Stephan Druskat

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This is me.

⊕Dept. of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Email: cf. http://hu.berlin/sdruskat
Office: Dorotheenstr. 24, room 3.311
Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-9726
Postal address: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany

I am a Research Software Engineer, working in Linguistics and Digital Humanities. My ORCiD is 0000-0003-4925-7248.

I currently work as a researcher in the linguistic research project MelaTAMP in the Department of German Studies and Linguistics, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I create software that enables contrastive research on the TAMP (tense, aspect, modality, polarity) systems of seven Oceanic languages.

In the past, I have worked as a researcher in the linguistic research project LinkType (corpus-based typology of clause linkage), where I have developed the architectural prototype of a highly extensible annotation tool for multi-layer linguistic corpora.

As a consultant, I also develop software for research projects such as TraCES (late-antiquity to medieval Ethiopic) and GiesKaNe (basic syntactic structures of New High German).

My primary research interest is the technical sustainability of research software, its measurement and documentation. Further academic interest includes research data management, especially the long-term availability and reusability of linguistic research data.

I am a member of the association of Research Software Engineers in Germany, deRSE and part of the WSSSPE community.

I live in Berlin, Germany, with my wife and three children.

Projects

• research-software.org: A collection of publications in the context of my PhD project on research software sustainability.
• ToolboxTextModules: Pepper modules for the linguistic Toolbox text format.
• GeTaModules: Pepper modules for the JSON format exported from the GeTa annotation tool for Ethiopic.
• (Hex)Atomic: An extensible platform for linguistic multi-layer corpus annotation.
• Pepper Grinder: A cross-platform GUI for Pepper-based workflows and conversion.
• Citation File Format (CFF): A machine- and human-readable, YAML-based format for the provision of citation information for (research) software.
• Tufte CSS Jekyll: A Jekyll theme based on Tufte CSS, which in turn is built around Edward Tufte’s ideas for typesetting maximally readable documents.

Publications

1. [1] S. Druskat, R. Bast, N. Chue Hong, A. Konovalov, A. Rowley, and R. Silva, “A standard format for CITATION files,” Software and research: The Software Sustainability Institute’s Blog. Dec-2017 [Online]. Available at: https://www.software.ac.uk/index.php/blog/2017-12-12-standard-format-citation-files.
2. [2] S. Druskat, “Citation File Format (CFF),” Dec. 2017 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1003149.
3. [3] S. Druskat, “Track 2 Lightning Talk: Should CITATION files be standardized?,” in Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1), 2017 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3827058.
4. [4] N. Chue Hong, S. Druskat, R. Haines, C. Jay, D. S. Katz, and S. Sufi, Eds., Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1). University of Manchester, Manchester, UK: figshare, 2017 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3869782.
5. [5] S. Druskat, “Research Software Engineers: The people behind research software,” Talk given at OpenTechSummit 2017, Potsdam, Germany, 25 May 2017, May-2017.
6. [6] S. Druskat, “Kriterienbasierte Evaluation und Dokumentation technischer Nachhaltigkeit von Forschungssoftware in einem Metadatenrepositorium.” Poster presented at 4th Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, Bern, February 2017, Feb-2017 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293813.
7. [7] S. Druskat, “Entwurf eines Metadatenrepositoriums zur Erfassung technischer Nachhaltigkeit von Forschungssoftware.” Zenodo, Nov-2016 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.168383.
8. [8] S. Druskat, “A proposal for the measurement and documentation of research software sustainability in interactive metadata repositories,” in Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2016 [Online]. Available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1686/.
9. [9] S. Druskat, T. Krause, and C. Odebrecht, “Utilising ANNIS for search and analysis of historical data.” Workshop "Reuse or New Development: Sustainability of resources and tools for multi-facetted historical data and languages" in conjuction with Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften (FORGE 2016), Sep-2016.
10. [10] S. Druskat, V. Gast, T. Krause, and F. Zipser, “corpus-tools.org: An Interoperable Generic Software Tool Set for Multi-layer Linguistic Corpora,” in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Paris, France, 2016, pp. 4492–4499 [Online]. Available at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/index.html.
11. [11] V. Gast, L. Bierkandt, S. Druskat, and C. Rzymski, “Enriching TimeBank: Towards a more precise annotation of temporal relations in a text,” in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Paris, France, 2016, pp. 3844–3850 [Online]. Available at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/index.html.
12. [12] S. Druskat, T. Krause, C. Odebrecht, and F. Zipser, “A workflow for creating, analysing, and storing multi-layer corpora: Pepper, Atomic, ANNIS and LAUDATIO.” Poster presented at DGfS-CL Poster Session 2016, Konstanz, February 2016, Feb-2016 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.47345.
13. [13] S. Druskat, T. Krause, and C. Odebrecht, “Agile Creation Of Multi-Layer Corpora With corpus-tools.org.” Zenodo, 2016 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.157166.
14. [14] F. Zipser, A. Röhrig, A. Lüdeling, M. Klotz, T. Krause, S. Druskat, and V. Voigt, “SaltNPepper, ANNIS & Atomic: Eine Infrastruktur für Mehrebenenkorpora.” Zenodo, May-2015 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20714.
15. [15] S. Druskat and V. Gast, “Atomic: An annotation platform to meet the demands of current and future research.” Zenodo, Mar-2015 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18249.
16. [16] S. Druskat, L. Bierkandt, V. Gast, C. Rzymski, and F. Zipser, “Atomic: an open-source software platform for multi-level corpus annotation,” in Proceedings of the 12th Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2014), Hildesheim, 2014, vol. 1, pp. 228–234 [Online]. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:hil2-opus-2866.
17. [17] S. Albrecht and S. Druskat, “Ethology Investigates: Cooperation - An Online Conference,” Ethology, vol. 118, no. 7, pp. 607–609, Jun. 2012 [Online]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02052.x.
18. [18] S. Druskat, “The distribution of also and too. Elicitation experiments in English linguistics,” mathesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2010 [Online]. Available at: http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000010134.

Activities

Chairs

• Co-Chair, Workshop “Research Software Engineering und Digital Humanities. Reflexion, Kartierung, Organisation.” Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum Konferenz 2018, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 27 February 2018. (Website, Abstract in Conference book of abstracts)
• Program Chair and Co-organizer, “Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)”, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 6 September 2017. (Website, Proceedings)

Others

• Co-Convenor, Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum Working Group “Research Software Engineering in den Digital Humanities (DH-RSE)”. (Website)

Grants

I have received a non-competitive travel award for WSSSPE4 (2016, Manchester, UK; US$ 1,000). I have also won competitive travel stipends for DHd 2017 (2017, Bern, Switzerland; CHF 700) and DHd 2018 (2018, Cologne, Germany; EUR 400).

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