Markus Kaindl joined Springer in early 2013 as Data Manager for the Springer Book Archives project, retro-digitizing 110.000 books from the company’s rich past. Prior to this role he had worked as developer and product owner at the Munich Digitization Center of the Bavarian State Library.
At Springer Markus went from big data consolidation to semantic enrichment, covering Named Entity Recognition (NER), automatic document classification and structuring of unstructured bibliographic references via machine learning. Finally, he was project manager for lod.springer.com, Springer’s Linked Open Data (LOD) platform for conference proceedings published in Computer Science.
After the merger with Nature and a successful metadata migration project for Palgrave Macmillan and Metzler Markus was promoted to Senior Manager Semantic Data. Today, he drives Springer Nature SciGraph as business owner. This Linked Open Data offering overcomes former scholarly boundaries by relating comprehensive information of the research landscape, for example funders, research projects, conferences, affiliations and publications. Additionally, he is responsible for organizing the Springer Nature Hack Day series, encouraging developers to make use of the publisher’s internal and external data proposition and connecting the Open Data community as a hub.
Markus holds a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University.
