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Institute at a glance

Institute at a glance

The Swiss Institute for Information Science (SII) develops and devises solutions for current and future challenges and issues relating to the production, organisation and distribution of knowledge and information.

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Expertise

Expertise

The interdisciplinary team of the Swiss Institute for Information Science (SII) possesses both the required methodological expertise and the necessary knowledge from various application domains in the areas of business and administration.

The close interlinking of applied research and services as well as education and further training is a key aspect. Knowledge acquired and experience gained during the course of research and service projects is always immediately incorporated in teaching.

Research fields in the range of Big Data and Analytics

Data Analytics

In the area of Data Analytics, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons focuses on the analysis of structured corporate data (business intelligence), unstructured text and multimedia contents (web intelligence) as well as data sources with a high level of heterogeneity, large volumes and data throughput (big data).
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Digital Business and Usability Engineering

The research field of Digital Business and Usability Engineering looks at the economic and technical dimensions that are of importance with respect to the use of digital objects.
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Knowledge and User Research

The research field of Knowledge and User Research places an emphasis on the user of a specific data offering. By using the data, the user wishes to cover a specific information requirement. University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons investigates with which measures it is possible to optimally plan and implement data use as well as how its success can be evaluated.
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Research fields in the range information organisation

Information Lifecycle Management

In the research area of information organisation, data management and archiving are implemented in information lifecycle management. Subsequent use scenarios and their target groups are therefore already taken into account during the planning and creation of the data and not, as is often the case, only during the ingest process for long-term archiving.
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Library and Digitalisation of Analogue Cultural Assets

In the research field of Library and Digitalisation of Analogue Cultural Assets, the role, tasks and methods of academic and public libraries are examined. A particular focus is on the relationship between libraries and their users in physical and virtual space.
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Degree programmes

Degree programmes

Bachelor's degree Information Science

In the bachelor’s degree programme in Information Science, you will learn more about information research, human computer interaction, information management as well as media and social science. Information Science forms the interfaces between information and people and is becoming ever more important in our everyday working lives.
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Bachelor's degree Digital Business Management

The bachelor’s degree programme in Digital Business Management covers the design, implementation and coordination of digital projects – from online marketing to websites and mobile apps. You learn how to work with innovations and technologies and how they can be used in companies and start-ups.
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Master's degree User Experience Design

Advancing digitalisation within society and the economy means that digital applications are being newly or further developed on a continuous basis. The innovative master’s degree User Experience Design responds to these developments and trains you to tackle the challenges of the present and the future.
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Further education

Further education

MAS in Information Science

The Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Information Studies provides you with the necessary basic knowledge as well as knowledge of information and communication technologies and business administration and management. This is in the professional fields of Library, Archiving and Documentation.
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CAS Principles of Information Work

The Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Principles of Information Work at University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons provides you with the joint foundations and methods in the fields of Archiving, Library, Documentation and Museum.
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CAS Digital trends in Information Work

Students receive an insight into digital information work trends. The specific area of interest is largely determined by the student’s job-concurrent activity.
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CAS Library and Archiving Work

In the first part of the CAS in Library and Archiving, common professional contents will be taught that are equally important for both disciplines and equally relevant for later collaboration in one of the institutions Archiving and Library or Documentation.
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CAS Museum Work

The Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Museum Work at University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons deals with practical museum work and enables you to undertake skilled work in small and large museums.
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Research and consulting

Research and consulting

The Swiss Institute for Information Science (SII) supports you with issues relating to data, knowledge and information. With our partners and clients from the worlds of business, science and administration, we develop strategies and concepts, perform analyses and develop applicable solutions and systems.

Forms of cooperation

There are various forms of cooperation, be they research projects, consultuing projects or student projects. Get in contact with us and we will support you with your projects.

Laboratories

For its research and service activities as well as to enable it to offer support in the areas of education and further training, the SII has four modern laboratories:

Digi Lab

The Digitalisation Lab of University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons provides education and training aimed at preserving audiovisual cultural assets and is also available as a service for smaller digitalisation series.
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Usability Lab

The Usability Lab offers ideal conditions for the implementation of eye-tracking studies, usability tests and focus groups. We support you with the user-based development of your offers as well as with issues relating to the conception, analysis and optimisation of your interactive products.
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Library Lab

The basic idea behind the LibraryLab of University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons is to allow for new technologies to be tried out in a kind of makerspace and for their application to be tested in libraries. Libraries are showing great interest in integrating ‘small technologies’, in particular, in library work.
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Projects

Projects in the range of Big Data and Analytics

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Project MedMon

The MedMon project draws on social media and web sources to harness patient insights for the novel and transformative concept of patient-centred drug development. Advanced information extraction components will help leverage these insights to increase the efficacy and efficiency of R&D.
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Project Job-Cockpit

Job-Cockpit combines web analytics with privacy-aware knowledge extraction and data enrichment methods to develop innovative semantic search and predictive analytics capabilities for the recruitment industry.
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Project DISCOVER

The project develops methods for the automatic acquisition, extraction and integration of decision-relevant information from heterogeneous online sources. The system uses background knowledge from domain ontologies, databases and an information value model to optimise knowledge acquisition processes.
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Team

Team

Swiss Institute for Information Science team

The employees of the Swiss Institute for Information Science (SII) focus on Information Organisation as well as big data and analytics. Get to know our team.
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Memberships

Memberships

The Swiss Institute for Information Science (SII) is a member of the following associations:

The SII also has a scientific advisory board. The board comprises representatives from the private sector and from public institutions as well as lecturers from other universities. In addition to ensuring and improving quality in the areas of teaching and education, the members of the scientific advisory board provide input that allows for needs from the world of practice as well as innovations and new impetus to be incorporated in teaching and research activities.

Contact

Contact

University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
Schweizerisches Institut für Informationswissenschaften (SII)
Ringstrasse 34
CH-7004 Chur
Switzerland

Phone:   +41 81 286 24 24
Mail:       sii@fhgr.ch

Head of institute

Lecturer, Head of institute
Prof. Dr. Ingo Barkow
Phone: +41 81 286 37 78

Administration

Organisational assistant
Clarita Decurtins
Phone: +41 81 286 24 21