Hi- Marcia asked: "why you want a database, what you plan to do with it, the benefits you hope to accrue to individual faculty and your institution, and the likelihood that faculty and/or administration will actually use it." Aside from serving as storage for the data required for SPIN or COS email funding alerts, and giving research administrators a way of identifying faculty with certain interests, are these faculty profiles doing all that much? How do we sell the idea to a justifiably skeptical faculty? Do researchers really use them to establish collaborations? Do corporate funders really use these to identify potential grant/contract recipients? "One Person-One [Pro]file" is coming and I think these SPIN/COS people are selling these profile systems as part of their jockeying for market share. But do we need all this stuff now? Charlie Hathaway At 03:02 PM 7/26/00 -0400, you wrote: >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 >> >> >> ====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >> ====================================================================== > > > >Bob >xxxxxx@umich.edu > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== > > ************************************** Charles B. 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