B.I.L.U. - Big Impact Learning Universe

High-Level Project Summary

Our challenge is to measure open science and when we reflect on the subject, we understand that the academy presents difficulties regarding its dissemination, therefore, we developed a platform dedicated to the scientific environment, aiming at the publication of articles in a multiplatform interface and classification system. qualitative, based on evaluations.Simple and intuitive design, for users to consume, produce and evaluate articles independently or published by official journals. With this, we created a quality indicator: the B.I.L.U index, the result of evaluations by general readers and specialists in the scientific environment.

Detailed Project Description

The search for quality scientific articles is often arduous due to the difficulty of finding content ranked by level of relevance and on a single platform. Portals such as Google Scholar, IEEE and Capes centralize a large number of articles, however their search is usually limited to the concatenation of the article's content with the search string, in addition to having a design of little usability.

The B.I.L.U. is a platform that aims to centralize the academic niche in a single place, serving as a dissemination for independent researchers, a bank of articles for students, a qualitative classifier of studies and a repository of existing journals and journals. The platform seeks to be the main tool for the consumption of articles by the academic public. Being able to upload articles linked to scientific journals, renowned universities or independently, users will be able to disseminate their work efficiently and professionally.

The tool will work with the user creating a profile and linking data from linkedin, Lattes curriculum or other official curriculum sites, optionally, in this profile the person will be able to publish their scientific articles to disseminate their research in an accessible way to everyone. Each user who is active on the site (who publishes at least one authorial article) will be able to comment and rate other published articles.

On the B.I.L.U. there will be a method of evaluating the quality of all published articles that will be based on three analyzes that will generate a grade: researchers verified by journals of articles and official periodicals, evaluate and comment on articles published on the platform, grade 1; the academic community that publishes articles can evaluate and comment on other published articles, note 2; the number of citations of this article in other publications within the platform generates the grade 3 (this number of citations refers to the number of people who considered that article relevant). With the first two notes, the B.I.L.U. referring to the article, it will also be possible to evaluate the impact factor of the publication within the platform, analyzing the third note.

Official journals will be able to create profiles and publish their articles and periodicals, selecting profiles of researchers verified by them for review, that is, professionals with a high level of knowledge for the composition of grade 2. Renowned universities will also be able to work in the same way as journals, publishing the articles of its students and researchers and verifying the professional profiles, usually professors, who will also contribute to the second grade.

To carry out this project, Google docs was used for the description and detailing of the project, Google drive so that all team members could access and edit the works, Google presentations to present the idea to the mentors and Figma to assemble the idea and demonstration of the project.

However, the platform promises not only to centralize articles in an accessible way to the community, distributing them on multiple platforms such as the web and mobile application, but also to generate a quality index in order to classify articles through the evaluation of readers and experts.

Hackathon Journey

The event provided a great experience for my team, it showed us challenges that we often don't know exist. Being able to talk about the different possibilities and ideas of how we would solve the problem was incredible, an experience that will be kept in our hearts and all the learning acquired will be taken to overcome other challenges in our lives.

The challenge chosen by my team was the “MEASURING OPEN SCIENCE” due to the great difficulty of university students and graduate students in finding articles with reliable content to use in our projects. With this, the whole idea of ​​a platform was planned and developed to centralize scientific articles with an indicator of relevance and impact of the article. There were several hours of conversation to define what would be the route of a user through the site, several ideas were emerging and we were selecting the ones that were most appropriate with the theme and with the B.I.L.U.

Special thanks to NASA for providing the experience of designing a project that could be a solution for the community. Thanks to the local mentors of UNIFEOB in São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo: Mr. Rodrigo Marudi de Oliveira, Mr. Sidney Gitcoff Telles, Mr. Benedito Albiero, Mr. Jorge Wellington Rodrigues, Mr. Patrick Martins, Mr. Guilherme Henrique Stanguini Trafani, Mr. Felipe Agusto Regolim and Mrs. Caroline Pereira de Souza. Special thanks also to Mr Ezequiel Ricardo Tobias for supporting, filming and setting up the video set for the project.

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