Maria João Durães Albuquerque is a music librarian, with a PhD in Information Sciences from Complutense University of Madrid, with a thesis on music publishing in Portugal (1834-1900), a 2015 special doctoral award. At present, she is an integrated researcher at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and a librarian at the Ministry of Internal Administration (Portuguese: Ministério da Administração Interna or MAI). Received an honorable mention award Raul Proença 2004, from the Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e documentalistas (BAD) and the Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas (IPLB). She graduated in History from the University of Lisbon. Completed the Superior Course of Piano at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music and graduated in Composition at the Lisbon Superior School of Music, where she studied with Constança Capdeville and Christopher Bochmann. She later specialized in librarianship, obtaining a post-graduate degree in Documentation Sciences at the University of Lisbon and a master's degree also in Documentation Sciences at the University of Évora. She taught at music schools of different levels. She worked as a librarian at the National Library of Portugal, Ajuda Library, Science College of Lisbon University, School Libraries Network, and, more recently, Libraries in Security and Defence. She participated in national and international Congresses, Colloquia, Seminars, and Conferences, and has published books, book chapters, and several articles. She participated in the research project "PROFMUS-To be a musician in Portugal: the social and professional condition of musicians in Lisbon" (INET-md, funded by FCT), where she has developed work on music ontologies. She is currently developing a project that aims to map the Portuguese musical heritage.