Dr. Uwe HübnerBologna, 18 march 2010

IT support for research management a perspective from HIS

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HISHochschul-Informations-System GmbH

• nonprofit organisation

• jointly owned by the Federal Republic and the Länder of Germany

• Activities: IT for Higher Education (172)

Information technology for higher education

Research on Higher Education (68)

Studying, teaching, research, funding

Higher Education Development (47)

Buildings, resources, organisation

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HIS-Community (number of universities using HIS solutions)

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2009COB Controlling FSV Financial Resources/Accounting

LSF Course and Research Management POS Examinations

SOS Student Administration SVA Human Resources

ZUL Application/Admission

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research processes

management process

idea acquisition planning execution documen-tation

publication

project-controlling

supporting processes

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Module LSFavailable since 2004, 110+ universities

teaching, study organization and research

• central repository (at the university level)• association with persons and organizational

units• connection to the financial management• consistent public web information • overview for university management• yearly „research report“

try it out: qis-demo.his.de

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research management objects

projects publications

inventions

patents job offers

licences

technology transfer

DFG

BMBF

research topics

books

journals

papers

individuals

vita

fieldscongresses

workshops

congresses

partners

cooperations

cooperations

topics

research areas

awards

distinction funding

contacts

financial assets

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Example: lsf.uni-konstanz.de - „search for … research“

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new integrated system HISinOneResearch Management in Version 2.0 – October 2010

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planned additions:

• planning work packages and workload distribution

• tracking of project implementation (milestones)

• compilation of reports

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solutions at various levels

• individual universities – local or hosted

• infrastructures at the Länder level

– data warehouse/BI

• infrastructures at federal level– data warehouse/BI,

services for admission...

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interworking potentials

LSF and HISinOne• all information (potentially) available via

XML/Web services• schema standardization (TODO … EuroCRIS…)• large variations in usage and data quality

– good for information shared with other processes (human resources, organizational structure…)

– not so good for information, where usage is not well defined

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cooperation models

• no licence costs, community/open source

• mandatory support contracts, implementation and consulting projects

• internationally: preferably partnering with similar organizations

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Challenges

Motivate researchers/administrations to MAINTAIN and USE the information

Help researchers! huebner@his.de