1. Dr. Uwe Hübner Bologna, 18 march 2010 IT support for research management a perspective from HIS

2. 2 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH nonprofit organisation jointly owned by the Federal Republic and the Länder of Germany Activities: IT for Higher Education (172) Information technology for higher education Research on Higher Education (68) Studying, teaching, research, funding Higher Education Development (47) Buildings, resources, organisation

3. 3 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH HIS-Community (number of universities using HIS solutions) ‏

4. 4 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH research processes management process idea acquisit ion plann ing execution docume n- tation public ation project-controlling supporting processes

5. 5 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH Module LSF available since 2004, 110+ universities teaching, study organization and research central repository (at the university level) association with persons and organizational units connection to the financial management consistent public web information overview for university management yearly „research report“ try it out: qis-demo.his.de

6. 6 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH research management objects

7. 7 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH Example: lsf.uni-konstanz.de - „search for … research“

8. 8 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH new integrated system HISinOne Research Management in Version 2.0 – October 2010

9. 9 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH

10. 10 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH

11. 11 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH planned additions: planning work packages and workload distribution tracking of project implementation (milestones) compilation of reports

12. 12 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH solutions at various levels individual universities – local or hosted infrastructures at the Länder level – data warehouse/BI infrastructures at federal level – data warehouse/BI, services for admission...

13. 13 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH interworking potentials LSF and HISinOne all information (potentially) available via XML/Web services schema standardization (TODO … EuroCRIS…) large variations in usage and data quality – good for information shared with other processes (human resources, organizational structure…) – not so good for information, where usage is not well defined

14. 14 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH cooperation models no licence costs, community/open source mandatory support contracts, implementation and consulting projects internationally: preferably partnering with similar organizations

15. 15 HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH Challenges Motivate researchers/administrations to MAINTAIN and USE the information Help researchers! huebner@his.de