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Problem Statements• Universities are incredibly large and
diverse hubs of knowledge and activity• Truly impossible to quantify the wealth of
knowledge and activities that exist on campuses
• Difficult to answer the question, “Who knows what?”
• Potential Missed Collaborative Opps
Problem Statements• Difficult to ‘market’ the University
because breadth of activity is large
• Data can exist in silos or not at all
• Large repositories of data can exist, but not be leveraged
Traditional Answers• Keyword searches
• Reference Databases
• Direct, firsthand knowledge
• ‘Word of mouth’
The Initiative• Aggregate and leverage large
repositories of scholarly activity & research data
• Use taxonomical classification to create ‘digital fingerprint’ representations of expertise
• Create a ‘dashboard’ of powerful visualization tools to ‘tell the story’
The Initiative
• “This has all been tried before and failed. What is different about this project from those previous failed attempts?
The Partnership• UNC-Chapel Hill
– Office of Research Info Systems (ORIS)– NC Translational and Clinical Sciences
Institute (TraCS)– Renaissance Computing Institute
(RENCI)
• NC State University
• UNC General Administration
The Project• Phase 1 (funded)
– UNC-Chapel Hill– NC State University
• Phase 2 (to be funded)– Remainder of UNC-system Universities
• Phase 3 (theoretical)Duke, Wake Forest, etc
Sources of Data• Unique License with
Elsevier/Scopus
• RAMSeS
• Intellectual Property Data
• Financial Expenditure Data
• Google Scholar (Citations)
• Others as identified
Sources of Data: Scopus• 18,000 journal titles/5,000 publishers
– 16,500 peer-reviewed journals– 600 trade publications– 350 book series– 3.6 million conference papers
• 38 million publication records
• 23 million patent records
Sources of Data: Scopus Titles
• Agricultural & Biological Sciences (1155)• Arts & Humanities (775)• Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology (1373)• Business, Management & Accounting (458)• Chemical Engineering (486)• Chemistry (357)• Computer Science (622)• Decision Sciences (95)• Dentistry (85)• Earth and Planetary Sciences (522)• Economics, Econometrics and Finance (238)
Sources of Data: Scopus Titles
• Energy (220)• Engineering (622)• Environmental Science (1237)• Health Professions (94)• Immunology & Microbiology (294)• Materials Science (542)• Mathematics (509)• Medicine (7288)• Neuroscience (176)• Nursing (274)• Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics (485)
Sources of Data: Scopus Titles
• Physics & Astronomy (423)• Psychology (3129)• Social Sciences (1177)• Veterinary (96)