VIA

Postal Address	Parkstraße 7 69126 Heidelberg Germany
Telephon	+ 49.(0)6221.373266
Fax	+49.(0)6221.374679
E-mail	schmidt@via-iscm.de
Web	http://www.via-iscm.de

Ingrid Schmidt - In January 2000 Ingrid and Carolin founded VIA. By providing consultancy as a main focus, VIA accompanies firms (especially publishing houses) that want their content resources to outlive rapidly outdated media and thus be prepared for the constantly shifting requirements of the media landscape. Within this context VIA emphasises on the design and realisation of forward-looking SGML/XML-based information architectures.

Ingrid worked since 1993 as independant consultant, information architect, and trainer in the field of SGML/XML-based (and related standards) publishing, for both, industry and research. Moreover, she is regularly teaching classes on SGML/XML at the German Linguistic and the Computational Linguistic department of Heidelberg University. From 1993 to 1998 she worked as free-lancer on different projects with the Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems of GMD in Darmstadt. Research focuses were knowledge-based information access for hypermedia reference works and the evaluation of machine-aided, automized semantic encoding possibilities based on an object-oriented database system. From 1991 to 1993 she worked with Texcel as application developer and consultant. From 1988 to 1991 she worked, also in the field of application development and consulting, with Manfred Krüger, later MID/Information Logistics Group in Heidelberg.