Curriculum Vitae and Publications Oleksandra Bruns

Education

• 2020 - present: PhD student/Junior Researcher, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
• 2016 - 2019: Master of Arts in Computational Linguistics, Bielefeld University, Germany
• 2011 - 2015: Bachelor of Arts in Applied Linguistics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

Master's Thesis

• Oleksandra Vsesviatska: Exploring Crosslingual Word Embeddings for Semantic Classification in Text and Dialogue, 2019.
  Supervisors: Dr. Sina Zarrieß

Experience

• August 2018 - January 2019: Research Assistant with Dr. Anna-Lisa Vollmer, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
• January 2018 – March 2018: Language Engineer Intern, EML European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Teaching Experience

• October 2020 - March 2021: Teaching Assistant, Project Seminar course Information Service Engineering,  KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
• April 2021 - August 2021: Teaching Assistant, Information Service Engineering,  KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

Supervision Experience

• Bachelor Theses:
  Anastasia Prikhodina: Handwritten and Printed Text Separation For Historical Documents, 2021, DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000141960,  [local copy (PDF)].
• Master Theses:
  Ilona-Dewi Kusardi: Quality Assured Information Extraction from Historical Address Books for Knowledge Graph Construction, 2021.

• ISWS2023: International Semantic Web Research Summer School, Assistant Tutor & Social Media and Web Presence
• SemDH2024 First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities, Organizing Committee 

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Computational Semantics
• Information Extraction
• Semantic Web

Citations

Oleksandra Bruns @ Google Scholar
Oleksandra Bruns @ DBLP
Oleksandra Bruns @Scopus

2025

• Tietz, T., Posthumus, E., Söhn, L. C., Steller, J. J., Bruns, O., Waitelonis, J., Schrade, T., & Sack, H. (2025, November 3). Knowledge Representation and Discovery for Cultural Heritage Research Data with CTO and SHMARQL. International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K), co-located with ISWC, Nara, Japan. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17509231 
  Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/17504485
• Tietz, T., Söhn, L. C., Bruns, O., Waitelonis, J., Steller, J. J., Schrade, T., & Sack, H. (2025). From Culture to Core: Integrating Cultural Heritage Data into Cross-Domain Research Infrastructures. Joint Proceedings of Industry, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos of the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025), 4085, 345–350. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17519869
  Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/17461796
• S. R. Ondraszek, T. Tietz, E. Posthumus, S. Schrade, O. Bruns, H. Sack, “Indexing Historical Research Data: MemO and the NFDI4Memory Data Portal,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI 2025), Aachen, DEU, Aug. 2025. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16736125. [bibTeX]
• Söhn, L. C., Tietz, T., Steller, J. J., Kehrein, P., Büttner, A., Bruns, O., Posthumus, E., Grünewälder, J.-P., Hörnschemeyer, J., Sander, C., Grund, V., Fliegl, H., Sack, H., & Schrade, T. (2025). NFDI4Culture Integration Stories: Bridging Gaps between isolated Research Resources. Digital Humanities 2025: Accessibility & Citizenship (DH2025), Lisbon, Portugal. Zenodo. [bibtex] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16570076
  Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/15878213
• Raia Abu Ahmad, Reham Alharbi, Roberto Barile, Martin Böckling, Francisco Bolanos, Sara Bonfitto, Oleksandra Bruns, Irene Celino, Yashrajsinh Chudasama, Martin Critelli, Claudia d'Amato, Giada D'Ippolito, Ioannis Dasoulas, Stefano De Giorgis, Vincenzo De Leo, Chiara Di Bonaventura, Marco Di Panfilo, Daniil Dobriy, John Domingue, Xuemin Duan, Michel Dumontier, Sefika Efeoglu, Ruben Eschauzier, Fakih Ginwa, Nicolas Ferranti, Arianna Graciotti, Philipp Hanisch, George Hannah, Golsa Heidari, Aidan Hogan, Hassan Hussein, Alexane Jouglar, Jan-Christoph Kalo, Manoé Kieffer, Antonis Klironomos, Inês Koch, Weronika Lajewska, Nicolas Lazzari, Mikael Lindekrans, Anna Sofia Lippolis, Majlinda Llugiqi, Eleonora Mancini, Eleonora Marzi, Laura Menotti, Daniela Milon Flores, Soulakshmee Nagowah, Kerstin Neubert, Emetis Niazmand, Ebrahim Norouzi, Beatriz Olarte Martinez, Anouk Michelle Oudshoorn, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti, Disha Purohit, Ensiyeh Raoufi, Celian Ringwald, Johanna Rockstroh, Sebastian Rudolph, Harald Sack, Zafar Saeed, Mohammad Javad Saeedizade, Aya Sahbi, Cristian Santini, Aleksandra Simic, Dennis Sommer, Rita Sousa, Mary Ann Tan, Vidyashree Tarikere, Tabea Tietz, Liam Tirpitz, Arnaldo Tomasino, Frank van Harmelen, Joao Vissoci, Caitlin Woods, Bohui Zhang, Xinyue Zhang, Heng Zheng, Semantic Web and Creative AI - A Technical Report from ISWS 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.18542, 2025. [local copy(pdf)|bibtex]

2024

• O. Bruns, A. Poltronieri, L. Stork, T. Tietz (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH 2024), co-located with ESWC 2024, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol 3724, CEUR-WS.org, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3724, 2024 [bibtex]
• O. Bruns, A. Poltronieri, L. Stork, and T. Tietz, Preface: Proceedings of the First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH 2024) co-located with ESWC 2024 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3724/preface.pdf [bibTeX]
• O. Bruns, T. Tietz, L. Söhn, J. J. Steller, S. R. Ondraszek, E. Posthumus, T. Schrade, H. Sack, What’s Cooking in the NFDI4Culture Kitchen? A KG-based Research Data Integration Workflow, in Proc. of 4th Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2024, 2024 [local copy(PDF),bibTeX]
• O. Bruns, L.Söhn,T. Tietz, J. J. Steller, E. Posthumus, T. Schrade, H. Sack, Gotta Catch’em All: From Data Silos to a Knowledge Graph, Proc. of 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024), Poster & Demos, 2024. [local copy(PDF),bibTeX]
• J. J. Steller, L. C. Söhn, J. Tolksdorf, O. Bruns, T. Tietz, E. Posthumus, H. Fliegl, S. Pittroff, H. Sack, T. Schrad: Communities, Harvesting, and CGIF: Building the Research Data Graph at NFDI4Culture. In Proc. of the DHd 2024, 10. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum. [(BibTeX) | (presentation slides)].

2023

• M. Vafaie, O. Bruns, N. Pilz, J. Waitelonis, H. Sack: CourtDocs Ontology: Towards a Data Model for Representation of Historical Court Proceedings. In Proc. of the 12th Knowledge Capture Conference (K-CAP'23), 2023, pp 175-179, online at https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3587259.3627562 [local copy(PDF)|BibTeX]
• T. Tietz, O. Bruns, H. Sack: "A Data Model for Linked Stage Graph and the Historical Performing Arts Domain", In Proc. of the International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH), co-located with ISWC 2023. CEUR WS Vol-3540 in Athens, Greece. [(BibTeX) | (presentation slides)].
• O. Bruns “The Persistence of Temporality: Tracing Time in Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs”, Proc. Of the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2023, Doctoral Consortium, Springer (to be published)
• O. Bruns, T. Tietz, S. Göller, H. Sack: TRANSRAZ Data Model: Towards a Geosocial Representation of Historical Cities, In Knowledge Graphs: Semantics, Machine Learning, and Languages, IOS Press, pp. 161-176, 2023. CC BY 4.0, DOI: 10.3233/SSW230012, [local copy(PDF),bibTeX]
• T. Tietz, O. Bruns, L. Söhn, J. Tolksdorf, E. Posthumus, J.J. Steller, H. Fliegl, E. Norouzi, J. Waitelonis, T. Schrade, H. Sack: From Floppy Disks to 5-Star LOD: FAIR Research Infrastructure for NFDI4Culture. In Proc. of 3rd Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2023. [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX) | (presentation slides)].
• C. Santini, E. Posthumus, T. Tietz, M. A. Tan, O. Bruns, H. Sack: Multimodal Search on Iconclass using Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models. In Proc. of JCDL 2023, pp. 285-287, online at https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00061. [local copy (PDF)|BibTex].
• T. Tietz, O. Bruns, H. Fliegl, E. Posthumus, T. Schrade, H. Sack: Knowledge Graph-basierte Forschungsdatenintegration in NFDI4Culture. In Proc. of the DHd 2023, Open Humanities Open Culture, 9. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7748740, [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX)].

2022

• C. Santini, M. A. Tan, T. Tietz, O. Bruns, E. Posthumus, H. Sack: Knowledge Extraction for Art History: the Case of Vasari’s The Lives of The Artists (1568). In Proc. of the 3rd Conference on Digital Curation Technologies (QURATOR 2022) [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX)].
• M. Vafaie, O. Bruns, N. Pilz, J. Waitelonis, H. Sack: Handwritten and Printed Text Identification in Historical Archival Documents. In Proc. of Archiving Conference, 2022, pp 15-20, online at https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2022.19.1.4 [local copy(PDF)|BibTeX]

2021

• M. A. Tan, T. Tietz, O. Bruns, J. Oppenlaender, D. Dessì, H. Sack: DDB-EDM to FaBiO: The Case of the German Digital Library. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Semantic Web Conference - Posters and Demos (ISWC2021), CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 2980, CEUR-WS.org, online at: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2980/paper348.pdf, [local copy (PDF), citation (bibtex)].
• M. A. Tan, T. Tietz, O. Bruns, J. Oppenlaender, D. Dessì, H. Sack: DDB-KG: The German Bibliographic Heritage in a Knowledge Graph. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics2021), co-located at JCDL2021, Virtual Event, October 26-28, 2021. CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 2981, CEUR-WS.org, online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2981/paper2.pdf.  [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX)].
• M. Vafaie, O. Bruns, N. Pilz, D. Dessì, H. Sack: Modelling Archival Hierarchies in Practice: Key Aspects and Lessons Learned. In Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Computational History (Histoinformatics2021), co-located with JCDL2021. CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 2981, CEUR-WS.org, online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2981/paper6.pdf, [local copy(PDF) | (BibTeX)]
• O. Bruns, T. Tietz, M. Vafaie, D. Dessì, H. Sack: Towards a Representation of Temporal Data in Archival Records: Use Cases and Requirements. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Archives and Linked Data (LinkedArchives), co-located with the 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021), CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 3019,128-134, CEUR-WS.org, online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3019/. [local copy(PDF) | (BibTeX)]
• O. Bruns, T. Tietz, M. B. Chaabane, M. Portz, F. Xiong, and H. Sack: The Nuremberg Address Knowledge Graph. In Proc. of the 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021), P&D Track, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 12739, pp. 115–119, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80418-3_21, [local copy (PDF), Video, Website | (BibTeX)].
• T. Tietz, O. Bruns, S. Göller, M. Razum, D. Dessì, H. Sack: Knowledge Graph enabled Curation and Exploration of Nuremberg's City Heritage, In Proc. of the Conference on Digital Curation Technologies 2021 (Qurator 2021) online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2836/ [local copy (PDF)]
• O. Vsesviatska, T. Tietz, F. Hoppe, M. Sprau, N. Meyer, D. Dessì, H. Sack: ArDO: An Ontology to Describe the Dynamics of Multimedia Archival Records, In: Proceedings of the 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2021), p. 1855-1863. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3412841.3442057 [local copy (PDF)]

• M. Razum, S. Göller, H. Sack, T. Tietz, O. Vsesviatska, G. Weilandt, M. Grellert, T. Scharm:
  TOPORAZ: Ein digitales Raum-Zeit-Modell für vernetzte Forschung am Beispiel Nürnberg, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Band 71, Heft 4, pp. 185-194. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2020-2094. [local copy (PDF)]

• O. Bruns, A. Graciotti, B. Sartini, and T. Tietz (Eds): Proceedings of the Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH 2025) co-located with ESWC 2025. CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 4009 ,CEUR-WS.org, 2025, online at: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4009/
• O. Bruns, A. Poltronieri, L. Stork, and T. Tietz (Eds): Proceedings of the First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH 2024) co-located with ESWC 2024. CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 3724 ,CEUR-WS.org, 2024, online at: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3724/

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