Rudolf Husovič

Rudolf Husovič

I'm quietly turning a university library into research infrastructure, on open systems and with data that stays with the university.

I head the Centre of Information Resources at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. Beyond that, I focus on open science and artificial intelligence.

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Name
Ing. Rudolf Husovič, PhD.
Position
Head of the Centre of Information Resources
Interests
open science, research infrastructure, artificial intelligence
Languages
Slovak (native), English (C1)
Education
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

What I work on

The library as a research service

Day job

I'm especially interested in open systems and in how institutions can run without depending on a single vendor.

Essay: Where Formalisation Serves Knowledge

What I have done

  • Open systems The library system runs on open software that the university manages in-house, with no licence fees and no vendor lock-in. In line withUNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021): software and source code are part of open scientific knowledge, and open science infrastructures should be not-for-profit, often built by communities.
  • Self-service and one search Readers handle loans themselves and search all library resources through a single interface. Self-service has freed librarians from mechanical tasks, so they can focus on knowledge-based work.
  • Electronic full texts Full texts are made available and managed electronically, directly in the library system.

My know-how

  • Data-driven acquisitions Usage statistics as the basis for buying databases and literature.

Standards and tools

  • MARC 21
  • ISO 690
  • OAI-PMH
  • REST API

Anti-lock-in mindset. Data belongs to the institution, not the vendor. Open formats and standards protect against lock-in and unnecessary costs.

Research information

Day job

Everything a university knows about its own research: publications, projects, grants and the identifiers that connect them.

What I have done

  • Research portal I designed and launched the university portal that brings together projects, grants and outputs across UCM. Overviews for annual reports and evaluations come straight from it, with no manual collection, and its data is also available through an API. In line withBarcelona Declaration (2024), commitment 2: internal research information systems should let data be exported and opened using standard protocols and identifiers.
  • Data Analysis Unit Together with university management we set up the data analysis unit. It prepares annual report data centrally, taking that workload off the faculties.
  • ORCID and DOI identifiers UCM authors use ORCID and publications receive DOIs, so outputs can be found unambiguously in international databases and rankings and are credited to the university automatically. In line withFAIR principles, F1: data and metadata carry a globally unique, persistent identifier. Barcelona Declaration, commitment 2: standard identifiers wherever available.

My know-how

  • Publication statistics Processing data from the national publication register (CREPČ) and evaluating it as statistics for performance monitoring.
  • Persistent identifiers Rolling out ORCID, DOI and ROR so the institution shows up in international databases without manual updates.
  • Research information management A single record of projects, grants and publications that serves reporting, evaluation and management.
  • Data for management decisions Overviews and analyses in SQL and Excel that replace collecting data from each faculty.

Standards and tools

  • CREPČ
  • Web of Science
  • Scopus
  • ORCID
  • DOI
  • ROR
  • SQL
  • Excel
  • business analytics

Process first, software second. A new system won't fix a broken process, so I start with analysis, not procurement.

Open science

Beyond

At Western universities open science is standard practice; Slovakia is still catching up. I follow European policy and the reform of research assessment, and I'm interested in turning declarations into everyday practice: open publications, open data and fair assessment of researchers.

My know-how

  • Repositories for publications and theses Designing and launching a repository with access levels that respect copyright and policies that get authors to actually deposit. In line withHorizon Europe: peer-reviewed publications must be deposited in a trusted repository by the date of publication at the latest, with no embargo and a CC BY licence.
  • Research data Storing and sharing research data in line with Horizon Europe requirements. In line withHorizon Europe: a data management plan, the FAIR principles and “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
  • Open access in practice Policies and support for authors so their outputs meet open access conditions and funder requirements. In line withPlan S and Horizon Europe: publications from publicly funded research should be open access immediately, with no embargo.

Open by default. If something stays closed, there should be a reason, not a habit. In line withBarcelona Declaration (2024), commitment 1: openness as the default for the research information an institution uses and produces.

Initiatives I follow

AI in academia

Beyond

I use AI in development and experiment with multi-agent workflows and local language models on my own hardware. I'm interested in where AI genuinely helps in academia and where it runs into data protection.

My know-how

  • AI on in-house infrastructure Running language models inside the institution so sensitive data stays under its control. In line withCommission guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research (4th version, October 2026): research organisations should, where possible, implement locally hosted or cloud-based generative AI tools that they govern themselves, so data stays protected and confidential.

Tools and methods

  • generative AI
  • AI-assisted development
  • multi-agent systems
  • local language models
  • Visual Studio Code
  • XAMPP
  • Apache
  • terminal

AI supports judgement, it doesn't replace it. Where AI saves time, I use it. Decisions and accountability stay with people. In line withCommission guidelines on generative AI in research: researchers remain ultimately responsible for scientific output.

Initiatives I follow

Career

  • now

    Head of the Centre of Information Resources, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

    The Centre brings together the university library, UCM Press, publication records and the data analysis unit.

  • 2019 – 2021

    Academic Senate of STU

    Member of the Senate and of the STU Economic Commission.

  • 2019

    British Embassy Startup Award, STU InQb

    The award included a private audience with the British Ambassador.

  • 2017 – 2021

    Doctoral studies (PhD), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Industrial engineering and management, preceded by an engineering degree (Ing.) in the same field. Doctoral thesis: The Proposal of the Evaluation Model for the Industrial Business Analytics Maturity Level.

Quality through an industrial engineering lens

I manage with an industrial engineering mindset: measurable services, systematic risk management and data-driven decisions. At the end of the day, though, it is people working for people. In one workplace or on one planet.

Languages

  • Slovaknative
  • EnglishC1

Publications and patents

Publications recorded in CREPČ, the Slovak national register, mostly from my doctoral studies in industrial engineering and management at STU.

ORCID profile
2022 1 record

  1. Crisis Management and Safety Foresight in Forest-Based Sector and SMEs Operating in the Global Environment: Proceedings

    Renata Nováková, Andrea Vadkertiová, Rudolf Husovič. Zagreb: WoodEMA, 2022. ISBN 978-953-8446-00-9.

    CREPČ

2021 4 records Utility model

  1. Samonivelačná dištančná spona Utility model

    Rudolf Husovič, Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave. Utility model, file no. 23-2020, 23 June 2021. Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic.

    CREPČ

  2. The Proposal of the Evaluation Model for the Industrial Business Analytics Maturity Level Doctoral thesis

    Rudolf Husovič. Doctoral thesis. Trnava: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 2021.

    CREPČ

  3. Gender Equality in the Context of Globalisation

    Rudolf Husovič, Ľubica Pechanová, Dagmar Cagáňová, Jana Šujanová. Management Trends in the Context of Industry 4.0. Ghent: European Alliance for Innovation, 2021.

    DOI 10.4108/eai.4-12-2020.2303548CREPČ

  4. Work from Home during COVID 19 and Gender Differences in Twitter Content Analysis

    Jana Šujanová, Dagmar Cagáňová, Rudolf Husovič, Renata Nováková, Gabriela Pavlendová. Management Trends in the Context of Industry 4.0. Ghent: European Alliance for Innovation, 2021.

    DOI 10.4108/eai.4-12-2020.2304299CREPČ

2020 2 records Patent

  1. Samonivelačná dištančná spona Patent

    Rudolf Husovič, Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave. Patent, file no. 15-2020. Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic.

    CREPČ

  2. Agile Project Management – What is It?

    Henrieta Hrablik Chovanová, Rudolf Husovič, Dagmar Babčanová, Helena Makyšová. 18th IEEE International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications. Piscataway: IEEE, 2020, pp. 167–175.

    CREPČ

2019 7 records

  1. Zmenšenie objemu odpadu v simulovaných podmienkach za pomoci automatizovaných a monitorovacích prvkov pred procesom zberu odpadu za účelom zníženia nákladov na zber komunálneho PET odpadu

    Rudolf Husovič, Peter Sakál. Transfer inovácií, 2019, no. 39, pp. 5–9. Košice: Technical University of Košice.

    CREPČ

  2. Trends and proposals for marketing communication tools in customer service

    Veronika Johanesová, Rudolf Husovič, Jaromíra Vaňová. Offline Is the New Online: Conference Proceedings. Trnava: UCM, Faculty of Mass Media Communication, 2019, pp. 604–615.

    CREPČ

  3. Trend analysis of analytics directions in business analytics within time period of 2009–2019 in field of business and industry

    Rudolf Husovič, Jana Šujanová. Forum Manažéra, vol. 15, 2019, no. 2, pp. 4–12. Trnava: STU, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology.

    CREPČ

  4. Comparative analysis of long-range wireless transmissions for IoT applications for industrial practice

    Rudolf Husovič, Peter Szabó, Miroslava Mĺkva. Forum Manažéra, vol. 15, 2019, no. 2, pp. 13–17. Trnava: STU, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology.

    CREPČ

  5. Strategic decision making in context of peer to peer concept and blockchain technology in the conditions of Slovak enterprises

    Marek Šarmír, Rudolf Husovič, Martin Császár, Peter Sakál. Forum Manažéra, vol. 15, 2019, no. 2, pp. 52–58. Trnava: STU, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology.

    CREPČ

  6. Circular economy as the approach to environmental safety

    Rudolf Husovič, Jana Šujanová, Marta Sisková, Natália Nováková. Forum Manažéra, vol. 15, 2019, no. 1, pp. 31–41. Trnava: STU, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology.

    CREPČ

  7. Trend analysis of terminology in business analytics within time period of 2009–2019 in field of business and industry

    Rudolf Husovič, Jana Šujanová. Forum Manažéra, vol. 15, 2019, no. 1, pp. 42–48. Trnava: STU, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology.

    CREPČ

2018 2 records

  1. Návrh východísk pre minimalizáciu komunálneho PET odpadu za účelom znižovania procesných nákladov a environmentálnej záťaže pre zbere

    Rudolf Husovič, Peter Sakál, Jana Šujanová. Vedecký časopis Výskumného ústavu ekonomiky a manažmentu, vol. 8, 2018, no. 2, pp. 30–39. Poprad: VÚEM.

    CREPČ

  2. Analysis of chosen communication models

    Dagmar Cagáňová, Rudolf Husovič, Ľubica Pechanová. Forum Manažéra, vol. 14, 2018, no. 2, pp. 53–63. Trnava: STU, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology.

    CREPČ

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I won't change the whole world, but in the meantime I can change what is within my reach.

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  • ORCID
  • Trnava, Slovakia