Interoperability in Research Management: Why it Matters and Adoption Continuum

Interoperability in Research Management: Why it Matters, Adoption

Continuum

ACU SARIMA Conference 2015 Matthew Buys

The Digital Ecosystem

Central Repositories - RIMS, in-house systems Unique IDs - ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus Preview, Google… Data Models - in-house data models, VIVO... Data Dictionary - none, CASRAI… Web portals - IR, custom, open source

Silo Systems

RIMS Finance Institutional Repository

HR, Students

Interoperability???

Research Portal

Global trends driving the needs for increased professionalization of research management

Governments ●  National research performance exercises (e.g. REF, ERA, SEP, …)

●  Increased visibility for the country / region

Funders ●  Complex application processes

●  Reporting back on results from projects

●  Mandating open access publishing

Universities

●  Benchmarking externally and internally, SWOT, Internal performance reviews, Annual faculty activity reports

●  Accreditations, Controlling, Compliance (Ethics reviews, CoI, …)

●  Visibility to attract talent and collaborations ●  Efficiency

Researchers

●  Less administration, more research.

Global challenges for effective & efficient research management workflows

Pro-active Research

Management

Attract talent Increase collaborations

Produce high quality publications

Make efficient and effective use of available funding

Increase success rates, and external research

funding

Generate more high impact, innovative project ideas

Produce more patents & license agreements

Generate more spin-outs, products, expertise, services,

…

Breaking down the silo

Ins$tu$onal  Data  • People  |  Org  units|  Affilia3ons  |  Op3onal:  Publica3ons  • Sources:  Finance,  HR,  IR,  RIS,  DW,  …  

RIMS  

Jane  Doe  Dep.  of  Law  ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5442-5838

+  other  online  sources,    file  formats  and  manual  crea3on.  

Importance of standards

Unique Identifiers

ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.

Workflow: Researchers

IDEAS PROPOSALS PROJECTS RESULTS EXPLOITATION

Workflow: Research Administrator

IDEAS PROPOSALS PROJECTS RESULTS EXPLOITATION

Interoperability

Digital Ecosystem of the future

…. enter data once and reuse this many times. Key functions: ●  Compliant CVs ●  Interoperable systems ●  Public presence of research ●  Embed unique identifiers into the workflow ●  Compliance with standards ●  Accurate reporting

Enabling innovation through functional information management systems

Tracking the trends

0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000

South Africa Namibia

Botswana Mozambique

Malawi Angola Nigeria

Zimbabwe Zambia Tunisia Kenya

Ethiopia Tanzania Rwanda

Ghana Egypt

Registered ORCID users

0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2012 2013 2014

Cumulative ORCID users globally

18%

62%

7% 13%

ORCID members

Publisher Members

University Members

Funder Members

Assocation Members

Adoption Continuum

Challenges and insight

•  Infrastructure

•  Stakeholders

•  Skills and capacity

•  Budget

•  Evolving needs

•  Data integrity

Scalability for the future

Thank you

Contact Matthew Buys ORCID Regional Director, Africa & Middle East [email protected] +27 83 588 3160 Renee Reagon Thomson Reuters, Professional Services Manager [email protected] / [email protected] +27 83 789 5493