About me

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Life and work

Places

I live and work in Göttingen and Westerland / Sylt.

Professional focus

Skills

My professional focus is on various topics from the spectrum of digital libraries and museums:

  • Full texts and metadata

    • TEI / Digital editions
    • OCR
    • Search technologies (Solr / ElasticSearch)
    • XML technologies
    • IIIF

  • (Mass-) Digitisation

    • Workflow automatisation

  • Programming

    • Java
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Groovy
    • Go

  • DevOps

    • Git
    • Docker / Kubernetes / Cloud

Talks

(Auswahl)

  • 24.6.2021 - 2021 IIIF Annual Conference - Scaling Down: IIIF at Small Scale, Online
  • 08.6.2011 - 100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag - “IMProving ACcess to Text - Entwicklung eines Interoperabilitätsframeworks in einem Bibliotheksprojekt” (with Mustafa Dogan), Berlin
  • 16.3.2010 - 4. Leipziger Kongress für Information und Bibliothek “OCR Renderfarmen und TEI”, Leipzig
  • 13.10.2008 - Sino-German Symposium on Development of Library and Information 2008 - “Goobi - web based digitisation lifecycle software”, Hannover
  • 04.6.2008 - 97. Deutscher Bibliothekartag - “BibForge - developing Libraries”, Mannheim
  • 25.4.2007 - Putting the TEI to the test (MPDL meeting) - “Fulltext processing at the GDZ”, Berlin

Publications

  • Fieseler C., Mahnke C. (2013): CERL Thesaurus used in an electronic edition of 18th-century university lectures, CERL Newsletter 27, Juni 2013
  • Voigt K., Mahnke C., Dr. Tech M., Dogan M. (2014): Heyne Digital - Exploring the origins of Classical Archaeology through a digital edition, Conference proceedings QQML 2014

Videos

In the last few years I had the opportunity to be an extra in short films:

Evelyns Geschichte

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Here I play myself and accompany a very good friend with a serious illness to the flea market.

Black as Chalk - Snake Handler

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Also in this video I play myself - sitting at the computer looking grimly…

Blogs

A list of my blogs on specific topics can be found on Projektemacher.org. I am also involved in Nebeleule.de.

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Contact

This page is a project by Christian Mahnke.

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