One of the primary concerns in Documentation is the design of new technologies that facilitate the documentalist’s work in their professional activities and tasks. The future of Documentation Science cannot be imagined without the advancement of techniques that support information processing and its optimal utilization.

In this regard, from mblazquez.es, we aim to contribute to the scientific and academic development of Documentation through three types of projects:

  • Academic applications. These constitute an essential contribution to the teaching of various aspects of Documentation. They are software programs designed for demonstrating and simulating information retrieval environments, evaluation processes, or even metadata development.
  • Scientific applications. Their objective is to provide highly structured and tabulated information for use in webometric studies and qualitative information analysis. Additionally, the development of new techniques and algorithms is considered in areas such as information retrieval, user experience evaluation and analysis, methods for managing and transmitting bibliographic catalogs, web analysis and tracking tools, among others.
  • Professional applications. These aim to develop applications for the professional, commercial, and economic exploitation of information, offering original models that often differ from conventional document management solutions. The goal of each program is to achieve the most effective method for resolving a specific problem.

This website presents only some of the software applications and research developed in recent years.

2017. Portudois (Portuguese Culture Search Engine) – Portudois is the search engine for Portuguese culture, enabling retrieval of information from Portugal’s major libraries, archives, museums, and digital repositories. Among its most notable innovations is its semantic search method, which delivers enriched results. http://mblazquez.es/el-buscador-de-portugal-portudois-pt/

2017. AXYZ (Experimental Aggregator of RSS Feeds) – A program for the systematic study of information published in RSS feeds. It is considered a big-data application optimized for processing thousands of information sources and automatically filtering and correlating them. Additionally, it provides comparative information and content services similar to Google News. Among its other notable features, it includes an integrated search engine capable of retrieving and filtering previously collected information. Furthermore, it offers statistical functions to measure correlations between retrieved news or content, facilitating the identification of informational patterns. https://mblazquez.es/axyz-agregador-big-data-informativo/

2015. AMPdoc (Portable AMP Distribution for Document Applications) – This is a portable distribution of the Apache web server, PHP, and MySQL, preloaded with all automation tools necessary for teaching the course “Automated Systems in Information Units.” It is directly applicable to the teaching of integrated library and archive management systems, content management systems, SEO tracking programs, and the PKP Public Knowledge Project. https://mblazquez.es/ampdoc-2-0/

2013. APLIR (Applications for Information Retrieval Teaching) – The APLIR project comprises a set of tools used for teaching information retrieval techniques and related processes. These include the preparatory stages carried out by web crawlers in processing texts collected from the web, their transformation, and subsequent retrieval using classical models such as Boolean, vectorial, or probabilistic. Additionally, the project encompasses applications designed to study the relevance and pertinence of results provided by retrieval systems. Finally, it also integrates projects focused on usability analysis, navigation, user observation and experience, as well as metadata analysis and extraction through specialized parsers. http://mblazquez.es/aplir-aplicaciones-para-la-ensenanza-en-recuperacion-de-informacion/

2013. Mbot (Multifunctional Webcrawler) – A web analysis and crawling program, also known as a webcrawler, specialized in preparing webmetric studies, resource detection, data mining, and information source extraction. http://mblazquez.es/mbot/

2010. Sync+Syncore (Bibliographic Services Management) – Sync is a program specialized in demonstrating the bibliographic syndication processes presented in the doctoral thesis – Applications of Syndication for the Management of Bibliographic Catalogs – The program Syncore, linked to Sync, demonstrates an alternative query and interrogation method to the Z39.50 protocol, based on content syndication technologies. https://mblazquez.es/tesis-doctoral-aplicaciones-sindicacion-gestion-catalogos-bibliograficos/