Collaborative Research: Research Networking

Digital Vita

University of Pittburgh

• A social networking system based on faculty Curriculum Vitate (CV)

• Allows researchers to manage their complete CVs, output CV information in a variety of formats, build their social network manually as well as automatically

Linked to Open Source

LatticeGrid

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)

• Leverages PubMed citations to show co-authorship and assess investigator similarity based on existing research activity and research interests

• Generates network graphs for viewing direct coauthors or assessing investigators working within specific research areas

Profiles Research Networking Software

Harvard Catalyst

• NIH-funded open source tool to speed the process of finding researchers with specific areas of expertise for collaboration and professional networking.

• Network analysis and data visualization tools allow to generate research portfolios of institution, discover connections between parts of their organization, and understand what factors influence collaboration

• Imports and analyzes "white pages" information, publications, and other data sources to create and maintain a complete searchable library of web-based electronic CV's

Data export type: XML, RDF, SPARQL

Linked to Open Data

Elements

Symplectic, London

• monitors and tracks who has deposited publications, to ensure researchers’ work remains within policy requirements.

• filtersarticles by linked funder, to narrow down those that fall within a funder’s policy.

• build sreports on the level of compliance, by researcher, department or research group.

Supports Open Access

Linked to Open Source

VIVO

Duraspace 

• member-supported, open source software and an ontology for representing scholarship.

• supports recording, editing, searching, browsing, and visualizing scholarly activity.

• organizes scholarly record, research discovery, expert finding, network analysis, and assessment of research impact. 

Linked to Open Source