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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. Politècnica de Catalunya

Thesis: Knowledge management with RDF/XML.
Professional
Experience
Feb 2009–

Associate Professor

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

Teaching: Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Software Engineering, Web Applications.

Research: Human-Computer Interaction, Semantic Web, Digital Rights Management, Semantic Multimedia and Semantic E-Business.
Feb 2007–Jan 2009

Assistant Professor

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

Associate 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. Politècnica 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

Semantic Web Methodologies for E-Business Applications: Ontologies, Processes and Management Practices

García, R. (ed.)

Idea Group Publishing, book scheduled for publication 2008

A Web Ontologies Framework for Digital Rights Management

García, R.; Gil, R. and Delgado, J.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer, in press, 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

Abelló, 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

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 “Work”

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

Other Involvements

Chair of:

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

Invited speaker at:

  • Seminario Internacional Tecnologías Internet 2006 (SITI 2006).
    Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia
    • Title: "Web Semántica, el punto de encuentro de la información".

Member of the Program Committee of the:

  • 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)