Architecture, Methods and Tools of the Intellectual System of Thematic Analysis of Scientific Information "ISTINA — Science in MSU" Core

V. A. Vasenin, Professor, Head of Laboratory, e-mail: vasenin@msu.ru, D. D. Golomazov, Senior Researcher, e-mail: denis.golomazov@gmail.com, G. M. Gankin, Programmer, e-mail: gregorian21@yandex.ru, Institute of Mechanics Lomonosov Moscow State University

The present paper is devoted to a description of architecture and core modules of Intellectual System of Thematic Analysis of Scientific Information (ISTINA, "Truth" in Russian). The system is aimed at gathering, managing, storing, searching, retrieving and analyzing of information that characterizes results of scientific and educational organizations' activity. The system is actively used in Lomonosov Moscow State University. In this paper, the architecture and structure of the core modules are presented. The paper focuses on description of methods and tools of its basic components (the core), including mechanisms of adding new work types and data editing. The paper also describes some practical aspects of the system architecture from a programming point of view.

Keywords: scientific information, information system, scientific research, performance analysis, bibliographic system, metadata

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