Klaus Behnam Shad

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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 here: Research Infrastructure
Research Software & Data
DINOH — a Digital, AI-assisted Infrastructure for Oral History, v1.0.0

2026. DINOH Evaluation: synthetic examples and evaluation methods for oral-history assistance, with 28 synthetic records in seven languages, researcher-authored reference annotations, machine-readable schemas and WebVTT and OHMS export. The model backend is a placeholder; its scores are not measurements of model performance. MIT License. Archived on Zenodo, all versions (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21273366).

OHPIPE: Oral History Pipeline, experimental public preview 0.1.0a1

2026. Pipeline component of DINOH: a research workflow for oral-history transcripts, descriptive proposals and human review, with a manual pseudonymisation workflow and interfaces for local model adapters. The public preview runs a reproducible demonstration on invented transcripts and recorded model responses; known test failures are documented in the repository. MIT License · pre-release (0.1.0a1).

diar2: local transcription with speaker attribution for oral history interviews

2026. Local, speaker-attributed transcripts of two-person oral history interviews on Apple Silicon Macs, with a review list of uncertain passages. Runs offline after installation. German by default; accuracy has so far been measured only on a synthetic dialogue. Apache-2.0 · public repository · no DOI yet.

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).

TEI CRM Bridge: traceable enrichment of TEI letters with CIDOC CRM, v0.3.0

2026. Enriches TEI P5 letters with persons, places and organisations as reviewable candidates, with provenance in CIDOC CRM, W3C Web Annotation and PROV-O. Research prototype. Version 0.2 was evaluated against the editorial annotation of 40 letters from the edition “Arthur Schnitzler: Briefwechsel mit Autorinnen und Autoren”; version 0.3.0 adds the review step and has not been measured separately; CMIF export and authority matching via PMB are planned from 0.4.0 (project page with evaluation). MIT License · prototype. Archived on Zenodo, all versions (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22979658).

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).

Articles & Chapters
AI and Socio-techniques: Modeling Social Control in Complex Social Systems.

2025. In: Conflict, Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Ed. Philipp Hacker. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/9780198945215.003.0105.

Die soziale und kulturelle Vielfalt von Kindheit, Familie und Erziehung.

2024. Bfe Bundesverband für Ethnolog*innen e.V.

Affekte und Differenzordnungen in der deutschen Migrationsgesellschaft.

2023. In: Stodulka, T. et al. (Hg.). Anthropologie der Emotionen. Berlin: Reimer. 239–250. DOI: 10.5771/9783496030874-239.

Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Sprachmittlung.

2018. In: Seybold, J./Kraatz, S. (Hg.). Medizinische Flüchtlingsversorgung. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. 195–199. DOI: 10.1515/9783110502183-017.