Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften

Postal Address	Lennéstr. 30 D-53225 Bonn Germany
Telephon	+49 228 2281 170
Fax	+49 228 2281 120
E-mail	sigel@bonn.iz-soz.de
Web	http://index.bonn.iz-soz.de/~sigel/

Alexander Sigel - Alexander Sigel, an information science researcher, investigates methods and develops tools for improved conceptual knowledge organization and summarization of intellectual assets. He is interested in how to leverage next generation information systems by information agents with indexing heuristics that can adapt their ontology-based subject analysis to the interests of user communities. His working experience includes two national scientific information centers and the GMD National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany. Alex is an active member of several societies in his specialty, most notably the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). He is also co-chair of the German Perl Workshop and develops his information services in Perl. His published talks include academic conferences within information science, knowledge organization and user modeling (see homepage).