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Analytics and Social Software for the Academic Research Project Lifecycle

Carl Osipov / @osipov Chief Architect,IBM Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics

William Beroza / @BillBeroza, Software Sales

Portal & Collaboration Software Consultant

Twitter : #WatsonJun23

2011 IBM Watson for Higher Education Conference

Agenda

• Academic Research Context and Trends1• University of Rhode Island Pilot Case Study2• Academic Research Collaboration and

Analytics Overview3• Demonstration4• Analytics to Enable Smarter Collaboration for

Higher Education5

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Improve student success, teacher

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Take out cost and improve efficiency

Finance and Operations

Accelerate innovation for a sustainable

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Research and Innovation

Analyticsand

Optimization

Collaboration and

Communications

Technologyand

Services

Educational Systems Performance

Individual Performance

Infrastructure Performance

Decision Management for Education on Cloud

Academic Research Collaboration and Analytics (ARCA)

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June Announcements

Academic Research Context & Trends

Collaboration

Over 57% of researchers bring the right expertise to projects through collaboration both inside (60%) and outside of their lab (40%)

Big Data

Over 51% of data sets used by researchers are on the order of gigabytes to terabytes in size.”…data volumes are doubling every year in most areas of modern science”

Analytics

"we need increasingly powerful scientific tools...an informatics infrastructure that has built-in flexibility to incorporate new types of data and navigate across tiers and domains of knowledge."

Do more with less

■ More interdisciplinary research projects

■ Greater student participation in research

■ Better human resource utilization

■ More collaboration across disciplines or campuses

Public research university focusing on enterprise development resulting from the introduction & implementation of new technologies. The major objective of this focus area is to strengthen the Rhode Island economy by creating new jobs.

Optimize project resources per university metrics Improved staffing of

projects with high impact on university reputation

Advancement of untenured faculty

Alignment of student interests and project goals

Leverage unstructured data Research publications Web pages Social network content

Problem Solution Value

URI BenefitsImprove allocation of resources to research projectsImprove student and faculty research experienceIncrease the value of university research portfolioStrengthen grant proposalsInfluence ARCA design & implementationJoint publications (w/IBM)

IBM Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics

Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics (ARCA) Scope

1. Finding and pursuing research funding excessive investment of time and labor

• Use analytics to discover and recommend funding opportunities (e.g. grants)• Improve access to funding opportunities for junior faculty

2. Forming teams to pursue interdisciplinary proposals isolated experts & students

• Recommend research projects to potential collaborators• Optimize assignment of people to projects

3. Collaborating across disciplines and organizations fragmented view of a researcher

• Use a portal platform for an aggregated, collaborative, social network based researcher profile

4. Enabling experiential learning for students poor participation in mentoring programs

• Suggest potential mentors to students based on matches of student interests and faculty research

ARCA: Analytics-informed and Collaboration-focused social software environment for academic research

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Agenda

• Academic Research Context and Trends1• University of Rhode Island Pilot Case Study2• Academic Research Collaboration and

Analytics Overview3• Demonstration4• Analytics to enable Smarter Collaboration for

Higher Education5

Analytics

SocialContent Predictive

CIO

PROVOST

FACULTY

STAFF

ADMINISTRATION

STUDENTS

RESEARCHERS

Collaboration

SuggestionSocial, Algorithmic,

Policy-based

DiscoveryExpertise, Content,

Activities

Analytics to Enable Smarter Collaboration for Higher Education

ALUMNI

MetadataTopics, Tags, Ratings

ReputationInfluence, Social Identity

Value, Social Capital

Business

Social Analytics

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Business Analytics - Measure Success

Business Analytics – Measure Vitality

ARCA Value for University Partners

• Business Value• Provide additional interdisciplinary collaboration

opportunities to researchers• Attract top research talent to collaborative capability• Strengthen interdisciplinary grant applications• Support intellectual property creation and management

• Pedagogical Value• Provide student with experiential learning on research

projects• Support student / researcher collaboration• Provide social network and Web 2.0 integration• Align student interests with research project goals

Why team with IBM?Both sides have distinct strengths

You know the university research process pain points better than anyone and have focused expertise.

IBM brings leading technology, deep industry knowledge and global reach.

IBM can deliver unique value

Proven software products and solutions• Collaboration• Content Analytics• Optimization

World-class world-wide research institutes• IBM T. J. Watson Research Center• 3 in US, China, Haifa, India, Tokyo, Zurich

Proven IT capabilities

• hardware infrastructure • systems management • software development

Client references on business-critical, 24x7 readiness

• Global Fortune 500 companies • Olympics / real-time systems• Disaster recovery, earthquake readiness

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Professor Office of Sponsored ResearchStudent Vice President of Research

OptimizationOptimizationAnalyticsAnalytics

Customer / Domain-Specific ContentCustomer / Domain-Specific Content

Content AcquisitionContent Acquisition

CrawlerCrawler

IndexerIndexer

User InterfaceUser Interface

Social ProfileSocial ProfileSocial Network IntegrationSocial Network Integration RecommendationsRecommendations“On glass” Data Integration

“On glass” Data Integration

Integration Adapter Dictionary Taxonomy

SearchSearch

ExporterExporter

ContentContent

SocialSocial

BusinessBusiness

PredictivePredictive

ObjectiveObjective

ScenarioScenario

ConstraintConstraint

AssignmentAssignment

Business Process & Rule Management

Business Process & Rule Management

Workflow (BPEL)Workflow (BPEL)

Web ServiceWeb Service

Workflow ServiceWorkflow Service

Service Data ModelService Data Model

Business Rule KPI

Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics (Tonkawa)

Internet

ARCA Product Map

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IBM Connections

IBM Content Analytics

IBM LanguageWareIBM Connections SaNDIBM Business Monitor

IBM SPSS

IBM ILOG CPLEX

IBM Business Process Management (BPM)

JEE Adapters UIMA AnnotatorUIMA Annotators UIMABPM Artifacts