Faculty of Library and Information Science
University of Barcelona

Research

Research groups

Member of:

Doctorate candidate

Currently writing a PhD thesis on personal information management.

Current projects

Temaria

Collaboration in the development of Temaria, a portal which provides access to Spanish e-journals.

Project coordinated by Ernest Abadal and Assumpció Estivill. Jesús Gascón, Josep Manuel Rodríguez Gairín and other people are also involved.

Alehoop

Collaboration in the development of Alehoop, a portal to help high school and university students to prepare research works.

Project coordinated by Lluís Agustí and Amadeu Pons. Sílvia Argudo, Josep Manuel Rodríguez Gairín, Candela Ollé, Pedro Rueda and Nora Vela are also involved.

MatPromo

Collaboration in the design of MatPromo, a database of library promotion tools.

International project funded by IFLA and coordinated by Ŕngels Massísimo. Josep Manuel Rodríguez Gairín, Sergi Chávez, José Antonio Gómez, Tomás Saorín and Marielle de Miribel are also involved.

Past projects

Ipsen

Conduction of a research project on information managment in R+D units, in connection with the Formulation Innovation department in Ipsen Pharma Barcelona.

Montserrat Ortí is also involved.

Exit: directorio de expertos en el tratamiento de la información

Collaboration in the design of Exit, a directory of experts in information handling (2005).

Project developed by Tomŕs Baiget and Josep Manuel Rodríguez Gairín.

MEC: Manual d'exemples de catalogació

Usability and interaction design for MEC: Manual d'exemples de catalogació (2004).

Teaching innovation project coordinated by Assumpció Estivill. Jesús Gascón, Andreu Sulé, Concepció Miralpeix, Noemi Alcŕzar, Sergi Chávez and Josep Manuel Rodríguez Gairín were also involved. Also available on CD-ROM (Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2004).

Conferences and professional meetings

Areas of interest

  • Knowledge organization and representation
  • Information architecture, accessibility and usability
  • Document imaging and image processing