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