Eurocris Membership Meeting

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Eurocris Membership Meeting
Lisbon 9-11 November 2005
Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães psmagalhaes_at_dsi.uminh
o.pt Luís Amaral amaral_at_dsi.uminho.pt University
of Minho, Portugal
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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

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Objectives and Purposes

• Have a national Science and Technology (ST)
  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 ST network.

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Objectives and Purposes

• Give visibility to national RD
• Produce ST indicators

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SCienTI Network

• The SCienTI intent is to contribute for ST
  development of the participant countries by
  facilitating interchange mechanisms,
  complementary and socialization experiences,
  products, services and information systems in
  STI 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
  STI products.

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DeGóis Curriculum vitae Model
4.4 Short term courses
4.6 VA works
3.6 Teached short term courses
4.7 Sound moulding
3.14 Oral presentations
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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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On-line Portal (DeGóis online)
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On-line Portal (Visualizador)
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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)

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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 ST portal with advanced search
  mechanisms
• Build new applications (projects, research groups)

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Potentialities and future work

• Build an institutional version of the platform to
  install in portuguese organizations.
• The use of the CV system in FCTs 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.