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Connect – University of Cincinnati Research Hub
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Profiles
Clusters
Facilities
Industry
Goal
For Researchers
For Institutions & Industry
To foster collaboration by creating a dynamic environment that
supports the integration of system driven, faculty maintained
research information into a consolidated environment that
provides robust searching, facilitates collaboration and provides
reporting across the research enterprise to:
Connect - UC Research Hub, provides a framework and set of
services that support researchers, streamline processes and
provide linkages with industry and other researchers. Too often
researchers are asked to provide the same information multiple
times and in multiple formats. The directory provides a means of
ensuring that we:
Connect – UC Research Hub, provides a framework that also
supports institutions & Industry. The hub provides the ability to
streamline processes and aggregate data in multiple ways and
for multiple purposes through the click of a button.
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 Institution wide profiles
 Grants Management Dashboard
 Annual reporting at multiple levels (institution wide, unit level,
individual level)
 Automation of Annual Review Process
 Automation of reappointment and promotion process
 Trend analysis – grants, protocols, patents, publications
 Creation of Research Clusters
 Promotion of facilities and services for use by industry
 Ability to provide multi location / multi campus cross
organizational collaboration
 Reporting for Accreditation purposes
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Facilitate easy access to resources for industry
Enable personalized views and customizable searches
Foster interdisciplinary participation with industry
Promote collaboration between industry and academia
History
The University of Cincinnati developed and implemented a tool
that automatically compiles information and populates faculty
expertise profiles, services, facilities and other resources. The
system incudes rich and relevant information overcoming the
limitations of products which rely primarily on manual entry.
When developing the Research Hub, we focused on creating an
integrated environment that leverages modern frameworks to
crate a rich and robust large data environment. The
development of a dynamic structure to define data elements,
map data elements to existing data sources, show and hide
data, filter & sort data, generate reports and export data in
various formats created a rich framework for searching and
managing experts, facilities, services, grants, protocols and
more when launched in 2013.
Key Features
Institution
 Up to date and accurate profile information from multiple
sources
 Automation of data integration (limiting need for manual
input)
 Ability to provide easy and robust searching
Admin
 Integration with external data sources
 Aggregation of information into meaningful reports
 Aggregation of information across affiliate institutions
 Ability to dynamically define data elements
 Rich API layer that supports dynamic inputs and outputs
 Ability to generate and store biosketches
 Integration with external systems to drive web profiles,
annual reviews, reappointment processes, etc.
 Ability for researchers to control visibility of specific elements
within their profile.
Automate as much as possible
Provide multiple uses for the data collected (single input
multiple outputs)
Researchers can use the directory for the following:
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Generation of web based CVs
Integration of profile data into existing websites (real-time)
Generation of NIH and NSF Biosketches
Annual Reviews
Grant Submissions
Collaborator Search
Core Facility Search
Promotion and Searching for Services
Connecting seekers (industry) and solution providers
(researchers)
Examples of uses for institutions and industry include: