Winfried Schmitz-Esser
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Winfried Schmitz-Esser - Prof. Dr. rer.pol., Diplom-Volkswirt. Studied Economics and Political Sciences, Administrational and International Law, Romance Languagees and Literature, in Germany and Austria. Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Library and Information Science. Chairman of the German Committee for Classification and Thesaurus Research. Board member and co-founder of ISKO, the International Society for Knowledge Organization, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council of this Society. Chairman of the former German Information Specialists' Professional Association. Affiliations with other national and international bodies specializing in information, computer science,linguistics and knowledge engineering. Schmitz-Esser is the author of numerous publications in the field of media libraries and information technology in general, on information market policies, profession, training and education, among them the IFRA encyclopedia on "Computers in Mass Media Libraries".