Nuno Freire
Researcher at Europeana
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNuno Freire is a researcher and senior data and AI engineer based in Lisbon with over 15 years of professional experience and a 20+ year background building large-scale data solutions. He holds a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and has blended academic rigor with practical impact across cultural and national heritage institutions. His career includes senior research and leadership roles at INESC-ID, Europeana, The European Library and the National Library of Portugal, where he focused on interoperability, metadata engineering and large federated information systems. Nuno specializes in bridging research and production: designing data architectures that enable discovery, preservation and reuse of cultural datasets at scale. Colleagues describe him as someone who combines deep systems thinking with a pragmatic drive to operationalize AI and data research in public-sector contexts. His long tenure in libraries and Europe-wide projects means he knows how to navigate complex standards, policies and stakeholder ecosystems to deliver usable technical outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Pass with Merit, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Pass with Merit at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (40)
iiif10
api-documentation10
recipe9
cookbook9
api9
metis9
openapi8
in-progress8
apply7
protocols6
react6
open-data6
vocabulary6
javascript6
europeana5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nfreire/data-aggregation-lab
May 2018 - Nov 2019
An experimental project on a framework for acquisition of data from open data sources, and supporting several technologies and protocols. The Data Aggregation Lab is a work in progress. It aims to gather information from data providers and aggregators, share experimental results, apply prototypes, and provide demonstrators.
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 5 months
datadata-aggregationgathersourcesdataframes
europeana/rd-iiif-discovery-crawling
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
harvestingiiifdata-sourcescrawlerjava
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