Research Discovery Service

Academic Computing Development Team, OUCS

Anne Bowtell, Web Manager, MSD

… and finally

What? A directory of summary information about researchers

and research activities in the Medical Sciences Division. Available on the web. A project undertaken by the Academic Computing

Development Team, joint bid by Medical Sciences Division and Research Technologies Service.

Research Development Fund support for the next phase……

Agenda

The problem and background Demonstration Structure Potential Uses

The problem?

for potential donors for potential graduate students

Information about MSD research on the web should be easy to find:

Hierarchies

Neuroscience

Dept of Clinical Neurology

Dept of Experimental Psychology

Dept of Pharmacology

•Information exists but is hard to find and hard to pull together.

•Providing a structure on top of the wealth of web information available already.

•Cutting across division/dept hierarchies to view information by theme and subject area.

Division

Department Department Department

Research Unit

Research UnitsResearch Centres

LaboratoriesResearch Groups

CollegesDepartments

External Bodies

ResearchersPrincipal Investigators

AcademicGraduates

Administrators

AwardPrize

Guest Lecture

ActivityProjectAvenue

Discovery

PublicationArticleBook

Poster

LOCAL THEMES

GLOBAL THEMES

PEOPLEGROUPSRECOGNITION

ACTIVITIES

OUTPUT

Demonstration

Structure

RESEARCHDirectory Service Publications

MAIN WEBSITEOTHER SITES

WEB BASED INTERFACE

FOR UPDATE

SEARCH

ADMINISTRATIVE BACK-END

BROWSE

Getting people to use the system

Information reuse Self-service updating Levels of privacy

Principles

Information reuse Interoperating with other systems Defining the scope of our system

RESEARCHDirectory Service Publications

RAE

Institutional Repositories

Authorisation for other systems

Contact Information

Information interchange

RESEARCHDirectory Service Publications

MAIN WEBSITEOTHER SITES

WEB BASED INTERFACE

FOR UPDATE

SEARCH

ADMINISTRATIVE BACK-END

BROWSE

•ODBC

•RSS

•Web Services

Self-service update

What’s the potential….?

What it’s not

Google; Knowledge Management; Replacement for a department or unit

website (though it is hoped they can reuse the information);

UCLA

Virtual Research Environment

Find out what’s out there: Opportunities for collaboration; New directions and approaches.

Keep track of what’s happening: e.g.: RSS feeds of particular subject areas.

Expand to suit your requirements: Add research resources, skills, techniques; Avenues for further investigation.

… and finally