The PTCRIS program, implemented by the FCCN Unit, aims to facilitate the production, access, sharing, and management of information on national scientific activity. It is responsible for developing a regulatory framework and infrastructure aimed at creating an integrated science information ecosystem in Portugal. Learn more here.
An open scientific and technological ecosystem, with benefits for all its stakeholders. This is the view of the PTCRIS structuring program, implemented in Portugal by the Foundation for Science and Technology, through its FCCN Unit. The construction of this system is guided by three fundamental objectives: reduce the bureaucratic burden that falls on researchers simplifying the management of information on scientific activity; allowing research activity to be measured more accurately based on complete, reliable and up-to-date data; makes it easierro access to this same research activity.
The potential of the PTCRIS ecosystem has an impact on all stakeholders in the scientific and technological universe in Portugal. By promoting interoperability between science management systems, PTCRIS aims to break down existing information silos, benefiting not only higher education and research institution leaders but also other stakeholders such as educators; scientific publishers; libraries; technology companies; and social media. For all of these stakeholders, it will now be easier. manage information supporting science and access open data on scientific activity
“This ecosystem will promote scientific excellence in Portugal”, can be read on the program's website. According to João Mendes Moreira, the Director of PTCris, this program aims to define the regulatory framework for information systems both internal and external to the FCT and fosters closer ties between all stakeholders in the world of technology and science, facilitating their interaction.
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To achieve its objectives and realize its vision, PTCRIS has dtwo axes of action fundamental: a) development of a regulatory framework for interoperability and infrastructures and services focused on the base entities of the scientific system (researchers, institutions, funding, scientific production); and b) promotion of adoption of this regulation and infrastructure by the different services that operate in the universe of science and technology.
One of these services is the SCIENCEVITAE, the national platform for managing scientific curricula. SCIENCEVITAE emerges as the first service entirely based on PTCRIS standards and infrastructure and aims to occupy a central space in the national science and technology ecosystem, functioning as a tool for carrying out any administrative act based on a CV. SCIENCEVITAE currently has 67,616 registered researchers and more than 1 million referenced scientific articles.
In recent years, several entities have adapted their systems to the regulatory framework and infrastructure, becoming part of the PTCRIS ecosystem. These include the FCT's new funding management platform, MyFCT, where authentication occurs via CIÊNCIA ID and curriculum information submission is based exclusively on SCIENCEVITAE thus dispensing with the re-introduction of personal and curriculum data in the context of applying for FCT funding.
In addition to the FCT, National Innovation Agency This year, it joined the PTCRIS ecosystem with the development of the Innovation Portal. This portal is based on the PTCRIS infrastructure for managing national science and technology organizations and SCIENCEVITAE to aggregate and make available authoritative information about people operating in the national innovation system.
On the institutional side, the development of a framework integration that allows the transfer of information between the institutions' science management systems in accordance with the PTCRIS regulations and the SCIENCEVITAE. One of the products of this work, carried out in collaboration with ISCTE-IUL, is the integration between the SCIENCEVITAE and this institution's science management system allow its teachers/researchers to automatically transfer curricular information between the two systems.
Promoting transparency in scientific activity is another of PTCRIS's strategic objectives, with the creation of a a portal that aggregates all information on scientific activity carried out in Portugal, including profiles of researchers, organizations operating in the science and technology ecosystem, scientific production and associated funding.
All these strengths give PTCRIS an instrumental role in enabling a more integrated science and technology ecosystem. efficient, open and transparentBringing the entire community together into a single integrated ecosystem, it acts as a digital consultant in the areas of research and science.
Find out more information about the PTCris program at service website.
