Pedro Barcelos
Senior Metadata And Semantics Specialist
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPedro Barcelos is a Senior Metadata and Semantics Specialist and Ontology Engineer with over a decade of experience applying conceptual modeling, knowledge graphs, and semantic web technologies across academia, government, and industry. Currently driving semantic data integration at Health-RI, he leads initiatives in semantic interoperability and FAIR data practices for national-scale health research. His work bridges philosophical foundations and practical implementations—evidenced by ResiliOnt (ER 2024), a Best Paper at FOIS 2023, and stewardship of the OntoUML/UFO catalog. Trained as an engineer with a PhD in telecommunications and an MBA in project management, he combines deep technical rigor with strong project execution skills. He is also an active open-source contributor and Python developer, producing libraries that streamline ontology engineering workflows. Based in Enschede, he brings a rare blend of foundational ontology research and hands-on systems integration in domains from healthcare to transportation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management at Universidade Vila Velha - UVVDoctor's Degree, Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications and Information Technology), Doctor's Degree, Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications and Information Technology) at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Oficial)
Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (74)
table-of-contents10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
commonmark10
haskell10
markdown10
catalog10
markup-language10
knowledge-graph10
conceptual-model10
markup10
pandoc10
rdf10
converter10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unibz-core/OntCatOWL
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:249 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
OntoUML/ontouml-vocabulary
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
An OWL vocabulary to allow the serialization and exchanging of OntoUML models in conformance with the OntoUML Metamodel.
Contributions:2 releases, 22 reviews, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
conceptual-modellingontology-driven-conceptual-modelingontology-driven-developmentontoumlontouml-metamodel
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