Desvendando as percepções e práticas adotadas pelos pesquisadores dos programas de pós-graduação em Ecologia do nodeste brasileiro na gestão dos dados científicos

Abstract

Based on the premise that data from scientific investigations are usually stored on the researchers’ computers, discarded or even lost when the results are published in articles, making it impossible to produce new investigations, the present study sought to uncover the perceptions and practices adopted by the researchers from the postgraduation programs of of the brazilian northeast ecology in the management of scientific data, based on the emerging national and international phenomenon, e-Science, that transformed the way research data can be produced, disseminated, managed, shared and reused taking start at the data curation process. In the view of the above, the researchers from the postgraduation programs of the brazilian northeast ecology were questioned about the perceptions and practices adopted in the management of scientific data. This study is an exploratory research, that aims to increase the knowledge about the subject, and a qualitative and quantitative approach to analyze the data that were collected through the application of a questionnaire. It was concluded that the reality of data sharing through the proccess of curatorship is emerging, since some of the subjects of this research already use tools that help with the data management plan, and others have a great interest in increasing their knowledge about the practices of management of scientific data for later sharing.