Magnus Pfeffer
 

Research topics

My main interest is computer-assisted or automatic indexing and classification of bibliographic metadata. I am also working on ideas to create crosswalks between different thesauri or classification systems by harvesting cooccurrance information from bibliographic databases.


Lectures

  • FSS 2011: Wissensbasierte Systeme (DHBW Mannheim)
  • HWS 2010: Digital Libraries (Mannheim University)
  • HWS 2009: Digital Libraries (Mannheim University, with Kai Eckert)
  • HWS 2008: Digital Libraries (Mannheim University, with Kai Eckert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt)

Comitees


Presentations and Talks


Selected Publications

Articles:
1.   Christian Hänger, Bettina Kaldenberg and Magnus Pfeffer. Präsentation von E-Books mit Primo. Bibliotheksdienst, Vol. 44, 2010, Iss. 7, 711-715.
2.   Kai Eckert, Magnus Pfeffer and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Assessing Thesaurus-Based Annotations for Semantic Search Applications. International Journal on Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008, pp. 53-67.
3.   Magnus Pfeffer and Christian Hänger. Neue Services für den Leser: Der OPAC der Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim. ABI Technik, 2005, Heft 4, 291-295.
Contributions to Conferences:
4.   Kai Eckert and Magnus Pfeffer. An Application to Support Reclassification of Large Libraries. TPDL 2011, LNCS 6966, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, 461-464, Demo Paper.
5.   Magnus Pfeffer. Automatische Vergabe von RVK-Notationen mittels fallbasiertem Schließen. 97. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Mannheim 2008 - Wissen bewegen. Bibliotheken in der Informationsgesellschaft, Klostermann, Frankfurt, 2009, pp. 245-254.
6.   Kai Eckert, Magnus Pfeffer and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. A Unified Approach for Representing Metametadata. DC2009: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 12th to 16th october 2009, Seoul, Korea, 2009.
7.   Kai Eckert, Magnus Pfeffer and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Semtinel: Interactive Supervision of Automatic Indexing. JCDL '08: Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Digital libraries, June 16-20 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM, New York, 2008, Demo Paper.
8.   Magnus Pfeffer, Kai Eckert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Visual Analysis of Classification Systems and Library Collections. ECDL '08: Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Aarhus, Denmark, Springer, Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 436-439.
9.   Kai Eckert, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Magnus Pfeffer. Interactive Thesaurus Assessment for Automatic Document Annotation. K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture, Whistler, BC, Canada, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007, Best Paper Award.
10.   Dirk Farin, Magnus Pfeffer, Peter H. N. de With and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Corridor Scissors: A semi-automatic segmentation tool employing minimum-cost circular paths. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on, 2, 2004, 1177 - 1180.
Contributions to Workshops:
11.   Kai Eckert, Magnus Pfeffer and Johanna Völker. Towards Interoperable Metadata Provenance. Proceedings of the ISWC workshop on Semantic Web for Provenance Management (SWPM), 2010.