CURRICULUM VITAE    

 

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