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Vita

• Studies in economics at the universities of Passau and Cologne from 1998 to 2006
  with emphasis on Political Economy, Public Finance and Statistics
• Student assistant at Zentralarchiv für empirische Sozialforschung at Cologne from 2002 to 2005
• Internship in 2002 at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Hamburg in the field of risk management as software developer
• From 2006 to 2019 software developer at DAS, since 2020 at WTS

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Service

His duties and responsibilities in the team Data & Services Engineering include designing, developing, testing, documenting and implementing software for the data archive.  The software Dataset Documentation Manager (DSDM) facilitates the documentation of cross-national comparative datasets on variable level according to the international standard of the Data Docuemntation Initiative (DDI). DSDM offers interfaces to import SPSS or XML information and to export XML for publication on different dissemination systems and long-term preservation. The project STARDAT aims at the the further development of existing archival tools for curation of study documentations. Currently productive software applications like Data Catalogue, Dataset Documentation Manager or CodebookExplorer will be replaced and the stock of metadata of the archive will be converted to the DDI Lifecycle format. In collaboration with several projects he also works on an integrated search platform for research metadata on study, variable and question level.

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Research

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Publications

Publication

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Journal article

Hopt, Oliver, Claus-Peter Klas, and Alexander Mühlbauer. 2018. "Flexible DDI storage." IASSIST Quarterly 2018 (42). doi: https://doi.org/10.29173/iq923.

Lecture

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Conference contribution

Mühlbauer, Alexander. 2014. "Working with the STARDAT DDI-Lifecycle Library." EDDI14 – 6th Annual European DDI User Conference, 2014-12-01. http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi14/paper/view/141.

Mühlbauer, Alexander. 2013. "Historization and versioning of DDI-lifecycle metadata objects : findings in the STARDAT project." 5th Annual European DDI User Conference, 2013-12-03. http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/EDDI13/paper/view/102/58.

Mühlbauer, Alexander. 2011. "Creating a Prototype Application Compatible with DDI 3.1 for the STARDAT Project." 3rd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting, 2011-12-05.

Mühlbauer, Alexander, Monika Linne, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2010. "The STARDAT project. Integrating DDI tools at the GESIS Data Archive." 2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting, 2010-12-08. http://www.iza.org/conference_files/eddi10.