Welcome!

My name is Carlos Tejo Alonso (aka Tejo). I'm a Software Engineer (expert in Linked Open Data), working remotely as DHIS2 Consultant of Solid Lines and Data Officer of Land Portal Foundation. I am based in Asturias, a beautiful region in the north of Spain.

About me

Hello. My name is Carlos Tejo Alonso (aka Tejo). I hold a MSE on Computing Science at the University of Oviedo, and I am living in Asturias, a beautiful region in the north of Spain. Nowaday I'm a Software Engineer (expert in Linked Open Data), working remotely as DHIS2 Consultant for Solid Lines and Data Officer for Land Portal Foundation (The leading online destination for information, resources, innovations and networking on land issues). Formerly, I was a Semantic Web researcher at R&D department of Fundación CTIC.

You can find more information about my projects and about presentations or documents. And if you need, you can contact with me.

From time to time i write in a blog about subjects of interest to me (Usually about travels).

Short bio

Carlos Tejo-Alonso holds a Master of Science in Engineering on Computing Science from the University of Oviedo. Since 2019, he works as DHIS2 Consultant (Data Engineer) for Solid Lines company, helping organizations to take better decisions from better data. Since January 2016, he works as Data Officer at Land Portal Foundation. During 7 years, he was working at Fundación CTIC as a research assistant of the Semantic Technologies Unit in the R&D Department, and has taken part in several national and European R&D projects and initiatives. He has experience in various areas of Computer Science such as Semantic Web, Open Data, Linked Open Data, Metadata, Standards, Software Design and Development, Human-Computer Interaction or interoperability. He has received several awards for his academic performance.

Full CV

Take a look on Carlos Tejo-Alonso profile on LinkedIn

Projects involved

GODAN Action: GODAN Action is a three year project to enable data users, producers and intermediaries to engage effectively with open data in the agriculture and nutrition sectors. In particular we work to strengthen capacity, to promote common standards and best practice and to improve how we measure impact. Project supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
AGROVOC: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts.
ONTORULE: The objective of ONTORULE is to integrate all the required pieces of knowledge and technology, including some that will need be researched and developed within the project, to allow exactly that:the acquisition of ontologies and rules from the most appropriate sources, including natural languagedocuments; their separate management and maintenance; and their transparent operationalisation in IT applications. ONTORULE (ONTOlogies meet business RULEs) is a large-scale integrating project (IP) partially funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Call 3 (ICT-231875).
SERENOA: Serenoa is aimed at developing a novel, open platform for enabling the creation of context-sensitive service front-ends (SFEs). This project has received funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement nº 258030 (FP7-ICT-2009-5. Internet of Services, Software and Virtualization – STREP).
DISASTER: The project target outcome is an integrative and modular ontology for establishing a common knowledge structure between all the first responders involved in an emergency, but being compliant with legacy international data formats exchanged in the European Union as long as being seamlessly integrated within current SOA-based Emergency Management Systems. This project has received funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement nº 285069
FOODIE (FP7 Project): FOODIE (Farm-Oriented Open Data in Europe) project is to create a cloud based platform where spatial and non-spatial interoperable data related to agricultural sector will be available for agri-food stakeholder groups. It will offer an infrastructure for building an interactive and collaborative network; the integration of existing open datasets related to agriculture; data publication and data linking of external agriculture data sources, providing specific and high-value applications and services for the support of planning and decision-making processes.
SRD: Share Research Data is a platform for data-collection and scientific research which is based on the Linked Data philosophy for the organization and management, allowing to generate new information based on previous knowledge saved. This project is being funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the program INNPACTO in 2012 call under agreement IPT-2012-0498-430000.
VULCANO: Promotion of free software development in an environment of quality and reliability by adapting the methodologies, processes, business models and latest technologies.
INFOTERNERA: INFOTERNERA project aims to develop an information system that provides support for the actors to manage all processes related to the production, distribution and sale of beef meat in Asturias region. This project is funded by the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Operational Programme for R&D by and for the benefit of Companies - Technology Fund, 2007 -2013 (Project No.: IDI-20110847).
CETICA: The CETICA "Eco-logic tech-city: industrialization based steel for a more sustainable urban environment" project aims to develop new and advanced materials and construction systems based on steel and other multi-material components for a new model of eco-efficient building energy. This project is funded by the CDTI CENIT 2007-2010 program (Ministry of Science and Innovation).
Biolingüística: Technical support in the project "Biolinguistics: genetic basis, development and evolution of language" (Ref. HUM 07 - 60427/FILO).

Software (Open Source)

Parrot: Parrot is A RIF and RDF Ontologies documentation Tool. It provides users (both business users and developers) with useful reference documentation about rulesets and ontologies expressed in standard languages, such as OWL and RIF. Developed under FP7 ONTORULE project.
SKOSIC: SKOSIĆ is a Open Source SKOS Viewer, used to view the vertical modules generated in FP7 DISASTER project.
DCAT viewer: DCAT viewer is a viewer of DCAT (Data Catalog Vocabulary), an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web.
DISASTER tools: Set of tools developed in FP7 DISASTER project, including Disaster mediation component.
tapinos: Tapinos is a set of tools developed to visualize statistical data expressed in RDF Data Cube vocabulary. Included: tapinos-js, tapinos-rdf-ws, tapinos-maplab-ws and tapinos-grails-demo
tabels: TABELS (Tabular Cells) is a tool to bridge the gap between tabular formats and linked data.
carfo: Context Adaptation Reference Framework Ontology (CARFO)s generated in FP7 SERENOA project.
su4j: SPARQL Utilities for Java (su4j).
RIFLE: Suite of tools for RIF Core and PRD.
Linked Open Colors: Linked Open Colors, dataset created for the April Fools' Day of 2011 as an informal initiative for promoting Linked Data.
SPARQL Endpoint interface to Python (SPARQLWrapper): This is a wrapper around a SPARQL service. It helps in creating the query URI and, possibly, convert the result into a more manageable format.
WodiDoc: An innovative tool to create composite documents from heterogeneous sources.
REST-in-py: A Python library to easily create REST interfaces for web applications.
EZWeb Gadget map: A gadget of google maps for the platform EzWeb.

Translations (English to Spanish)

Lenguaje de Ontologías Web (OWL) - Vista General: Traducción al castellano del documento "OWL Web Ontology Language Overview", junto con Pablo Díez Suárez (Grupo A - EUITIO) y Manuel Bote.
Basta con preguntar: Integración de la Accesibilidad en el Proceso de Diseño: Revisión del libro "Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design" de Shawn Henry, junto con otros compañeros de la Fundación CTIC.

Others

I colaborate sporadically in another initiatives like Wikipedia or some Apache projects.

Documents

Publications

Current practices and perspectives for metadata on web ontologies and rules (Download PDF): Carlos Tejo-Alonso, Diego Berrueta, Luis Polo, Sergio Fernández.
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO).
Vol.7, No.2, pp.93 - 100. 2012
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2012.050016
Assembling Rule Mashups in the Semantic Web: Guillermo González-Moriyón, Luis Polo, Diego Berrueta, Carlos Tejo-Alonso and Miguel Iglesias.
Proceedings of the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012 (ESWC 2012), Heraklion, Crete (Greece), May 27-31, 2012.
Metadata for web ontologies and rules: current practices and perspectives (Download PDF): Carlos Tejo-Alonso, Diego Berrueta, Luis Polo and Sergio Fernández.
Proceedings of the Fifth Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2011), pages 57-67, İzmir (Turkey), October 12-14, 2011.
Presentation of Metadata for web ontologies and rules: current practices and perspectives in MTSR 2011
The Web of Data and the Tourism Industry: Diego Berrueta, Antonio Campos, Emilio Rubiera, Carlos Tejo, and José E. Labra
Chapter in Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Patricia Ordoñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani, Lily Diaz (eds.), pp. 75-89. ISBN: 9781615208678. IGI Global. November 2010.
eZaragoza, a tourist promotional mashup. (Paper, Screencast and Mashup) (Download PDF): Carlos Tejo-Alonso, Sergio Fernández, Diego Berrueta, Luis Polo, María Jesús Fernández, and Victor Morlan.
Submission to the AI Mashup Challenge 2010, co-located with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Heraklion, Greece, 30 May - 3 June, 2010.
Usability Report 1. Internationalization i18n: Mónica Vázquez-Goyarzu, Martin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Carlos Tejo-Alonso, José R. Bobes
Report in eMinds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol 1, No 4, Pages 98-101. ISSN: 1697-9613
Usability Report 2. Shortcuts: Mónica Vázquez-Goyarzu, Martin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Carlos Tejo-Alonso, José R. Bobes
Report in eMinds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol 1, No 4, Pages 103-107. ISSN: 1697-9613
Tiflo: Gestor de contenidos para personas con discapacidad visual: Carlos Tejo-Alonso, Aitor de la Puente Salán, Martín González Rodríguez et al.
Proceedings of the I Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (CISTI) pages 855-870, June 2006, Esposende (Portugal)
CineMedia Astur VII: Generación de Títulos Hipermedia con Navegación Adaptativa y Multidimensional para el Ámbito Educativo: Marta Ruiz García, José Alfredo Gómez Rodríguez, Carlos Tejo-Alonso et al
Proceedings of the I Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (CISTI) pages 741-754, June 2006, Esposende (Portugal)
TirsvsX. Navegación Multidimensional de Bases de Conocimiento Historeográficas con Adaptación Dinámica: Marta Ruiz García, José Alfredo Gómez Rodríguez, Carlos Tejo-Alonso et al.
Proceedings of the I Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (CISTI) pages 927-941, June 2006, Esposende (Portugal)

Technical reports and project deliverables

Land and nutrition data in the Land Portal and the Global Nutrition Report: a gap exploration report: Carlos Tejo (co-author)
GODAN Action project, deliverable D1.1.2 v.3 Jun 2018.
A survey of data standards for land and nutrition data: Carlos Tejo (co-author)
GODAN Action project, deliverable D1.1.1 v.3 Apr 2018.
DCAT-AP y sus extensiones: Contexto y evolución: Carlos Tejo (author)
Este estudio ha sido desarrollado en el marco de la Iniciativa Aporta desarrollada por el Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital, a través de la Entidad Pública Empresarial Red.es, y en colaboración con el Ministerio de Hacienda y Función Pública.
Data mediation component V2: Fundación CTIC (editors)
DISASTER FP7 project, deliverable D4.42 Jul 2014.
Data mediation component V1: Fundación CTIC (editors)
DISASTER FP7 project, deliverable D4.41 Jan 2014.
Data mediation techniques V2: Fundación CTIC (editors)
DISASTER FP7 project, deliverable D4.30 Jul 2013.
CARFO & CARFO POPULATION (R2): Fundación CTIC (editors)
SERENOA FP7 project, deliverable D.2.3.2 Feb 2012.
DOCOM: an ontology to formalize document composition: Tejo-Alonso, C.; Rubiera, E.; Berrueta, D.; Polo, L. (editors)
Vulcano project, deliverable D.7.3. Mar 2009.
Wodidoc DTD Documentation: Tejo-Alonso, C.; Rubiera, E.; Berrueta, D.; Polo, L. (editors)
Vulcano project, deliverable D.7.4. Mar 2009.

Blog posts (English/Spanish-Español)

AGROVOC: Thesaurus for the classification of agricultural knowledge (English) AGROVOC: Tesauro para la clasificación de conocimiento agrícola (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. September/Septiembre, 2017.
Taxonomies and Thesauri: Knowledge Organization Tools (English) Taxonomías y tesauros: herramientas documentales de organización (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. October/Octubre, 2017.
G20 International Event on Agriculture and Linked Open Data (English) Evento internacional del G20 sobre agricultura y datos abiertos enlazados (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. October/Octubre, 2017.
Tools for the Management of Controlled Vocabularies with SKOS Support (English) Herramientas para la gestión de vocabularios controlados con soporte SKOS (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. October/Octubre, 2017.
FAIR Principles: Good Practices for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship (English) Principios FAIR: Buenas prácticas para la gestión y administración de datos científicos (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. October/Octubre, 2017.
IATI the international open data campaign on development aid (English) IATI, la campaña internacional de datos abiertos sobre ayuda al desarrollo (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. November/Noviembre, 2017.
Open Access: Green, Gold and Diamond (English) Open Access: la vía verde, la vía dorada y la vía diamante (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. November/Noviembre, 2017.
Why are licenses important? (English) ¿Por qué son importantes las licencias? (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. December/Diciembre, 2017.
Publish What Your Fund (English) PWFY: campaña para fomentar la apertura de los datos de ayuda (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. December/Diciembre, 2017.
Research data repositories: re3data.org (English) Búsqueda de repositorios de datos de investigación: re3data.org (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. December/Diciembre, 2017.
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) (English) Reutilización de vocabularios: Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. December/Diciembre, 2017.
Data management plan: an opportunity for open science for further progress (English) El plan de gestión de datos: una oportunidad de la ciencia abierta para seguir avanzando (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. January/Enero, 2018.
The land governance and the open movement: the Land Portal Foundation (English) El derecho a la tierra y el movimiento abierto: la Fundación Land Portal (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. January/Enero, 2018.
Pubby and LODI, opening linked data to humans (English) Pubby y LODI, abriendo los datos enlazados a los humanos (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. January/Enero, 2018.
SHACL, un lenguaje para validar grafos RDF (Español): Carlos Tejo-Alonso. For datos.gob.es blog. February/Febrero, 2018.

Presentations

Semantic web

2018-09 Open Data & Data Interoperability: The Land Portal Experience of Open Data Management: FAO Expert consultation on “Knowledge sharing for agricultural innovations applicable for smallholders and family farmers in Europe and Central Asia”, Gödöllő (Hungary), 10-13 September, 2018.
2018-06 LandVoc: Specialized concept schemes within AGROVOC: First meeting of AGROVOC Editors and stakeholders, Utrecht (The Netherlands), June 25-26, 2018.
2012-10 Metadata for web ontologies and rules: current practices and perspectives: Carlos Tejo-Alonso, Diego Berrueta, Luis Polo, Sergio Fernández. Fifth Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2011), İzmir (Turkey), October 12-14, 2011.
2010-05 eZaragoza, a tourist promotional mashup: Carlos Tejo-Alonso, Sergio Fernández, Diego Berrueta, Luis Polo, María Jesús Fernández, and Victor Morlan. eZaragoza, a tourist promotional mashup. Submission to the AI Mashup Challenge 2010, co-located with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Heraklion, Greece, 30 May - 3 June, 2010.
2008-07-03 Presentación. Web Semántica con MAYÚSCULAS. [Español]: Presentacion sobre la web semántica para el curso Diseño centrado en el usuario en la Web 2.0, impartido en julio del 2008 en la Universidad de Oviedo.

Microformats

2008-05-08 Presentación. Microformatos. [Español] (pdf): Presentacion sobre microformatos para el Usability Café del mes de mayo del 2008.

Podcasting

2005-12-13 Presentación. Podcasting: Una Nueva Forma de Comunicación en Internet. [Español] (pdf): Presentacion sobre Podcasting para las X Jornadas Asturianas de Arquitectura de la Información.
2006-05-22. Mesa redonda: Podcast, ¿la radio del futuro?. [Español] (pdf): Presentacion sobre Podcasting para las Jornadas de Radio Radio Oeste Festival 06.

Youth in Action programme

2005-12-01 Presentación. Programa Europeo Juventud. [Español] (pdf): Presentacion sobre el programa europeo Juventud [Diciembre 2005] y sus diferentes acciones (intercambios, voluntariado, proyectos...) para las X Jornadas Asturianas de Arquitectura de la Información.

Others

2015 Libro. 25 rutas de cicloturismo de alforjas por Asturias. [Español]: Esta publicación recoge 25 rutas (escogidas entre todo el catálogo de rutas de Asturies ConBici), para descubrir Asturias en bicicleta, permitiendonos hacer turismo de una manera más tranquila y relajada. Este trabajo es una continuación de los esfuerzos de esta asociación para promover el uso de la bicicleta para salidas y excursiones no competitivas, el cicloturismo de alforjas como una manera alternativa de viaje y disfrute de la naturaleza. Este libro se ha realizado en colaboración con la Sociedad Pública de Gestión y Promoción Turística y Cultural del Principado de Asturias.
2009-04-05 Articulo. Como licenciar tu Proyecto Final de carrera como software libre en la Universidad de Oviedo. [Español] (pdf) (tex): Articulo sobre como se puede licenciar un Proyecto/Trabajo final de carrera como software libre en la Universidad de Oviedo.

Contact

If you want to contact me, just send me an e-mail to infoAT*_NO*SPAM_*dayures*_DOT_*net