Knowledge management of research data: an initial analysis of Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry

Abstract

It can be said that scientific community produces research data, as well as uses research data to validate its work. Thus, research data cease to be research products to become informational resources. In this context, digital data repositories play an extremely important role in the scientific research process, since they can be used to share, access, reuse and validate data. In this sense, the informational recognition of research data, in recent years, transformed the view that characterized them as simple by-products of research processes, to the point that researchers, academic institutions and research development agencies begin to understand that these data contribute as a source of informational resources for scientific research and science teaching. Based on this, the objective of this work is to make a preliminary survey of the type of research data generated at the Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry (IRD). For this, an analysis was made of the papers published by the permanent professors of the Post-graduation Program in Radiation Protection and Dosimetry in the last year (2019). It was then generated a table relating the Concentration Areas versus some technical information, regarding the generation of research data. In this sense, the analysis of the data of the IRD consists of a initial stage to assist the creation of the Institute's Digital data repository, which aims to provide the research data in order to be used in other researches.