhl. download

1994
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Fachübergreifende Integration von Umweltdaten. In: Integration von Umweltdaten, 2. Workshop 1994, 2.-4. Februar 1994, Schloss Dagstuhl. download

1993
-German-

VISION Umwelt / UIS-Kern: Dynamische Integration hybrider Datenstrukturen. Jahrestagung Deutsche ORACLE- Anwendergruppe e.V. download

1985
-German-

(With Vladimir Budde) Chinesisches Schach - Spiel, Mythos, Kultur.

Beyer Verlag, Bamberg 1985

1985
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Wildnis und Garten. In: Bauwelt, Heft 18, Mai 1985

Peter Joseph Lenné Award of the City of Berlin 1984

1984
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(Eds. with Dr. Lotte Kühn and Chair for Urban Planning, RWTH Aachen):

Erich Kühn. Stadt und Natur. Vorträge, Aufsätze, Dokumente 1932-1981.
Christians, Hamburg 1984