Um editor colaborativo de publicações científicas
Ficheiros
Data
2009
Autores
Título da revista
ISSN da revista
Título do Volume
Editora
Resumo
Os avanços tecnológicos a que assistimos no passado recente e no presente influenciam cada vez mais a metodologia de trabalho das pessoas. Esta realidade leva a informação a desempenhar um papel fundamental na nossa sociedade. Os trabalhos académicos, científicos e empresariais são fontes de informação e conhecimento científico muito relevantes. Neste contexto, um dos resultados mais importantes destas investigações é a produção e publicação de conteúdos científicos em formato digital. A maior disponibilidade destes conteúdos, mobilizou as atenções para a sua manipulação, acesso e armazenamento. Actualmente existem diversos recursos de suporte para publicações científicas digitais, cada um abrangendo uma etapa do processo de desenvolvimento. A criação de publicações científicas caracteriza-se normalmente por ser um processo colaborativo entre vários autores. Esta característica, associada aos processos de escrita e revisão da publicação realizadas pelos autores, são actualmente suportadas por ferramentas como o correio electrónico e editores de texto com funcionalidades de colaboração. Relativamente ao seu armazenamento, os repositórios científicos digitais foram desenvolvidos para este fim e ainda para funcionar como meio de disseminação do trabalho realizado, no entanto, funcionando de forma isolada do restante processo de criação. Além do armazenamento, disseminação e escrita de uma publicação, a organização e citação das diferentes fontes de informação utilizadas é também essencial para uma correcta construção do documento. Para esta etapa, existem os gestores de referências bibliográficas os quais desempenham um papel importante no processo de criação de uma publicação científica. Nesta Tese de Mestrado, é proposta uma plataforma de edição colaborativa de publicações científicas que engloba todas as etapas do desenvolvimento da publicação, estando assente em tecnologias Web, através da utilização de Web services e a linguagem Xml para comunicação entre os componentes da plataforma. Apesar da temática englobar a plataforma de edição colaborativa na sua globalidade, esta tese centrou-se no editor de texto colaborativo e o seu desenvolvimento, sendo complementada e desenvolvida em proximidade pela Tese de Mestrado do colega Guilherme Saraiva, a qual se debruça sobre o gestor de referências bibliográficas e o repositório digital. Assim sendo, a ênfase será dada ao editor de texto colaborativo, sendo que o gestor de referências será abordado de um modo mais generalizado. Para aferir mais correctamente a viabilidade da do editor proposto e obter conclusões, foi levado a cabo um inquérito e desenvolvida uma aplicação constituída por um editor de texto colaborativo, um gestor de referências bibliográficas e um repositório científico digital.
The technological advances that occurred in the past years, and still occurs in the present, influences more and more each day our work methodology. This reality puts information with a leading role in our society. Academic, scientific and corporate work and research are relevant sources of information and scientific knowledge. In this context, one of the most important results of these researches is the production and publishing of scientific content in digital format. The greater availability of scientific digital content has mobilized attentions to its manipulation, access and storage. Currently, there are several resources that support scientific publications in each step of its development process. The creation of scientific publications is usually characterized as a collaborative process between many authors. This characteristic associated to the steps of writing and revisioning the publication is done by the authors and is supported by tools like electronic mail and text editors with collaborative functionalities. Concerning the storage of these publications, scientific digital repositories where developed with this objective and also as a mean to disseminate this type of work, however, they do it isolated from the rest of the creation process. Besides storage, dissemination and writing, the organization and citation of the many information sources used is also essential to a correct construction of the document. For this stage, there are bibliographical references managers which play an important role in the process of developing a scientific publication. In this thesis, a platform for collaborative edition of scientific publications is proposed, that cover all the stages of its development. This platform is implemented using Web technologies, through the use of Web Services and Xml description language for communication between its multiple components. Though the thematic presented includes the platform for collaborative edition of scientific publications in its plenitude, this thesis is focused in the collaborative text editor and its construction, being complemented and developed in proximity with the thesis of the colleague Guilherme Saraiva, which is focused on the bibliographic reference manager and the scientific digital repository. Then, the emphasis of this document will be given to the collaborative text editor component of the platform, despite the reference manager being also addressed. To better assess the viability of the proposed editor and obtain conclusions, an inquiry was done and it was developed an application constituted by a collaborative text editor, a bibliographical reference manager and a scientific digital repository.
The technological advances that occurred in the past years, and still occurs in the present, influences more and more each day our work methodology. This reality puts information with a leading role in our society. Academic, scientific and corporate work and research are relevant sources of information and scientific knowledge. In this context, one of the most important results of these researches is the production and publishing of scientific content in digital format. The greater availability of scientific digital content has mobilized attentions to its manipulation, access and storage. Currently, there are several resources that support scientific publications in each step of its development process. The creation of scientific publications is usually characterized as a collaborative process between many authors. This characteristic associated to the steps of writing and revisioning the publication is done by the authors and is supported by tools like electronic mail and text editors with collaborative functionalities. Concerning the storage of these publications, scientific digital repositories where developed with this objective and also as a mean to disseminate this type of work, however, they do it isolated from the rest of the creation process. Besides storage, dissemination and writing, the organization and citation of the many information sources used is also essential to a correct construction of the document. For this stage, there are bibliographical references managers which play an important role in the process of developing a scientific publication. In this thesis, a platform for collaborative edition of scientific publications is proposed, that cover all the stages of its development. This platform is implemented using Web technologies, through the use of Web Services and Xml description language for communication between its multiple components. Though the thematic presented includes the platform for collaborative edition of scientific publications in its plenitude, this thesis is focused in the collaborative text editor and its construction, being complemented and developed in proximity with the thesis of the colleague Guilherme Saraiva, which is focused on the bibliographic reference manager and the scientific digital repository. Then, the emphasis of this document will be given to the collaborative text editor component of the platform, despite the reference manager being also addressed. To better assess the viability of the proposed editor and obtain conclusions, an inquiry was done and it was developed an application constituted by a collaborative text editor, a bibliographical reference manager and a scientific digital repository.
Descrição
Dissertação de Mestrado em Informática
Palavras-chave
Trabalho Cooperativo Suportado por Computador , Editor Colaborativo , Publicações Científicas , Web Services