Leveraging NC’s Knowledge Assets & Research Capacity January 29, 2010 Faculty Council

Problem Statements Universities are incredibly large and diverse hubs of knowledge and activity Truly impossible to quantify the wealth of knowledge and activities that exist on campuses Difficult to answer the question, “Who knows what?” Potential Missed Collaborative Opps

Problem Statements Difficult to ‘market’ the University because breadth of activity is large Data can exist in silos or not at all Large repositories of data can exist, but not be leveraged

Traditional Answers Keyword searches Google Reference Databases Direct, firsthand knowledge ‘Word of mouth’

The Initiative Aggregate and leverage large repositories of scholarly activity & research data Use taxonomical classification to create ‘digital fingerprint’ representations of expertise Create a ‘dashboard’ of powerful visualization tools to ‘tell the story’

The Initiative “ This has all been tried before and failed. What is different about this project from those previous failed attempts?

The Partnership UNC-Chapel Hill –Office of Research Info Systems (ORIS) –NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (TraCS) –Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) NC State University UNC General Administration

The Project Phase 1 (funded) –UNC-Chapel Hill –NC State University Phase 2 (to be funded) –Remainder of UNC-system Universities Phase 3 (theoretical) Duke, Wake Forest, etc

Sources of Data Unique License with Elsevier/Scopus RAMSeS Intellectual Property Data Financial Expenditure Data Google Scholar (Citations) Others as identified

Sources of Data: Scopus 18,000 journal titles/5,000 publishers –16,500 peer-reviewed journals –600 trade publications –350 book series –3.6 million conference papers 38 million publication records 23 million patent records

Sources of Data: Scopus Titles Agricultural & Biological Sciences (1155) Arts & Humanities (775) Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology (1373) Business, Management & Accounting (458) Chemical Engineering (486) Chemistry (357) Computer Science (622) Decision Sciences (95) Dentistry (85) Earth and Planetary Sciences (522) Economics, Econometrics and Finance (238)

Sources of Data: Scopus Titles Energy (220) Engineering (622) Environmental Science (1237) Health Professions (94) Immunology & Microbiology (294) Materials Science (542) Mathematics (509) Medicine (7288) Neuroscience (176) Nursing (274) Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics (485)

Sources of Data: Scopus Titles Physics & Astronomy (423) Psychology (3129) Social Sciences (1177) Veterinary (96)

Sources of Data: RAMSeS Research Proposals Research Awards

Live Demonstrations Digital Fingerprint Geographical Activity Maps Economic Impact Maps

Potential Benefits Faculty/Student Recruitment Research Capacity Promotion Collaborative Proposal Development ID Unique Opportunities Media/Legislative inquiries Community/Regional Economic Development