[2018-2021] – Member of the research team in the project hSNS
(Portuguese public hospital performance assessment using a
multi-criteria decision analysis framework). Goal will be to
develop and employ a multiple criteria decision making-based
model to be possible to classify hospitals into predefined and
ordered categories (resources, production, mortality, relapses
vs perceived quality, patient’s satisfaction, etc.). FCT
contract PTDC/EGE-OGE/30546/2017 (competitive funding of
234.599€ for the IST-ID).
[2018-2021] – Member of the research team in the project REP
(Representativeness of social partners and the impact in
economic governance). Goal will be the construction of an
information system, supported by a digital library of sources of
national labour legislation and workers unions activity on
Portugal. FCT contract PTDC/SOC-SOC/29207/2017 (competitive
funding of 27.442€ for the INESC-ID).
[2018-2020] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project DSI-4 (Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure).
Goal is to continue the work started in the project DSI-3.
Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program competitive funding of
88.439€ for the INESC-ID.
[2018-2020] – Project manager of the project DRE (“Diário da
República Eletrónico”). Goal is to develop a new customized
search and retrieval solution for the public service of the
“Diário da República”, at http://dre.pt. INCM funding of
300.000€ for the INESC-ID.
[2018-2019] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project eArchiving. The goal is to move the results of the
E-ARK project to the next stage, making them the core of the
European eArchiving Building Block. Connecting Europe Facility
(CEF) competitive funding of 1.529.999€, of which 109.200€ for
the INESC-ID.
[2017-2018] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project DSI-3 ((Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure).
Goal was the design and implementation of solutions for
Europeana to harvest and full-text indexing of digitized
newspapers from data providers. European competitive funding of
93.200€ for the INESC-ID, granted by the Connecting Europe
Facility (CEF) program.
[2016-2019] – Member of the INESC-ID team in the project
PRECISE – Precision Medicine. Goal is to develop an
infrastructure of services to support precision medicine,
including the collection and management of data. National
competitive funding of 2.499.827€ granted by the FCT, of which
500.864€ for the INESC-ID (contract SAICTPAC/0021/2015).
[2016-2017] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project DSI-2 (Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure).
Goal was the development of solutions to verify and enrich with
linked data the metadata aggregated from Europeana data
providers. European competitive funding of 107.000€ for the
INESC-ID, granted by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
program.
[2015-2018] – Member of the INESC-ID team in the project
EXELERATE. The goal is to develop the ELIXIR Portugal node on
bioengineering (infrastructure of services and data management).
European competitive funding of 5.331.849€, of which 167.443€
for the INESC-ID, granted by the H2020 program.
[2016-2017] – Scientific coordinator of the project Corporate
Risk Management Framework. Goal was to define and support the
application of a corporate risk management framework for the
INCM (“Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda”). Funding of 40.000€ for
the INESC-ID.
[2014-2016] – Scientific coordinator of the IST team in the
project e-ARK - European Archival Records and Knowledge
Preservation. Goal was to develop reference technology for
digital preservation in administrative archives. The success of
this project triggered the European eArchiving Building Block
(project eArchiving). EContentPlus program competitive total
co-funding of 2.999.699€ for 16 partners, of which 252.139€ for
the IST.
[2013-2015] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team at
Project BenchmarkDP - Systematic Assessment and improvement for
information longevity, funded Vienna Science and Technology Fund
(subcontract to INESC-ID through the Technical University of
Vienna). The goal was to develop maturity models for
"information longevity" scenarios (concept in the scope of
digital preservation). Total competitive funding of 500.000€ for
3 partners, of which 43.200€ for the IST.
[2013-2014] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project 4C (Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation).
The goal was to develop cost models for digital preservation
scenarios. FP7 Program total competitive co-funding of
1.484.319€ for 13 partners, of which 77.575€ for the INESC-ID.
[2012-2014] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project TIMBUS - Digital Preservation for Timeless Business
processes and Services. The objective was the development of
techniques and technology for the preservation of technology and
information of business processes in various contexts. Total FP7
competitive funding of 7.778.616€, for 12 partners, of which
814.173€ for INESC-ID.
[2011-2013] – Scientific coordinator of the IST team in the
project Linked Heritage funded by the EContentPlus competitive
program. The goal is to collect and consolidate records of
descriptions of digital resources from museums to feed the
Europeana service. Total funding of 3.086.407€ For 38 partners,
of which 52.466€ for the IST.
[2011-2013] – General Coordinator of the project EuDML -
European Digital Mathematics Library, funded by the EContentPlus
competitive program. The goal was to develop the infrastructure
of a digital library for the area of mathematics. Total funding
of 1.600.000€, for 14 partners, of which 248.532€ for the IST.
[2011-2012] – Scientific coordinator of the IST team in the
project EuropeanaLibraries, funded by the EContentPlus
competitive programme. The objective was the collection and
standardization of bibliographic Records of university libraries
for Europeana. Project Hired by the Superior Technical
Institute. Total funding of 3.094.765€ for 26 partners, of which
182.349€ for the IST.
[2009-2011] – Scientific coordinator of the IST team in the
project EuropeanaConnet, funded by the EContentPlus competittive
programme (contract 528001). The goal was the development of the
interoperation infrastructure for the portal of the European
initiative (http://www.europeana.eu), regarding the circulation
of metadata, translations of metadata schemes, and integration
of information services Geographical. Total funding of
4.500.000€ for 30 partners, of which 96.384€ for the IST.
[2007-2011] – Scientific coordinator of the INESC-ID team in
the project SHAMAN- Sustainable Heritage Access through
multivalent archiving (an "Integrated Project"). The goal was to
develop innovative technological platforms for digital
preservation scenarios. INESC-ID was responsible for
coordinating the digital preservation scenario in "e-science"
(preservation of scientific data, including the definition and
preservation of metadata and associated document information).
Total funding of 8.398.300€ for 18 partners, of which 309.376€
for INESC-ID.
[2007-2009] – Scientific coordinator of the IST team in the
project TELplus – The European Library Plus, co-funded by the
EContentPlus program (contract 510003). The goal was to develop
a new service infrastructure for the TEL – the European Library
portal, including a new knowledge base for all bibliographic
information. Project Hired by the Superior Technical Institute.
Total funding of 3.250.000€ for 26 partners, of which 388.402€
for the IST.
[2007-2010] – General Coordinator of the project GRITO - A
GRID for preservation (Contract GRID/GRI/81872/2006), funded by
FCT. Total funding of 140.000€, of which 47.910€ for the
INESC-ID (the consortium also comprised the University of
Aveiro, ADETI-ISCTE, and the company Intraneia).
Projects at the National Library of Portugal
[2006-2008] – General Coordinator of the project DIGMAP –
Discovering our Past World with Digitised historical Maps,
funded by the EContentPlus program (contract 38942). The
objective was the design and develop a distributed information
system at European level to support manual and automated
registration services (by processing the contents of images) of
scanned historical maps and discovery services Same. Project
Hired by the Superior Technical Institute. Total funding of
950.000@ for 7 partners, of which 274.359€ for the IST.
5.2. Projects at the National Library of
Portugal
[2004-2005] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in MINERVA-Plus, supported by the European program
IST- Information Society and Technology (Contract 507083). This
Project It aimed at the development of recommendations and
guidelines for national digitisation strategies, in a network of
advice to the Ministries of culture.
[2004-2005] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in RiCoBA-books with rich content for all. Project
funded by FTC (contract POSC/EIA/61042/2004) and coordinated by
the LASIGE Large-scale Computer Systems Laboratory at the
University of Lisbon. Project promoted in the continuation of
the Project Previous IPSOM (see below), aiming to improve the
alignment between text, image and sound in spoken books.
[2001-2004] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in TEL- The European Library, supported by the
European program IST- Information Society and Technology
(Contract 25347), which aims to demonstrate new services
developed in a common way between European national libraries
aiming at bibliographic research access to digital or digitized
resources.
[2001-2004] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in LEAF- Linking and exploring Authority files,
supported by the European programme IST- Information Society and
Technology, which aims to promote interoperation at the
international level of authority information (metadata about
authors) between libraries and archives.
[2001-2004] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in Refine – recognition of non-current typographic
fonts. Project Funded by FTC (POSI/SRI/41201/2001) and
coordinated by IDMEC – Institute of Mechanical Engineering of
IST. The Project It addressed problems of improving OCR results
and alternative solutions for old printed text recognition. The
Project It was suggested following the identification of
concrete problems encountered in the BN, during the development
of the initiative of the National Digital Library.
[2000-2005] – Coordinator of the initiative BND - National
Digital Library, at the National Library of Portugal.
[2000-2004] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in IPSOM (Contract POSI/PLP/34252/99), a partnership
of the INESC and University of Lisbon with the support of the
National Library of Portugal and Ministry of Science and
Technology. This purpose of this project was the automation of
the voice-to-text transcription and sound indexing in "spoken
books".
[1999-2005] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in the project PORBASE 5, in partnership with the
company MIND S. A. The goal was the design and development of a
management system for interoperable medium-sized libraries on
the Internet with the central services of the National Library
of Portugal and especially the PORBASE- National Bibliography
Database. Note: The result of this project was a commercial
product that after 3 years equipped more than one thousand
libraries throughout the country, having become a national
reference product for small and medium-sized libraries.
[1998-2001] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in MALVINE – "Manuscripts and letters via Integrated
networks in Europe, supported by the EC Telematics program
(contract LB-5674/B), which was focused on the problem of access
in the World Wide Web and by the protocol Z39.50 of
bibliographic information of European personal manuscripts of
contemporary writers.
[1998-2000] – Coordinator of the team of the National Library
of Portugal in NEDLIB – "Networked European Deposit Library "Of
the European Telematics program (contract LB-5648), which
addressed the problem of depositing and preserving digital
publications in national libraries.
Projects as Junior Researcher
[1998] – Coordinator of the team of the INESC in the
consulting project to the rectory of the ICU-Technical
University of Lisbon, aiming to present recommendations and an
investment strategy and reorganization of the libraries of the
university in the components of technology, services and human
resources.
[1997-1998] – Technical coordinator of the INESC team in the
national project SIO – "Organizational Information systems"
(Contract PRAXIS/2/2.1/1667/95), aiming to develop services,
using the in that moment emerging Internet technology, to
support the activity of distributed organizations.
[1996-1997] – Member of the INESC team in the project SCREEN –
"Service Creation Engineering Environment", co-funded by the
competitive European program ATS (AC227 contract). The goal was
the raising of requirements and model the object-oriented
components for the creation of services for the
telecommunications industry.
[1995-1996] – Member of the INESC team in the project CEEE
(Continuing Electrical Engineers Education), co-founded by the
competitive European program EUROFORM. Developed a multimedia
product for the learning of the fundamentals of object-oriented
modelling and programming (the result was a computer-based
training product).
[1992-1995] – Technical manager of the INESC team at Project
International HAMLET (High Performance Computing for Industrial
applications), co-funded by the competitive European ESPRIT
Program (contract 6290). Coordinated the development of a
simulation environment for parallel systems based on the
architecture of the Transputer microprocessor.
[1989-1992] – INESC team member at international project SPAN
(Parallel Computer System for Integrated and Symbolic
Processing), co-funded by the competitive European ESPRIT
Program (contract 1588), where architectures and object-oriented
programming languages have been developed. This project provided
the context for the master dissertation (pre-Bologna).