This is why the Research & Knowledge Transfer Office at the University of Wuppertal regularly presents success stories in which research findings have directly benefited the public, industry, or social institutions.

Recently, Uwe Blass from the Research & Knowledge Transfer Office sat down for an interview with Bela Gipp to discuss how his group’s research on blockchain-based applications, e.g., OriginStamp, is being used and how this project impacts society.

Read the full article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung here (in German). | Or as a PDF (English version).

Der Beitrag Research & Knowledge Transfer Office reports on our group’s research and its impact on society erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

KO:MON is Germany’s largest industry forum for monitoring and control room technology. Due to the growing demand for intelligent systems in industry, infrastructure, and in many service sectors, monitoring and control tasks are becoming increasingly important. This year, the convention is in its 11th year. It is aimed at both researches who drive innovation of control room technology and industry professionals who apply new concepts in practice.

Bela’s talk will be titled: “(K)eine Vision – Revisionssichere Abbildung von Anlagen und Prozessen mittels Blockchain-Technolgie”.

Link to the full program is available here (in German only).

Der Beitrag Bela Gipp to give keynote at KO:MON Convention 2019 erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) help ensure the discoverability of digital objects on the Internet. For example, the assignment of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for scientific publications has become a common practice in many disciplines. PIDs have become increasingly important to scientific research. Especially as the scientific publishing industry embraces digitization, the need arises to make referenced works permanently retrievable and interconnected.

The presentations at ETH Zurich will focus on current use cases for persistent identifiers in research, as well as new ideas, developments and initiatives for the future.

Together with other exciting speakers from Switzerland and abroad, Bela Gipp has been invited to present his research on Trusted Time Stamping via the Bitcoin Blockchain.

The event will take place on Friday, 13th September 2019 at the ETH Zurich Library.

Der Beitrag Bela Gipp to give a talk at ETH Zürich erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

However, as with most new technologies, dashcams, are not without their own set of problems. One of the first issues raised was the concern about privacy. Some countries, such as Germany, consider the continuous or permanent recordings of dashcams as an infringement on their citizen’s right to privacy when going about their activities in public. Second, video recordings are not immune to manipulation. With today’s advanced video editing software, recordings may have been manipulated in retrospect, which makes video files hard to be trusted as evidence in court.

The contentious question German courts have been facing has thus been:
“Should Dashcam recordings be admitted as usable evidence in court in an accident liability lawsuit?”

As of May 15^th, 2018, the Federal Court of Germany, or Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), which acts as Germany’s supreme court, has arrived at a landmark verdict on this question. Their 36-page court opinion, which has been published recently, contains three references to the work by Heval Mienert from the University of Würzburg and Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp from the University of Konstanz.

In summary, the BGH ruled that dashcam recordings in general violate data protection regulations, but that this must not necessarily lead to a ban on using the video as evidence in court. Rather, the courts must come to a decision by considering the individual case, i.e. weighing the conflict of interest of privacy protection on the one hand vs. the need to discover the truth on the other hand. Thus, it must be decided on a case-by-case basis whether it is justified to use the evidence obtained in court.

In this balancing act, the court ruled that the technical design of the dashcam itself should play an important role. The recording has a higher chance of being admitted as evidence, if technical measures to uphold individuals’ privacy have been implemented by the device. Such measures include only recording short sequences with cyclical overwriting, permanently storing video files only in the case of a detected impact, or restricting the access of the user to the recordings to prevent tampering or misuse. As part of this balancing of interests, the BGH referenced our research (Mienert & Gipp 2017) (in German) and our blockchain-based dashcam application, which is an example of data protection afforded by technology design (“Privacy by Design”).

Our blockchain-based dashcam application ‘DashIt’ adheres to these ‘Privacy by Design’ principles and is freely available for download from the Google Play store. To learn more about the implementation of our blockchain-based dashcam, consult this paper.

Der Beitrag German supreme court cites our research in its ruling on dashcam recordings erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Der Beitrag Talk on blockchain technologies at the ‘Bodensee Mittelstand 4.0’ talk series erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Der Beitrag Talk on the immutable research data trail at conference on Blockchain for Science erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Recently, Moritz received an Open Knowledge Fellowship funded by Wikimedia Germany, the Stifterverband and the Volkswagen Stiftung. This 9-month fellowship is allowing Moritz to continue the development on eCoach and to further extend it as an Open Science project. For more details, refer to this blog post by Wikimedia Germany (in German).

Der Beitrag The eCoach teaching innovation project receives funding from Wikimedia Germany, the Stifterverband, and the Volkswagen Stiftung erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

B. Gipp, J. Kosti, and C. Breitinger, “Securing Video Integrity Using Decentralized Trusted Timestamping on the Blockchain,” in Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), Paphos, Cyprus, 2016. PDF

Der Beitrag Our blockchain-based Dashcam App in the news erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Bela Gipp was also interviewed by NDR Info (audio download).

Der Beitrag Interview: Blockchain technology research in “Die Welt” & “NDR Info” erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

The submission deadline is July 30th, 2017. All details can be found on the competition website:  http://www.blockchaincompetition.ch/

The winning team will receive a cash prize of 100,000 USD and an office space to work on their project in Zug, Switzerland for 1 year. Zug is also known as Europe’s ‘Crypto Valley’ given its leading role in the blockchain scene.

Der Beitrag Blockchain Innovation: Collaboration with the International Blockchain Competition erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.