alex.bia [at] ua.es
Alejandro Bia has a background in computer science. He studied at ORT University, Oxford University and the at University of Alicante.
Currently he is a full time lecturer at the Miguel Hernández University, within the Department of Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. He has lectured for the Master in Digital Humanities (2005-present), and the Master in Web Technology (2005-2007) at the University of Castilla La Mancha, for the Department of Languages and Information Systems (2002-2004) and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis of the University of Alicante (2002), and at ORT University (1990-1996). His lecture topics are XML,TEI, and digital libraries, software engineering, project management, concurrent programming, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and English for computer sciences.
At present, he participates in two emergent digitisation projects: the Bibliotheca Europa project of the University of Alicante, and with the Atenea project of the University of Málaga. In 2005, he has done consultancy work for the National Library of Spain.
From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante. Previously, he has worked as Special-Projects Manager at NetGate (1996), and as Documentation Editor of the GeneXus project at Advanced Research and Technology (ARTech) (1991-1994).
His current interests are the application of software engineering methods and techniques to digital libraries and to enhance document structure design, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, digitisation metrics and cost estimates.