I am a professional software engineer with a good academic record and considerable experience in a variety of application areas. For the past 15 years I have been working on all stages of the development life-cycle in research related projects, computer industry projects, cultural heritage software development projects and eCommerce.

Currently I am employed at Fraunhofer as a senior solution architect. I went to Fraunhofer to work as chief engineer on the German Digital Library project. Surprisingly, this 8 mio. € project was finished in time, and was received as a pretty well run engineering project.

This colorful shot was taken inside the Kanzleramt in Berlin when my collegues, Sven Becker, Marion Borowski, and myself, presented the Cortex system which underlies the German Digital Library, to our customer, the German Federal Government.

However, as this project is over it is now up to the politicans to decide how to go on.

Contact:

kai(at)stalmann(dot)org

Kai Stalmann, Daenenstrasse 6, 10439 Berlin, Germany.

Recent publications

My recent publications refer to digital libraries and what makes it interesting to build one.

• Kai Stalmann, Projekt “Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek”: Rationale zur IAIS CORTEX Konzeption, den Datenmodellen und Mappings
• Kai Stalmann, Marion Borowski and Sven Becker: Preparing the Ground for the German Digital Library, in: ERCIM News, Special Theme: ICT for Cultural Heritage, Number 86, July 2011, publ. by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, www.ercim.eu. Page 40-41.
• Kai Stalmann, Reinhard Budde, Robert Mertens, et. al.: Kultur im Wissensnetz - Die Architektur der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek, in: GI Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, Mitteilungen der GI-Fachgruppe “Entwicklungsmethoden für Informationssysteme und deren Anwendung”, Jg. 31, Heft 2, Juni 2011
• Sven Becker, Marion Borowski, Melanie Gnasa, Kai Stalmann, Stefan Wrobel: eHumanities: Intelligent Analysis and Information System for Humanities and Culture. GI Jahrestagung (2) 2010: 552-556.
• Kai Stalmann: Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek aus technischer Sicht (The German Digital Library from a technical perspective, talk). 11. Oracle Bibliotheken Summit, 27-28 October 2010, Weimar, Germany.
• Kai Stalmann: BHL-Europe - Improving interoperability of and access to European biodiversity digital libraries (talk). 2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on the digitization of library material in Europe The Hague, Netherlands, 19-21 October 2009.

Past projects

• Reading Stream Analytics project with Meetrics GmbH. Designed and build a versioned repository and a harvester in Java and Groovy for real time analytics and reports of user behaviour for news web sites (january through april 2010).
• Project on biodiversity literature conducted by institutions in the EU and the US (BHL), workpackage leader from August-December 2009.
• ECM (DMS, BPM) project and product development. SOA, OSGI, Spring, scrum introduction, foundation of and contribution to an OS project as Head of Development at ISR Information Products AG, 2008/2009 Münster.
• ISMI project, database consulting for a research project on islamic manuscripts at Mc Gill University 2007, Berlin and Montreal.
• Research project (corpus analysis tool): semantic clustering, indexing, document classification at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2007, Berlin.
• Software project ‘Open Mind’: Data repository for scientific research projects that allows for changing the data model during runtime, at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2007, Berlin.
• Consulting for an internet and intranet relaunch of Pforzheim College 2006, Pforzheim.
• J2EE banking project, Development Bank of Saxony 2006, Dresden (lead architect).
• Thesis in Computational Lingustics (development of a system for automatic extraction of semantic structures from website keyword lists with the help of statistical and morphological techniques), finished in 2005 at CIS, LMU Muenchen.
• Presentation on eShop systems at an event given by Technologiestiftung Berlin (eComm/IHK), Sept. 23, 2004.
• Presentation on an algorithm for approximative searches (Levensthein-Algorithmus) with Aperto AG Berlin, April 2004.
• Presentation on how to integrate with the eBay XML API, 2003 eBay developer days.
• Java implementation of an algorithm written by Daciuk, Mihov, Watson for constructing minimal finite state automats.
• Natural language processing, chart parser implemention in Java (download chart parser).
• Article in Java-Magazin 08/2004: eBay ueber JCA.
• Thesaurus and media database development, 2002-2004 Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum fuer Kulturtechnik.
• CMS consulting and software development (i.e. for eBay, DHL, Aperto AG, Data Becker), 2002-2006 Berlin.
• Content and didactic conception of a multidisciplinary lecture of Prof. Carsten Becker for a summer course on various themes in business, 2002 Fachhochschule Potsdam.
• Conception of a method for the performance of usability studies, editor of the first reference study: a target-group oriented report on the usability of the websites of political parties during election campaigns, 2002 Berlin.
• CMS and eCommerce system development, 2001, at Intershop, Berlin.
• RND, technical research and software development, 2000, at POET Software, Hamburg as senior engineer.
• IT and multimedia trainings, 1998 Trainer and Head of centre Frankfurt/Main.
• BPM project, 1997 a:prico AG, Hamburg.
• DMS software project, 1996 Exspect GmbH, Hamburg.
• ERP project, 1995 publishing house and shop art&book, Hamburg.
• PhD thesis, published 1998 at Boehlau Verlag.
• Teaching appointments in Media Science (1995 Bremen University).