University of Trier, Faculty of Informatics

Chair "Databases and Information Systems" (Prof. Dr. Bernd Walter)

The University of Trier, founded in 1473 and closed during the Napoleonic era, was reestablished in1970 as a campus university. The main fields of studies offered are linguistics, cultural studies, law, business and social sciences, mathematics, computer science and earth sciences. With currently about 11,000 students it is still one of the smaller German universities. The University of Trier is situated in the “four country corner“ Germany-France-Luxembourg-Belgium. Its research and teaching is oriented towards European-relevant issues, application-related concepts of study and multidisciplinary topics.

The chair "Databases & Information Systems" (DBIS) is part of the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Trier. The most important fields of research are: Database Systems, Information Retrieval, and Digital Libraries. One of its main activities is the operation and further development of "DBLP", the Digital Bibliography & Library Project. This project, which has been awarded several prizes, at present comprises more than 500,000 bibliographical records from all important subject areas related to computer science, focusing on database systems. At the same time, DBLP serves as a test environment for new technologies, e.g., for browsing and visualizing complex data.