Position: Full-time researcher at STI Innsbruck
Skype: tobitrautich
Homepage: http://www.tobiasbuerger.com
Email: tobias.buerger [at] sti2.at
Short CV
Tobias Bürger is currently employed as a researcher at the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck. From 11/1998 – 04/2004 Tobias Bürger studied computer science at the University of Passau / Germany. He graduated in april 2004 with a thesis which was about visual and structural authoring of XML documents, where he introduced a presentation layer for an XML based E-Learning language on top of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).
Before joining STI as a full time member he has been working for 3,5 years as a research assistant and project manager at Salzburg Research in the field of digital media and part of the mobile and web based information systems group
contributing to and leading projects on a European and national level
in the area of multimedia semantics, multimedia analysis, Semantic Web
technologies and information retrieval. In early 2006 he started his PhD thesis at the University of Innsbruck which is placed somewhere in between the fields of Semantic Web - and multimedia technology research and which is supervised by Dieter Fensel (STI Innsbruck) and Siegfried Reich (Salzburg Research).
Since the beginning of 2006 he had a part-time-position at the Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck) (fromerly known as DERI), which he now joined full time.
(Last update on the CV: 25.06.2008)
Research interests: Intelligent Content, Multimedia Analysis, Multimedia Semantics, Interlinking Multimedia, Semantic Web, Cost and Benefit Estimation for Ontologies, User Generated Semantic Content
Projects
* ACTIVE (ACTIVE Knowledge Powered Enterprise, IST FP7 Call 1)
* SALERO (Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects, IST FP6 Call 4)
* INSEMTIVES (INcenTIVES for SEMantics, IST FP7 Call 3)
* finished: GRISINO (GRId Semantics and INtelligent Objects, FIT-IT) [Project Lead], LIVE (LIVE staging of media events, IST FP6 Call 4), QVIZ (Query and context based visualization of time-spatial cultural dynamics, IST FP6 Call 4), HERITAGE ALIVE!, SLTOOLS (Smart Learning Tools) [Project Lead] , SCF (Smart Content Factory),DCESTUDY (Digital Content Engineering Study), ETEL (Emerging Technologies for E-Learning), ECSEARCH (ECulture Search Engine)
Other professional activities
* W3C Media Annotations Working Group
* W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group (MMSEM) [closed]
* RICO (Reusable Intelligent Content Objects)
* MOBEFIT (Multimedia Ontology BEneFIT)
* ONTOCOM (ONTOlogy COst Model)
PhD
Where: University of Innsbruck, STI
Supervisors: Dieter Fensel, Elena Simperl (STI), Siegfried Reich (SRFG)
My poster at the 2nd Summer School for Multimedia Semantics was awarded (being amongst the Top-4). Read the abstract here or have a look at the poster here. [Photo 1, Photo 2]
PhD status: Finished. I successfully defended my thesis on the 12th of June 2009.
Qualifications
"Dr. rer. nat" (PhD in computer science) graduated in June 2009 (passed with distinction), University of Innsbruck, Austria
"Diplom Informatik" (diploma in computer science) graduated in April 2004, University of Passau, Germany
Memberships
OCG Arbeitkreis "Interoperable Metadaten"
Upcoming Talks
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Publications
2009
Wolfgang Weiss, Tobias Bürger, Robert Villa, Punitha Swamy, and Wolfgang Halb "SALERO Intelligent Media Annotation & Search" accepted at the International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics) 2009, 2.9.-4.9.2009 (forthcoming)
Ali Imtiaz, Tobias Bürger, Igor Popov, and Elena Simperl "Framework for Value Prediction of Knowledge-based Applications" In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Economics of Knowledge-Based Technologies (ECONOM 2009), co-located with the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), April 29, 200
Michael Hausenblas, Raphael Troncy, Tobias Bürger, and Yves Raimond "Interlinking Multimedia: How to Apply Linked Data Principles to Multimedia Fragments" In: Proceedings of Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009), co-located with the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain, 2009
Elena Simperl, Igor Popov, and Tobias Bürger "ONTOCOM Revisited: Towards Accurate Cost Predictions for Ontology Development Projects" In: Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), May 31 - June 04 2009
Tobias Bürger and Michael Hausenblas "Metadata and ontologies for multimedia". In: Miguel-Angel Sicilia (ed.): Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009. (forthcoming)
Elena Simperl, Christoph Tempich, and Tobias Bürger "Methodologies for the creation of semantic data" In: Miguel-Angel Sicilia (ed.) Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009. (forthcoming)
Tobias Bürger, Ioan Toma, Omair Shafiq, Daniel Dögl, and Andreas Gruber "GRISINO - a Semantic Web services, Grid Computing and Intelligent Objects integrated infrastructure" In: Sebastian Schaffert, Sören Auer, Klaus Tochtermann, and Tassilo Pelligrini (eds) : Networked Knowledge - Networked Media: Integrating Knowledge Management, New Media Technologies and Semantic Systems, Springer, 2009. (forthcoming)
2008
Tobias Bürger, Philip Hofmair, and Gert Kienast "The SALERO Virtual Character Ontology" In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Semantic 3D Media, co-located with SAMT 2008, Dec, 3.-5., 2008 (Paper)
Tobias Bürger "Towards Increased Reuse - Exploiting Social and Content Related Features of Multimedia Content on the Semantic Web" In: Proceedings of the First
International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content on the
Social Semantic Web, co-located with SAMT 2008, Dec, 3.-5., 2008 (Presentation) (Paper)
Tobias Bürger and Michael Hausenblas "Interlinking Multimedia - Principles and Requirements" In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content on the Social Semantic Web, co-located with SAMT 2008, Dec, 3.-5., 2008 (Presentation) (Paper)
Tobias Bürger and Elena Simperl "Measuring the Benefits of Ontologies" accepted at Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise (OntoContent '08), Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008, In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'08)
Tobias Bürger, Ioan Toma, Omair Shafiq, Daniel Dögl, Andreas Gruber "GRISINO – a Semantic Web services, Grid computing and Intelligent Objects integrated infrastructure" In: Proceedings of the third International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics), 3-5 September 2008, messecongress I graz, Austria
Tobias Bürger "A Benefit Estimation Model for Ontologies" In: Poster Proceedings of the ESWC'08, 2008. (Link)
Tobias Bürger and Christian Ammendola "A User Centered Annotation Methodology for Multimedia Content" In: Poster Proceedings of the ESWC'08, 2008. (Link)
Schaffert, Sandra; Bürger, Tobias; Hilzensauer, Wolf & Schaffert, Sebastian (2008). Underlying Concepts and Theories of Learning with the Semantic Web. In: Marco Kalz, Rob Koper, Veronika Hornung-Prähauser & Michaela Luckmann (Ed.): TSSOL 2008, Technology Support for Self-Organized Learners, Proceedings, EduMedia Conference 2008, Salzburg, Austria, May 26. (Link)
Tobias Bürger, Georg Günther, Rupert Westenthaler, and Dietmar Glachs "Bringing "Intelligence" to iTV: The Intelligent Media Framework" In: Proceedings of EuroITV 2008 (to appear)
Ioan Toma, Tobias Bürger, Omair Shafiq, and Daniel Dögl "GRISINO - An integrated infrastructure for Semantic Web services, Grid computing and Intelligent Objects" In: Proceedings of ESWC'08, 2008
Tobias Bürger "The Need for
Formalizing Media Semantics in the Games and Entertainment Industry" In: Journal for Universal Computer Science (JUCS), Vol. 14, Nr. 9, 2008. pp. 1763-1774 (Link)
2007
Tobias Bürger, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Christian Eckes, Stavros J. Perantonis, John Pereira, and Vassilis Tzouvaras (eds.) "Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content". Proceedings of the KAMC Workshop co-located with SAMT 2007, 2007. (Link)
Michael Hausenblas, Werner Bailer, Tobias Bürger, and Raphael Troncy "Deploying Multimedia Metadata on the Semantic Web" In: Proceedings of SAMT 2007, 2007.
Tobias Bürger, Rupert Westenthaler, Christian Eckes, Felix Zielke, Janez Zetelij, and Richard Wages "LIVE: Semantic-based Multi-Stream Broadcasting of Media Events " In: Proceedings of SAMT 2007, 2007.
Tobias Bürger and Michael Hausenblas "Why Real-World Multimedia Assets Fail to Enter the Semantic Web" In: Proceedings of SAAKM 2007, 2007
Janez Zaletelj, Richard Wages, Tobias Bürger, and Stefan M. Grünvogel "Content Recommendation System in the Production of Multi-Channel TV Programs", In: Proceedings of Axmedis 2007, 2007.
Stefan M. Grünvogel, Richard Wages, Tobias Bürger, and Janez Zaletelj "A Novel System for Interactive Live TV", In: Entertainment Computing - Proceedings of the ICEC 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 4740, 2007.
Tobias Bürger "Realizing Multimedia Processes by Combining Intelligent Content and Semantic Web Services" In: Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference 2007, September 24-29, 2007, Augsburg, Germany.
Tobias Bürger "The Need for Formalizing Media Semantics in the Games and Entertainment Industry" In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on New Media Technology (iMedia). 2007
Tobias Bürger "Putting Intelligence into Documents" In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management held in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), June 3-7, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. (Link) (Presentation)
Tobias Bürger and Georg Güntner "Towards a Semantic Turn in Rich Media Analysis" In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub), June 13-15, 2007, Vienna, Austria. (Link)
2006
Werner Haas, Georg Thallinger, P. Cano, Charlie Cullen, and Tobias Bürger "SALERO: Semantic Audiovisual Entertainment Reusable Objects", In: Proceedings of the first international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT), December 6-8, 2006, Athens, Greece. (Link) (Poster)
Tobias Bürger, Ioan Toma, Omair Shafiq and Daniel Dögl: "Approaching the Integration of Knowledge Content Objects, Semantic Web Services and Grid Computing" In: Proceedings of the Semantics 2006 conference, November 28-30, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
Tobias Bürger and Andreas Gruber: "SLTOOLS - Semantically Enhanced Learning Tools" In: Proceedings of the Semantics 2006 conference, November 28-30, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
Wernher Behrendt, Nitin Arora, Tobias Bürger, and Rupert Westenthaler: "A Management System for Distributed Knowledge and Content Objects" accepted for the 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, December 12-15, 2006, Leeds, UK.
Ioan Toma, Tobias Bürger, Omair Shafiq and Daniel Dögl: "Towards a Grid infrastructure for Services and Intelligent Content Objects" accepted for the first conference of the Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE-II) project, to be held at the International Conference Centre, September 25-29 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Ioan Toma, Tobias Bürger, Omair Shafiq, Daniel Doegl, Wernher Behrendt, Dieter Fensel: "GRISINO: Combining Semantic Web Services, Intelligent Content Objects and Grid Computing" accepted for the 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Dec 4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Tobias Bürger and Rupert Westenthaler: "Mind the gap - requirements for the combination of content and knowledge" accepted for The first international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT), December 6-8, 2006, Athens, Greece.
Tobias Bürger, Georg Güntner, Erich Gams: "The Role of MPEG-7 in Semantic Annotation and the Cross- Media Publishing Process" accepted for the 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, December 12-15, 2006, Leeds, UK.
Tobias Bürger: "The role of Intelligent Content Objects in Service Oriented Architectures" In: Proceedings of the KnowledgeWeb PhD Symposium 2006 (KWEPSY2006), June 17, 2006, Budva, Montenegro.
Tobias Bürger: "An Intelligent Media Framework for Multimedia Content" In: Proccedings of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM), May 22, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sebastian Schaffert, Diana Bischof, Tobias Bürger, Andreas Gruber, Wolf Hilzensauer, and Sandra Schaffert: Learning with Semantic Wikis. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop "SemWiki2006 - From Wiki to Semantics", co-located with the 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Budva, Montenegro, 11th - 14th June, 2006
2005
Guntram Geser, Tobias Bürger, Mark Markus: "Digital Content Engineering: F&E- und Marktoptionen" (in german) DCE-Studie i.A. des Salzburg NewMediaLab (SNML), Salzburg, Märch 2005 (Link) (Explore visually!)
Tobias Bürger, Georg Güntner: "SMART CONTENT FACTORY – SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE BASED INDEXING OF AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES" in Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge (EWIMT '05),Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, 2005. (Link)
Tobias Bürger, Erich Gams, Georg Güntner: "Smart Content Factory - Assisting Search for Digital Objects by Generic Linking Concepts to Multimedia Content", in Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT '05), 2005. (Link)
Georg Güntner, Tobias Bürger, Erich Gams: "Smart Content - Scenarios and Technologies for a Knowledge-based Audiovisual Archive" in Proceedings of EChallenges 2005, 2005.
2003
Tobias Bürger "Visuelles und Strukturelles Authoring von XML-Dokumenten auf Basis des Passauer Teachware Modells" (In german; Engl. title: Visual and Structural Authoring of XML documents based on the Passauer teachware model). Diploma thesis, university of Passau, 2003. (Project page) (Abstract) (Presentation)
Technical Reports and Articles
2009
Wonsuk Lee, Tobias Bürger, and Felix Sasaki (eds.) "Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0" W3C Media Annotation Working Group, W3C Working Draft 19 January 2009, 2009. (Link)
2007
M. Hausenblas, R. Troncy, C. Halaschek-Wiener, Tobias Bürger, O. Celma. Multimedia Semantics on the Web: Vocabularies. W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group, Editor's Draft. 2007. (Link)
Zeljko Obrenovic (ed.), Tobias Bürger, Pasquale Popolizio, Raphaël Troncy. Multimedia Semantics: Overview of Relevant Tools and Resources. W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group, Editor's Draft. 2007. Link
2006
Tobias Bürger and Rupert
Westenthaler: "Why the combination of content and knowledge matters",
Salzburg Research Technical Report, 2006. (Link)
Public Deliverables
2009
Tobias Bürger. Gert Kienast, Wolfgang Weiss, Robert Villa, Punitha Swamy, David Hannah "Embedding of Semantic Metadata in Content Formats" (SALERO Deliverable D3.1.6), Jan. 2009 (Link)
2008
Tobias Bürger, Christian Ammendola, and Elena Simperl "Evaluation of the Economic of Multimedia Ontologies" (SALERO Deliverable D3.1.4), Feb. 2008 (Link)
2007
Georg Güntner, Tobias Bürger, Rupert Westenthaler, Dietmar Glachs "D7.4 Basic Specification of the Intelligent Media Framework (Public Synopsis)" (LIVE Deliverable D7.4), Aug. 2007 (Link)
Tobias Bürger, Ioan Toma, Omair Shafiq, Daniel Dögl, Roman Urro, Violeta Damjanovic "Requirements and Design of a Common Infrastructure for GRID, SWS and Intelligent Objects" (GRISINO Deliverable D1.2), March 2007 (Link)
2006
Georg Güntner (ed.), Wernher Behrendt, Tobias Bürger, Alberto Cruz, Christian Eckes, Gerhard Stanz, Rupert Westenthaler, Janez Zaletej, Felix Zielke "State of the Art Report Intelligent Media Framework" (LIVE Deliverable D7.1), Nov. 2006 (Link)
Tobias Bürger, Ioan Toma, Omair Shafiq, Daniel Doegl "State of the Art in SWS, GRID and Intelligent Content Objects - Can they meet?" (GRISINO Deliverable D1.1), Sep. 2006 (Link)
Gert Kienast, Herwig Zeiner, Phillip Hofmair, Rudolf Schlatte, Georg Thallinger, Tobias Bürger, Dimitrij Denissenko, Alexander Wahler "Representation Techniques for Multimedia Objects" (SALERO Deliverable D3.1.1), June 2006. (Link)
Invited Presentations
2008
Tobias Bürger "Ontology Economics", held at UPM, Madrid, 15.09.2008 (Link)
Tobias Bürger "Multimedia Semantics - Why should we care?", held in the seminar 'Advanced topics on semantics', Innsbruck, 28.04.2008 (Link)
2007
Tobias Bürger, Georg Günthner, and Felix Zielke "Live Staging of Media Events - The Metadata View", presented at CHORUS workshop on "Annotations and Metadata Models for Audiovisual and Multimedia Content", Munich, 21-22 November, 2007. (Link)
2005
Tobias Bürger, Wernher Behrendt, and Rupert Westenthaler "KCO in three minutes", held at the Multimedia Ontology Meeting, co-located with EWIMT2005 (Link)
Community
Organized tutorials, workshops and conferences
Co-Organizer of "Web of Data in the Context of Multimedia", Tutorial, co-located with the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009), Graz, Austria, Dec 2-4, 2009.
Co-Organizer of ECONOM2009 - Workshop on the Economics of Knowledge-based Technologies, co-located with the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009), Poznan, Poland, April 27, 28 or 29, 2009 (Homepage) (CfP)
Co-organizer of WODPD 2008 - Web of Data Practitioners Days, Vienna, Austria - Oct 22-23, 2008 (Homepage)
Co-Organizer of KAMC 2007 - Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content, co-Located with the International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT2007), Genova, Italy, 05 December 2007 (Homepage) (Proceedings)
Programme committees and Reviews
PC member of The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications (DSMSA 2009)
PC member of IADIS WWW/Internet 2009
Reviewer for the International Conference on Signal & Image Processing (ICSIP) 2009
Reviewer for Wirtschaftsinformatik journal, special issue on Semantic Business Process Management.
Reviewer for Data Management on the Semantic Web book, Nova Publishers, 2009.
PC member for MASHL2009 (Mashups for Learning; Special Track at the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL) 2009) (CfP)
PC member for DBIS2009 (3rd International Workshop on Ontologies in Distributed and Interactive Systems) (CfP)
Programme committee member for SAMT2009 (4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies)
Programme committee member for MTSR09 (3rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research)
Programme committee member for WEBIST 2009 (5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies)
Programme committee member for I-Semantics 2009
Programme committee member for SAMT Poster and Demos 2008 (3rd International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies)
Reviewer for ASWC 2008
Programme committee member First International Workshop on Ontologies in Interactive Systems (ONTORACT'08) (CfP)
Programme committee member for i-Semantics 2008
Reviewer for Journal on Special issues "Enterprise Content Management", 2007
Programme committee member and reviewer for i-Semantics 2007
Reviewer for ESWC 2007
Reviewer for WEBIST2007 (3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies) Reviewer for Semantics 2006 (Semantics 2006 - From Visions to Applications)
Reviewer for WTAS2006 (The IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services)
Reviewer for AH2006 (The 2006 International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems)
Reviewer for AINA2006 (The IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications)
Conferences
attended ACM-MM2007, SBPM2007, ESWC2007, SAMT2006, Semantics2006, FIB2006, KWEPSY2006, WWW2006/SWAMM2006, EWIMT2005, Semantics2005, EporfolioWS2005, MIR2005, FIB2005, HT05, DCE Symposium 2004
Summer Schools
attended SSMS 2007 (2nd Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Glasgow, Scotland)
attended SSMS 2006 (1st Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Chalkidiki, Greece)
attended SSSW05 (3rd Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web, Cercedilla, Spain)
Private affinity
Fendt [short info (german)] cortina reviews [myspace] [mp3]
Live dates: None confirmed at the moment
DJ Dates: None confirmed at the moment
[Flyer]
Quote
"The owls are not what they seem." (David Lynch)