This discussion comes up in a timely fashion for us at UMich.  This morning
some of us were reviewing the Personal Profiles in the NIH Commons and
wondering how to link COS or our own files to the Commons.  And wondering,
too, about the status of the Federal Commons Personnel data file.

The NIH personal and employment data screens are pretty simple to fill out
but the consulting screen and, most of all, the bibliography screen should
be very painful.  The latter allows only 5 entries per screen and then
requires one to start over with the next 5.  Cutting and pasting is
possible, faster than typing everything; however, this is still too much
work for people who will have 100's of entries.

Are faculty to maintain some Commons (Fed or NIH) profile data base and
another one in COS/InfoEd/local???  Who knows if COS/InfoEd will have a
mechanism to direct feed the appropriate Commons file.  There needs to be
one (of a number available) place where each College/University can keep
its faculty data and feed it to the others when making an application.  One
flaw of the two major proposal preparation systems is that they require
their own personal data too.   We need to get to a world of "One Person-One
File."

Bob
______________________________________________________
Robert Beattie
Manager,  Electronic Research Administration and
 Senior Project Representative
The University of Michigan
xxxxxx@umich.edu

--On Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:03 PM -0400 "Starr, Sarah"
<xxxxxx@OSU.EDU> wrote:

> The Ohio State University Research Foundation uses the Community of
> Science database for expertise profiles/research interests.  Since it's
> web based it doesn't present a problem for universities with mixed MAC/PC
> computers.  We currently have around 2000 profiles on the system.  It's
> very easy to maintain and we like it very much. I would be happy to have
> a longer conversation with you, Shelly, about how we use this if you'd
> like to call or email me.
>
> Sarah
>
> Sarah E. Starr, Director
> Office of Funding and Research Development
> The Ohio State University Research Foundation
> 1960 Kenny Road
> Columbus, OH  43210
> 614-688-5546
> xxxxxx@osu.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spettyjo [mailto:xxxxxx@HSC.UNT.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:42 PM
> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
> Subject: Faculty Profile Databases
>
>
> Hello ya'll!  We are exploring the possibility of a database for faculty
> profiles/research interests and I'm curious which application/database
> programs other universities are using to track this data.
>
> It would be helpful to include the number of faculty profiles you are
> currently maintaining as well as which platform (Mac vs PC - the debate
> still rages) you are utilizing.
>
> Thanks and have a great day!
>
>
>
> Shelly R. Pettyjohn
> Pre Award Grant and Contract Specialist
> University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
> 817 735-2561
> 817 735-0375 (fax)
> email: xxxxxx@hsc.unt.edu
>
>
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