Research Information, Networking, and Collaboration - strategy and challenges

Research Information, Networking,

and Collaboration strategy and challenges

SCOTT WARREN

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP

Institutional metrics

» Who is doing what?

or trying to!

» Where are they? Who are they collaborating with? or could be?

» Would that move them (and us) closer to desired outcomes? Leverage expertise!!

» Can we make strategic investments to support them?

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Making decisions

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Office Space

Trends

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Seeing the big picture – developing new insights – new questions

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Sebastian Opitz

Outcomes

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Getting data can be hard

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Lack of consistency

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Knowledge is heavily distributed on a campus

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Culture http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/

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Centralize data

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What is Pure?

Showcases Syracuse University researchers

» Collaboration networking

» Discovery of expertise

» Promotion of researcher output

» Funding resources

» Identification of organizational strengths

Benefits to institutions

» Aggregates organization’s research information

» Facilitates collaborations

» Showcases university’s research activity

» Reporting module

Benefits to researchers

» Customizable profiles are created

Current publications

Funding opportunities matched to profiles

» CV builder included, but requires researcher editing

And the Library?

» Positions library to go beyond ‘consumer’ of research

» Moves library ‘upstream’ in research supply chain

» May open up new campus partnerships

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Institutional investment

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From http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/search-marketing/hands-deck-strategic-insourcing-adobe/, Alex Amado

Libraries must exercise diplomacy

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Limits on data driven decision making

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Data doesn’t always point to a clear decision

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from H Gray Funkhauser, "A note on a tenth century graph", Osiris 1 (1936), 260-262, reproduced on p.28 of E R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press 1983 At http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/courses/FIT3084/images/lect6/earlyPlanetGraph.gif

Symbolic

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Data-driven decisions are explainable

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Institutional analysis can inform a successful STRATEGY

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Why libraries?

» Hunter Forum description! Not just resources for researchers. Campus focus on accessibility and discoverability of intellectual output Showcasing resources from researchers.

» Greater ROI

» Services scaffold on what libraries already do

» Seen as neutral!

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