Multifunctional Web-system to register and control intellectual products in scientific research

Abstract

The authors present the web-system providing services of acquiring and accessing multiaspect information on science and research products (publications and papers delivered at scientific events) generated by researchers at an organization or a group of organizations. The system is designed at the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The System is targeted at both end users interested in obtaining specific data and at administrators and librarians who are to report to their parent organizations. The System’s information base comprises linked data on the following categories: personalia (authors of publications and papers); organizations with their divisions; publications at analytical, monographic and union levels; inventor certificates; scientific events (conferences, symposia, seminars); papers. The system is structured in two modules, the administrative (for data loading and editing) and user module – retrieval system for information search, visualization, navigation through linked resources and data exporting. The System specific feature is that it introduces the concept of “equivalent” objects, i. e. the objects represented by different metadata though related to the same physical entity. In compliance with current reporting standards, the entries also comprise funding resources of the publications, as well as the authors’ affiliation as specified in the articles. While accentuating the friendliness of the system user interface, the authors recommend to use the System in research and academic libraries as an instrument of publication activity assessment.