People

Dr. Stefan Seifert

Head of the IT Center of the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns
Biodiversity- and Geo-Informatics Scientist, Senior Software Developer, System Engineer

Menzinger Straße 67
80638 München
Germany

Phone: 089 17861-245
Fax: +49 89 17861-193
Email: seifert@snsb.de

Research interests

Biodiversity informatics, geoinformatics, concept development for administration of complex networks and distributed systems, software development

Current and former projects

• Flora Silvae Gabretae – Flora des Böhmerwaldes – Květena Šumavy: Network interoperability and data transformation
• Conceptual design and administration of a combined SUSE Linux/ MS Windows server environment
• Coordination Office for Conservation Issues concerning the Native Flora in Bavaria
• Server virtualisation (KVM, SUSE Linux)
• SNSB server network for processing and storing digital multimedia objects
• SNSB BioCASe Provider Software Services
• SNSB Archiving Services (in cooperation with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum München)
• Programming of APIs for data exchange with the Diversity Workbench (e. g., REST services)
• Botanical Communication Platform for Bavaria – a model for Germany
• Botanischer Informationsknoten Bayern – Data portal "Bayernflora (BFL)"
• GFBio German Federation for Biological Data – Regionalised and Domain-specific Taxon Lists
• NFDI4Biodiversity A Consortium for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI); software design and backend engineering tasks

Committees and commissions

• CETAF Digitalisation Group – Member
• CETAF Information Science & Technology Commission – Member
• NFDI4Biodiversity – Member of the Steering Committee
• NFDI e.V. – Sektion Common Infrastructures, Working Group Long-term Archival (LTA), see Charta/ Concept
• TDWG MIDS Task Group – Member

For publications check DALI.