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
>>
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