  Identifying and studying the formation of researchers over the years is a
challenging task, as the current repositories of theses and dissertations are
cataloged in a decentralized manner in different digital libraries, many of
them with limited scope. In this paper, we take a step forward towards building
a large repository to record the Brazilian academic genealogy. For this, we
collected data from the Lattes platform, an internationally recognized
initiative that provides a repository of researchers' curricula maintained by
the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
(CNPq), and developed a user-oriented platform to generate the academic
genealogy trees of Brazilian researchers from them, also providing additional
data resulting from a series of analyses regarding the main properties of such
trees. Our effort has identified interesting aspects related to the academic
career of the Brazilian researchers, which highlight the importance of
generating and cataloging their academic genealogy trees.
