Gerald Hiebel

Gerald Hiebel is a Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Innsbruck. Since 2018, he has led and contributed to multiple projects including Information Integration for Prehistoric Mining Archaeology, Text Mining Medieval Mining Texts, and Virtual Exhibition in All Dimensions. His work is funded by institutions like the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and the European Union.

• Current Projects: Virtual Exhibition in All Dimensions (Project Management), Inventaria (Principal Investigator), Text Mining Medieval Mining Texts (Principal Investigator)
• Research Interests: GIS, Ontological Data Models, Semantic Integration, Archaeological Information Modeling

Recent Publications focus on spatiotemporal extensions of CIDOC-CRM, FAIR data principles for mining archaeology, and semantic modeling of excavation data. He has developed knowledge graphs connecting cultural resources with spatiotemporal places and contributed to standards like CRMgeo and CRMarchaeo.

• Scientific Awards: Marie Curie Fellowship, Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship
• Collaborations: University of Southern California, ICS-FORTH, European Association of Archaeologists