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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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