Talks and presentations

Here you can find the main talks I have been involved with. If you have any trouble accessing them please let me know and I will be happy to send you the slides. You can also see them in Slideshare and GitHub.

2024

• Datos de investigación: retos, oportunidades y buenas prácticas ante la reforma de la evaluación de la investigación Jornadas del Consorcio Madroño.
• Improving Software Findability with CodeMeta: Towards FAIR Research Software Software discovery in the era of Open Science, Data Analysis and SOFTWARE in Heliophysics (DASH).
• FAIR Semantic Artefact Assessment: A Methodology and Implementation FAIR-IMPACT presentation at the Romania Roadshow.
• Ontology Engineering and the FAIR principles: A Gap Analysis. FOAM workshop (by María Poveda), July 2024.
• A brief introduction to FAIR tools, initiatives and best practices. EOSC Funders Forum, June 2024.
• SolarChem: Building a Knowledge Graph in Solar Chemistry to compare Research Experiment. OEG status report, June 2024.
• Automated Extraction of Research Software Installation Instructions from README files. NSLP 2024 workshop, May 2024.
• RepoFromPaper: An Approach to Extract Software Code Implementations from Scientific Publications. NSLP 2024 workshop, May 2024.
• Assessing the Overlap of Science Knowledge Graphs: A Quantitative Analysis. NSLP 2024 workshop, May 2024.
• Software Metadata Extraction from Code Repositories: An overview. DeRSE Workshop. 2024 (online).
• Bidirectional Paper-Repository Tracing in Software Engineering. MSR 2024.

2023

• Towards FAIR Research Software: Assessing Best Research Software Practices through Metadata. ZBMED Colloquium, June, 2023.
• Ya2RO: A tool for creating Research Objects from minimum metadata. Talk of our DAMALOS 2023 paper

2022

• From Code Repositories to Knowledge Graphs of Research Software Metadata. Invited panel talk at the Dublin Core 2022 conference
• Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World September 2022 DCMI ASIS&T Webinar Series
• Accelerating Research Software Understandability Through Knowledge Capture. Invited talk presented at University of St Andrews and University of Aberdeen through a SICSA research award. 2022
• Inspect4py: A Knowledge Extraction Framework for Python Code Repositories. Presented at the 2022 Mining Software Registries conference, MSR 2022.
• How should standard AI courses evolve?. Presented at the Blue Sky ideas session (Symposium on Educational Advances on AI, EAAI 2022).

2021

• KGTK: Tools for Creating and Exploiting Large Knowledge Graphs. Presented at ISWC 2021.
• Towards Reusable Research Software. Presented at the EOSC Symposium: Infrastructure for quality research software session.
• FOOPS!: An Ontology Pitfall Scanner for the FAIR principles. Presented at the DBpedia day, Semantics Conference.
• FAIR workflows: A step closer to the Scientific Paper of the Future. Invited keynote at the Computational Autonomous Workflows Workshop 2021.
• SOMEF: A metadata extraction framework from software documentation. Presented at the council of software registries, March 2021.

2020

• A Template-Based Approach for Annotating Long-Tail Datasets.. Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and (Meta)data Management for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data (CMOMM4FAIR)
• KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis. Presented at the 2020 International Semantic Web Conference (virtual event)
• OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs. Presented at the 2020 International Semantic Web Conference (virtual event)
• Towards Knowledge Graphs of Reusable Research Software Metadata. Presented at SORSE 2020 (Series of Online Research Software Events)

2019

• Scientific Software Registry Collaboration Workshop: From Software Metadata registries to Knowledge Graphs: OntoSoft and OKG-SOFT, presented at the Scientific Software Registry Collaboration Workshop, Maryland, US. November, 2019
• WDPlus: Leveraging Wikidata to Link and Extend Tabular Data, presented at the Third Workshop for Capturing Scientific Knowledge, SciKnow 2019 (K-CAP 2019)
• SoMEF: A Framework for Capturing Scientific Software Metadata from its Documentation (presented by Allen Mao)
• OKG-Soft: An Open Knowledge Graph with Machine Readable Scientific Software Metadata. Presented at eScience 2019, San Diego, California. US.
• Linking, Extending, Exploiting and Enhancing Tabular Data with Wikidata (K-CAP 2019 Turorial)
• Towards Human-Guided Machine Learning. Presented at IUI 2019, Marina del Rey, California.US.
• Documenting data, methods, software, provenance and context of publications: Towards the Scientific Paper of the Future. Presented at AAAI workshop on Reproducible AI. Hawaii, US. February, 2019.

2018

• Capturing Context in Scientific Experiments: Towards Computer-Driven Science. Summary and vision talk presented at the Information Sciences Institute, April 2018. Link to video
• Semantic Web and Ontologies: a Brief Introduction, tutorial presented at the Texas Advanced Computer Center, March 2018

2017

• Automatic Generation of Portions of Scientific Papers for Large, Multi-Institutional Collaborations Based on Semantic Metadata (SemSci 2017, ISWC2017, Vienna)
• WIDOCO: A wizard for documenting ontologies (ISWC 2017, Vienna)
• A Controlled Crowdsourcing Approach for Practical Ontology Extensions and Metadata Annotations (ISWC 2017, Vienna)
• Towards Automating Data Narratives (Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI2017, Cyprus)
• The scientific paper of the future (AAAI 2017 tutorial).

2016

• OntoSoft: A distributed semantic registry for scientific software (eScience 2016).
• Automated Hypothesis Testing with Large Scale Scientific Workflows (Advances in Cognitive Systems, ACS 16, Evanston, Illinois, USA)

2015

• Mining abstractions in Scientific Workflows: PhD Thesis (Facultad de Informatica, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid).
• Is preserving data enough? Towards the preservation of scientific methods (Open Research Data Day, Warsaw, Poland).
• LDP4ROs: Managing Research Objects with the Linked Data Platform (SAVE-SD, WWW2015, Florence, Italy).

2014

• Frag Flow: Automated Fragment Detection in Scientific Workflows (eScience 2014, Guaruja, Brasil).
• Workflow Reuse in Practice: A Study of Neuroimaging Pipeline Users (eScience 2014, Guaruja, Brasil).
• Using Requirements for Geospatial Provenance (IPAW'14, Cologne).

2013

• On Specifying and Sharing Scientific Workflow Optimization Results Using Research Objects (WORKS'13, Denver).
• Research Objects in Scientific Publications (Update talk given at the Ontology Engineering Group).
• Research Objects Tutorial (Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL, Malta).
• PROV-O Tutorial (DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Detecting common scientific workflow fragments using templates and execution provenance (the Knowledge Capture Conference, K-CAP 2013, Banff (despite the fact of the conference being canceled :))
• Beyond the PDF 2 demo-presentation(Beyond the PDF 2, Amsterdam).

2012

• Augmenting PROV with plans in P-PLAN: Scientific Processes as Linked Data (LISC 2012 Workshop (ISWC 2012))
• Common Motifs in Scientific Workflows: An Empirical Analysis(e-Science 2012, Chicago).
• Workflow-Centric Research Objects: First Class Citizens in Scholarly Discourse (Sepublica 2012 Workshop)

2011

• A new Approach for Publishing Workflows: Abstractions, Standards and Linked Data(WORKS11, Seattle, USA)
• A Provenance-Aware Linked Data Application for Trip Management and Organization (Triplification Challenge 2011, The Hague).
• Extending DCAM for Metadata Provenance (Dublin Core Conference, DC-11, The Hague).