Vivien Petras schloss 2001 ihr Studium der Bibliothekswissenschaft, BWL und Kunstgeschichte (M.A.) an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin ab und promovierte an der University of California at Berkeley 2006 in Information Management and Systems.

Seit Dezember 2006 ist sie stellvertretende Leiterin der Abteilung Informationswissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung.

Die Forschungsschwerpunkte von Vivien Petras liegen in den Bereichen Informationsorganisation und Information Retrieval

Ausgewählte Publikationen:

2008

• Mayr, P., P. Mutschke and V. Petras (2008). Reducing semantic complexity in distributed digital libraries: Treatment of term vagueness and document re-ranking. Library Review 57(3): 213-224. [Link]
• Mayr, P. and V. Petras (2008). Cross-concordances: terminology mapping and its effectiveness for information retrieval. IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada (to appear). http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/129-Mayr_Petras-en.pdf
• Mayr, P. and V. Petras (2008). Building a terminology network for search: the KoMoHe project. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 22-26 September 2008, Berlin, Germany (to appear).
• Petras, V. (2008). Heterogenitätsbehandlung und Terminology Mapping durch Crosskonkordanzen - Eine Fallstudie. Wissensspeicher in digitalen Räumen: Nachhaltigkeit, Verfügbarkeit, semantische Interoperabilität. Proceedings der 11. ISKO Tagung Wissensorganisation '08, 20-22 Februar 2008, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Konstanz, Germany (to appear).
• Peters, C., V. Jijkoun, T. Mandl, H. Müller, D. W. Oard, A. Peňas, V. Petras and D. Santos, Eds. (2008). Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, 20-22 September 2007, Budapest, Hungary. Revised Selected papers. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer [Lecture Notes for Computer Science; 5152] (to appear).

2007

• Buckland, M., A. Chen, F. C. Gey, R. R. Larson, R. Mostern and V. Petras (2007). Geographic Search: Catalogs, Gazetteers, and Maps. College & Research Libraries 68(5): 376-387. [Link]
• Köstlbacher, A., J. Leveling, T. Mandl, V. Petras and C. Womser-Hacker (2007). Mehrsprachigkeit in Informationssystemen. Schlüsselqualifikation Sprache: Anforderungen - Standards - Vermittlung. Jahrestagung 2007 der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL). 26-28 September, Hildesheim, Germany. Frankfurt: Peter Lang [Forum Angewandte Linguistik] (to appear).
• Petras, V., S. Baerisch and M. Stempfhuber (2007). The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2007. Working Notes of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, 20-22 September 2007, Budapest, Hungary. http://www.clef-campaign.org/2007/working_notes/petras_overview-ds-CLEF2007.pdf 
• Petras, V. (2007). Multilingual Retrieval for Structured Domain-Specific Information. Knowledge Media Design and Semantic Web Service Technologies. Proceedings of the Korean-German Scientist Workshop, 23-26 April 2007, University Park of Cheju National University, Cheju, Korea (to appear).

2006

• Petras, V., R. R. Larson and M. Buckland (2006). Time Period Directories: A Metadata Infrastructure for Placing Events in Temporal and Geographic Context. Opening Information Horizons - 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 11-15 June 2006, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. New York, NY: ACM: 151-160. [Link]
• Gey, F., R. Larson, M. Sanderson, H. Joho, P. Clough and V. Petras (2006). GeoCLEF: The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, 21-23 September 2005, Vienna, Austria. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer [Lecture Notes for Computer Science; 4022]: 908-919. [Link]

2005

• Petras, V. (2005). How One Word Can Make all the Difference - Using Subject Metadata for Automatic Query Expansion and Reformulation. Working Notes for the CLEF 2005 Workshop, 21-23 September 2005, Vienna, Austria. http://www.clef-campaign.org/2005/working_notes/workingnotes2005/petras05.pdf
• Petras, V. (2005). GIRT and the use of subject metadata for retrieval. Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images: 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, 15-17 September 2004, Bath, England. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer [Lecture Notes for Computer Science; 3491]: 298-309. [Link]