The Lattes Platform is an information system

Information system

An information system - or application landscape - is any combination of information technology and people's activities that support operations, management, and decision making. In a very broad sense, the term information system is frequently used to refer to the interaction between people,...

 (integrated data-base, web-based query interface, etc) maintained by the Brazilian Government to manage information on science, technology and innovation related to individual researchers and institutions working in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

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It is named after a Brazilian physicist, Cesar Lattes

César Lattes

Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes , also known as Cesar Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.-Life:Lattes was born to a family of Italian Jewish immigrants in Curitiba, Southern Brazil...

, and it is maintained by the federal bureau responsible for funding the scientific and technological research efforts in the federal level, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

The Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico is an organization of the Brazilian federal government under the Ministry of Science and Technology, dedicated to the promotion of scientific and technological research and to the formation of human resources for research in the...

 (CNPq, National Counsel of Scientific and Technological Development). Since all individual researchers and institutions are required to regularly fill or update their information in this system, the Lattes Platform can be considered an important tool to assess the Brazilian science performance.

Tools

• A XSL stylesheet to transform XML Lattes to RDF
• An updated version of the original DTD specification of XML Lattes format

External links

• Plataforma Lattes (in Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
   and English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
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• Search engine (by researcher name. buscar=search, limpar=clear)