Biography

Associate Professor, University of Oviedo, Spain. Founder and main researcher of WESO (Web Semantics Oviedo) research group, which collaborates with different companies around the world applying semantic web technologies to solve practical problems.

Member of Web of Things and Data Shapes W3C Working Groups and of Shape Expressions, SHACL, RAX (RDF and XML interoperability) and Best practices of Multilingual Linked Open Data W3C community groups.

Previously, He was coordinator of the Master in Web Engineering - University of Oviedo (2016-2017), and Dean of the School of Computer Science Engineering - University of Oviedo (2004-2012).

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All publications

• Legislative data portals and linked data quality

  Thu, 7 Nov, 2019, Keynote speaker at HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit 2019

• Entity Schema visualization and authoring tools

  Sat, 26 Oct, 2019, Data Quality panel at WikidataCon 2019

• Data models, visualizations and Shape Expressions for RDF. Combining RDFShape with Cytoscape

  Sun, 1 Sep, 2019, Biohackathon 2019

• Validating RDF data: Challenges and perspectives

  Wed, 26 Jun, 2019, Keynote lecture at 1st Iberoamerican Conference on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web

• ShEx @ Wikidata

  Mon, 20 May, 2019, Wikimedia Hackathon - Prague

• Semantic Technologies to validate health information (in Spanish)

  Sat, 6 Apr, 2019, XV Congreso ANIS (Asociación Nacional Informadores Salud)

• Validating RDF data: ShEx and SHACL compared

  Mon, 17 Dec, 2018, Universidad de Chile

• Validating RDF data: ShEx and SHACL compared

  Fri, 30 Nov, 2018, Protege Research Meeting

• Data Models, Visualizations and ShEx for Wikicite

  Wed, 28 Nov, 2018, Wikicite 2018

• Validating RDF data - ISWC Tutorial

  Tue, 9 Oct, 2018, International Semantic Web Conference

Supervised PhD students

• Jose María Álvarez Rodríguez: Métodos semánticos de reutilización de datos abiertos enlazados en las licitaciones públicas, 2012

• Hernán Sagastegui Chigne: Desarrollo de Tecnologías Colaborativas para Entornos virtuales de apoyo al aprendizaje, 2015

• Jose Alberto Benítez Andrades: Tecnologías Semánticas aplicadas al Análisis de Redes Sociales en el ámbito de la Salud, 2017

Current PhD Students

• Victor Hugo Aravena Díaz
• Daniel Fernández Álvarez
• Herminio García González
• Ángel Retamar Arias

Member of Scientific/Organizing committee

• 8th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns, WOP, 2017
• Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Services, Provenance, Linking and QualitY, LEDSPLaY17, 2017
• Linked Data Quality Workshop, 2017
• ISW-LOD2016 (4th International Workshop on Semantic Web and Linked Open Data), Puerto Rico, 2016
• SEMANTiCS 2016, Senior PC member
• Latin American Symposium on Data Management Systems, Co-chair
• W3c workshop on Multilingual web, 2015
• SEMANTiCS 2015 Research Track (11th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Research Track), Senior PC member
• ReCert 2015 (1st International Workshop on Linked Data Repair and Certification), 2015
• International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web, 2014
• 16th International Simposium on Computers in Education, 2014
• Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns, WOP, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Spanish conference on service science and engineering, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Encuentro Nacional en Ciencias de la Computación, Mexico, 2014
• Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de Informática, Jenui, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• 12th International Semantic Web Conference - Evaluation Track, 2012
• 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference, 2012
• Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, MTSR, 2012
• Social Data and Semantic Web, Workshop of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Web
• Workshop on LInked Data en Conferencia Española de la Asociación para La Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA, 2011)
• Workshop on Software Engineering and eLearning (ISELEAR), 2010, 2011
• Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE), 2008
• International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE, 2003, 2004, 2006
• Fourth International Workshop on Language, Descriptions, Tools and Applications, 2004

Reviewer of papers in the following journals

• Computer Standards and Interfaces, Reviewer, 2017
• Bioinformatics, 2015
• Computers and Human Behaviour, Reviewer, 2013-2016
• Computers in Industry, Reviewer and Special issue editor, 2014
• Telematics and Informatics, Reviewer, 2016, 2017
• Expert Systems with Applications, Reviewer, 2017
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, reviewer, 2016
• Information Sciences, reviewer, 2014
• International Journal of Universal Computer Science, reviewer, 2013
• Science of Computer Programming, reviewer, 2013
• Semantic Web Journal, reviewer, 2013
• Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, reviewer, 2013

Advisory board of the following publications

• Global Hospitality and Tourism Management Technologies: Applications and Issues, Editors: Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, R. Tennyson, and J-Y. Zhao, 2011, IGI-Global. Pp. 1-270 ISBN DOI: 10.⁴⁰¹⁸⁄₉₇₈-1-61350-041-5, ISBN13: 978-1-61350-041-5, ISBN10: 1-61350-041-6
• Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness: Management of Personal Identities and Social Networking, Editors: Lytras, M.D., Ordóñez de Pablos, P. and Damiani, E., IGI-Global, pp.1-232, 2011, DOI: 10.⁴⁰¹⁸⁄₉₇₈-1-61520-921-7, ISBN13: 9781615209217, ISBN10: 1615209212, EISBN13: 9781615209224.
• Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches, Editors: Lytras, M.D., Ordóñez de Pablos, P., Damiani, E. and Diaz, L. (2011), Editorial IGI-Global. Pp. 1-270. ISBN 9781615208678.
• Technology Enhanced Learning for People with Disabilities: Approaches and Applications, Editors: Ordóñez de Pablos, P., Zhao, Y. and Tennyson, R., 2010, Editorial IGI-Global, pp- 1-276. ISBN-10: 1615209239 -ISBN-13: 978-1615209231. DOI: 10.⁴⁰¹⁸⁄₉₇₈-1-61520-923-1

More personal information

I was the drummer of Kactus Jack. You can see an unofficial home page, vintage style. I was also the drummer of Los Murciélagos and Los Aborígenes.

I teach the following courses:

• Software architecture - Bachelor of Software Engineering, University of Oviedo, Spain. This course is taught in Spanish and English.
• Semantic Web - Master in Web Engineering, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Advances in Semantic Web - Master in Web Engineering, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Object Oriented Programming - Master in Web Engineering, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Web systems and applications - Master in Information Technology, Technical University Federico Santa María, Chile

I also taught the courses:

• Languages and Web standards - Master in Web Engineering, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Web services - Master in Web Engineering, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Logic - Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Oviedo
• Declarative Programming - Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Oviedo
• Language Processors - EPIG

• labra at uniovi dot es
• @jelabra on Keybase.
• +34 985103394
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• C/Federico García Lorca, S/N, CP 33007, Oviedo, Spain
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