BrCris as a Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Innovation in Scientific Information Management
Author(s)
Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais
Sena, Priscila
Issue Date
May 21, 2025
Publisher
euroCRIS
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Brazilian scientific production is characterized by a wide diversity of research outputs, which poses significant challenges for the integration, organization, and analysis of scientific information at a national scale. In this context, the Brazilian Current Research Information System (BrCris), developed by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), emerges as a strategic socio-technical infrastructure for managing and disseminating data on science, technology, and innovation in Brazil. This study analyzes the BrCris platform through the innovation framework proposed by Bessant and Tidd, which conceptualizes innovation across the dimensions of product, process, positioning, and paradigm.
Adopting a qualitative approach based on systematic document analysis of institutional publications, technical documentation, scientific literature, and publicly available platform features, the research identifies empirical and conceptual evidence of innovation embedded in BrCris’s architecture and functionalities. The findings indicate that BrCris promotes product innovations through interactive dashboards and analytical reports, process innovations through large-scale data integration, standardization, and disambiguation mechanisms, positioning innovations by aligning Brazilian scientific production with international open science infrastructures, and paradigmatic innovations by fostering institutional and cultural shifts toward transparency, data certification, and informational justice. The study concludes that BrCris operates not only as an information system but also as a vector of institutional and epistemic transformation, reinforcing its strategic role in advancing Open Science and scientific governance in Brazil.
Description
21 slides.-- Presentation delivered within CRIS2026 session "Advancing Research Information Systems: Interoperability, Ethics, and the Role of Libraries".-- Includes extended abstract
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https://dspacecris.eurocris.org/handle/11366/10226
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