Talks

Find below a list of selected talks I gave. For some presentations slides and other media files are available.

  • Collaborative platforms for streamlining workflows in Open Science (July, 29th, 2011) Open Knowledge Conference Berlin, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • OpenGov on the city level – A call for action (December, 29th, 2010) 27C3 Berlin, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • OpenGov und OpenData in Darmstadt – Eine Diskussionsgrundlage (November, 21st, 2010) Barcamp Darmstadt, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • Spannungsfeld Online-Identität (May, 25th, 2010) E-Seminar for the HTW Berlin, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • Ignite 2010 talk – General thoughts about how to fix the world (March 1st, 2010) Brotfabrik, Frankfurt, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • Advanced wiki training course (April, 21st, 2010) EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • Principles and tools of the social web – An introductory seminar (February, 19th, 2010) EBI, Hinxton, UK (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • Wiki training course for EMBL staff, Heidelberg, Germany (PDF file version 1, 23rd July, 2009; PDF file version 2, 30th July, 2009; PDF file version 3, 6th August, 2009, Slideshare)
  • Computational analysis of metagenomic data: delineation of compositional features and screens for desirable enzymes (2009, February 4th) PhD defense / Promotionsverteidigung, Würzburg, Germany (PDF file, Slideshare)
  • The ProductTransparency project (2008, December 29th) 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3), Berlin, Germany (PDF file)
  • The What, Why and How of openness in science with Lars J. Jensen (2008, February 25th) EMBL Biocomputing Unit Retreat, Garmisch, Germany (PDF file, entry at nature precedings, , Slideshare)
  • A quick trip through openness, freedom and transparency (2007, September 8th) EMBL PhD retreat, Barcelona, Spain (PDF file and Slideshare [screencast version], video as avi (XviD4), video as mpeg, Video at Google video [bad quality], entry at nature precedings) – The “open formats” topic was not presented at the retreat due to time limitations but is included in the screencast video.
  • Revolutionizing scientific communication and collaboration (2007, April 12th) Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar, Washington, USA (PDF file, entry at nature precedings)
  • Basic concepts of the Semantic Web and applications of it in science (2007, February 11th) EMBL Biocomputing Unit Retreat, Garmisch, Germany
  • Metagenomics – See what’s really out there (2006, October 8) EMBL PhD Retreat, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Information overflow? Stay tuned with a click – Use blogs and RSS for your research (2006, May 23) EMBL Computational Biology Center Seminar, Heidelberg Germany (also part of the First Online EMBL PhD Symposium), download files from here or here
  • Using new web concepts for more efficient research – An introduction for the less-techy crowd (2006, May 16) EMBL Computational Biology Center Seminar, Heidelberg Germany (also part of the First Online EMBL PhD Symposium), download files from here or here
  • Web Server Design Part III: Web 2.0 – The Future of the Web? (2006, May 16th), EMBL Biocomputing Unit Retreat, Garmisch, Germany