Clinical and TranslationalScience Institute / CTSIat the University of California, San Francisco

UCSF Profiles Research Networking & Expertise Discovery

Leslie YuanOct 19, 2010

Topics

1. UCSF Profiles today, at a glance

2. Interoperability: Data Feeds and Mini-search

3. OpenSocial Apps and Gadgets

4. National Networking

http://profiles.ucsf.edu – Open source software developed by Harvard

Catalyst, Harvard’s CTSA-funded organization – Ongoing collaboration with Harvard to:

• develop and continually improve the product• ensure adaptable by other universities

– This work also part of a national effort, enabled by the NCRR-facilitated CTSA National Consortium

UCSF Profiles

UCSF Profiles Today• Use to Search, Discover, Network

• Customizable

• 2600 profiles– Includes primarily faculty as represented by Academic

Affairs – Also includes some non-faculty academics, senior

research administration leadership and staff

• Populated with publicly available data – Campus Locator System, approved for public display – PubMed

• Evolving rapidly

Demo UCSF Profiles onlinehttp://profiles.ucsf.edu

• Strive to ensure that UCSF faculty only need to edit publications in one place, regardless of where the information is used (i.e. Profiles, Advance or some other product)

• Data Feeds – CFAR

• Mini-search – SFGH

Interoperability

Demo CFAR and SFGH

http://cfar.ucsf.edu

http://medschool2.ucsf.edu/sfgh/research

• Extend functionality using gadget strategy – Write our own – Use what’s already out there

• Allows others to use and build gadgets

• Goal to create a library of gadgets for national use

OpenSocial Apps and Gadgets

Mentorship information is Our First App

SlideShare.net is Next

Eventually Building a National Library

• UCSF is leading the national project to enable national research networking

• 15-20 other institutions are participating– Using Profiles and other research networking

software products such as VIVO and Loki

• Anticipated pilot launch in Jan 2011 showing an aggregate federated search

National Networking

Contact CTSI to learn more, provide feedback & input We want to hear from you

• Use the CTSI “Open Forum” – http://ctsi.ucsf.edu/forums/ucsfprofiles

OR

• Leslie Yuan for product: leslie.yuan@ucsf.edu

• Eric Meeks for technical: eric.meeks@ucsf.edu

• Mini Kahlon for national: mini.kahlon@ucsf.edu