Thomas Sødring
Associate Professor
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolThomas Sødring is an Associate Professor and computer scientist with a PhD in Information Retrieval and over a decade of R&D experience spanning information retrieval, network simulation, and semantic web work for archives and records management. Based in Oslo, he has led practical open-source initiatives—most notably founding the Noark 5 records-management core "dots" as a teaching and research tool that later evolved into a commercial open-source product adopted by Norwegian municipalities. His current focus blends data quality monitoring and semantic-web integration for archival systems, and he continues to work on Noark tooling such as edu-dots and extraction utilities. Thomas brings academic rigor from postdoc roles at Dublin City University and Simula Research Laboratory into applied software projects, making him adept at translating standards and research into production-ready solutions. Colleagues and students know him as a pragmatic educator who builds tools to fill real-world gaps rather than theoretical exercises. A bi-cultural background (Irish upbringing, Norwegian roots) and hands-on open-source experience make him both relatable and effective at bridging academia, government needs, and industry.
11 years of coding experience
Dublin City University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KDRS-SA/grouse
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Grouse is a tool that can be used to generate a requirements document when purchasing a Noark 5 system
Contributions:27 PRs, 139 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 5 months
purchasing
HiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:56 PRs, 486 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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