Work

• Information Systems Engineer at the International Hellenic University (IHU). (2020 -)
• Special IT Science Officer at the Hellenic Institute of Metrology (EIM) (2016-2020).
• IT manager at the Hellenic Institute of Metrology (EIM) (2011-2016).
• Software Engineer at Dataways S.A., Greece. (2008 – 2011).
• Research and Informatics Officer of the Hellenic Army (SAEP) (obligatory  military service) (2007 – 2008).
• Information Systems Engineer at the University of Macedonia Library. (2005 – 2007).
• Software Engineer at Dataways S.A., Greece (2004 – 2005).
• Consult and develop software for Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNFCC), National Library of Greece, Future Library, Veria Public Library (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award 2010), National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT), Tero Ltd. (Greece), Phaistos Networks (Greece), SuperUp Ltd (Israel) and Countit Ltd (Israel)

Studies

• Ph.D. in Informatics at the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2011 – 2015).
• Msc in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2004 – 2006).
• Bsc, Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering , University of the Aegean το (1999 – 2004).

Research

• ROUTE-TO-PA H2020 project (2015 – 2018).
• LoCloud EU Best Practice Network (2013 – 2016).
• Developer and operator of the Hellenic Aggregator for Europeana (2010 – 2017).
• BlogForever EU project (2011 – 2013).
• Future Library advisory board (2012).
• AccessIT EU project (2010 – 2011).
• Europeana Local EU project (2008 – 2011).
• Greek Librarians & Information Scientists (GreekLIS) research team (2008 -2010).
• Ortelio Hellenic Industrial Research Project (2006 – 2007).
• Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Processing (ISKP) of the AUTH IT Department (2006 – 2008).
• InCoSys (In-telligent Co-operative Sys-tems) (InCoSys) of the Information & Communication Systems Department (ICSD) at the University of the Aegean (2002 –  2004).
• Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Program Committee member (2016 -).

Awards

1. Winner of the LoCloud hackathon which was organised by the LoCloud project and Europeana in the context of EuropeanaTech 2015 . The competition took place on 2015/02/11 at the Google Cultural Institute, Paris, France.
2. 3rd place in the 1st Open Public Data Hackathon organized by the Greek Ministry of Administrative Reform and E-Government. Ministry’s press release.
3. State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). Best student of the academic year at the Information & Communication Systems Department of the University of the Aegean. (2003).

Publications

• Full list of publications in scientific conferences, journals and books available here: https://vbanos.gr/publications/.

Invited Talks

1. UltraClarity, Diplohack Athens, Netherlands Embassy (Orange Grove), 8 Jully 2016, Athens, Greece.
2. UltraClarity (ΥπερΔιαύγεια), Ministry of Press, 6 June 2014, Athens, Greece.
3. Web Archiving, Future Library Unconference 2013, 9 Dec 2013, Athens, Greece.
4. Digital Libraries in Greece, Bulgarian Library and Information Association event, 10 Oct 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria.
5. Case studies for cooperation with Europeana, Veria Public Library, AccessIT Plus Project event, 28 Mar 2012.
6. Heterogeneity in European Digital Libraries: The Europeana Challenge, Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries, a European Approach, DL.org workshop, 13 Dec 2010, Athens, Greece.
7. Europeana in Greece – Adding Hellenic Cultural Content in the European Digital Library“, Future Library, 19 Oct 2010, Athens, Greece.
8. Ο ρόλος των ακαδημαϊκών βιβλιοθηκών στην διατήρηση της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς: Institutional Repositories, 8 – 9 Μαϊου 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece.
9. DSpace at the University of Macedonia, DSpace User Group Meeting 2006, Bergen, Norway.

Technologies

Production experience with following software engineering tools:

• Python (2, 3, web development and data mining, Werkzeug, Flask, Gunicorn SQLAlchemy, Celery, NLTK, invenio, and many other libraries).
• Java (DSpace development)
• Scala
• PHP and HHVM (MVC frameworks, CakePHP, PEAR, Zend Framework, Joomla, WordPress, osCommerce, Mediawiki, Scout Portal Toolkit)
• JavaScript (ES6, jQuery, YUI, Bootstrap components, Google Javascript APIs)
• Database Servers (MySQL, MariaDB, Postgresql, Redis, Memcached, Apache Kafka)
• Linux (Debian, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Cluster Suite, Slackware)
• Ansible
• Front-end development (React.js, HTML5, CSS, LESS, SASS, SCSS, CompassStyle, BootStrap)
• Latex
• Vim
• Git
• Microsoft Windows (Windows Servers, Microsoft Active Directory).

Expert in the following technical domains:

• Digital Libraries (DSpace, eprints, invenio).
• Metadata Standards (oaipmh.com, Dublin Core, Europeana Data Model, Europeana Semantic Elements, MARC, Linked Data).
• Metadata Aggregators (openarchives.gr and the Hellenic Aggregator for Europeana)
• Web Archiving (web.archive.org, archiveready.com, BlogForever)
• Web APIs (Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), Eurobank ProxyPay, Internet Content Adaptation Protocol, Diavgeia open data API, Google Blogger Data API,  MetaWeblog API and many more).