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Roberto Garcí­a González

Degrees
2000-2006

Ph.D. Computer Science and Digital Communication

Technologies Department, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Thesis: A Semantic Web Approach to Digital Rights Management.
2000-2001

Master of Electronic Commerce

Engineering and Architecture La Salle, Barcelona
1994-2000

M.Sc. Computer Science Engineer

Barcelona School of Informatics, Univ. Polití¨cnica de Catalunya

Thesis: Knowledge management with RDF/XML.

Professional
Experience
Feb 2007-

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction and Data Integration Research Group (GRIHO),
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Univ. de Lleida, Spain

Human-Computer Interaction, Semantic Web, Digital Rights Management, Semantic Multimedia and Semantic E-Business.
Jan 2006-Jan 2007

Researcher

Human-Computer Interaction Research Group (GRIHO),
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Univ. de Lleida, Spain

Human-Computer Interaction, Usability, Accessibility and Semantic Web.
Feb 2000-Dec 2005

Research Assistant

Technologies Department, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Distributed applications, content management, electronic commerce,
knowledge management, semantic web and autonomous agents.
Sep 2001-Sep 2005

Assistant Professor

Technologies Department, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Internet applications subjects and M.Sc. thesis director.

Nov 1999-Jan 2000

Teaching Assistant

Technologies Department, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Computer networks and architecture subjects.
Jul 1999-Oct 1999

Webmaster Computer Graphics Section

Computer Graphics Section, Univ. Polití¨cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Aug 1998-Apr 1999

Annalist and Developer

Gala Communication S.L.

Internet and multimedia interactive applications.
Languages
  • Spanish: native.
  • Catalan: second native language.
  • English: First Certificate Cambridge.
  • French: undergraduate studies language.
Research
details

Publications, standardisation involvements and conference and other events involvements.

Publications

Semantic for E-Business: Cases and Applications

Garcí­a, R. (ed.)

IGI Global, book scheduled for publication 2008

Multimedia Content Description using Semantic Web Languages

García, R.; Tsinaraki, C.; Celma, O.; Christodoulakis, S.

In Kompatsiaris, Y.; Hobson, P. (Eds.) Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications. Springer, 2008
ISBN 978-1-84800-075-9

The Semantic Web as a Newspaper Media Convergence Facilitator

García, R.; Perdrix, F.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M.

Journal of Web Semantics, in press, Elsevier, 2008
ISSN 1570-8268

A Web Ontology for Copyright Contracts Management

García, R.; Gil, R.

Special issue on "Contract Architectures and Languages".
International Journal of Electronic Commerce, in press. M.E. Sharpe, 2008
ISSN 1086-4415

MPEG-7 based Multimedia Ontologies: Interoperability Support or Interoperability Issue?

Troncy R., Celma O., Little S., García R., Tsinaraki C.

Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies Workshop, MARESO'07

Semantics-Supported Cooperative Learning for Enhanced Awareness

Collazos, C.; García, R.

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 4/5, pp. 421-436. Inderscience, 2007
ISSN 1741-1017

Promoting Music Sampling by Semantic Web-enhanced DRM tools

Springer, M.; García. R.

5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, Virtual Goods'07
Nova Science Publishers, 2007. In press

Acercando la Web Semántica a los Usuarios

García. R.; Perdrix, F.; Gimeno, J.M.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M.

II Jornadas sobre Ontologías y Web Semántica, WebSemántica'07
Thomson-Paraninfo, 2007. In press

Interfaces basados en la Web Semántica para la Gestión de Contenidos Multimedia

Perdrix, F.; García. R.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M.; Macías, J.A.; Moya, D.

VIII Congreso Internacional de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Interacción'07
Thomson-Paraninfo, 2007. In press

Ontology-Based Retrieval of Human Speech

Tejedor, J.; García, R.; Fernández, M.; López, F.; Perdrix, F.; Macías, J.A.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M.; Moya, D.; Colás, J.; Castells, P.

6th International Workshop on Web Semantics, WebS'07
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007. In press

Facilitating Business Interoperability from the Semantic Web

 

García, R.; Gil, R.

10th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS'07
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4439, pp. 220-232. Springer-Verlag, 2007
ISBN 3-540-72034-0

A Web Ontologies Framework for Digital Rights Management

García, R.; Gil, R. and Delgado, J.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 137-154. Springer-Verlag, 2007
ISSN 0924-8463

Improving Human-Semantic Web Interaction: The Rhizomer Experience

Garcí­a, R; Gil, R.

3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop, SWAP'06
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 201, pp., 2006
ISSN 1613-0073

Semantic Digital Rights Management for Controlled P2P RDF Metadata Diffusion

Garcí­a, R.; Tummarello, G.

2nd International Semantic Web Policy Workshop, SWPW'06
International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, USA, 2006
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 207, pp. 102-109, 2006
ISSN 1613-0073

An OWL Copyright Ontology for Semantic Digital Rights Management

Garcí­a, R.; Gil, R.

IFIP WG 2.12 & WG 12.4 International Workshop on Web Semantics, SWWS'06
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4278, pp. 1745-1754 . Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN 3-540-48273-3

Semantic Data Integration in a Newspaper Content Management System

Abellí³, A.; Garcí­a, R.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M. and Perdrix, F.

Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE'06
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4277, pp. 40-41. Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN 3-540-48269-5

Ontological Infrastructure for a Semantic Newspaper

Garcí­a, R.; Perdrix, F. and Gil, R.

Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia Workshop, SWAMM'06
World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 2006

Building a Semantic IntraWeb with Rhizomer and a Wiki

Garcí­a, R. and Gil, R.

IntraWebs Workshop, IntraWebs'06
World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 2006

Measuring the Semantic Web

Gil, R. and Garcí­a, R.

Advances in Metadata Research, Proceedings of MTSR'05
Rinton Press, 2006
ISBN 1-58949-053-3

An Ontological Approach for the Management of Rights Data Dictionaries

Garcí­a, R. and Delgado, J.

18th Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, JURIX 2005
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 134, IOS Press, 2005
ISBN 1-58603-576-2

Semantic Integration and Retrieval of Multimedia Metadata

Garcí­a, R and Celma, O.

Presented at the 5th Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation Workshop, SemAnnot 2005
Unpublished

Architecture of a Semantic XPath Processor

Tous, R.; Garcí­a, R.; Rodrí­guez, E. and Delgado, J.

E-Commerce and Web Technologies: 6th International Conference, EC-Web 2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3590, pp 1 - 10. Springer-Verlag, 2005
ISBN 3-540-28467-2

Formalising ODRL Semantics using Web Ontologies

Garcí­a, R.; Gil, R.; Gallego, I. and Delgado, J.

Open Digital Rights Language Workshop, ODRL 2005

An interoperable framework for IPR using web ontologies

Gil, R.; Garcí­a, R. and Delgado, J.

Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, LOAIT 2005
IAAIL Workshop Series, pp. 135-148. Wolf Legal Publishers, 2005
ISBN 90-5850-504-9

Intellectual Property Rights Management using a Semantic Web Information System

Garcí­a, R., Gil, R. and Delgado, J.

OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2004
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3291, pp 689 - 704. Springer-Verlag, 2004
ISBN 3-540-23662-7

Use of Semantic Tools for a Digital Rights Dictionary

Delgado, J.; Gallego, I. and Garcí­a, R.

5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-WEB 2004
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3182, pp 338 - 347. Springer-Verlag, 2004
ISBN 3-540-22917-5

Measuring the Semantic Web

Gil, R., Garcí­a, R. and Delgado, J.

"Semantic Web Challenges for Knowledge Management: towards the Knowledge Web",
SIGSEMIS Bulletin Vol 1, Issue 2, pp 69 - 72. July 2004

IPROnto: An Ontology for Digital Rights Management

Delgado, J.; Gallego, I.; Llorente, S. and Garcí­a, R.

16th Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, JURIX 2003
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 106, IOS Press, 2003
ISBN 1-58603-398-0

Regulatory Ontologies: An Intellectual Property Rights approach

Delgado, J.; Gallego, I.; Llorente, S. and Garcí­a, R.

Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations, WORM CoRe 2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2889, pp 621 - 634. Springer-Verlag, 2003
ISBN 3-540-20494-6

Delivery context negotiated by mobile agents using CC/PP

Gil, R., Garcí­a, R. and Delgado, J.

Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, MATA 2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2881, pp 99 - 110. Springer-Verlag, 2003
ISBN 3-540-20298-6

An Architecture for Negotiation with Mobile Agents

Delgado, J.; Gallego, I.; Garcí­a, R. and Gil, R.

Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, MATA 2002
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2521, pp 21-31. Springer-Verlag, 2002
ISBN 3-540-00021-6

IPROnto - Intellectual Property Rights Ontology

Delgado, J.; Gallego, I.; Garcí­a, R. and Gil, R.

Poster in International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sardinia, 2002

Brokerage of Intellectual Property Rights in the Semantic Web

Garcí­a, R. and Delgado, J.

Proceedings Semantic Web Working Symposium, pp 245-260, SWWS, Stanford, 2001

Use of Mobile Agents for IPR Management and Negotiation

Gallego, I.; Delgado, J. and Garcí­a, R.

Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, MATA 2000
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1931, pp 205-213. Springer-Verlag, 2000
ISBN 3-540-41069-4


Projects

S5T: Scaleable semantic personalised search of spoken and written contents on the Semantic Web

Spanish Government - TIN2005-06885
2006-2008 (http://nets.ii.uam.es/s5t)

XAC: Catalonian Audiovisual Network

i2Cat Foundation
2005-2006 (http://www.i2cat.net)

VISNET NoE: Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies

European Commission - IST FP6 506946
2003-2005 (http://www.visnet-noe.org)

AgentWeb: Agents and Ontologies for Digital Rights Management and Web Services

Science and Technology Ministry - TIC2002-01336

2002-2005 ( http://dmag.upf.edu/newmars)

AREA 2000: Multimedia Content and Services, Mobility and Security

Science and Technology Ministry - TIC2000-0317-P4-05
2001-2003

MARS: Multimedia Advanced brokerage and Redistribution Surveillance

Internet2 Consortium, Catalonian Government
2000-2001

Interactive Multimedia CDs: Word 6.0 i Excel 5.0 Courses

Catalonian Institute of Technologies
1998-1999

Standardisation

Member of the Advisory Council of the Plus Coalition,
a worldwide coalition of leading companies, associations and industry experts united to define and standardise the core aspects of image licensing and its management.

Contributions to the Digital Media Project:

Formalising Traditional Rights and Usages with the Copyright Ontology

García, R.; Springer, M.

Document No. 1010, 15th General Assembly, The Digital Media Project, August 18th, 2007

Contributions to the MPEG-21 standardisation process, ISO/IEC 21000:

Analysis of current version of MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary

Delgado, J.; Rodrí­guez, E.; Sesmero, J. and Garcí­a, R.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/M13209. April 2006, Montreaux, Switzerland

Analysis of Draft Text for RDD Corrigendum/2

Delgado, J.; Garcí­a, R.; Rodrí­guez, E. and Gauvin, M.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/M12961. January 2006, Bangkok, Thailand

Preliminary Results of RDD CE for Expressing “Workâ€

Gauvin, M.; Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J. and Rodrí­guez, E.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M12511. October 2005, Nice, France

Ontological Analysis of the MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary (RDD)

Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J. and Rodrí­guez, E.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M12495. October 2005, Nice, France

MPEG 21 RDD spec vs MPEG 21 Requirements and Vision documents Review

Gauvin, M.; Delgado, J.; Garcí­a, R. and Rodrí­guez, E.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M11875. April 2005, Busan, Korea

An ontology approach for REL use of rights data dictionaries

Gil, R.; Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J. and Rodrí­guez, E.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M12060. April 2005, Busan, Korea

RELOntos (REL Ontologies)

Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J. and Gallego, I.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M10703. March 2004, Munich, Germany

MPEG REL and RDD Ontologies API

Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J. and Gallego, I.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M10702. March 2004, Munich, Germany

RDDOnto, Rights Data Dictionary Ontology Version 2

Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J.; Rodrí­guez, E.; Llorente, S. and Gallego I.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M10423, December 2003, Hawaii, United States

RDDOnto, Rights Data Dictionary Ontology

Garcí­a, R.; Delgado, J.; Rodrí­guez, E. and Llorente, S.

ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11/M10124, October 2003, Brisbane, Australia

IPROnto - Intellectual Property Rights Ontology

Delgado, J.; Gallego, I.; Garcí­a, R.; Gil, R.; Peig, E and Tous, R.

DMAG Contribution to MPEG-21 REL&RDD CfP,
Rights Data Dictionary and Rights Expression Language Call for Proposals, 2001

Conferences

Chair

  • Session "Virtual and Augmented Reality and Multimodal Interaction" at Interacción 2006

Invited Speaker

  • "DRM, from research to implementation" track, Smart University 2007
    September 19-20, Sophia Antipolis, France
    • Title: "Enabling interoperable and rights-aware DRM using the SemanticWeb"
  • Seminario Internacional Tecnologí­as Internet 2006 (SITI 2006).
    Universidad del Cauca, Popayí¡n, Colombia
    • Title: "Web Semántica, el punto de encuentro de la información".

Member of the Program Committee

  • First International Workshop on Web Information Systems Engineering for Electronic Businesses and Governments (E-BAG 2008)
  • Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS 2008)
  • Workshop on Multimedia Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Law (MOAIL 2007)
  • Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, 4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop (SWAP 2007)
  • Adhoc reviewer Journal of Web Semantics (JoWS)
  • Adhoc reviewer IEEE MultiMedia Journal (IEEEMultiMedia)
  • Workshop on Web Scale Infrastructures for Semantic Mashup, Search and Retrieval (SemInfra 2007)
  • Workshop on Semantic Web technology for Law (SW4Law 2007)
  • Spanish Human-Computer Interaction Conference (Interacción 2007)
  • Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS 2007)
  • Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop (SWAP 2006)
  • First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (MCMP 2005)
  • Adhoc reviewer International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC)

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