Pure research groups: The two types and their implications Pure Research group 
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Pure research groups are people‐based, i.e., Pure persons are attached to a group – current academic staff and PGR student records All the outputs published after the start date of the research group will be affiliated to the group and added to the group outputs list and will continue to be affiliated on an ongoing basis until the person leaves or the group is closed Outputs (ongoing basis)
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Activities (existing only) Research group
Projects (existing only) Decide if existing activity and project records should be affiliated to the group when it is created in Pure. If so, the activities and project records which have a finish date after the group’s start date will be affiliated to the group and listed in the projects tab on EBR. In the case of activities and groups, future affiliations are not linked. A Pure research group, like all visible records in Pure will have its own Explore Bristol Research (EBR) web page and will require a description (a paragraph or two of text), address, contact details, and at least one place in the organisation hierarchy. Groups can be displayed on EBR in several places in the hierarchy – e.g., under a school as well as a theme or at faculty‐level. The white tabs related to the group will contain records of persons, outputs, activities, and projects which have been related to that group and will form their own pages of lists. Each personal user (i.e., current member of academic staff, PGR student or honorary staff with access to Pure) will have a link to the groups they belong to on their profile. The order of the displayed groups is editable. The person maintaining the group (support or academic staff) will maintain the data integrity of the group in Pure by, e.g. checking that there are no outputs being added to the group incorrectly (manually‐remove records) Keyword‐clustered group 
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The academic members of the group will need to engage in Pure and relate relevant outputs to the keywords. Training will be necessary as experience has shown during the pilot projects (e.g., PolicyBristol, IAS, WUN and Cabot) that there is little take‐up without training. As with any web sites ‐ the person (support or academic staff) maintaining the group’s web presence will need to maintain the data integrity of the web site which is using the keyword system, checking regularly that outputs are having the correct keywords added (manually‐add records) and that the records are being displayed in each category correctly.