NISO Virtual Conference: Research Information Systems, August 16

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Research Information Networks: The Connections Enabling Collaboration

Date & Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Eastern)

 

Here are what just three of the day’s speakers will address:

 

Making Sense of the Confusing World of Research Information Management

Confirmed Speaker: Rebecca Bryant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research, OCLC

 

Research Information Management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of metadata about institutional research activities, and represents growing resource allocation by research institutions worldwide. As institutions, consortia, and nations attempt to solve different problems, their systems, workflows, infrastructure, and nomenclature are developing in different ways. In this presentation, Dr. Bryant will provide an introduction to the RIM landscape and offer a model for understanding RIM activities, developed in collaboration with OCLC Research Library Partnership member institutions from three continents. She will talk about the key drivers for RIM adoption, and how these have influenced RIM adoption and scaling in EMEA, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Creating a Culture of Research Reputation through Research Information Management Systems

Confirmed Speakers: Scott Warren, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, Syracuse University Libraries, and Anne Rauh, Collection Development and Analysis Librarian, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse University

 

Research institutions have increasingly strong needs to manage the reputations of their research portfolios. From primary investigator activities to awarded grants, scholarly output, and related media mentions, universities need to be able to retrieve and integrate information about their research endeavors in order to successfully showcase impact at an institutional level. However, all too often this information is siloed and not easily discoverable, retrievable, or reusable. Syracuse University Libraries traditionally provide research reputation services to individual researchers, but recently collaborated with the Office of Research to expand this work in a systematic, scalable manner throughout the university via a pilot implementation of a Research Information Management System (RIMS). This partnership helped the Libraries demonstrate value in a new way to different stakeholders as an important member of the university research enterprise. The presenters will give an overview of RIMS, discuss the implementation of such a system at Syracuse University, outline challenges to implementing such systems, and articulate why libraries should be involved in their operation. The speakers will also address impacts of the use of these systems, and their complex data needs, on the broader information community.

 

Case Study: From Researcher Profiling to System of Record

Confirmed Speaker: Jan Fransen, Service Lead for Researcher and Discovery Systems, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 

 

One look at the home screen of the University of Minnesota's Experts@Minnesota shows that this is a sprawling institution: Experts@Minnesota includes public profiles for 6,400 faculty and staff organized into almost 300 research units. At last count, it held almost 230,000 research outputs. Such a near-comprehensive data set brings benefits as well as challenges. Ms. Fransen will review those challenges, both initial and ongoing, and discuss the rationale for the 2012-15 pilot project as well as the current (often unexpected) benefits of the service. She will also discuss key partnerships and review the Experts@Minnesota roadmap.

 

Other confirmed speakers during this August 16 event include:

• Muhammad Javed, Ph.D., Ontology Engineer/Tech. Lead (Scholars@Cornell), Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
  
• Daniel Calto, Director of Solution Services, Research Intelligence, Elsevier
  
• Marlee Givens, Librarian for Modern Languages and Library Learning Consultant, Georgia Tech
  
• Andi Ogier, Director for Data Services, Virginia Tech University, Virginia (Ginny) Pannabecker, Associate Director, Research Collaboration and Engagement, Virginia Tech University Libraries, and Peggy Layne, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development, Virginia Tech 

About Registration: Purchase of a single registration entitles you to gather an unlimited number of staff from your organization/institution in a class- or conference-room setting to view the event on the day of the live broadcast. It also includes access to an archived recording of the event to allow those with conflicting obligations to still benefit from the day’s content.

 

For details on registration costs and additional information provided by speakers, please see the NISO event page.

 

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