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Dr. Juan Voutssas M. develops the field of Information and Communications Technology -ICT- in its relationship with Library, Archival and other Information Sciences. His span of study within the Institute of Library and Information Science Research (IIBI) covers the theories, equipment, applications, events, trends, structures, etc., of these technologies and their effects, problems and solutions in libraries, archives, collections, services, publications and users inside current society. Approaches are different: social, technical, cultural, economic, legal, documentary, administrative, and so on. This field is developed as much by researchers of the Institute as grade students carrying out projects in some of these issues as part of their thesis.

The field can be divided in three major research areas: central, technical and complementary.

The central area of research focuses on the following topics:

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DIGITAL SPACES AND RESOURCES









EPISTEMOLOGY OF ICT		 - Digital libraries
- Semantic libraries
- Digital archives -
- Semantic archives
- Museology and digital curation
- Electronic Publications -
- Digital Preservation
- Library Automation
- Resource Center for Learning and Research (RCLR)
- Dissemination of information
- Management of information projects, centers and systems.

- Theory, metatheory and epistemology of ICT
- Philosophy, ethics and semantics of ICT
- Legal aspects of digital information, property rights, rights of access to information, censorship, cybercrime, privacy, transparency, digital gap, digital literacy, identity and heritage, and so on.
- Social aspects of ICT: information Society and knowledge, information social networking - library 2.0, archives 2.0

The technical area covers the following lines and subjects:

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TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN RELATION WITH LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES - Network technologies, distributed network environments, cloud, etc.
- Information Industry
- Internet and Web - Networked libraries and archives
- Storage and distribution of information, data mining, data structures, databases
- Security and IT risks, cybercrime, etc.
- Systems analysis, development and programming.
- System architecture, data structures, programming languages and development platforms, computing, artificial intelligence, Web site development, algorithms for storage, access and retrieval of information.
- Information architecture (usability and accessibility studies), design of shared information environments, interactive design; planning, development and content management)
- Users Networks and their studies, needs, etc.
- Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Infometrics, Webometrics, studies about the quality of information, etc.
- Research based on ICT (e-research)

The complementary area covers the following lines and subjects:

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HUMAN RESOURCES FORMATION IN ICT




GOBERNANCE AND ICT



FORMAL STRUCTURE AND REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
 - Training of human resources in information science: formal AND continuing education, profiles, competencies, etc. in relation to ICT
- ICT based education (e-learning, distance education, etc.).

- Governance in Internet, Web, Intranets and information institutions
- Planning and development of national, regional span projects, etc.
information - Massive applications: e-government, e--health, e-transactions, e-voting, e-taxes, etc.

- Structure and representation of information and knowledge: taxonomies, ontologies, metalanguages, metadata, formats, thesauri, controlled vocabularies, indexing, layout, abstracts, etc., and its relation to ICT.



Dr. Juan Voutssas M. works or has worked in the fields of: digital and semantic libraries and digital and semantic files, electronic publications, digital preservation, library automation, information management, information projects, centers and systems; legal aspects of digital information: property rights and access rights to information, privacy, transparency, digital gap; the social aspects of ICT: information society and knowledge, identity and heritage; network technologies, distributed network environments, cloud computing, networked libraries, information storage and retrieval, data mining, data structures, databases; security and ICT risks; systems analysis, architecture, development and programming; data structures, computer platforms, design and development of Web sites; algorithms for storage, access and retrieval of information, training of human resources in information science: formal and continuing education, profiles, competencies etc., in relation to ICT, libraries and archives; Internet governance within the Web, the Intranets and information institutions; planning and development of wide span projects. about information; massive applications: e-government, e-transactions, e-voting, etc., structure and representation of information and knowledge: taxonomies, ontologies, metalanguages, metadata, formats, indexing, schemes, and its relation to ICT.