Jaider Ferreira
Bibliotecário at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJaider Ferreira is an information science professional and librarian with 11 years of experience in academic libraries across UNESP, UNIFESP and UFSC, currently serving as a librarian at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. He holds a master's in Ciência da Informação from UNESP, where his FAPESP-funded research explored semantic wikis and the transition from the Web to the Semantic Web, building on earlier FAPESP-backed work on Wikipedia and collective intelligence. Jaider combines practical repository implementation and library communication leadership with hands-on technical contributions to open-source knowledge platforms, including back-end fixes and locale/HTML handling improvements for the widely used Semantic MediaWiki project. His profile blends scholarly research, institutional repository development and day-to-day library services, making him adept at bridging user needs and machine-readable knowledge. Based in Santa Catarina, he brings a rare mix of bibliographic expertise and semantic-web implementation experience that supports modern research infrastructures.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Ciência da Informação, Master's degree, Ciência da Informação at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
php10
mediawiki10
semantic-mediawiki10
wikipedia10
database5
databases5
javascript4
sql-query4
collaboration4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki
Dec 2015 - Aug 2021
🔗 Semantic MediaWiki turns MediaWiki into a knowledge management platform with query and export capabilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 17 commits, 61 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jaider's contributions primarily involve modifying and improving the Semantic MediaWiki codebase. They addressed issues like fixing typos and adding missing semicolons to CSS files. The user also focused on updating code to reflect class name changes and incorporating locale-specific translations. Furthermore, the user implemented checks for HTML content within parameters to ensure correct output formatting.
smwcollaborationmediawiki-extensionknowledge-graphsemantic-web
jaideraf/libraryapi
Sep 2021 - Jan 2025
Demonstration: https://libraryapi.sites.ufsc.br/api/v2/pergamum/64967?url=https://pergamumweb.udesc.br/web_service/servidor_ws.php&media_type=application/xml
Contributions:32 PRs, 116 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 4 months
marc21pythondjangoxmlxml-url
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