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Presentation TitleAuthor

Digital Vita:

Researchnetworking in the

context of CVmanagement

Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD

Heiko Spallek, DMD, PhDBrian Butler, MS, PhD

Linda Schmandt, MS

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Why dont scientists use expertise

locating systems?

1. low awareness

2. incomplete domain coverage

3. outdated/sparse profiles

4. lack of critical mass

5. traditional approaches very ingrained

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Scientists are not looking for a blind

date.

Collaboration

is often a long-term relationship.

requires predicting future performance.

benefits from deep knowledge about thecollaborator.

can have significant professional impact.

is sometimes hard to end.

contrast to expertise location in traditional

CSCW research

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With regard to collaboration, scientists

face an embarrassment of riches.

science increasingly multi- and inter-disciplinary

more collaborators through growing researchenterprise

collaborators easier to find through Google,MEDLINE, etc.

remote collaborations increasingly practical

Braun T, Schubert A. A quantitative view on the coming of age of interdisciplinarity in the

sciences 1980-1999. Scientometrics 2003 Sep;58(1):183-9.

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Are current systems responsive to therequirements of scientists seeking

collaborators?

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Project goals

develop preliminary requirements for

researcher discovery system

design a set of services and implement in a

prototype system deploy system in practice

evaluate

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Methods

literature review, affinity diagramming,

contextual inquiries (10 researchers),

semistructured interviews (30 researchers)

ideation concept validation

prototyping

formative evaluation

Interdisciplinary project team (informatics, business, library andinformation science, human-computer interaction, IT)

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Results

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Requirements

effort balanced with perceived benefit

profiles comprehensive and up-to-date

exploit social network

model proximity

assessment of compatibility, work styleand othersoft traits

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Requirements (cont.)

social networks based solely on co-

authorship incomplete

accommodate preferences for privacy

and public availability of information

search effectively across disciplines

facilitate non-intuitive connections

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Digital Vita live

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My Information: Maintain, format and

update biographical information

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My Documents: Output biographical

information for CV, NIH and Web

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My Colleagues: Maintain the social

network and manage document flow

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Search: Find collaborators efficiently

and effectively

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Implementation

soft rollout beginning 10/2009

currently (7/31/10): 417 users (20% of total population)

359 logins, 77 active accounts 10,726 publications

1,636 grants

3,655 presentations

1,279 mentoring records 924 social connections

310 NIH biosketches

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Discussion

collaboration-seeking a complex activity

does not depend on solely factual

information about potential collaborators

current approaches to finding collaboratorstime- and effort-intensive

CV a good source of factual information

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Project Website

http://di.dental.pitt.edu/orc/

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Thank you for

your attention.Questions?

(finally!)