maria chiara pettenati
I am a Researcher by the Telematics Laboratory of the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the University of Florence since late 2004.
Until 2004 I was Post-doc in the same laboratory. In February 2000 I was granted the PhD grade in Telematics and Information Society from the University of Florence. My thesis was developed between 1996 and 1999. Its focus was to design and develop a web-based environment for teaching and learning. During my PhD, I spent two very fruitful and interesting years at the Computer Science Department (DI – LITH Laboratory) of the (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) EPFL. Before that, I graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Florence in 1996.
Now my main research interests hinge around two fields which might seem very distant and diverse but are both contributing to the Science of the Web, or Web Science. Working for years in both domains allowed me to develop a sort of “mental agility” in making connections in Web-related sciences, which is valued as skill in our Connectivist environment.
The two fieds are:
- e-knowledge and e-learning
- The Web of Data,
Both domains are multidisciplinary and allow, from different perspective, and through different methods and technologies, to examine the World Wide Web and contribute to the Web science, offering “practical solutions needed to help guide its future use and design”.
More specifically my recent scientific activities and responsibilities can be referred to the following keywords:
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Design and development of strategies, technologies, and methodologies to support formal, informal learning and (personal) knowledge management initiatives
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Supervision of PhD students
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Development of a middleware to support collaboration and information interoperability between heterogeneous, distributed information sources (InterDataNet project) |
Member of the project coordination team Supervision of Primary Degree students and PhD students |
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Designing and developing a system to provide high quality government services to citizens respecting public administrations autonomy and authority (eGovSM project) |
Supervision of PhD student |
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Development of telematic architectures and services to support trusted relation in e-commerce applications (TISP – Trust Intermediary Service Provider project) |
Project funding proposal Scientific management of the project Supervision of PhD students |
