Sobre (cont.)

1º Computador em 1980 (Ajudei a soldar um ZX 80, e vários ZX 81)

1º Emprego em 1982 (Landry, ainda um negócio caseiro na residência do empresário na Rua Coelho da Rocha)

Serviço Militar Obrigatório: Recruta no Porto (Regimento de Infantaria do Porto), followed by service at Lisbon (Serviços Cartográficos do Exército), Viana do Alentejo, Aljustrel and Portel (Rank: private, specialty: driver auto-rodas)

Under-graduate and graduate (Licenciatura) on CTDI (information as in “structured set of codified mental representations (significant symbols) contextualized by the society and able of being registered in some kind of material support, and thus able to be communicated / transmitted in an asynchronous mode to multiple targets”, a phenomenon characterized by: Structured by action; dynamically integrated; Pregnant; Quantifiable; Reproducible; Transmittable – See Malheiro et al.) … In short: information as in “Information Audit”, not as in “Information Systems Audit”; for more information see: The Hidden Costs of Information work e The High Cost of not finding information

Post-Graduatte in Information Systems Management (information as in “Digital Information”).

Post-Graduatte in Business Management

To know why please read (ORNA, Elizabeth) Practical information policies: How to manage information flow in organizations. Aldershot: Gower. (Matthew Hinton) Introducing Information Management: The Business Approach and (S Buchanan & F Gibb) The Information Audit: An Integrated Strategic Approach.
Or ask Profª Fernanda Gonçalves and Engº Pedro Sousa.

Still thinking about a real Masters Degree!

Interesses Triviais (Big Think):

• Paradoxo de Fermi
• Exoplanetas & Astronomia
• Emergência da Vida & Petroquímica enquanto química pré-biótica.

Interesses Práticos (Small Do):

• Domótica
• Home Automation
• Implementar soluções que melhorem a Segurança, Conforto e Economia de onde vivo.

Interesses não Triviais

• Librarianship, Information Management, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Systems; Reference works: Lancaster (Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and in Practice); lighthouse: Stephen Abram
• Education: the gnoseological phenomenon that transforms someone else’s experience in knowledge of my own; lighthouse: Americ Azevedo
• Information Literacy, a form of intelligence.

• Social Networks, because I was a paid sysop for a BSS (CATS BBS), and I recognize the same “drive” in the Web 2.0 phenomenon

• Web 2.0, specifically Web 2.0 as a communication tool between information services and patrons, as well as an ecosystem where the 2500 years of constant service by librarian to the bennefit of the Human Adventure will go on.

• If I can decide, I will install UBUNTU, not Windows.

• A long time ago I considered myself to be an expert in Blogs, OAI-PMH and RSS in general.

• A long, long time ago, I was seen as an expert in pre and peri-Nicene (325 AD) heresies

• Created two companies… both survive.

One adult daughter, also a Project Manager

In a relationship

I owned and drove a Prius when no one knew what it was about

Dreams I used to cultivate: My daughter’s graduation ceremony (done), attend a TED conference in person (done), and be happy (ongoing practice)

“née sous x”

Not what I am, but what I am made of: