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Miller, Dr. Bernhard
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Projektteam NFDI
 Coordinator KonsortSWD within NFDI

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Vita

Bernhard Miller is a Science Manager trained as a Political Scientist at Mannheim and Johns Hopkins Universities. His research interests are comparative (informal) institutions, conflict resolution, coalitions and parties. After his PhD he joined the Wissenschaftsrat (German Council of Science and Humanities) where he worked on the accreditation of private universities, financing of research infrastructures, the research rating and on standardizing a research core dataset. He embraces data analytics (R in particular) as a welcome contribution to science management.

At GESIS he has previously worked on the Presidential Staff as a coordinator for, i.e, the institute's boards and the NFDI application of KonsortSWD. From November 2019 until September 2020 he acted as pro tempore head of the Knowledge Transfer Department.

Since October 2020 he has taken over responsibilities as the Coordinator of KonsortSWD - NFDI4Society as part of NFDI (National Research Data Infrastructure). He liaises with partners within KonsortSWD, other consortia and the NFDI Directorate and manages KonsortSWD's activities. In this role he co-chairs NFDI's Task Force Evaluation and Reporting. He is also co-chairing NFDI Section Edutrain's Workpackage on Error Culture.
Since 2023 he is part of Base4NFDI's Management Comittee and leads the project-team NFDI. In 2024 he joined RDA's Interest Group on National Data Services as a co-chair, representing NFDI.

Publications

Journal article

Blätte, Andreas, Anna Fräßdorf, Jan-Ocko Heuer, Ute Hofstätter, Christoph Leonhardt, Laura Menze, Bernhard Miller, Kati Mozygemba, Dagmar Pattloch, Julia Rakers, Silke Reineke, Thomas Runge, Friederike Schlücker, Thomas Schmidt, Knut Wenzig, and Christof Wolf. 2022. "Eine Dateninfrastruktur für die Gesellschaftswissenschaften: Unterstützung in der Arbeit mit Forschungsdaten durch KonsortSWD." Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (69): 48-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.3196/1864295020691276.

Holstein, Betina, Bernhard Miller, Pascal Siegers, and Christof Wolf. 2021. "KonsortSWD: Vom Netzwerk zur integrierten Dateninfrastruktur der Gesellschaftsforschung." Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement (2): 10-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.17192/bfdm.2021.2.8330.

Kohne, Julian, Bernhard Miller, Markus Strohmaier, Claudia Wagner, and Christof Wolf. 2021. "Unterstützung bei der Analyse Digitaler Gesellschaften." Soziologie : Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 50 (4): 440-446.

Meyer, Thomas M., and Bernhard Miller. 2015. "The niche party concept and its measurement." Party Politics 21 (2): 259-271. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068812472582.

Miller, Bernhard, and Wolfgang C. Müller. 2010. "Managing Grand Coalitions: Germany 2005-09." German Politics 19 (3-4): 332-352. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2010.515776.

Miller, Bernhard, and Christian Stecker. 2008. "Consensus by Default? Interaction of Government and Opposition parties in the committees of the German Bundestag." German Politics 17 (3): 305-322.

Miller, Bernhard, Matthias Lehnert, Ulrich Sieberer, and André Kaiser. 2002. "The Democratic Quality of Institutional Regimes: A Conceptual Framework." Political Studies 50 (2): 313-331.

Chapter in an edited book

Schimmler, Sonja, Reinhard Altenhöner, Lars Bernard, Juliane Fluck, Axel Klinger, Sören Lorenz, Brigitte Mathiak, Bernhard Miller, Raphael Ritz, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, Alexander Sczyrba, and Regine Stein. 2023. "Base4NFDI - Basic Services for NFDI: Creating NFDI-Wide Basic Services in a World of Specific Domains." In 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) - Connecting Communities, edited by York Sure-Vetter, and Carole Goble, 1-3. TIB Open Publishing (Technische Informationsbibliothek). doi: https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.336.

Miller, Bernhard, Matthias Lehnert, and Arndt Wonka. 2011. "Increasing the Relevance of Research Questions: Considerations on Theoretical and Social Relevance in Political Science." 2. In Research Design in Political Science: How to Practice What They Preach, edited by Thomas Gschwend, and Frank Schimmelfennig, 21-40. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Miller, Bernhard, and Wolfgang C. Müller. 2010. "Koalitionsmechanismen in einer Großen Koalition: Das Beispiel der Regierung Merkel." In Die zweite Große Koalition: Eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2005-2009, edited by Christoph Egle, and Reimut Zohlnhöfer, 154-177. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Miller, Bernhard. 2009. "Informelle Einflussnahme? Parlamentarier im Koalitionsausschuss." In Ergebnisse und Perspektive 40 Jahre nach Erscheinen von Gerhard Loewenbergs Standardwerk zum Deutschen Bundestag, edited by Helmar Schöne, and Julia von Blumenthal, 129-154. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Miller, Bernhard. 2007. "Making Measures Capture Concepts: Tools for Securing Correspondence Between Theoretical Ideas and Observations." 1. In Research Design in Political Science: How to Practice What They Preach, edited by Thomas Gschwend, and Frank Schimmelfennig, 83-102. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Monograph

Miller, Bernhard. 2011. Der Koalitionsausschuss: Existenz, Einsatz und Effekte einer informellen Arena des Koalitionsmanagements. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Working and discussion paper

Lars, Bernard, Melina Jander, Antje Manske, Bernhard Miller, Najla Rettberg, Nanette Rißler-Pipka, Xenia Ritter, Christian Schäfer-Neth, Regine Stein, and Sandra Zänkert. 2024. Base4NFDI Policy Paper: "Base4NFDI Services and EOSC: Guidance for Interoperability". 1. zenodo. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13946299.

Other article

Frank, Maximilian, Felicitas Heßelmann, John Jolliffe, Bernhard Miller, Johannes Vosskuhl, and Sandra Zänkert. 2024. "Error Needs Culture! Advancing Data Sharing by Acknowledging Mistakes." zenodo. doi: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/kruhn.

Wolf, Christof, Maja Adena, Christian Aßmann, Doris Bambey, Katarina Blask, Andreas Blätte, Michael Bosnjak, Daniel Buck, Mathias Bug, Anja Busch, Anna Fräßdorf, Daniel Fuß, Jan Goebel, Betina Hollstein, Monika Jungbauer-Gans, Dagmar Kern, Claus-Peter Klas, Susanne Kretzer, Stefan Liebig, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Bernhard Miller, Peter Mutschke, Anja Perry, Regina T. Riphahn, Marc Rittberger, Daniel Schiffner, Silke Schneider, Jürgen Schupp, Pascal Siegers, Ranjit K. Singh, Heike Solga, Klaus Tochtermann, Ralf Toepfer, and Susanne Zindler. 2020. "Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational, and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD)." doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3968372.

Presentation at a conference

Ebert, Barbara, Sami Domisch, Christin Henzen, Jimena Linares, Kati Mozygemba, Bernhard Miller, Bernhard Seeger, and Jörg Seegert. 2023. " When Data Crosses Borders – Join Forces! : Multidisciplinary Use Cases Within NFDI ." 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) - Connecting Communities , 2023-10-01. doi: https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.341.

Rakers, Julia, Bernhard Miller, Julia Mohrbacher, Daniel Nüst, Torsten Schrade, Jörg Seegert, Christian Vater, Cord Wiljes, and Holger Simon. 2023. "Because Data Shall Grow (and we With it) : Steps Towards a Cultural Change for Sharing Research Data." 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) - Connecting Communities , 2023-10-01. doi: https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.278.

Bechert, Insa, and Bernhard Miller. 2018. "Navigating to Church: Exploration der Open Street Map als Datenbasis für religiöse Opportunitätsstrukturen." Arbeitskreis quantitative Religionsforschung Big Data in der Religionsforschung: Theoretische und methodische Herausforderungen der "digitalen Wende" , 2018-11-09.

Presentation not at a conference

Miller, Bernhard, Ruben Brück, Dilek Ikiz-Akinci, Daniel Fuß, Sebastian Netscher, and Ranjit Singh. 2024. "KonsortSWD-Roadshow bei der Lecture Series "DatenHorizonte" der FDM-Schleswig-Holstein am 05.02.2024." DatenHorizonte, Landesinitiative FDM-Schleswig-Holstein, 2024-02-05. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663488.

Bechert, Insa, and Bernhard Miller. 2018. "Navigating to Church: Leveraging Open Street Map Data for Religious Opportunity Structures." GESIS Research Day, 2018-10-18.