Dr. Rainer Simon
Dr. Rainer Simon is a Senior Scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. He holds a master's in telecommunications engineering and a doctorate in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology. Rainer has been working in the field of multimedia information management and retrieval for more than 15 years, with a particular focus on technologies and user interfaces that process and visualize geospatial information. His current research interest is in the application and development of Linked (Geo) Data methods and visualization techniques in the Digital Humanities and Digital Library domains. Rainer has been involved in many national and international research projects, published a range of papers in his area, and served as a programme committee member and reviewer for relevant scientific workshops and publications in the field.
Until 2019, Rainer served as the Technical Director of Pelagios, an international Digital Humanities initiative which interconnects heterogeneous digital content documenting the past by means of a common semantic reference framework.