Ingrid Schmidt
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Ingrid Schmidt - Ingrid manages VIA informationsarchitekturen. By providing consultancy as a main focus, VIA accompanies firms that want their content resources to outlive rapidly outdated media and thus be prepared for the constantly shifting requirements of the media landscape.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 emphasizes the design and realization of forward-looking XML-based information architectures and semantic nets.
Since 1993 Ingrid has worked as an independent consultant, information architect, and trainer in the field of SGML/XML-based (and related standards) publishing for both industry and research. Moreover, she regularly teaches classes on SGML/XML at the German Linguistic and the Computational Linguistic department of Heidelberg University. In 1999, together with Wiebke Möhr, she edited a book on advanced SGML/XML projects in Germany. From 1993 to 1998 she worked 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, automated semantic encoding possibilities based on an object-oriented database system. From 1991 to 1993 she worked at Texcel as an 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.