Sebastian Schaffert

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Sebastian Schaffert
Born(1976-03-18)March 18, 1976
Trostberg, Germany
NationalityGerman and Swedish
OccupationSite Reliability Engineering Manager
EmployerGoogle

Sebastian Schaffert is a software engineer and researcher. He was born in Trostberg, Bavaria, Germany on March 18, 1976[1] and obtained his doctorate in 2004.[2]

Before moving out of research, he was very active in the Semantic Web, Linked Data and Multimedia Semantics fields, his works received more than 1.800 citations.[3] He is a contributor to open source projects, among those Apache Marmotta[4] and participated in several European FP6 and FP7 research projects such as REWERSE (Reasoning on the Web with rules and semantics),[5][6] KiWi (Knowledge in a Wiki),[7][8] IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack)[9] and MICO (Media in Context).[10]

Education

In April 2001, he graduated in Computer Science with a thesis on "Grouping Structures for Semistructured Data: Enhancing, Data Modelling and Data Retrieval".[11][12][13]

In December 2004, he obtained his doctorate at the faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich with the thesis "Xcerpt: A Rule-Based Query and Transformation Language for the Web".[1][2][14]

Career

In August 2005, he worked as senior researcher and project manager at the Salzburg Research Institute where he is currently head of the Knowledge and Media Technologies group.[2]

In 2006, he also became scientific director of the Salzburg NewMedia Lab.[2]

In 2009–2010, he taught at the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Science) of Salzburg[15]

In 2013, he co-founded Redlink and held the CTO position.[4][16][17][18][19]

In December 2014, he joined Google at Zürich, where he currently works as Site Reliability Engineering Manager.

Awards

Publications

He wrote the following PhD thesis:

He wrote the following articles and research papers:

He is the author (or co-author) of the following books and publications:

References

  1. ^ a b c "Xcerpt: A Rule-Based Query and Transformation Language for the Web" (PDF). Edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  2. ^ a b c d [1] Archived December 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Sebastian Schaffert - Google Scholar Citations". Scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  4. ^ a b "Apache Marmotta - Team list". Marmotta.apache.org. 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  5. ^ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects & Results Service : Reasoning on the Web with rules and semantics". Cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  6. ^ [2] Archived December 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Knowledge In A Wiki" (PDF). Kiwi-project.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  8. ^ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects & Results Service : Knowledge in a Wiki". Cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  9. ^ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects & Results Service : Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS/KMS providers". Cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  10. ^ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects & Results Service : Media in Context". Cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  11. ^ "Grouping Structures for Semistructured Data: Enhancing Data Modelling and Data Retrieval" (PDF). En.pms.ifi.lmu.de. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  12. ^ "publication :: Grouping Constructs for Semistructured Data: Enhancing Data Modelling and Data Retrieval". BibSonomy.org. 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  13. ^ "FreeSearch/DBLP: 35b9719bfc9d43f5885cf9716fb70877 Source:BibSonomy Source:CiteSeer Source:DBLP Source:TIBKat". Freesearch.kbs.uni-hannover.de. 2011-01-12. Archived from the original on 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  14. ^ "Sebastian Schaffert - semanticweb.org.edu". Semanticweb.org. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  15. ^ "Jahresbericht & Wissensbilanz : 2009/2010" (PDF). Fh-salzburg.ac.at. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  16. ^ [3] Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ "A great day to launch a new company! | Insideout10". Blog.insideout.io. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  18. ^ "RedLink GmbH, Salzburg, Salzburg". FirmenABC.at. 2013-03-05. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  19. ^ "Sebastian Schaffert : Sebastian Schaffert - Open Hub". Ohloh.net. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  20. ^ "Ehrung: Austrian Champions in European Research" (PDF). Rp7.ffg.at. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  21. ^ "European Semantic Web Conference 2009 - European Semantic Web Conference 2009". Eswc2009.org. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  22. ^ "ICLP: Test of Time Awards | Association for Logic Programming". Cs.nmsu.edu. 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  23. ^ "KiWi – A Platform for Semantic Social Software" (PDF). Ceur-ws.org. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  24. ^ Schaffert, Sebastian (2006-06-28). "IkeWiki: A Semantic Wiki for Collaborative Knowledge Management". 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'06). pp. 388–396. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.113.7070. doi:10.1109/WETICE.2006.46. ISBN 978-0-7695-2623-2. S2CID 8964545.
  25. ^ "Querying the Web Reconsidered: A Practical Introduction to Xcerpt" (PDF). En.pms.ifi.lmu.de. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  26. ^ "Towards a Declarative Query and Transformation Language for XML and Semistructured Data: Simulation Unification". 2002. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.18.5324. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  27. ^ "Resource Description Graph Views for Configuring Linked Data Visualizations" (PDF). Ceur-ws.org. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  28. ^ Kurz, Thomas; Güntner, Georg; Damjanovic, Violeta; Schaffert, Sebastian; Fernandez, Manuel (2012-01-03). "Semantic enhancement for media asset management systems". Multimedia Tools and Applications. 70 (2): 949–975. doi:10.1007/s11042-012-1197-7. S2CID 663956.
  29. ^ [4] Archived December 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  30. ^ "The Linked Media Framework: Integrating and Interlinking Enterprise Media Content and Data. - Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft". Salzburgresearch.at. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  31. ^ [5] Archived December 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ "Adding Wings to Red Bull Media: Search and Display semantically enhanced Video Fragments | Semantic Web Dog Food". Data.semanticweb.org. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  33. ^ "Smarte Annotationen. Ein Beitrag zur Evaluation von Empfehlungen für Annotationen. - Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft". Salzburgresearch.at. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  34. ^ "Linked Media Interfaces. Graphical User Interfaces for Search and Annotation. - Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft". Salzburgresearch.at. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  35. ^ [6] Archived September 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

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