Dr Atif Latif

Digital Information Infrastructures

E-mail
T: +49 431 8814-612
Düsternbrooker Weg 120
24105 Kiel

Function

  • Postdoctoral research fellow

Key activities

  • Linked Open Data and Semantic Web Technologies
  • Open Science and Research Data Infrastructures
  • Digital Libraries

Research focus

  • Research and development of solutions for the application of Semantic and Linked Data technologies in Digital Library setting.

Professional background

  • Since 2012
    Research assistant, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
  • 2008-2011
    Research Staff, Knowledge Management Institute, Know-Centre Graz, Austria
  • 2008-2011
    Ph.D., Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • 2006-2007
    Software Engineer, Sofnix PVT (LTD), F-8 Markaz, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2004-2006
    Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Publications

Conference Papers (peer reviewed)

Schimmler, Sonja / Wentzel, Bianca / Bleier, Armin / Dietze, Stefan / Karmakar, Saurav / Mutschke, Peter / Kraft, Angelie / Taffa, Tilahun A. / Usbeck, Ricardo / Boukhers, Zeyd / Auer, Sören / Castro, Leyla Jael / Ackermann, Marcel R. / Neumuth, Thomas /
NFDI4DS Infrastructure and Services
In: INFORMATIK 2023, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2023, pp. 919-929 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Scholarly Artifacts Knowledge Graph: Use cases for Digital Libraries
In: Metadata and Semantic Research. 15th International Conference, MTSR 2021, Virtual Event, November 29 – December 3, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Cham: Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 245-256, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98876-0_22 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Borst, Timo / Tochtermann, Klaus
Collecting and Controlling Distributed Research Information by Linking to External Authority Data - A Case Study
In: Digital Libraries: Supporting Open Science. IRCDL 2019, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Cham: Springer, 2019, pp. 331-339, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11226-4_26 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Scholarly Resources Structuring: Use Cases for Digital Libraries
In: Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2019), Communications in Computer and Information Science, Cham: Springer, 2019, pp. 248-259, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36599-8_22 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Borst, Timo / Tochtermann, Klaus
Compiling Scholarly Profile Pages by Integrating External Authority Data
In: JCDL '18 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Pages, Fort Worth, Texas, USA — June 03 - 07, 2018 New York: ACM, 2018, pp. 411-412, doi:10.1145/3197026.3204473 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Bringing Scientific Blogs to Digital Libraries: An Integration Process Workflow
In: Web Information Systems and Technologies. WEBIST 2017, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Cham: Springer, 2018, pp. 171-178, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93527-0_8 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Linked Publications and Research Data: Use Cases for Digital Libraries
In: Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2018, Porto, Portugal, September 10–13, 2018, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cham: Springer, 2018, pp. 363-367, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_41 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Bringing Scientific Blogs to Digital Libraries
In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, April 25-27, 2017, in Porto, Portugal - Volume 1: WEBIST Setúbal: Scitepress Digital Library, 2017, pp. 284-290, doi:10.5220/0006295702840290 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Nuredini, Kaltrina / Latif, Atif / Peters, Isabella
Case study on open access journals in Economics and Business Studies and their engagement on the Web
In: altmetrics17. The dependencies of altmetrics. The 2017 Altmetrics Workshop, Toronto, 26 September 2017 Kiel und Hamburg: ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, 2017,, doi:10.5281/zenodo.891225 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Scientific Social Publications for Digital Libraries
In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cham: Springer, 2016, pp. 373-378, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_29 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Hajra, Arben / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Retrieving and Ranking Scientific Publications from Linked Open Data Repositories
In: Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business - i-KNOW '14. Graz, Austria. 16-19 September 2014 New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014, pp. 29:1-29:4, doi:10.1145/2637748.2638436 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir / Tochtermann, Klaus / Raza, Muhammad Asif
Automating property binding into informational aspects from Linked Data
In: International Conference on Advanced Technology and Sciences (ICAT´14), August 12-15, 2014, Antalya, Turkey. Proceedings Selcuklu, Turkey: Advanced Technology & Science (ATScience) Academic Publisher, 2014, pp. 895-901 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Finding Resources in Scholarly Communication and Cross-domain Linked Dataset
In: Proceedings of ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) ICIPM2013, 8th International Conference on Information Processing and Management, 1-3th April, 2013, Seoul, Korea New York: ACM, 2013, Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Hoefler, Patrick / Tochtermann, Klaus
Interlinking Scientific Authors with the LOD Cloud. A Case Study
In: Networked Digital Technologies 4th International Conference, NDT 2012, Dubai, UAE, April 24-26, 2012, Proceedings, Part II, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 99-108 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir / Tochtermann, Klaus
Constructing Experts Profiles from Linked Data
In: Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Islamabad, Pakistan, 18-19, Oct. 2010 Islamabad: IEEE Inc. Islamabad Section, 2010, pp. 33-38, doi:10.1109/ICET.2010.5638386 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir / Tochtermann, Klaus / Helic, Denis / Maurer, Hermann
Discovery and Construction of Authors' Profile from Linked Data (A case study for Open Digital Journal)
In: Proceedings of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2010), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 27, 2010, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen: RWTH Aachen University, 2010, Link to fulltext (PDF)

Contributions (peer reviewed)

Mani, Nandita S. / Jones, Emily P. / Carlson, Rebecca / Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus / Hamad, Faten / Urquhart, Christine J. / Lemieux, Victoria / Ames, Sarah / Bain, Jenna / Clark, Justin M.
Exploring Data Science Initiatives Through an International Lens
In: Mani, Nandita S., Cawley, Michelle A. (Eds.): Handbook of Research on Academic Libraries as Partners in Data Science Ecosystems, ISBN 9781799897026, Hershey: IGI Global, 2022, pp. 1-24, doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-9702-6.ch001 Link to fulltext (PDF)

Articles (peer reviewed)

Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Links between research artefacts: use cases for digital libraries
In: International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO) - Cointrin-Geneva: Inderscience, ISSN 1744-263X, Vol. 15 (2021), No. 2, pp. 133-143, doi:10.1504/IJMSO.2021.120285 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Limani, Fidan / Tochtermann, Klaus
On the Complexities of Federating Research Data Infrastructures
In: Data Intelligence - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, ISSN 2641-435X, Vol. 3 (2021), No. 1, pp. 79-87, doi:10.1162/dint_a_00080 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Limani, Fidan / Tochtermann, Klaus
A Generic Research Data Infrastructure for Long Tail Research Data Management
In: Data Science Journal - London: Ubiquity Press, ISSN 1683-1470, Vol. 18 (2019), No. 1 (article no. 17), pp. 1-11, doi:10.5334/dsj-2019-017 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Limani, Fidan / Latif, Atif / Borst, Timo / Tochtermann, Klaus
Metadata Challenges for Long Tail Research Data Infrastructures
In: Bibliothek, Forschung und Praxis - Berlin: De Gruyter, ISSN 1865-7648, Vol. 41 (2019), No. 1, pp. 68-74, doi:10.1515/bfp-2019-2014 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Scherp, Ansgar / Tochtermann, Klaus
LOD for Library Science: Benefits of Applying Linked Open Data in the Digital Library Setting
In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz - Berlin: Springer, ISSN 1610-1987, Vol. 30 (2015), No. 2, pp. 1-9, doi:10.1007/s13218-015-0420-x Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Borst, Timo / Tochtermann, Klaus
Exposing data from an Open Access repository for Economics as Linked Data
In: D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of Digital Library Research - Reston, VA: Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), ISSN 1082-9873, Vol. 20 (2014), No. 9/10,, doi:10.1045/september2014-latif Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir / Tochtermann, Klaus / Raza, Muhammad Asif
Automating Property Binding into Informational Aspects from Linked Data
In: International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Electronics and Computers - Konya: Selcuk University, ISSN 2147-8228, Vol. 2 (2014), No. 4, pp. 31-36, doi:10.18100/ijamec.64584 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Exploring Scientific Publication and Cross Domain Linked Dataset for Similarity - A Case Study
In: International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology - Suwon: AICIT, ISSN 2005-8039, Vol. 5 (2013), No. 11, pp. 179-187 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Tochtermann, Klaus
Webbing Semantified Scholarly Communication Datasets for Improved Resource Discovery
In: Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) - Chennai: Digital Information Research Foundation, ISSN 0972-7272, Vol. 10 (2012), No. 4, pp. 245-253 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir / Saeed, Anwar Us / Tochtermann, Klaus
Disseminating Knowledge through Tags: Recommending Tags for Scientific Resources
In: Journal of IT in Asia - Sarawak: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, ISSN 1823-5042, Vol. 3 (2010), pp. 25-36 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Latif, Atif / Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir / Saeed, Anwar Us / Hoefler, Patrick / Tochtermann, Klaus
Harvesting Pertinent Resources from Linked Open Data
In: Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) - Chennai: Digital Information Research Foundation, ISSN 0972-7272, Vol. 8 (2010), No. 3, pp. 205-212

Working papers, Reports and other Contributions

Latif, Atif / Scholz, Willi / Tochtermann, Klaus
Science 2.0 - Mapping European Perspectives. Report on the General Stance of Organizations on European Commission’s Public Consultation on Science 2.0
Kiel und Hamburg: ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, 2015, Link to fulltext (PDF)

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