Dr. Christian Bölling

Scientist / (Senior) Scientist

Christian.Boelling@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 8327

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Exploring and facilitating innovation in biodiversity and collection data acquision and management. Research interests include AI-based approaches to biodiversity data use, knowledge representation and Semantic Web techniques, data standardization and integration, and data systems architecture.

Publications

Bölling, C., Belot, M., Schuster, F., Gebauer, A., Kissling-Brenner, U., Reinke, T. (2024). Vom Sammlungsobjekt zum Datenobjekt für den Umweltschutz. Museumskunde, 89(1/2), 38-43.

Grieb, J., Macklin, J., Shorthouse, D., Bölling, C., Lohrmann, V., Grein, M., Grotrian, E., Bilkhu, S., Weiland, C. (2025). Tracking Natural Science Objects and Their Physical and Digital Derivatives in DINA. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 9, e180398. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.9.180398Open Access

Bölling, C., Schneider, T., von Mehring, S. (2025). Daten für Natur [intern]. [Audit 2025 (intern)]. Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung.

Bölling, C. (2024). A Conceptual Analysis of Occurrences: Implications for the Identity, Mereology and Representation of Occurrence Instances in Biodiversity Data Exchange. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 8, e141258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.141258Open Access

Bölling, C., Léger, T., Snellings, J., Belot, M., Schuster, F. (2025). KIEBIDS: A Modular Framework for Scalable Information Extraction from Written Records in Natural History Collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 9, e183295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.9.183295Open Access

Belot, M., Tuberosa, J., Preuss, L., Svezhentseva, O., Claessen, M., Bölling, C., Schuster, F., Léger, T. (2025). High Throughput Information Extraction of Printed Specimen Labels from Large-Scale Digitization of Entomological Collections using a Semi-Automated Pipeline [Preprint]. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.09.663724

Groom, Q., Dillen, M., Addink, W., Ariño, A.H., Bölling, C., Bonnet, P., Cecchi, L., Ellwood, E.R., Figueira, R., Gagnier, P.Y., Grace, O., Güntsch, A., Hardy, H., Huybrechts, P., Hyam, R., Joly, A., Kommineni, V.K., Larridon, I., Livermore, L., Lopes, R.J., Meeus, S., Miller, J., Milleville, K., Panda, R., Pignal, M., Poelen, J., Ristevski, B., Robertson, T., Rufino, A., Santos, J., Schermer, M., Scott, B., Seltmann, K., Teixeira, H., Trekels, M., Gaikwad, J. (2023). Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11, e109439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e109439Open Access