Cooperation Partners of the Department of Information Sciences

The Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB) is the staff association for all employees in libraries and information centres.

The DGI represents the interests of documentalists and all information professionals in their professorial recruitment environment, in public and in relation to information policy and the information industry. Our Department is actively involved in the work of the DGI, e.g. on the DGI Board and the DGI Advisory Board.

Contact person: Prof Dr Angela Schreyer

The German Library Association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband e.V. ) aims to make the impact of libraries in culture and education visible and to strengthen their role in society. Our Department participates in the work of Section 7 of the dbv "Konferenz der informations- und bibliothekswissenschaftlichen Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge" (KIBA).

Contact person: Prof. Dr Günther Neher

The KIBA Information Literacy Specialist Group is an association of university lecturers in information sciences. It serves the exchange of information on important content and development lines in the field of teaching information literacy and offers a forum for cooperation in the training of librarians in this subject area. The KIBA specialist group on information literacy promotes dialogue with representatives of the library profession through cooperation with the joint committee for information literacy of the library associations VDB and DBV.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Antje Michel

The Association of German Archivists (Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V. – VdA) represents the interests of the German archives sector as a professional and specialised association. The promotion of professional exchange and further education in the archives sector is a particular concern of the VdA. To this end, the VdA cooperates with the Archival Studies degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences in various working groups.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

The Brandenburg Working Group for Information is a regional working group of specialist colleagues from libraries, archives and information institutions in the state of Brandenburg organised on a voluntary basis.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Angela Schreyer

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is a partner of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Digital Humanities in Berlin and cooperates with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. One aim is to establish the DH network in Berlin-Brandenburg. Workshops and teaching exchanges are planned in cooperation with the Department of Information Sciences.

The Department of Information Sciences is a member of the long-term archiving competence network and work package 5 (AP5), which develops teaching materials, workshops and seminars on digital long-term archiving. As part of this collaboration, student project groups create e-tutorials on digital long-term archiving, in the spirit of "by students for students".

Contact person: Prof. Dr Karin Schwarz

The Archives Education and Historical Education Working Group in the Association of German Archivists addresses archives education issues, methods and approaches to historical education. The working group cooperates with the Archival Studies degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences. The annual conference of all archive educators took place in 2010 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam on the topic of "Moving Images – Films as Historical Sources".

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

The German Initiative for Network Information works in various working groups on the development of standards and recommendations for the improvement of information and communication structures at regional and national universities and research institutions.
Working group "Virtual Research Environments".

The Standards Committee for Libraries and Documentation (NABD) at the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN e.V.) is responsible for national standardisation for the creation, publication, indexing, preservation, communication and use of documents and data in the information sector, particularly in the archive, library, documentation, museum and publishing sectors. Prof Dr Angela Schreyer is a member of the "Records Management" working group.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Angela Schreyer

In collaboration with the ArbeitsGemeinschaft für Umweltschutz und Stadtgestaltung Potsdam e.V., two interdisciplinary project groups designed the exhibition "MACHT BESSER! Potsdam Citizens' Movements '89" and the DVD of the same name as a medium for school and extracurricular project work. The digital ARGUS archive is being set up with expert advice from the Department of Informationswissenschaften. To the project website

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

The British Academy of Management (BAM) is a scientific society based in the United Kingdom, which has set itself the goal of expanding and shaping the community of academics working and researching in management. To facilitate international scientific exchange, BAM publishes two journals and organises the BAM Conference once a year.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Peter Heisig

The Association of the Society for Knowledge Management (GfWM) promotes further development in the field of knowledge management and is committed to the responsible and professional handling of knowledge.

Contact person: Prof Dr Peter Heisig

The International Association of Knowledge Management (IAKM) is an association of knowledge management researchers with the aim of promoting knowledge management and advancing it as a scientific discipline.

Contact: Prof Dr Peter Heisig (IAKM founding member 2012)

The Global Benchmarking Network (GBN) is a worldwide network of organisations and experts focused on facilitating the exchange of best practices and promoting the use of benchmarking.

Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Heisig (GBN honorary associate)

The Association of German Engineers (VDI) is a network that brings together engineers from all disciplines to facilitate an interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchange of knowledge. Technical Committee 110 focusses on "Knowledge Management in Engineering".

Contact person: Prof. Dr Peter Heisig

GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V. is a non-profit professional association for project management in Germany and the German national representative of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). With over 8,000 members and almost 400 corporate members from all areas of business, universities and public institutions, GPM is the largest network of project management experts on the European continent.

Contact person: Prof Dr Ellen Euler

The Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaften is the scientific association of those working in the fields of information science research, teaching and practice.
The central task of the Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaften is to strengthen information science research and teaching at information science training and research institutions in German-speaking countries.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Julia Maria Struß

Cooperation project between the Archive Advisory Service and the Conservation/Restoration/Encavation Technology degree programme
Contact person: Sabine Stropp

Teaching cooperation with the newly established MA programme Film Cultural Heritage
Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

Department of Continuing Education
Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

Institute for Library and Information Sciences
 

Working Group Reference Curriculum Digital Humanities in the DHd Association (DARIAH-DE)
 

The contact person for the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau is Prof Dr Antje Michel.

The Department of Information Sciences has an Erasmus partnership with the IUT Dijon, through which student and guest lecturer exchanges take place from time to time.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Angela Schreyer

The cooperation with the School of Communication & Media at Hanze University Groningen is primarily with the Department of Information Sciences' Bachelor's degree programme in Library Science. Student groups from the School of Communication & Media and the Department's Bachelor's degree programme in Library Science travel to Groningen and Potsdam every year to learn together in workshops and promote the exchange of student information.

Founded in 2009, the regional economic archive for the Berlin-Brandenburg economic region preserves documents from companies that have shaped the business location in the past and present as historical sources of the economy.
The Department of Information Sciences is involved in cataloguing projects in which students and graduates of the Archival Studies programme are involved.

Contact person:Prof. Dr Karin Schwarz

The non-profit Brandenburg Historical Committee, founded in 1996 under the patronage of the Minister President of the State of Brandenburg, conducts and promotes scientific research into Brandenburg's regional history through relevant projects and other endeavours as well as their publication. The committee's state history network brings together research activities on the history, art history, archaeology and monument preservation of the state of Brandenburg and brings together around 50 active university lecturers, archivists, librarians and museologists.

The Brandenburg State Archive is the central state archive of the state of Brandenburg and cooperates with the Archival Studies degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences in teaching and research as well as in the context of events.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

The German Research Centre for Geosciences is part of the Helmholtz Association and researches the geological, physical, chemical and biological processes of the "Earth system".
The Department of Information Sciences cooperates with the library and its director, Roland Bertelmann, on various projects for students in their sixth and seventh semesters. In the current project, tutorials on working with information and data are being created for doctoral students on the Telegrafenberg.

The German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) is a non-profit foundation under civil law. The Archival Studies degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences cooperates with the Potsdam-Babelsberg location in the context of study projects and events. To the conference website

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

In addition to its permanent exhibition, the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History at Neuer Markt presents changing special exhibitions. In the winter semester 2009/10, a project group from the Archival Studies degree programme at the Department of Information Sciences designed a Services section of the exhibition "SIBYLLE. Fashion Photography and Images of Women in the GDR", which was presented from the 13^th of May to the 22^nd of August 2010. Further co-operation projects are planned.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

Founded in 1896, the committee develops and promotes historical publications in a similar way to the Brandenburg Historical Commission. Together with students on the Archival Studies degree programme, historical source editions (including text sources from the 16th century) have been compiled and published.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

Since the collapse of the archive on the 3^rd of March 2009, there has been close cooperation between the Department and the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne and subsequently a cooperation agreement on the reconstruction and rebuilding of the holdings. Since 2009, the Department of Information Sciences has been actively involved not only at the site of the collapse, but also in the asylum archives, where the recovered archive materials are currently located.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Karin Schwarz

The Hoffbauer Foundation has been building, operating and supporting church educational institutions as well as social facilities and projects in Berlin and Brandenburg since 1901. In the 2009/10 winter semester, a student project group began cataloguing the Hoffbauer Foundation's archive. The collection mainly comprises administrative documents and private documents of the Hoffbauer founding family, plans and photos.
Following the project, the Hoffbauer Foundation entrusted one of the project participants with further archive work.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Karin Schwarz

As the central state archive of the state of Berlin, the Landesarchiv Berlin preserves the written records of Berlin authorities and institutions and makes them accessible to the public. The Archive degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences cooperates with the Berlin State Archives in teaching and research.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

In the elective course "Digital Archives", a project in cooperation with the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin was launched in the winter semester 2010/11. As part of this project, the students are developing a concept for digitally archiving the diverse objects that the Literaturwerkstatt has been collecting for 20 years now: Poetry, poetry films, audio recordings of readings and images from events such as the annual Poetry Festival. The film "Der Conny ihr Ponny", which won an award at this year's Poetry Festival, is an example of the archived objects. The concept is based on the publication "trustworthy archives" produced by nestor and the future DIN standard 31644 and will be continued in the summer semester 2011.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Karin Schwarz

As an institution of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia advises the archives of the member authorities as well as private archives on all archival and technical issues. It also maintains its own archive as well as the Westphalian Literature Archive and looks after the archive depot of the Vereinigte Westfälische Adelsarchive e.V. The Archival Studies degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences cooperates with the Archive Office in teaching and research, in particular interns are supervised here.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

A long-term cooperation agreement is planned between the Museumsverband des Landes Brandenburg e.V. and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam with the aim of integrating Brandenburg museums and museum projects more closely into teaching and research.
Research-based learning in museums and training in the areas of collection cataloguing and exhibition design are among the aims of this cooperation. Specifically, there has been a project cooperation with the Potsdam Museum in the area of database-supported cataloguing of collections since 2009. In future, interdisciplinary cooperation is also planned within the FHP's Interflex programme. University-wide and cross-museum initiatives will be developed here.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

The Centre for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) is an interdisciplinary institute for research into German and European contemporary history based in Potsdam. The ZZF cooperates closely with neighbouring universities in Berlin and Brandenburg. There are contacts with the Archival Studies degree programme of the Department of Information Sciences in the context of study projects and events.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund

Kampffmeyer Mühlen GmbH, part of the holding company VK Mühlen AG, has commissioned the Department of Information Sciences to research, compile and digitise historical documents relating to the development of the company. As part of the project, the students travelled throughout Germany to the relevant state, municipal and business archives, conducted interviews with contemporary witnesses and visited the mill sites that still exist. The project work is carried out in cooperation with the company's marketing department.

Contact: Prof. Dr Karin Schwarz

The company mediamid digital services GmbH works together with the University of Applied Sciences in the field of archiving and administration of media files. It supports the department by making its M@RS 6 system available for teaching purposes and offering comprehensive advice.

Contact person: Prof. Dr Angela Schreyer

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft co-operates with the Department of Information Sciences in the areas of consulting and concept development in the field of digital archiving. Student projects and theses are developed in co-operation with Volkswagen AG. Students also have the opportunity to complete internships at VW.

Contact: Prof. Dr Rolf Däßler