Evidentia Review Project
Ongoing CEDIS project focused on the continuous research, evolution, and validation of methods, workflows, and capabilities for systematic reviews, with Evidentia Review as its resulting product.
Overview
The Evidentia Review Project is an ongoing initiative at CEDIS/UnB dedicated to the research, development, and continuous validation of approaches that support systematic literature reviews. Its purpose is not simply to maintain an already finished application, but to investigate, test, and evolve workflows, features, and decision-support mechanisms that can improve this type of study over time.
The main current outcome of that effort is the digital product Evidentia Review , already publicly available. In other words, this page describes the ongoing research and development project, while the product page describes the platform that has already been delivered for use.
Project Nature
The project works as a continuous research and technology-evolution front. Within it, CEDIS structures hypotheses, validates workflows, improves collaboration features, experiments with prioritization mechanisms, and refines traceability and reproducibility artifacts for systematic reviews.
For that reason, the project should be understood as the research-and-development umbrella that guides future versions, capabilities, and evolution decisions for the product.
Objectives
The project has the following main objectives:
- to design and evolve a digital infrastructure for systematic reviews with traceability and reproducibility;
- to investigate Machine Learning mechanisms for prioritization and decision support during screening;
- to structure auditable workflows for protocol definition, study selection, data extraction, and reporting; and
- to turn real research-group needs into continuous improvements for a usable product in academic and institutional environments.
Development Front
Within the project, CEDIS has been developing and refining fronts such as:
- protocol registration, research questions, criteria, and data collection forms;
- collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening;
- conflict management and reviewer consensus support;
- versioned synthesis templates and reproducible document generation; and
- extraction auditing and outputs aligned with PRISMA 2020.
These fronts represent ongoing lines of work within the project. Part of them is already materialized in the product available today, while part remains under continuous refinement as the project advances.