Daniel Gomes is the leader of the Portuguese Web Archive and manager of the web development team at the Portuguese National Foundation for Scientific Computing (FCCN). He collaborates with the European Commission as an independent expert to evaluate research activities on Information and Communication Technologies.
His main interests are team management, web publication, usability, accessibility for people with disabilities, information systems design and information retrieval.
Daniel maintains a site in where he shares useful findings to the Portuguese-speaking web community.
He is an invited researcher at the XLDB Research Team of the University of Lisbon. His PhD thesis, entitled “Web Modelling for Web Warehouse design”, described the characteristics of web data and discussed their impact on the design of web data processing systems.
Previously, he was a researcher at the Institute of Applied Science and Technology where he designed and developed a system to archive selected online publications, in collaboration with the Portuguese National Library. He also participated in the development of a framework to support the search of news across online publications in collaboration with Público, a national newspaper.
Current activities
- Leader of the Portuguese Web Archive at FCCN.
- Manager of the web development team at FCCN.
- Main activities: management of research and development projects, usability testing and heuristic evaluations, accessibility for people with disabilities analysis, purchase management.
- European Commission independent expert for Information and Communication Technologies research activities.
- Invited researcher at the XLDB group of the Large Scale Informatic Systems Laboratory.
- Webmaster of Visibilidade.net, a site in Portuguese about web publication.
Past activities
- Member of the ESFRI working group about digital repositories (2007).
- Researcher at the XLDB group of LaSIGE as a phD student (2004-2007).
- Project manager in startup company focused on Web publishing: search engine optimization, usability, accessibility for people with disabilities (2007-2008).
- System administrator at LaSIGE (2002-2004).
- Researcher at ICAT Institute of Applied Science and Technology (2000-2002).
Thesis
- Daniel Gomes, Web Modelling for Web Warehouse Design, PhD thesis, University of Lisbon, March, 2007 (presentation, bibtex).
- Advisor: Mário J. Silva
- Committee: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Orlando Belo, Pedro Veiga, André Falcão, Mário J. Silva.
Book chapters
- Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva. "WPT 03: a primeira colecção pública proveniente de uma recolha da web portuguesa". In Diana Santos (ed.), Avaliação conjunta: um novo paradigma no processamento computacional da língua portuguesa. Lisboa: IST Press, 2007, pp. 279-288. (bibtex).
Journal articles
- Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva, The Viúva Negra crawler: an experience report, Software: Practice and Experience, volume 32, number 2, 2008 (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva, Characterizing a National Community Web, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, volume 5, number 3, August 2005 (bibtex).
Conference papers
- Rui Lopes, Daniel Gomes, Luís Carriço, Web Not For All: A Large Scale Study of Web Accessibility, W4A: 7th ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Raleigh, Carolina do Norte, E.U.A., April 2010 (presentation, bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, Preservar a Web: um desafio ao alcance de todos, 10.º Congresso Nacional dos Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas, Guimarães, Portugal, Abril de 2010 (presentation, bibtex).
- João Miranda, Daniel Gomes, Trends in Web characteristics, 7th Latin American Web Congress, Mérida, Mexico, November 2009 (bibtex).
- João Miranda, Daniel Gomes, An Updated Portrait of the Portuguese Web, 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009 (bibtex).
- João Miranda, Daniel Gomes, How are Web characteristics evolving (poster), ACM Hypertext Conference, Turim, Italy, June 2009 (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, João Miranda, Arquivo e medição da web portuguesa (best paper award), Ibero-Americana IADIS WWW/Internet 2008, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2008 (presentation, bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, André Nogueira, João Miranda, Miguel Costa, Introducing the Portuguese web archive initiative, 8th International Web Archiving Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008 (presentation, bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, Sérgio Freitas, Mário J. Silva, Design and Selection Criteria for a National Web Archive (best paper by young researcher award), 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'06), September 2006 (presentation, bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva, Modelling Information Persistence on the Web (best paper candidate), The Sixth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'06), July 2006 (presentation, bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, André Santos, Mário J. Silva, Managing duplicates in a web archive, 21th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'06), April 2006 (presentation, bibtex).
- Norman Noronha, João P. Campos, Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva, José Borbinha, A Deposit for Digital Collections, Fifth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'01), September 2001 (bibtex).
Workshop papers
- Daniel Gomes, André Nogueira, João Miranda, Miguel Costa, Introducing the Portuguese web archive initiative, 8th International Web Archiving Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008 (presentation, bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes e Mário J. Silva, A Characterization of the Portuguese Web, 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives, Trondheim, Noruega, August 2003 (presentation, bibtex).
Posters
- Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva, Tarântula - Sistema de Recolha de Documentos da Web, 4ª Conferência de Redes de Computadores, Covilhã (CRC'01), November 2001, in Portuguese (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, João Campos, Mário J. Silva, Versus: A Web Repository, WDAS-2002: Workshop on Distributed Data & Structures, Paris, France, March 2002 (bibtex).
Selected talks
- Arquivar a Web, Seminário da Universidade Lusófona, Janeiro de 2010.
- Daniel Gomes, Integração de Informação proveniente da Web, SEDES2004 - doctoral symposium on software engineering (in Portuguese).
- Daniel Gomes, Pesquisa e Arquivo na Web Portuguesa, Seminário de Ciência da Informação da Universidade do Porto, March, 2007 (in Portuguese).
Tecnhical reports
- Daniel Gomes e Mário J. Silva, The Viuva Negra crawler, Technical report, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, November 2006 (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva, On URL and content persistence, Technical Report, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, December 2005 (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, André L. Santos, Mário J. Silva, Webstore: A Manager for Incremental Storage of Contents, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, November 2004 (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes e Mário J. Silva, Collecting Statistics about the Portuguese Web, Technical report, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, June 2003 (bibtex).
- Daniel Gomes, Tarântula - Sistema de Recolha de Documentos na WWW, internship report, July 2001 (bibtex).
- Carlos Correia, Daniel Gomes, Norman Noronha, Guia Móvel do Lazer: Planeamento, Análise e Desenho, technical report ARIADNE TR-00-9, June 2000 (in Portuguese).
- Carlos Correia, Daniel Gomes, Norman Noronha, Interface de Utilização do NewsSearch, technical report ARIADNE TR-00-11, June 2000 (in Portuguese).
Related news on media
- Tatiana de Mello Dias, .pt em arquivo, Blog do jornal Estadão, 26 de abril de 2010.
- João Pedro Pereira, Cientistas defendem instituição para arquivar a web portuguesa, Jornal Público, 28th November 2006, N.° 6089 (frontpage, article).
- Alexandra Rosa, TUMBA! TOMBA: No mundo virtual há que guardar hoje para ler amanhã, Revista Visão, 8th February 2007, Nº 727(article).
- Pedro Fonseca, Um Tumba nacional!: Um motor de busca português para a web portuguesa, Jornal Público, 21st April 2003 (article).
- Sic Radical, Tech.pt (movie).
Others
- Dany Vandromme et al. ESFRI contribution about digital repositories (presentation)
Other degrees
- UX Lx: User Experience Conference (5/2010)
- Advanced workshops: Influencing Strategy by Design and Product Strategy & Planning Tools.
- Finances for newbies (10/2009).
- The Usability Week 2009 Conference: Interaction Design 101, Application Usability and Research Update 2009.
- Negotiation skills (4/2009).
- Authorization and authentication infrastructure Shibboleth (2007).
- IP v.6 protocol (2007).
- Pedagogical techniques (5-7/2006).
- Project management (2/2005).
- Inter-personal relations (5/2004).
- Production of scientific literature (3-5/2004).
- Oracle 9i (2003-2004): database administrator I, SQL optimization, table partitioning, database performance tuning.
Other skills
- Languages
- Spanish: reasonably spoken.
- English: good written and spoken.
- French: reasonably written and spoken.
- Driving license in 1996.
