Authors:
Gabriel Madeira
;
Eduardo N. Borges
;
Matheus Barañano
;
Prícilla Karen Nascimento
;
Giancarlo Lucca
;
Maria de Fatima Maia
;
Helida Salles
and
Graçaliz Dimuro
Affiliation:
Centro de Ciências Computacionais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG, Av. Italia, km 8, 96203-900, Rio Grande, RS and Brazil
Keyword(s):
Academic Genealogy, Genealogy Trees, Data Integration, Information Visualization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
e-Business
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning and e-Teaching
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Academic genealogy investigates the relationships between student researchers and academy professionals. In recent years, it proved to be a powerful technique to help analyze the spread of scientific knowledge. Tools that make to visualize these relationships among academics easier are potentially useful and have been proposed. This work specifies and describes the development of a Web information system for creating and visualizing academic genealogy trees from a set of metadata extracted and integrated from multiple sources. The proposed system allows a researcher to query and track information about his or her advisers and graduate students at any level. A case study was explored to validate the system using data from more than 570 thousand theses and dissertations.