Research Interests

Software Engineering, Digital Libraries, Digital Archiving, Public Key Infrastructure Security

Current Projects

Groosh

Groosh is a Unix like shell written in Groovy

Air Race

The Campus02 Air Race is a competition in which autonomously steered airplanes race against each other.

ValueMap

Customer Value Management is a strategic management method. The central planning and controlling tool of this method is the customer value. This tool reduces the relevant factors of a product to a single number. The customer value is a customers subjective impression of a products quality relative to its price.

The ValueMap software is designed to determine the customer value of a product and to compare this value with other products.

ADIGRES

Digital libraries need a solid software foundation that manages their digital assets. Based on such a software digital libraries can build information services for their customers.

ADIGRES is a digital repository software which is able to manage huge amounts of digital objects in a secure and fast way. The architecture, design and implementation of ADIGRES is based on the “Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)”.

ADIGRES is capable of managing millions of huge digital objects and of performing fast search operations in the meta data of the objects as well as in the objects themselves. It has a sophisticated user management which allows different digital libraries to share a single digital repository. It provides flexible interfaces for the integration of the repository into existing digital library systems.

Finished Projects

Arcadiban

Arcadiban is a Java clone of the famous Sokoban game created 1980 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi. It is developed as a student project for the lecture Software Engineering

Red Social

The Red Social project (2003 - 2007) was a research and development project co-funded by the European Commission.

Red-Social aimed to improve the access to digital information and the internet for blind and visually handicapped people in South America.

Schulbuch barrierefrei

Schulbuch barrierefrei created guidelines and techniques for the creation of digital book for students with disabilities

Part of the project was to create a DRM system for these books

Austrian Literature Online

Austrian Literature Online was founded in 1999 to digitise the one thousend most important books of Austria. The first members of the project where the Austrian Universities or Graz, Linz and Innsbruck. Together they developed a first prototype and digitised about 50 books as a prove of concept. After this initial stage the project received as well national and international funding to develop the software necessary to build a digital repository and to create new digitisation technologies in to enable mass digitisation of books.

METAe

The METAe engine was designed as a comprehensive software package for digitising books and journals with a minimum of effort and a maximum of automation and effectiveness. The project run from September 2000 to September 2003 and comprised 14 partners from seven European countries and the US. It was co-ordinated by the University of Innsbruck.

The METAe project was a research and development project co-funded by the European Commission (5th Framework, IST Programme, Area "Digital Heritage and Cultural Content").

ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object)

ALTO stores layout information and OCR recognized text of pages of any kind of printed documents like books, journals and newspapers. ALTO is a standardized XML format to store layout and content information. It is designed to be used as an extension schema to METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), where METS provides metadata and structural information while ALTO contains content and physical information.

Recently ALTO 1.1 has been released and published by Library of Congress in the technical requirements of the NDNP project.