I graduated as a Systems and Informatics Engineer, obtained a MSc degree in Informatics and a Doctor degree in Information Technologies and Systems. I am author or co-author of more than 40 articles in the areas of Digital Libraries, Semantic Web and Scholarly Communication. Here are some of them:

• Relating folksonomies with Dublin Core

• A falar nos entendemos : a interoperabilidade entre repositórios digitais

• Carrots and Sticks - Some Ideas on the Creation of a Successful Institutional Repository

• Tea for two: Bringing Informal Communication to Repositories

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

• An intelligent decision support system for digital preservation

I have done several communications, workshops and tutorials and I organized or participated in the organization of several events.

I participated in several R&D projects. Here are some of them:

• OmniPaper – Smart Access to European Newspapers (IST-2001-32174)

• Educational Contents Repository

• KoT (Kinds of Tags)

• DSpace Dev@University of Minho

• Papadocs

• CRiB

I was the vice-director of the MSc degree in Information Science and a member of the steering committee of the Doctoral Programme on Information Systems and Technologies. I am also responsible for several interactions with institutions from several parts of the world (Europe, Brazil and the USA) and I am a member of the DCMI Advisory Board.

I have supervised several students both at MSc and PhD levels, have been a reviewer on several conferences and journals and have acted as evaluator of FP7 project proposals.

More information is available in my CV.