Miguel Ferreira
Ph.D and, CTO at KEEP SOLUTIONS
Department of Information Systems
University of Minho
Campus of Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães - Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 510 261 | FAX: +351 253 510 300 | Ext.: 3261
mferreira @ dsi.uminho.pt | http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/~ferreira/ | 41°27'11.35"N 8°17'21.34"W
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Biographical information
Miguel Ferreira graduated as a Systems and Informatics Engineer, worked as a consultant at the OPorto's Regional Archive (Arquivo Distrital do Porto) and as a researcher at the University of Minho. Since 2003, has been publishing in the fields of digital archives, libraries and preservation. Between 2005 and 2009 he develped work as a Ph.D. student while coordinating several research projects at the OPorto's Regional Archive and the Portuguese National Archives (Direcção-Geral de Arquivos). Currently, Miguel Ferreira is the co-funder of KEEP SOLUTIONS, a company that spinned-off of the University of Minho specialized in digital preservation and advanced solutions for digital archives and libraries.
Research projects
(2006-2007) CRAV: Consulta Real em Ambiente Virtual
The CRAV project is being developed jointly by the OPorto's Regional Archive and the University of Minho and aims at building a technological infrastructure for delivering online services to the archive's customers.
Related sites: Arquivo Distrital do Porto
(2006-2008) RODA: Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos
The RODA project is being developed by the National Archives (Directorate-General of the Portuguese Archives) and the University of Minho and aims at raising awareness within public administration institutions on the issues of digital preservation.
Additionally, this project will produce a digital repository system capable of preseverving authentic digital objects. After its conclusion the National Archives will be able to ingest digital objects (e.g. still images, relational databases, text documents) produced by associated public institutions.
Publications:
Faria, L., Ferreira, M., Castro, R., et. al (2009). RODA : a service-oriented repository to preserve authentic digital objects. International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09), Atlanta, USA. [article]
Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Faria, L., Castro, R., Barbedo, F., & Corujo, L. (2008). RODA and CRiB - A Service-Oriented Digital Repository. Paper presented at the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), London, UK. [paper]
Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Faria, L., & Castro, R. (2007). Relational Database Preservation through XML modelling. Paper presented at the Extreme Markup Languages 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada. [paper]
Barbedo, F., Corujo, L., Faria, L., Castro, R., Ferreira, M., & Ramalho, J. C. (2007). RODA: Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos. Paper presented at the 9º Congresso Nacional de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. [paper|presentation]
Related sites : RODA Project Web site
(2005-2008) CRiB: Conversion and Recommendation of Digital Object Formats
The CRiB system is a service oriented architecture (SOA) being supported by Web services’ technology which will
enable institutions to carry out effective long-term preservation of digital materials. The system will provide the following set of activities:
- Conversion of digital objects from near obsolete formats to up-to-date encodings that most users will be able to interpret;
- Evaluation of migrations outcome by comparing the original digital object with its converted counterpart and identifying the significant properties that have not been adequately preserved;
- Generation of migration reports in appropriate forms for inclusion in the preservation metadata of the migrated object;
- Generation of suggestions of best suitable migration alternatives taking into consideration the preservation requirements of the client institution;
Publications:
Ferreira, M. (2009). Preservação de longa-duração de informação digital no contexto de um Arquivo Histórico. Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães. [thesis]
Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Faria, L., Castro, R., Barbedo, F., & Corujo, L. (2008). RODA and CRiB - A Service-Oriented Digital Repository. Paper presented at the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), London, UK. [paper]
Becker, C., Ferreira, M., Kraxner, M., Rauber, A., Baptista, A. A., & Ramalho, J. C. (2008). Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions. Paper presented at the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Aarhus, Denmark. [paper]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A., & Ramalho, J. C. (2007). An intelligent decision support system for digital preservation. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 6(4), 295-304. [paper][preprint]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A. & Ramalho, J. C. (2006). A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation. Ariadne(48). [paper]
Ferreira, M. (2006). Automatic Evaluation of Migration Quality in Distributed Networks of Converters. Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), 2(2). [paper]Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A. & Ramalho, J. C. (2006). CRiB: A service oriented architecture for digital preservation outsourcing. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Portalegre, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A. & Ramalho, J. C. (2005). Avaliação Automática de Migração em Redes Distribuídas de Conversores. Paper presented at the Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação (CAPSI), Bragança, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M. (2005). Automatic Evaluation of Migration Quality in Distributed Networks of Converters. Communication given at the Doctoral Consortium of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria. [paper]
Related sites: CRiB Web site | Migration Workbench | Digital Preservation News
(2004) Dspace-Dev @ University of Minho
Dspace related activities at University of Minho started in April 2003 and since then many developments have been made. DSpace-Dev @ University of Minho is a website that was created with the purpose of making public some of these developments.
The first step has been taken by the University of Minho Documentation Services (SDUM) with the translation of the DSpace system to Portuguese and its implementation in the RepositóriUM, the institutional repository of this university, created to store, preserve and disseminate it's intellectual output. This version has been downloaded for use in many other institutions in Portugal and Brazil.
This same version served as a basis for the Papadocs system. Papadocs intends to store and provide access to all assignments made by the Information Systems’ department students. Some changes had to be made to the original version, in particular in what concerns the metadata.
The Papadocs project allowed us to experiment with DSpace resulting in the development of new features that enhance DSpace functionality:
- An add-on for Commenting resources;
- A Recommendation add-on that provides suggestions of relevant reading material to the user;
- A 3D browsing environment based on VRML that allows the identification of special relationships between users, items, comments, etc - the Web of Communication;
- An add-on that enhances DSpace with Controlled Vocabulary functionalities
The ACM Computer Classification System (version 1998) was adapted and integrated with the Controlled Vocabularies Add-on. Our derivative version of the ACM Computer Classification System can be downloaded here.
In this site we present these initiatives and discuss the related research projects currently in hands. All the source-code can be downloaded in this site.
Parallel to that was created LusoDSpace, a website intended to provide information about the DSpace platform to the Portuguese speaking community.
Publications:
Baptista, A. A., & Ferreira, M. (2007). Tea for Two - Bringing Informal Communication to Repositories. D-Lib Magazine, 13(5/6). [paper]
Baptista, A. A., & Ferreira, M. (2006). Repository Conversations. Brazillian Journal of Information Science, 0(0), 47-60. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Baptista, A. A. (2005). DSpace-Dev @ University of Minho - Development of tools and add-ons for the DSpace platform. Communication given at the DSpace Federation 2nd User Group meeting, Cambridge, UK. [abstract|presentation]
Ferreira, M. & Baptista, A. A. (2005). The use of Taxonomies as a way to achieve Interoperability and improved Resource Discovery in DSpace-based Repositories. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal. [paper]
Related sites: DSpace-Dev @ University of Minho | Papadocs | LusoDSpace
(2003) DigitArq
Over time, novel and richer finding aids are adopted by Archives, while at the same time, indexes, lists, inventories, catalogues and transference guides are produced to better serve the needs of its customers. Although these finding aids help users and archivists attain the artefacts they seek, they comprise a heterogeneous universe extremely hard to manage. The lack of coherence between most finding aids makes updating information a nightmare. To put an end to this scenario, it was carried out at the Arquivo Distrital do Porto
(ADP) a project called DigitArq whose major goal was to homogenise the entire collection of finding aids and serve as a first attempt at the edification of a Digital Archive.
This project comprised several stages. The first one consisted in the conversion of a series of paper-based documents and digital databases containing different types of finding aids to a single digital format based on an international standard - the General International Standard Archival Description - Digitalisation and Migration.
The second stage of the project aimed at constructing a centralised database to store all the collected finding aids and developing special purpose software to manage all that information - Archival Management Software.
A third stage consisted in the development of a search engine that allowed Internet users to find and browse the collections - Search Engine.Preservation is another great responsibility of an Archive. Different techniques can be used to address this issue such as microfilming and digitalisation. The ADP already provided a digitalisation service to their customers, which allowed them to buy digital copies of books and documents. This service was provided in an ad-hoc basis without a well-defined plan or workflow. Document images were kept on CD-ROMs, which where difficult to maintain and preserve. This setting was becoming unbearable given that a lot of images where not saved for future use due to the inherent difficulties in their retrieval.
Since finding aids were now going to be published online it made sense to develop software to allow archivists to publish document images as well. This software should be able to simplify the digitalisation process (using digitalisation profiles) and guarantee the long-term preservation of the digital objects and the media involved. Such a system opens new opportunities for business, as images can be sold online to customers all over the world - Digital Objects Management Software.
Publications:
Ferros, L., Ramalho, J. C., & Ferreira, M. (2008). Creating a National Federation of Archives using OAI-PMH. Paper presented at the XATA - XML, Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Évora, Portugal. [paper soon]
Ramalho, J. C., & Ferreira, M. (2006). Digitarq 2 - Nova plataforma aplicacional para gestão de Arquivos Definitivos. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Archives (2ª Conferência Internacional de Arquivos Empresariais), Seixal, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M. (2006). Três anos depois…uma reflexão sobre o projecto DigitArq. A seminar given to the Licenciatura em Ciência da Informação of Faculdade de Letras of University of Porto. Porto, Portugal. [presentation]
Ferreira, M. & Ramalho, J. C. (2004). DigitArq: Creating a Historical Digital Archive. Paper presented at the 5ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Lisboa. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Ramalho, J. C. (2004). DigitArq - Creating and Managing a Digital Archive. Paper presented at the ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Brasília, Brazil. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Ramalho, J. C. (2004). Aquisição e Armazenamento de Metainformação no Contexto de um Arquivo. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. [paper]
Related sites: Arquivo Distrital do Porto | DigitArq Project
(2002) Phenom
The trailblazing Perceptive Home Environments (PHENOM) project is part of Philips long-term research plans for the connected home - an environment that is both aware of the identity of everything within it and the intentions of its users. The PHENOM project is playing an integral role in understanding how people interact with electronic devices, by linking RFID tagged objects to home media content, such as photographs and music.
An integral part of the PHENOM project is the development of a memory browsing system capable of helping users to retrieve, share, and recollect past events. The current focus of the project is to enable convenient access to stored digital picture albums - which may contain a variety of images such as holiday snaps, wedding pictures, sentimental pictures of relatives and other happy memories - as well as displaying the retrieved pictures at the highest possible quality.
A number of key connectivity and identification solutions are required to provide access to a household's complete personal photograph archive and instantly display the selected photos in an intuitive manner. For example, a model of the Eiffel Tower could be the key to accessing holiday snaps from a trip to Paris.
The PHENOM system appeals to users, with its ease of use and ability to adapt to its users' needs. And as the connected home develops, new research issues and opportunities will be highlighted, allowing Philips to develop intuitive and natural ways of using identification based solutions to integrate ambient intelligence and connectivity into all our living environments.
Creating the PHENOM solution has helped Philips to gauge the current capabilities of connected home solutions and is guiding developments in how people will interact with technology in the future. Philips Research's facilities are providing an ideal environment in which to test new RFID solutions, and with the recent launch of Philips' NFC (Near Field Communications), the possibilities for wireless connectivity in the home are simply tremendous.
(Quotation from http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/markets/identification/articles/success/s61/)Publications:
Teixeira, D., Ferreira, M. & Verhaegh, V. (2003). An Integrated Framework for Supporting Photo Viewing Activities in Home Environments. Paper presented at the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. [abstract|paper]
Related sites: An overview of the PHENOM project
Publications
Ferreira, M. (2009). Preservação de longa-duração de informação digital no contexto de um Arquivo Histórico. Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães. [thesis]
Faria, L., Ferreira, M., Castro, R., et. al (2009). RODA : a service-oriented repository to preserve authentic digital objects. International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09), Atlanta, USA. [article]
Ferreira, M. (2008). My Personal Impressions on Digital Preservation. Digital Preservation Europe Newsletter(3). [article]
Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Faria, L., Castro, R., Barbedo, F., & Corujo, L. (2008). RODA and CRiB - A Service-Oriented Digital Repository. Paper presented at the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), London, UK [paper].
Becker, C., Ferreira, M., Kraxner, M., Rauber, A., Baptista, A. A., & Ramalho, J. C. (2008). Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions. Paper presented at the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Aarhus, Denmark. [paper]
Ferros, L., Ramalho, J. C., & Ferreira, M. (2008). Creating a National Federation of Archives using OAI-PMH. Paper presented at the XATA - XML, Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Évora, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M., Saraiva, R., Rodrigues, E., & Baptista, A. A. (2008). Carrots and Sticks - Some ideas on how to create a successful institutional repository. D-Lib Magazine, 14(1/2). [paper]
Sousa, P. J., Ferreira, M., Rodrigues, E., Cunha, M. B. d., Neves, A., Santos, A. S., et al. (2007). A blogosfera: perspectivas e desafios no campo da ciência da informação. Cadernos BAD, 1. [paper]
Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Faria, L., & Castro, R. (2007). Relational Database Preservation through XML modelling. Paper presented at the Extreme Markup Languages 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada. [paper]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A., & Ramalho, J. C. (2007). An intelligent decision support system for digital preservation. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 6(4), 295-304. [paper][preprint]
Baptista, A. A., & Ferreira, M. (2007). Tea for Two - Bringing Informal Communication to Repositories. D-Lib Magazine, 13(5/6). [paper|mirror]
Barbedo, F., Corujo, L., Faria, L., Castro, R., Ferreira, M., & Ramalho, J. C. (2007). RODA: Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos. Paper presented at the 9º Congresso Nacional de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. [paper|presentation]
Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Castro, R., Faria, L., Barbedo, F., & Corujo, L. (2007). XML e Preservação Digital. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal. [paper]
Baptista, A. A., & Ferreira, M. (2006). Repository Conversations. Brazilian Journal of Information Science, 0(0), 47-60. [paper | mirror]
M. Ferreira, Introdução à preservação digital – Conceitos, estratégias e actuais consensos. Guimarães, Portugal: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho , 2006. ISBN 972-8692-30-7. ISBN 978-972-8692-30-8. [book]Ramalho, J. C., Ferreira, M., Ferros, L., Lima, M. J. P., & Sousa, A. (2006). Digitarq 2 - Nova plataforma aplicacional para gestão de Arquivos Definitivos. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Archives (2ª Conferência Internacional de Arquivos Empresariais), Seixal, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A. & Ramalho, J. C. (2006). A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation. Ariadne(48). [paper]
Ferreira, M. (2006). Automatic Evaluation of Migration Quality in Distributed Networks of Converters. Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), 2(2). [paper]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A. & Ramalho, J. C. (2006). CRiB: A service oriented architecture for digital preservation outsourcing. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Portalegre, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M., Baptista, A. A. & Ramalho, J. C. (2005). Avaliação Automática de Migração em Redes Distribuídas de Conversores. Paper presented at the Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação (CAPSI), Bragança, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Baptista, A. A. (2005). The use of Taxonomies as a way to achieve Interoperability and improved Resource Discovery in DSpace-based Repositories. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Ramalho, J. C. (2004). DigitArq: Creating a Historical Digital Archive. Paper presented at the 5ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Lisboa. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Ramalho, J. C. (2004). DigitArq - Creating and Managing a Digital Archive. Paper presented at the ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Brasília, Brazil. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Ramalho, J. C. (2004). Aquisição e Armazenamento de Metainformação no Contexto de um Arquivo. Paper presented at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. [paper]
Teixeira, D., Ferreira, M. & Verhaegh, V. (2003). An Integrated Framework for Supporting Photo Viewing Activities in Home Environments. Paper presented at the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. [abstract|paper]
Invited Talks
Ferreira, M. (2009). Introdução à Preservação Digital. Talk given at the "Seminário sobre Preservação Digital" held at the Câmara Municipal de Lagos, Lagos, Portugal.
Ferreira, M. (2008). Tutorial: Gestão de Repositórios; Sessão 3: Ferramentas de administração. Tutorial given at the Documentation Services of the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Ferreira, M. (2008). Preservação Digital - um problema multidimensional. Talk given at the "Seminário sobre Preservação Digital" held at the National Archives (Direcção-Geral de Arquivos). Lisbon, Portugal. [presentation]
Ferreira, M., & Ramalho, J. C. (2008). Preservação Digital - das normas às boas práticas. Talk given at the "Representação de Baixo Relevo com PTM - da teoria à prática" Workshop held at the "Museu D. Diogo de Sousa". Braga, Portugal. [presentation]
Ramalho, J. C., & Ferreira, M. (2008). Sistemas de suporte à Governação Electrónica - Preservação a longo-prazo de informação digital. Talk given at the "Governação na Era Digital" Conference held at the "Centro Pastoral de Amarante". Amarante, Portugal. [presentation]
Ferreira, M. (2007). Social ideas in unsocial environments - Bringing social software concepts to digital repositories. Talk given at the Researching Social Software Conference held at the Institutite of Social Sciences of the University of Minho. Braga, Portugal. [presentation]
Ferreira, M. (2007). RepositoriUM e Acesso Livre - Ferramentas essenciais no processo de comunicação científica. Seminar given to the Informatics MSc at the University of Minho. Braga, Portugal.
Ferreira, M. (2007). DSpace Dev @ U.Minho - Novas formas de recuperar informação em plataformas DSpace. Communication given at TeIA – Pesquisa de Informação e Inteligência Artificial held at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal. [presentation]
Ferreira, M. (2007). Comunicação: Introdução à preservação digital - Conceitos, estratégias e actuais consensos. Communication given at the Jornadas de trabalho - Gestão da Informação na era digital, Trofa, Portugal. [abstract|presentation]
Ferreira, M., & Rodriges, E. (2007). RepositoriUM - The implementation of an institutional repository. Communication given at the 2nd International Congress about Free Software in Libraries, Barcelona, Spain. [abstract|presentation]
Ferreira, M. (2006). Preservação digital. A seminar given to the Information Science MSc at the University of Minho. Guimarães, Portugal.
Ferreira, M. (2006). Preservação digital - conceitos, estratégias e actuais consensos. A seminar given to the Informatics MSc at the University of Minho. Braga, Portugal [presentation].
Ferreira, M. (2006). Três anos depois…uma reflexão sobre o projecto DigitArq. A seminar given to the Licenciatura em Ciência da Informação of Faculdade de Letras of University of Porto. Porto, Portugal. [presentation]
Communications with peer review
Faria, L., Castro, R., Ferreira, M., Ramalho, J. C., Barbedo, F., & Corujo, L. (2007). RODA - Repository of Authentic Digital Objects. Communication given at the International Workshop on Database Preservation, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland. [presentation]
Ferreira, M. (2007). CRiB - Preservation Services for Digital Repositories. Communication given at the Open Repositories 2007, San Antonio, Texas, USA. [presentation]Ferreira, M. (2006). Tutorial: Introdução ao XML e Tecnologias Associadas; Sessão 4: Aplicações XML. Tutorial given at the XATA - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Portalegre, Portugal.
Ferreira, M. (2005). Automatic Evaluation of Migration Quality in Distributed Networks of Converters. Communication given at the Doctoral Consortium of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria. [paper]
Ferreira, M. & Baptista, A. A. (2005). DSpace-Dev @ University of Minho - Development of tools and add-ons for the DSpace platform. Communication given at the DSpace Federation 2nd User Group meeting, Cambridge, UK. [abstract|presentation]
Scientific committees
(2008) International Journal on Digital Libraries
Scientific committee.(2008) XATA'2008 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
Scientific committee.(2007) XATA'2007 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
Scientific committee.(2006) XATA'2006 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
Scientific committee as co-revisor.(2005) XATA'2005 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
Scientific committee as co-revisor.
Panels
(2008) Chairman of the "Retrospective Digital Archives" roundtable session of the EBSCO Open Day 2008
held at the Círculo Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.(2007) Invited participant on the Panel Debate on Digital Preservation at the DLM Forum Members' Meeting
held at the Portuguese National Archives in Lisbon, Portugal(2006) Chairman of the "Platforms and services for repository hosting" session of the 2nd Open Access Conference
held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Supervisions
(2006) Luís Faria. RODA - Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos. Systems and Informatics Engineering. [report|presentation]
(2006) Luís Ferros. Projectos Digitarq & CRAV. Computer Science. [report|presentation]
Attended conferences & seminars
(2008) 3rd Open Access Conference
held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.(2008) Seminário sobre Preservação Digital
held at Portuguese National Archives (Direcção-Geral de Arquivos). Lisbon, Portugal.(2007) DLM Forum Members' Meeting
held at the Portuguese National Archives, Lisbon, Portugal.(2007) Jornadas de trabalho - Gestão da Informação na era digital
held at the Salão Nobre da Junta de Freguesia de S. Martinho de Bougado, Trofa, Portugal.(2007) 2nd International Congress about Free Software in Libraries/2ª Jornada internacional de software libre para bibliotecas/2ª Jornada internacional sobre programari lliure per a biblioteques
held at the Jaume Fuster Library in Barcelona, Spain.(2007) Open Repositories 2007 - Achieving interoperability in an open World.
held in San Antonio, Texas, USA.(2006) 2nd Open Access Conference
held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.(2006) 4º Congresso Nacional da Administração Pública
held at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.(2006) 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Archives/2ª Conferência Internacional de Arquivos Empresariais
held at the Ecomeuseu do Seixal, Portugal.(2006) XATA2006 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
held at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portalegre, Portugal.(2005) 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL)
held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.(2005) DSpace Federation 2nd User Group Meeting
held at the New Hall Colledge, Cambridge, UK.(2005) 4th DELOS International Summer School on "Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries"
held at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France.(2005) Open Access Conference
held at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.(2005) XATA'2005 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
held at Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal.(2004) 5ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação
held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.(2004) Workshop "Arquivistas versus Informáticos: cooperação (e) ou concorrência?"
held at the Arquivo Distrital do Porto, Portugal.(2004) ERPANET: File Formats for Preservation Training Seminar
held at the National Library in Vienna, Austria.(2004) XATA'2004 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
held at FEUP, Porto, Portugal.(2003) XATA'2003 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas
held at Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal.(1999) Jornadas Nacionais da LESI 99
held at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Awards
(2007) Winner of the first Digital Preservation Challenge
by the DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) [press release].(2005) Fernandes Costa Award
by the Institute of Informatics for the project DigitArq developed at OPorto's Archive.
(2002) Merit Scholarship
by the Ministry of Education.
(2002) Award "Associação Industrial do Minho"
by the Industrial Association of Minho for having been the student of the Systems and Informatics Engineering Course with the highest grade.
(2000) 2nd Place at the Websites' contest "O Comércio Tradicional no trilho do Comércio Electrónico"
by the School of Engineering of University of Minho.(1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) Scholar Merit Award
by the University of Minho.
Academic background
(1998-2002) Systems and Informatics Engineering
at University of Minho.(1993-1997) Technical Course on Informatics
at Alcaides de Faria High School.
Personal hobbies
Photography
Published photos
Ferreira, M. (2001). Fast train. On Fotografia em Português [Fotografia]. Lisboa: Gótica 2000, Sociedade Editora e Livreira, Lda.
Ferreira, M. (2001). Tires over nature. On Super Foto Prática Magazine [Photography]. Lisboa: Editorial UVR, Lda.
Awards
(2006) 1st place in the photography contest subject to the theme "Angola: As suas Gentes e as suas Paisagens – Do Urbano ao Natural"
by Angola Digital.(2005) 3rd place in the Delta photography contest
by Delta Cafes.Online gallery
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Geocaching
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