Professional

Activities

• eLife Innovation Sprint 2020 project leader: A collaborative gathering of researchers, developers and technologists, creating prototypes to drive forward open research. Conducted online September 2–3, 2020 with the project entitled "Crawling data portals for improving research communication" in partnership with Kellyton Brito.


• 2020 faculty cohort for the AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador Program: AWS Educate Faculty Cloud Ambassadors are top-tier cloud educators who serve as ambassadors and evangelists for AWS Educate. As Ambassadors, they share their knowledge and experience in teaching cloud computing with other educators at their institution, in their community, and around the world. If you are an educator, be part of this amazing initiative by enrolling with this personalized link referred to me. Thanks!

Projects

• Benchmarking open data automatically: A series of works to automatically access, obtain and compare data portals worldwide towards building an independent, reliable and up to date repository as a single source of open data portals operated around the world. Main outcomes:
• Accepted project for eLife Innovation Sprint 2020 entitled "Crawling data portals for improving research communication" conducted online September 2–3, 2020. See on Github.
• Paper entitled "Open science-based framework to reveal open data publishing: an experience from using Common Crawl" at ELPUB 2020.
• Paper entitled "Laying the foundations for benchmarking open data automatically: a method for surveying data portals from the whole web" at DGO 2019. Paper data on Github.
• Postdoctoral research at Department of Computer Science in Institute of Mathematics and Statistics/University of Sao Paulo: Project entitled "Development of method supported by fuzzy metrics for the evaluation of open government data repositories from automated access mechanisms and content classification". CNPq grantee from July/2017 to July/2018. Supervised by Professor Flavio Soares Correa da Silva. Main outcomes:
• Extended abstract "Método para processamento automatizado de formulários para alcançar a deep governmental web" at 10º CONICT (ISSN 2178-9959). 2019. Student: A. H. C. Torres
• Paper entitled "Towards an automated method to assess data portals in the deep web" (see the Accepted Manuscript) in Government Information Quarterly Volume 36, Issue 3 (July 2019), pp. 412-426
• Paper entitled "Investigating open data portals automatically: a methodology and some illustrations" at DGO 2018. Paper data on Github.
• Poster entitled "Encouraging students to the Data Revolution" at 2018 Sage Assembly
• Extended abstract "Estudo de métodos de acesso automatizado para classificação de conteúdo em websites de acordo com dados abertos governamentais" at 8º CONICT/1ª Jornada IFSP (ISSN 2178-9959). 2017. Students: A. P. Rozado, R. M. Souza
• Poster entitled "Método de acesso automatizado para análise de transparência pública em websites municipais em relação a princípios de dados abertos governamentais" at OpenCon 2017 Campinas (ISSN 2526-4826). 2017. Students: R. M. Souza. Poster awarded 1st prize.
• Academic Mobility to Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark: An Erasmus Mundus - AMIDILA Action 2 grant. Mobillity carried out in June and July 2017 and supervised by Professor Pär-Ola Zander. Main outcome:
• Paper entitled "Unleashing Tabular Content to Open Data: A Survey on PDF Table Extraction Methods and Tools " at DGO 2017
• Architecture for Open Government Data: A series of works to define and implement an API-based reference architecture for Open Government Data. Main outcome:
• Github
• Extended abstract "Implementação de infraestrutura de API para extração de dados tabulares a partir de documentos PDF" at 7º CONICT (ISSN 2178-9959). 2016. Students: A. P. Rozado
• Poster entitled "Implementação de infraestrutura de API para extração de dados tabulares a partir de documentos PDF" at OpenCon 2016 Campinas (ISSN 2526-4826). 2016. Students: A. P. Rozado
• Extended abstract and Poster entitled "Ferramenta para extração de informações de portais de transparência pública dispostas em formato não aberto" at IFSP Innovation Day Special Track of the 7th Internacional Conference on Management of computacional and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems - MEDES 2015). 2015. Students: E. H. C. Paula, P. H. P. Cardoso
• Extended abstract "Métodos de extração de dados tabulares a partir de HTML e PDF" at 5º CINTEC (ISSN 2178-9959). 2014. Students: F. G. Lopes, E. H. C. Paula, F. R. Santos
• Promessometro: System for monitoring election campaign promises at local level of governments using an Open Data infrastructure. Main outcome:
• Github
• Poster entitled "Promessometro auditoria cidada e avaliacao de sustentabilidade da gestao municipal" at OpenCon 2016 Campinas (ISSN 2526-4826). 2016. Students: B. F. Silva, D. L. Macedo, V. M. Rossi. Poster awarded 1st prize.
• Openness Brazil 2014: A wide national assessment of data openness in 561 Brazilian local governments.
• datahub.io dataset
• Paper entitled "Transparency and Open Government Data: A Wide National Assessment of Data Openness in Brazilian Local Governments. Transforming Government" In: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 55-78
  AWARDED PAPER! 2018 Highly Commended Award
• Extended abstract entitled "Uma análise dos portais de transparência municipais à luz dos dados abertos governamentais" at 5º CINTEC (ISSN 2178-9959). 2014. Students: E. H. C. Paula, F. G. Lopes, F. R. Santos
• Nebulosus: An open fuzzy-based system to measure interoperability level of government agencies
• Github

Chairs and organization

• Organizing committee: 1º Seminário de Ciência de Dados do IFSP (30/Mar/2023)
• Satellite event coordinator: OpenCon 2017 Campinas (27/Oct/2017)
• Satellite event coordinator: OpenCon 2016 Campinas (21/Oct/2016)
• Organizing committee: 1st Workshop on Data Science - Poli/USP (18-19/Nov/2015)

Jornal reviewer

• Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP) (ISSN 1750-6166)
• Electronic Journal of e-Government (EJEG) (ISSN 1479-439X)
• IEEE Latin America Transactions (ISSN 1548-0992)
• Journal of Computer Sciences (ISSN 1549-3636)
• Government Information Quarterly (ISSN 0740-624X)
• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ISSN 2330-1643)
• Information Processing and Management (ISSN 0306-4573)

Program committees

• SET EXPO 2015 / Revista de Radiodifusão (ISSN 1981-4984/2236-9619)
• 17th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2016)
• 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2017)
• Congresso Brasileiro de Agroinformática (SBIAgro 2017)
• The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2018)
• 12th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2018)
• 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2018)
• 13th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2019)
• 21th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2020)
• 14th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2020)
• 15th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2021)
• 16th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2022)
• IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022 (EGOV 2022)
• 17th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2023)
• IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2023 (EGOV 2023)
• 18th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2024)
• IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2024 (EGOV 2024)