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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) Department of Informatics.</p> <p>I’m expert in the following areas:</p> <ul> <li>Digital Libraries, Web Archiving, Search Engines, Big Data and Metadata Aggregators.</li> <li>Develop and run web scale applications, including Petabyte-scale storage and indexing (Back-end & front-end experience).</li> <li>Manage small technical teams (up to 15 engineers) and mentor junior engineers (e.g. GSOC).</li> <li>Submit and implement EU Research Proposals (FP7, Horizon2020).</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_5524.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1569 aligncenter" src="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_5524.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="267" srcset="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_5524.jpg 640w, https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_5524-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Below, you can see a list of the most interesting things that I’m working on right now.</span></p> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-1529 size-thumbnail" src="https://archive.org/web/images/logo_wayback_210x77.png" alt="wayback-logo" width="210" height="77" />The <a href="http://archive.org/web/">Wayback Machine</a> is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive.</p> <p><a href="http://archiveready.com/"><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-1173" src="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/archiveready.png" alt="archiveready" width="167" height="43" /></a><a href="http://archiveready.com/">ArchiveReady.com</a>聽is an innovative online tool which determines if your website will be archived correctly by web archives (2012+).</p> <p><a href="http://openarchives.gr"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-1174 alignright" src="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/new_openarchives_logo_home.png" alt="new_openarchives_logo_home" width="200" height="50" /></a>One of my most important projects is <a title="渭畏蠂伪谓萎伪谓伪味萎蟿畏蟽畏蟼蔚位位畏谓喂魏蠋谓蠄畏蠁喂伪魏蠋谓尾喂尾位喂慰胃畏魏蠋谓" href="http://openarchives.gr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">openarchives.gr</a>, the first and most important search engine for Greek scientific and cultural content.</p> <p><a href="http://yperdiavgeia.gr"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-935 alignright" title="yperdiavgeia" src="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/yperdiavgeia.png" alt="" width="250" height="55" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://yperdiavgeia.gr">UltraCl@rity</a>聽(违蟺蔚蟻螖喂伪蠉纬蔚喂伪) is a search engine indexing the full text of all Greek Government public documents, 聽published online through the “Cl@rity” open gov data project (2011+).</p> <p><a href="http://www.oaipmh.com"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" title="oaipmh.com - 螣螒螜-PMH validation and data extraction tool" src="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/oaipmh.png" alt="" width="147" height="48" /></a>I develop and operate聽<a title="OAI-PMH validation and data extraction tool" href="http://validator.oaipmh.com">oaipmh.com</a>, a web application which enables validation and data extraction from OAI-PMH enabled digital libraries (2010+).</p> <p>聽</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="120" src="https://vbanos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/europeana-logo-2-150x120.png" alt="europeana-logo-2" class="wp-image-1497"/></figure></div> <p>During 2010 – 2017, I developed and operated the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161126163500/http://aggregator.libver.gr/">Hellenic Aggregator for Europeana</a>. The system was sharing content from 20 Greek digital libraries with Europeana. </p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> </footer> </article> <div id="comments" 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