Dr. Christoph Schindler

Projects

• Abitur Examination Practices and Respective Essays From 1882 to 1972
• CEDIFOR – Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Educational Science – CEDIFOR
• FID – Specialised Information Service “Educational Science and Educational Research”
• KI-Lit-Edu – AI Indexing at Literature Information Systems for Educational Research
• OFFZIB – Open Citation Data for Educational Research
• TwiSt – Impact of Transfer: An Exploratory Project
• Virtual Research Environment for Research in the History of Education
• edu_consort_oa – Project Network Open Access Consortium Education for E-books and Journals

Online Resources

• EduTopics: ECER
• German Education Portal
• ProHaBil
• eduresearch.social – Open Social Network
• peDOCS – Open Access Publications for Education Science & Educational Research

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Professional career

Since 2019

Deputy head of Department of Information Centre for Education (IZB) at DIPF

Since 2016

Head of Unit Literature Information Systems of IZB at DIPF

2012 – 2016

Coordinator of Research at IZB

Since 2006

Research assistant at Information Centre for Education (IZB) at DIPF

2003 – 2006

Freelancer for Web Design at Institute for New Media, stud. assistant FAZ.NET

Academic career

2014

Research stay at Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Kanada (6 weeks)

2012

Phd in information science, University of Hildesheim

2008

Research stay at Goldsmith College, London (2 weeks)

2006

Master degree in information science at Stuttgart Media University (HdM) focussing usercentred systemdesign and usability-engineering

2003

Magister degree in cultural anthropology, social sciences and ethnology focussing science and technology studies (STS) at Frankfurt University and University of Cyprus

Selected memberships and additional functions

• 2024 Best Paper Award: 18th “Metadata and Semantics Research Conference” (MTSR 2024)
• Since 2022 organisation of consortial crowdfundings for financing selected oa publications at educational research
• 2019 – 2023 Reviewer and initiator of Leibniz Open-Access fund for monographies
• Since 2019 Datum & Diskurs, journal for complementary, secondary and reanalysis in the field of qualitative school and teaching research, editor
• Since 2017 link convenor of network 12 open research in education at the European Educational Research Association (EERA), chair and reviewer of the annual conference ECER
• Since 2017 chair and Organisation of the annual symposium FIS Bildung
• Since 2017 organisation of the user board of the Informationszentrum Bildung at DIPF
• 2015 – 2017 Co-convenor of network 12 of open research in education of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and reviewer of the annual conference ECER
• 2013 Best Paper Award: Internationalen Symposium for Information Science  (ISI 2013)
• 2013 Best Paper Award: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2013)

Current/Key activities and fields of research

• Open Science, focussing open infrastructures, Open Access and Open Research Information
• Participatory design, quality assessment of information infrastructures
• Digital Humanities and Digital Research
• Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Technologies 
• Science and Technology Studies (STS)