The Society welcomes back Prof. Klaus Tochtermann to talk to members on developments in Europe and the importance of Open Science – open access to scientific research, data and dissemination to wider society, concepts fundamental to Knowledge Management professionals & practitioners.
Prof. Klaus Tochtermann
Speaker : Prof. Klaus Tochtermann
Date : Thursday 3rd March , 2016
Time: From 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: 22nd Floor, United Centre, Admiralty, Hong Kong
The event is $200 for non members and free for members, please complete the registration form below to reserve your seat now. Further details and Prof. Tochtermann’s Bio can be found below.
Open Science talk abstract:
The talks starts with examples highlighting the importance of appropriate management of knowledge and particularly of research data. In a next step it reports about a public consultation on “Science 2.0 – Science in Transition” conducted by the European Commission in 2014. As a consequence the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, put Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the World as top priorities on his agenda for the years to come. Within this context the talk clarifies the notion of different terms such as eScience, Science 2.0 and Open Science and shows how they are related to one another. After this the key drivers and barriers for Open Science will be presented. One of the most important barriers is the lack of integration of research infrastructures to properly manage scientific information including research data.
To this end, the talk will propose solutions which might help overcome the identified limitations.
Prof. Tochtermann’s Bio
CV: Klaus Tochtermann studied Computer Science at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (Germany) and at Dortmund University (Germany). He earned his Dr. degree in Computer Science in 1995. In 1996 he received a scholarship of the Max-Kade Foundation, Inc. USA and spent his post-doc at the Center for the Studies of Digital Libraries at the A&M University in Texas (USA). During this time he conducted studies in the field of digital libraries and Internet-based applications and services for digital libraries. From 1997 to 2000 he was department head for Environmental Information Systems at the, FAW Ulm (Germany).
Since October 2000 he has been the director of Austria’s first industry-based research institute on knowledge management Know-Center. In 2004 he was appointed as professor for knowledge management at Graz University of Technology. Since 2010 Klaus Tochtermann has been director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and professor for Computer Science at Kiel University. ZBW is the world’s largest library in economics. For its excellence and radical innovation, ZBW has been awarded as “Library of the Year 2014” in Germany. The current research of Klaus Tochtermann includes Science 2.0, Social Media and Semantic Technologies.
He serves as expert in several adivsory boards of German and European research bodies, among them the High Level Expert Group of the European Commission on “European Open Science Cloud” in which he serves as the only representative from Germany.