Lattes Platform: the Methodological Steps

Roberto C. S. PachecoINSTITUTO STELA - Research Leader

Lattes PlatformThe methodological steps

http://lattes.cnpq.br

euroCRIS Members MeetingLisbon, 10 November 2005

Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG). Edif. 2. Room 203. Second Floor

ST&I Indicators: How was the process before…

70-80’s

80-90’s

Paper Forms

Electronic Forms Main problems• Multiple sources of information• Lack of standards • Multiple efforts in S&T communities• Waste of public funds• Institutional system is not involved

ST&I Indicators

Relational DB

Homogeneous sources

Fundamental Questions to ICT

Who are the players involved with ST&I

How each one of these players interact (use and create)

information

Which ST&I processes should be considered

ICT is being Applied in all S&T Processes

INVESTIMENTS

In the outputs of a national ST&I system

In the inputs of a national ST&I system

In the processes of a national ST&I system

KNOWLEDGECREATION

MANAGEMENTTRANSACTIONAL

PROCESSES

ICTChallenge

Is to meet all processes and all S&T players

information needs

Processes and Players: ST&I Knowledge Support, Production, Planning and Benefit

Researchers

Students

Alumni

Grad. coord.

Managers

Professionals

Entrepreneurs

Technicians

Faculty

Staff

Managers

Multipliers

Generation supporters

Beneficiaries

Producers

Players Knowledge

Textual Databases

Relational Databases

Rules

Managers ProfessionalsStudents New ActorsResearchers

Web Sites, Portals

ScienTI Instruments and their goals

PLAYERS

PROCESS

INFORMATIONSOURCES

VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES

ScienTI Analysis Units

ScienTI Instruments: CvLAC

S&T Contents in CvLAC• Identification• Addresses• Level of Education• Profesional experience• Knowledge fields • Idioms• Prizes and Titles• Projects• Bibliographic production• Technical production• Supervisions• Complementary information

Information Resources• Homepage automatic• CV Indicators• Export to several formats• Easy error verification

Standards and Interoperability

Standard Community of practice2000-2004

CV

s

ResearchersStudentsProfesionals

CvDeGois

CvLattes

CvLAC

Research Group Leaders

Sistema Grupo

Sistema GrupLAC

Investimentos em CT&IScienTI System - Players

Managers in ST&I

InvestmentsCT&I

Universities

Link Analysis

Former Students

ST&I Organizations

Cv Viewer

Gru

ps

ScienTI Network Conceptual Architecture

Sistema Grupo

GrupLAC

CvDeGois

CvLattes

CvLAC

DM Cv DM Gr DM Inst DM Proj

Investiments Indicators

Analysis Systems

Searches

CVs Groups Institutions Projects

SCienTI Directories

ScienTI Portals

ScienTI Brazil – Indicators

Movimento acumulado entre 01/05 e 19/06 de 2002

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Novos Atualizados total

1,8 milion access a year

+610.000100 mil CVs per year

19.140 research groups in more

than 200 institutions

ST&I Investments

ST&I Investments

ScienTI Brazil – ST&I Investments

ScienTI Brazil – ST&I Investments

ScienTI Brazil – ST&I Investments

ScienTI Brazil – ST&I Investments

CV Former Students

ScienTI Brazil – CV Former Students Analysis

ScienTI Brazil – Institutional Views

RS

SP

BA

MG

RJ

PR

DF

GO

PA

PB

AL

Lattes Network – Institutional Levels

Examples

CNPqCAPESFINEP

FAPESP

FUNCITEC

FACEPE

FUNAPE

FAPEMIG

FAPERGS

FAPERJ

FAPEAL

Lattes Network – Public Agencies Level

Concluding Remarks• Methodology

– Standards– Classifications, international references

(difficult to live with organizational specificities)

– Flexible– How to expand horizontal and vertically without destroying the

reference model

– Free from specific technologies– Research is always there

• Redundancy (production in the CVs)• Entities relationship management on a decentralized flow system• Knowledge systems

• Collaboration is in place– it is not a matter of hiring a software house or even to

build up in house

Concluding Remarks• New Public decision maker mentality

– We are not talking about “informatics”;– If the systems work fine they will not be “ours” anymore: (knowledge

society effect)– Careful with the “call center”

• The issue of “convincing” the Researches:– Ex: identification, public x private information– The key is how to make them say “this is my CV”

• Transparency x Ownership– What to do with “non certified” information?– You have to trust in the researcher word!!!– You have also to be prepared to the “pointed out” effect

• Internationally– Idioms (but also culture) issues– Political timing x needing timing

Roberto C. S. PachecoINSTITUTO STELA - Research Leader

Lattes PlatformThe methodological steps

http://lattes.cnpq.br

euroCRIS Members MeetingLisbon, 10 November 2005

Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG). Edif. 2. Room 203. Second Floor

Muito Obrigado!!