Personal information
Surname(s) / First name(s)
Patrício, Helena Margarida Mendes Ferrão Simões
Dates
Occupation or position held
Dates
Since 16 September 2024
Librarian at the Information and Documentacion Center of the Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema (National Film Museum of Portugal)
30 June 2012 to 30 June 2024
Occupation or position held
Director, Special Collections Services (National Library of Portugal)
Main activities and responsibilities
- 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)
Name and address of employer
National Library of Portugal
Campo Grande, 83
1749-081 Lisboa
Portugal
Dates
April 2007 – July 2012
Occupation or position held
Director, Information Systems Services
Main activities and responsibilities
- Management of the National Digital Library
- Management of digitisation projects
- Management and production of digital documents
- Management of information systems
Name and address of employer
National Library of Portugal
Campo Grande, 83
1749-081 Lisboa
Portugal
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 onwards (in progress)
Title of qualification(in progress)
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