Patrício, Helena Margarida Mendes Ferrão Simões

 

Since 16 September 2024: 

Librarian at the Information and Documentation Center of the Portuguese Film Archive and Museum (Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema)

 

30 June 2012 to 30 June 2024:

Director of Special Collections Services (National Library of Portugal):

-          Management of the National Digital Library

-          Management of digitisation projects

-          Management and production of digital objects

-          Management of Cartography, Iconography, Rare Books and Music Collections

-          Management of NLP Library for the Blind

-          Management of RNOD (Portuguese Libraries Aggregator for Europeana)

 

April 2007 – July 2012:

Director  of Information Systems Services (National Library of Portugal):

-          Management of the National Digital Library

-          Management of digitisation projects

-          Management and production of digital documents

-          Management of information systems

 

Previously has worked as a law librarian in the documentation centres of the Ministry of Culture (2000-2007), of the Portuguese Bar Association (1998-2000) and of a private university (1996-1997). During these years the main activities were the conceptual modelling of a database on cultural legislation, the co-ordination and production of web content, as well as the co-ordination of the documentation centre of the Ministry and the activities of classification, indexing and information retrieval.

 

        Education

 

 

 

Dates

 

January 2016 - March 2025

Title of qualification

 

PhD in Information Science and Technology

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

 

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Information Science and Technology Department

 

 

 

Dates

 

December 2000 – September 2004

Title of qualification awarded

 

Master on Information Studies and Digital Libraries

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

 

Thesis title: “Comparative analysis of the relational model and the RDF applied to the conceptual modelling of legislative information”

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

 

Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa – ISCTE

Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação

 

Dates

 

October 1996 – July 1998

Title of qualification awarded

 

Post-Graduate Course in Library and Information Science

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

 

Universidade de Lisboa

Faculdade de Letras

 

Dates

 

October 1991 – July 1996

Title of qualification awarded

 

Law graduate

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

 

Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa) - Faculdade de Direito

 

University/Institution	Type	Degree	Period
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa - Centro de Investigacao em Ciencias da Informacao Tecnologias e Arquitetura Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação - Portugal - Lisboa	PhD	Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação	2016 - 2025
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Portugal - Lisboa	Other type of qualification	Programa de Formação em Gestão Pública (FORGEP)	2009 - 2010
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa - Centro de Investigacao em Ciencias da Informacao Tecnologias e Arquitetura Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação - Portugal - Lisboa	M.Sc.	Estudos de Informação e Bibliotecas Digitais	2000 - 2004
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras Portugal - Lisboa	Post-graduation	Ciências Documentais - Opção de Biblioteca e Documentação	1996 - 1998
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Direito Portugal - Lisboa	Licenciate	Direito	1991 - 1996