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Who am I?

Name: Marc Wilhelm Küster
Born in 1970 in Minden / Westphalia / Germany
1994: Diplom thesis in physics on gas-surface-interactions at the University Osnabrück
1997: Master in philology and history on the French literary journal Divan at the University Osnabrück
1997-2001: Work at the University Tübingen’s Computing Centre in the department of Literary and Documentary Data Processing
2001-2005: Co-founder and co-director of the XML service provider Saphor GmbH
In parallel dissertation on the tradition of alphabetic ordering from cuneiform to computers (Geordnetes Weltbild) at the Faculty of Modern Philology at the University Tübingen
2005-2014: Professor for Web Services and XML Technologies at the Faculty for Computer Science and Telecommunications at the University of Applied Sciences Worms (from 2008 part-time)
2008-2014: On leave for a project in the Publications Office of the European Union (central content and metadata management)
Since 2008 work for the Publications Office of the European Union, since 2011 as head of sector for the Office des Publications of the European Union (central content and metadata management; long-term archive)
2017-2020: Head of Sector "Youth Communities Management and Support" at the Directorate General Responsible for Culture and Eductation (DG EAC), responsible for the European Youth Portal, youth community building, and DiscoverEU
Since 2020: Head of Unit "Central Repository" at the Publications Office of the European Union

Current research interests

Writing and its theory (grammatology)
Semantic Web, especially metadata modelling and handling of large knowledge graphs

You can find me on Mastodon under mwkuster@mastodon.social or if you prefer on Twitter on @mwkuster