Dr. Klaus Behnam Shad

AI Architectures · Research Infrastructure · Privacy by Design · Qualitative Data

Publications

All research software and metadata specifications are openly licensed; released versions are archived on Zenodo with persistent identifiers. What each system does, and the problem it addresses, is described on the Research Infrastructure page.

Research Software & Data

DINOH — a Digital, AI-assisted Infrastructure for Oral History, v1.0.0

2026. Multilingual benchmark corpus and evaluation suite for AI-assisted oral history analysis: synthetic gold standard across seven languages, machine-readable schemas, WebVTT and OHMS export. MIT License. Archived on Zenodo, all versions (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21273366).

AegisQDA — local-first, fail-closed privacy gateway for qualitative data

2026. Local-only anonymisation gateway preparing interview transcripts for analysis: Presidio-backed PII recognition, mandatory human review, typed document-local surrogates and a second verification scan, releasing data to a downstream QDA adapter only after sign-off. German, English, French. MIT License · v0.1.0 (MVP). Archived on Zenodo, all versions (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21854346).

DigQDA — AI-assisted, evidence-bound qualitative data analysis with local models

2026. Method-contract toolkit for evidence-bound qualitative analysis with local language models: versioned method contracts, source-near coding prompts with machine-readable JSON schemas, deterministic source-unit segmentation, quote and locator validation, fail-closed conformance suite. MIT License · pre-release (v0.4).

Relational Justice Analysis (RJA), v2.0.0

2026. Rule-based, fully traceable annotation framework for qualitative text data, with indicators for German, English and French. MIT License. Archived on Zenodo, all versions (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18640259).

Metadata Specifications

IMM-Core: Interview Metadata Model — Core Profile, v1.0

2026. Cross-disciplinary minimal metadata model for interview-based research. Two-layer architecture: Core Profile of 13 fields, 7 of them mandatory, plus extensible Implementation Profiles. DCTAP-based, with crosswalks to Dublin Core, schema.org/Dataset, REFI-QDA/QDPX and CMDI. CC BY 4.0. Archived on Zenodo, all versions (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20507328).

Digital Exhibitions

Talking Borders. Digital Exhibition

2026. Edited with Machteld Venken. Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. A 14-chapter digital exhibition created with MA students of the seminar “Oral History in Context and Praxis” (Master of Digital and Public History, autumn semester 2025). CC BY 4.0. Archived on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18816392).

Talking Borders. Digital Exhibition: An Introduction

2026. With Machteld Venken. Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. Archived on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18935125).

Books

Die Sortierung der Menschheit. Schemata und Praktiken der Humandifferenzierung.

2026. Bielefeld: transcript.

The Sorting of Humanity. Schemata and Practices of Human Differentiation.

2026. Bielefeld: transcript.

Die emotionale Erfahrung des Asyls. Lebenswelten afghanischer Geflüchteter in Berlin.

2021. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Probleme und Möglichkeiten einer universellen Ethik. Reflexionen für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologen.

2015. Göttingen: Optimus.

Bedrohung durch den Islam? Fundamentalismus und Menschenrechte.