Research takes place all over campus. For the ISR, it’s our primary mission. As a result, we are responsible to both our funders and faculty with what happens because of that research. Many of our grants require us to track publications that their money/data produced, both inside and outside the Institute. Currently dozens of departments individually track those publications, and there is plenty of inefficiency due to the overlap of those departments’ faculty.
This project has three objectives:
- Allow for an easy ingest, via manual and/or automatic means.
- Create a review process for duplicates and annual review for faculty
- Generate useful output for reporting (faculty(e.g., CVs) and funders(e.g., data publication lists)).
Tracking does not stop at the walls of the ISR though, but goes with access to our data into the world. Not only can this project benefit the ISR, but the U-85M academic community as a whole by creating a cohesive, accessible environment for the broader use of everyone. Building this as a tool that benefits everyone requires input from multiple areas, and I believe the symposium’s Sandbox & Innovation Session provides the perfect environment to make this discussion effective and relevant.
