Frank Diepmaat Pure conference Philadelphia 31-10-2018
A new academic profile page for Tilburg University: too little too late?
“I am not planning to maintain
another profile in Pure, the
University’s website, or elsewhere.
I keep my own website up to date
and I think that’s already a lot of
work…. I think it is too little too
late, especially if it has such
limited possibilities.”
Quote
• Facts and figures
• Portal - previous
• Use of other profile pages
• Project Improved Profile pages
• Reuse of data in Pure
• How do we help our researchers?
• First comments after go live of portal
• Conclusion
• Questions
Table of content
Facts and figures
“I have to update it myself. I keep
forgetting it (and also dislike
doing it, because it costs quite a
bit of time) and it seems that it is
never up to date. Also when
looking up other researchers”
Portal – previous
Use of other profile pages
Researchers with a non-University profile page
80%
10%
4%
2% 1%
3%
None
Personal
Other (ie Researchgate, Academia etc)
Combination 2 or more
• Three objectives:
1. Reuse data out of other systems:
• Daily sync: HR-, Education system, IdM
• Migration- sync once: Experts & Expertise
2. Encourage researchers to update profile information, publications, activities etc. in Pure
3. Implement cloud portal Pure
Project improved profile pages
Inspired by: Scott Taylor, University of Manchester (“Raising the bar: how Pure is helping us build world class library research services at Manchester”, Pure conference Barcelona 2017)
Flyer for our researchers….and chocolate!
Project improved profile pages
VOIPREG
IDM
Project improved profile pages
Project improved profile pages
Reuse of data in PureSuccesfactors
(HRM)
IDM
VoIPreg
E&E DB
PGPRD (tables)
Pure backend
Pure portal
Configurable Person Sync
Academic profile & publications
PERSON_DATAPERSON_EXTERNAL_POSITIONS
PERSON_KEYWORDSPERSON_LINKS
PERSON_NAMESPERSON_PHOTOS
PERSON_PROFILE_INFORMATIONPERSON_TITLES
STAFF_ORG_RELATION
VIEWS
External positions
Job title + organization dataAcademic+ support staff
Telephone + Room numbers
SAP HR
Email adresses
One-time sync profile info
Academic staff data
Data entry academic staff
Academic profile information & publications
How do we help our researchers: help texts backend
How do we help our researchers: FAQs
How do we help our researchers: user manual
• In use since October 16, 2018
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• “New profiles look very nice!”
• Big improvement compared to E&E
• Increased registration of publications and activities
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• External positions shown too prominently
• PhD dissertations shown in publication list professors
• Emphasis on quantity by showing graphic with publications
First comments after go live of portal
For a succesful implementation of profile pages in the Pure cloud portal:
• Make maximum use of profile data already recorded in other university
systems
• Point out the benefits of using the university profile page to researchers
• Let researchers link as much as possible to their other profile pages
• Guide your researchers in keeping their profile pages up to date with
help texts, FAQs and a customized manual
Conclusions