Repositories as Platforms for Researcher
e-PortfoliosSusan Gibbons
Associate Dean, River Campus LibrariesUniversity of Rochester
[email protected]: susanlgibbons
Content Recruitment ProblemsIf you build it, they may not comeWhy?
2003-04 faculty work practice studyDr. Nancy Foster, anthropologistDisciplines = TribesHow researchers do research and write, and the digital tools they use
General FindingsCopyright confusionNeed authoring/document management systemsPersonal vs. InstitutionalTime Benefits
Copyright ConfusionSherpa/RomeoCreate local databases of articles
ISI Citation IndexScience Direct (Elsevier)
General FindingsCopyright confusionNeed authoring/document management systemsPersonal vs. InstitutionalBenefitsTime
Graduate Student Research Project
2-year, grant-funded project Work practices of graduate students, focusing on the dissertation“Keep found things found”Authoring & co-authoringGoogle Docs modelFront end to Fedora repository
General FindingsCopyright confusionNeed authoring/document management systemsPersonal vs. InstitutionalBenefitsTime
General FindingsCopyright confusionNeed authoring/document management systemsPersonal vs. InstitutionalBenefitsTime
General FindingsCopyright confusionNeed authoring/document management systemsPersonal vs. InstitutionalBenefitsTime
E-PortfoliosHot campus topicConsistent web portfoliosGrant and other CV needsData mining potential
ReportsPublic relationsAlumni relations
Can IRs be adapted toe-Portfolios?
Portfolio@Duke UniversityRochester’s Researcher PagesCornell Univ.’s VivoUniv. of Melbourne’s “Find An Expert”
Melbourne’s Find an ExpertSimon PorterData from staff and University’s enterprise system to create individual web pagesBio, publications, grants, awards, expertise, national & international linkagesLinks to ePrints repository and creates OpenURLs
Can IRs be adapted toe-Portfolios?
Stand-alone IRMore robust than DSpace and EPrintsComplex object types and relationshipsFedora?
IR as ComponentE-Portfolios link to objects in IRIR provides metadata for those objects
IR as E-Portfolio ComponentInputs:
Data from HR, registrar, grants, publications, committees, awards, affiliations, etc.Self-reporting
Outputs:Consistent web portfoliosReportsFormatted CVsFind expertise, patterns
Advantages for IRsE-Portfolios are high level initiatives
SustainabilityVisibility
ContentShifting content recruitment burdenMore of it
Advantages for Faculty
Personal vs. InstitutionalFar clearer
BenefitsCV creationWebpage creationPublicize expertise
Advantages for Faculty
TimeIngest data automaticallyMerge multiple reporting streams• Academic reviews, RAE
Customized CVs