Eurocris Membership Meeting

Lisbon 9-11 November 2005Lisbon 9-11 November 2005

Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhãespsmagalhaes@dsi.uminho.pt

Luís Amaralamaral@dsi.uminho.pt

University of Minho, Portugal

Portuguese National Science

and Technology Platform

DeGóis

DeGóis Platform

DeGóis is a set of tools conceived to collect information on the intellectual production and professional activities of the portuguese research community.

The information is collected under the form of a Curriculum Vitae, being the responsibility of each researcher to keep the information of its own CV up to date.

DeGóis Online is the software that enables this work.

The platform will increase the amount and quality of the information collected from the community

Objectives and Purposes

Have a national Science and Technology (S&T) information system that can be used by governmental agency's for, e.g.:

Candidates evaluation for obtaining financial aids and scholarships

Choosing consultants or members of evaluation commissions

Projects evaluation

To participate in a Portuguese and Spanish official language international S&T network.

Objectives and Purposes

Give visibility to national R&D

Produce S&T indicators

SCienTI Network

The SCienTI intent is to contribute for S&T development of the participant countries by facilitating interchange mechanisms, complementary and socialization experiences, products, services and information systems in ST&I management support.

This network was designed in a space of convergence between different actors in knowledge management for science development and technological innovation, through which it can generate methodologies, tools, instruments and ST&I products.

DeGóis Curriculum vitae Model

3.6 Teached short term courses

4.4 Short term courses

4.6 V&A works

4.7 Sound moulding

3.14 Oral presentations

Curriculum DeGóis components

Personal data

Some personal information (sex, birthplace, country, etc.)

Professional activities

Past and present activities, including:

Research interests

Work in the institution

Teaching

Investigation not related with projects

Etc.

Curriculum components

Academic degrees Period Academic Degree Scientific Domain Institution/course Supervisors Etc.

Projects Project identification Coordinators Institutional partners and supporters Related production (supervision, articles, products, patents, etc) Fields of Science (FOS/OCDE) Socio-economical objectives Keywords

Curriculum components

Scientifical production (books, articles, products, etc. )

Work classified in more than 150 types and sub-types of scientifical production in three major types (bibliographic, technical and artistic)

Scientifical production identification

Authors

Language

Related institutions

Fields of Science (FOS/OCDE)

Socio-economical objectives

Keywords

Etc.

DeGóis Online

Is a web application that enables users to manage the information on is own CV.

The existing DeGóis Online is the first set of tools in development.

It supports:

CV management

Printing CV in different formats (PDF, rtf)

Error verification

Export/import CV on XML format

On-line Portal (DeGóis online)

On-line Portal (Visualizador)

Technologies

Java

JSP (JavaServer Pages) – for some parts of the platform

Apache Tomcat: servlet container

Database: Oracle 9i

Dynamic HTML and JavaScript

Enables de application to run in most common browsers

XML, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation)

Potentialities and future work

Make available the DeGóis online to the scientific community for CV updating.

Interoperability with the Scienti Network and other Science & Technology Networks

Linking with integral text repositories (e.g. DSpace)

Improve the S&T portal with advanced search mechanisms

Build new applications (projects, research groups)

Potentialities and future work

Build an institutional version of the platform to install in portuguese organizations.

The use of the CV system in FCT’s grants and projects applications.

The permanent use of information offered by the platform to support science and technology management.

Creation of advanced mechanisms for knowledge discovery.