Presentation to the vice-presidents of research of universities and national labs at the Star Metrics Consultant Meeting, organized by NSF, NIH and other american agencies. We present Lattes project and other ST&I information platforms we developed in Brazil. 12.12.2011

1. Meeting with Universities´ vice presidents for research
December 12, 2011. National Press Club. Washington DC.
STAR METRICS Consultation Meeting
Lattes Platform and Brazilian ST&I
Information Systems Initiatives
Roberto Pacheco
Stela Institute and Federal University of Santa Catarina (EGC)
José Salm Jr.
Stela Institute and Federal University of Santa Catarina
Marcelo Domingos
Stela Institute

2. Introduction
• Instituto Stela
Knowledge Engineering
Research Institute
• EGC – Graduate Program
on Knowledge
Engineering and
Management - UFSC

3. Lattes Platform Project
When and
why Lattes
was built
1997 - The national
electronic forms were
important for agency
funding operation, but
unsuitable to decision
making.
Source: ScienTI presentation, 2002 about Lattes history

4. Lattes Platform Project
What it is
Lattes is the national platform to provide
information services to researchers, students,
institutions and research groups.
• honors Cesar Lattes, -meson co-discoverer
• managed by CNPq - the National Council for
Science and Technology www.cnpq.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br

5. Lattes Platform Project
What it offers
It has several connected components:
Lattes CV
Personal ID, education
background, professional
activities, production in
SCT&I
R&D groups Project and grant
Researchers, research submissions
area, cooperation Organizational structure
Directory of Decision making services
Planning (ST&I Statistics)
institutions
Evaluation
Organizational structure
Public access to information

6. Main characteristics of Lattes
Free admission Alignment with
Any person can enroll and add his or her other e-Gov initiatives
CV information ex. Innovation Portal, Coleta CAPES
“Mandatory”
Registration on Lattes is required in Unique identification
order to apply for funding. It is now a for researchers (ready for ORCID)
common practice within the National
ST&I system funding agencies Public access
Data Interchange standards To data and services
Defined in collaboration with universities
and other S&T Agencies Privacy policy
No personal information is made available
Data Governance through the Internet
DOI, Audit reports of false information
and mostly by social control
Localized (11 other countries)
Interoperability and data Lattes was developed in three Languages
extraction (Portuguese, Spanish and English)
Lattes interacts with 132 institutions

7. Lattes Project
Platform Acceptance More than 2 million of CVs
(Hits and Updates) (only 20% from grant processes)
More than 400 research groups
Daily hits - Average
(2007-2010)
120.000
100.033
Daily updates – Average
100.000 93.697 (2007-2010)
11.500
77.731 11.129
80.000
Number of Hits
Number of CVs Updated
67.967 11.000
10.521
60.000
10.500
10.052
40.000 10.000
9.720
9.500
20.000
9.000
0 2007 2008 2009 2010
2007 2008 2009 2010
Year
Year
Source: CNPq, 2011

8. How the CVs are updated?
1. Each person accesses
Lattes Platform and
login in on his/her own
CV
2. Articles, activities or
other information 3. The updated CV version is
are updated “sent” to CNPq and will
appear on the Web
(24-48h later)

9. Finding expertise in a particular scientific domain

10. INCT (2008)
How Lattes can help to manage ST&I processes
Ministério da
Ciência e Tecnologia

11. National Institutes of Science and Technology
Program Objectives
To promote the articulation and integration, through the
establishment of networks among the best research groups and
individuals in the country, in priority areas;
To promote internationally competitive scientific research;
To promote high quality science and technology development associated with
potential market applications in cooperation with the private sector;
Contribute to the improvement of education standards at all levels, mainly in the
preparation of young scientists;
To promote the implementation of laboratories to be jointly used by universities
and companies
Ministério da
Ciência e Tecnologia

12. National Institutes of Science and Technology
Data obtained from Lattes Platform CVs
Analysis done by services provided by Innovation Portal
Snapshot 3
2011
Snapshot 1
2008
Ministério da
Ciência e Tecnologia

13. National Institutes of Science and Technology
Data obtained from Lattes Platform CVs
Analysis done by services provided by Innovation Portal
Snapshot 3
2011
Snapshot 1
2008
Ministério da
Ciência e Tecnologia

14. Being used by universities and Research Institutes.
R&D institutes use the Lattes CV as a source to
strategic planning:
• carrier planning
• competence management
• organizational memory
• research content management
• expertise location

15. Past and the new trends
Original Lattes scenarios (1999…) Current Trends
Problems Problems
• Individual information research burden • Individual and networking R&D
• Agency lack of information • Accuracy from information burden
• Lack of institutional collaboration • Public partnership
Technology Technology
• GUI • Touch UI, Mobile (next-gen)
• Data Center • Cloud
• PC • App Stores
• CMS • Social Media
• Database exchange • Interoperability
Public managers view Public managers view
• Governmental control • Public Governance

16. Aquarius
Platform
Public Governance
in ST&I
We are now building a
national platform that
combines all ST&I in
strategic decision
making and public
governance.

17. Final remarks
Past: Lattes began as a response to governmental
information need
Present:
o It turned out to be the main source of ST&I information
(used by Federal Agencies, State Agencies and Universities)
o It enabled the development of other national initiatives
(Innovation Portal, DCVISA, SINAES, DCSIBEA, Aquarius and many others)
o It has been a reference for international cooperation among
governments, institutions and researchers (ex. ScienTI)
Future: The current trends in technologies and public
governance allow us to consider several other
scenarios of how to build a national database.

18. Meeting with Universities´ vice presidents for research
December 12, 2011. National Press Club. Washington DC.
STAR METRICS Consultation Meeting
Lattes Platform and Brazilian ST&I
Information Systems Initiatives
THANK YOU!
MUITO OBRIGADO!
Roberto Pacheco
Stela Institute and Federal University of Santa Catarina (EGC)
José Salm Jr.
Stela Institute and Federal University of Santa Catarina
Marcelo Domingos
Stela Institute