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The data
• RAE 2008 - 1865 items – subset of research
output - Currently unpublished by the university
• Research completed since 2008
• Details of all funded and non-funded projects
• Staff and Research Student Output
• Other...
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Current Situation...
Departmental Research DBs
Personal Output DBs
Research Office DBs
MS AccessMS Excel
XMLBespoke CMS
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The big idea
• ‘One big warehouse’ – SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft Research Information Centre
(RIC)
• Terminal 4 Web CMS
• Syndication, RSS, Twitter, Web Services
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Consultation Phase 1
• Visiting – pick your friends
• Talking
• Listening
• Working towards agreement
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Documentation
Agreed standards for recording information - schemas
Label Value/Formatting NotesID Leave blank Automatically populatedSchool Text NameDepartment Text NameEmail TextStaffIdentifier Number (8 digits)Outputid Leave blank we will populate laterYear NumberOutputType Controlled vocabulary CamelCase
See: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#h7 LongTitle Full title of item Preferably Sentence Case
ShortTitle Short title of item Can be Left blank if applicablePagination E.g. 363-373 without ppPublisher Text Unabbreviated without city
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Where we want to be...
Central Research DB
(SharePoint 2010)
REF Submission Data
SU Research Portal (Intranet)
Discover Research Activity
Discover Grants and Funding information
Discover Research Partners
Discover Staff Research Profiles
Cronfa - Repository (Extranet/DSpace)
Google Scholar
OAI search engines
OAI Academic Repositories
t4 Content Management
System (Extranet)
RSS feeds
corporate web pages
twitter feeds
Any other web/file/feed
output...
MS Project Data
Research Financial Data
Research Project Progress
Funding Bodies Data
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Microsoft Pivot
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Progress
• Central Computing Services working together
• Schools and Departments feeding into the
process
• Central DB operational with RAE 2008 data
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