Geração de curricula vitae e relatórios de actividades de docentes universitários

Abstract

Throughout their careers, university teachers are often pressurized to make documents with curriculum data both in the form of Curriculum Vitae and Activity Reports. A significant part of that information is already included in the university information systems, of which SIGARRA - developed by the Oporto University - is an example. The main goal of this work is to help university teachers and researchers in the production of updated curricula and activity reports, at any moment, using the already registered data and making the introduction of any additional information easier. The resulting documents may be stored and displayed by the information system with different possibilities of organization and appearance formats. The requirements research was based on similar studies as well as in the analysis of legislation and examples of CVs and Activity Reports. Two standard patterns were specified: one for the Curriculum Vitae and another for the Activity Report. The data already stored in SIGARRA (system used as application case) was identified and a data model (BD Oracle) serving as repository for possible additional information was defined. An upgrade module for this additional information was developed (in PL/SQL). A function that produces, based on the two subsets of information, an XML document with the required pattern was developed. This document is subsequently changed into a final document, available in XML, HTML, PDF and RTF formats.