A Plataforma BrCris como ferramenta para certificação de Teses e Dissertações no Brasil

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, several initiatives aimed at creating systems that manage the academic and technological production of an institution, country or area of knowledge have received attention from different researchers under different approaches. Such systems are known by the acronym CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) and are intended to aggregate information from various databases in order to provide reports, consolidated data for researchers to analyze, as well as to be the object of certification of scientific information and technological. Therefore, this work presents the data integration process of the BrCris Platform with the objective of providing reliable data, so that it is possible to carry out the process of certifying information about the Brazilian scientific community. Methodology: As a methodology for certification, a record collected from source “A” has a common attribute with the record collected from source “B”, and a link between both can be established, with a certain degree of reliability. The other record attributes can be merged to result in a single enriched record, eliminating duplicates. This whole process was applied in a case study. Results: As a case study, a set of approximately 700,000 theses and dissertations from curricula registered on the Lattes Platform with data exported from BrCris was certified. Conclusion: In addition to the initially certified data on the set of theses and dissertations registered in the Lattes Platform curricula, the use of aggregated data from the BrCris Platform for the certification process will provide several bibliometric studies that a priori would be extremely complex in their elaboration.