We offer our support to students of computer science, business informatics, librarianship, information science and related disciplines for projects and final theses covering the following themes:

Web Science

• (Social) Web applications within the context of the library domain
• User and usage research focussing on researchers/students on the (Social) Web
• Innovative formats of scholarly communication
• New paradigms of information provision
• Science 2.0
• User-generated content in libraries and science
• New forms of evaluating science
• Community management on the (Social) Web

• Spatio-temporal Exploration of Social Media on Mobile Devices
• Classification and Clustering of Large-scale Datasets of User Feedback (cooperation with Otto Group)
• Detecting the Type of an Infographic Using Eye Tracking
• Optimizing Caching and Crawling Strategies for Stream-based SchemEX Computation
• Extraction of Statistical Metadata from Scientific Publications
• Inverse Link Traversal on Linked Open Data
• A Core Ontology on Objects and Relations to Events
• An R-toolbox for Non-parametric Analysis of Split-Plot Designs
• Automatic Detection and Separation of Scholarly Figures from PDFs
• Internet of Things via REST API (cooperation with inray Industriesoftware GmbH)
• 2D/3D Visualization of Multidimensional Data on Mobile Devices
• Estimating the Reading Complexity of Documents using Eye-Tracking and Neural Networks
• Novel Text Extraction from Infographics using Neural Networks