·                     Education:

 

 

1994           Candidate of Science (CSc), Ethnography, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.

                 

1989           PhD, Information Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Library and Information Science, Budapest, Hungary.

 

1981-1985   MA, Library and Information Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Library and Information Science, Budapest, Hungary.

 

1970-1975   MSc, University of Agriculture, Gödöllő, Hungary.

 

 

·                      PhD supervision, examinator and opponent:

 

 

Johan Eklund, SSLIS (main supervisor, 2005 – )

 

Tamás Kiezer, Department of Computer Science, University of Pannonia (dissertation opponent, 2009, ongoing process)

 

Adrien Skrop, Department of Computer Science, University of Pannonia (dissertation opponent, 2007)

 

Júlia Góth, Department of Computer Science, University of Pannonia (dissertation opponent, 2005)

 

 

·                     Scholarships:

 

 

1993           Research on multivariate classification and navigation for information retrieval, Soros Foundation, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

 

1987           Computers in the Humanities, British Council, UK

 

1981           Computerized Information Services in Agriculture, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Oxford

 

 

·                     Working experience:

 

 

2011-          Professor, Swedish School of Library and Information Studies, University of Borĺs, Borĺs, Sweden

 

2008-          Honorary Professor, Department of Library Science, Szeged University, Hungary

 

2003-          Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Swedish School of Library and Information Studies (University of Gothenburg), University College Borĺs, Borĺs, Sweden and Consultant, Center for Information Retrieval, University of Veszprém, Hungary

 

2001-2003   Head of Unit, EU Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Education, Budapest, Hungary and National Contact Point for social sciences and the humanities in the 6th Framework Programme

 

1997-2001   Science and Technology Attaché, Embassy of the Hungarian Republic, Helsinki, Finland

 

1997-2001   Visiting Scholar, School of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway

 

1996-1997   Associate Professor and Temporary Chair, School of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway

 

1995-1996   Professional consultant in Library and Information Science

 

1993,1995   Kaser Endowed Lecturer and Visiting Scholar, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

 

1985-1996   Assistant Professor of Information Science, specialised in information retrieval, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of  Library and Information Science, Budapest, Hungary

 

1978-1985   In charge of an SDI service in agriculture, AGROINFORM, Budapest, Hungary

 

1976-1978   Working for the Historical Museum of Budapest, Hungary

 

1975-1976   Working for the Agricultural Research Institute, Gödöllő, Hungary

 

 

·                     Conferences, organizing and program committees:

 

 

2010           1st International AMICUS Workshop, Co-organizer (upcoming)

 

2010           Joint JCDL/ICADL International Digital Libraries Conference, Panel on „Computer Science, Information Studies, Digital Libraries, and Web Science: Different facets or different faces?”, Panelist (upcoming)

 

2007           ICTIR´07, Program Committee Co-Chair

 

2005           MFIR, SIGIR 2005, Program Committee Member

 

2004           MFIR, SIGIR 2004, Program Committee Member

 

2003           Higher Order Morphologies’ Observer: Information Society, Cultural Heritage and Text Analysis”, 24-26 November, Budapest, Hungary.  Initiator, Secretary of the Organizing Committee

 

2001               Cultural Innovation and Information Retrieval: The Digitization and Automated Content Exploration of Finno-Ugric Cultural Heritage”, 14 September 2001, National Széchényi Library, Budapest, Hungary.

Initiator, Secretary of the Organizing Committee

 

 

·                     Projects:

 

 

2010-11      Machine learning based indexing of digitized museum artifacts (funded by Riksantikvarieämbetet)

 

2009-12      AMICUS: Automated motif discovery in cultural heritage and scientific communication texts (funded by NWO)

 

2008-          Co-initiating the Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG) at SSLIS

 

2008-10      Model-based Semantic Information Retrieval (Modell-Alapú Szemantikus Kereső Rendszer, funded by NKTH)

 

2008-11      Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg (SHAMAN, funded by FP7)

 

2005-07      Library Information Visualization and Analysis (LIVA, funded by KKS)

 

2002-08      Initiating and setting up the General Epistemology, Content and Knowledge Organization (GECKO) Virtual Research Group at the Department of Information and Knowledge Management, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

 

1996-97      Automated motif identification in folklore text corpora (funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

 

1994-95      Textbook and Higher Education Development Programme (automation, stock  augmentation, restructuring and retraining for university libraries, joint funding by the World Bank and the Ministry of Culture and Education, Budapest, Hungary: project coordinator, also in charge of  retraining)

 

1990-92      TEMPUS (curricululum development for the Department of Library and Information Science, Eötvös Loránd University, together with Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany, and Rijkshogeschool Ijselland, Deventer, Netherlands: local coordinator)

 

 

·                     Board memberships:

 

 

2003-          Academic Board, Graduate School of Language Technology, Göteborg University.

 

1997-2001   Helsinki Diplomatic Association, Finland

 

1996-1997   Advisory Board for curriculum development, International Library School, Nicolaus Copernicus

University, Torun, Poland

 

1995-          Journal of Information Science, member of the Editorial Board

 

1994-2002   Journal of Documentation, member of the Editorial Board

 

1994-1996   Library Committee, Soros Foundation, Hungary

 

1992-             Hungarian Semiotic Association, Hungary

 

 

Last updated: 30 January 2011