The Future of Digital Research: Innovations in Research Management
Date and time
Location
Rydges on Swanston Hotel
701 Swanston Street Melbourne, VIC 3053 AustraliaDescription
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Join us for a Digital Science hosted event to discuss and explore the global trends in research information management, data management and impact assessment.
Hear the visions of the changing landscape from the people behind three technology platforms leading the way:
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figshare - Mark Hahnel, Founder
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Altmetric - Kathy Christian, Chief Operating Officer
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Symplectic - Jonathan Breeze, CEO
Special guest speakers include:
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Laurel Haak, Executive Director, ORCID on integrating person identifiers in grant applications and awards processes
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Simon Porter, Research Knowledge Systems Advisor, The University of Melbourne, on their experience of implementing a comprehensive research information solution
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Lisa Watts, CEO, The Conversation, on measuring the social impact of research and the integration of The Conversation with ORCID
Agenda (subject to change):
Registration and Coffee
Speaker: Daniel Hook, Director of Research Metrics, Digital Science
Welcome
Speaker: Dr Laurel Haak, Executive Director, ORCID
Laure Haak is the Executive Director of ORCID, a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in the research community. She will share the mission of the organization, describe adoption by researchers, and provide examples of how the community is implementing ORCID in research workflows and systems. In particular, she will focus on adoption and use by funding organizations, and discuss why and how a growing number of funders are requiring use of ORCID iDs by grant applicants.
Now established as the leading provider of research information management software in both Australia and New Zealand, Symplectic’s CEO, Jonathan Breeze will reflect on the company’s contribution to the research information landscape and explain why approximately 40% of the region’s Universities now use its flagship product Elements to help streamline the collection and dissemination of institutional research activity.
A key tenet of Symplectic's approach is the reuse of existing institutional data to automate the retrieval of data held in external systems - such as the ORCID registry. In this session, Jonathan will also explore how Symplectic's customers are now reusing data captured in Elements to inform future research collaborations and to communicate to funders the importance of research undertaken by their respective research communities.
10.50 Morning Break
11.10 Speaker: Lisa Watts, COO, The Conversation
The Conversation is a not-for-profit, educational charity providing the public with a new, independent channel of expert analysis and breaking research and scientific news. It provides the wider community with access to high-quality, responsible and professionally edited information sourced from scholars and researchers from Australia’s 39 universities, medical research institutes, and CSIRO. To help build better public understanding, and literacy of a wide range of issues, everything is published under Creative Commons, meaning all content is free for everyone to access, and republish.There are 2m readers per month on site Australia and 20m per month via republishing.
The Conversation has developed a collaborative platform that is open source, and cloud based. It offers real-time, robust metrics that are critical to authors, universities and government to demonstrate public engagement and knowledge transfer. Those metrics are now a critical KPI to demonstrate success in sharing the taxpayers’ $15 billion investment in research and higher education with the wider public. The Conversation is a digital delivery platform inspires the community with targeted, accessible scientific and research information and facilitate useful connections between experts and communities.
The value of the model in communicating science and research has been recognised internationally with operations launched in London and Boston, and a planned launch in South Africa in April this year. As a public good, journalism project we aim to fulfil our role in creating an open site for people to share best practice and collaborate on developing smart, sustainable solutions.
11.50 Speaker: Katherine Christian, COO, Altmetric
Institutions and researchers are facing increasing pressures from management, funders, and governmental reviews to demonstrate the impact and engagement their research is achieving beyond academia. Traditional metrics such as citation counts and the impact factor provide little evidence or context to support this, and research administrators are now looking to other indicators to help them demonstrate the value of their institution’s output.
Alternative metrics, or ‘altmetrics’, are becoming an increasingly widespread solution for gathering this insight. But what are they, and how can they be used? In this session Altmetric COO Kathy Christian will explore how and why institutions are incorporating altmetrics data into their existing workflows, and explain how Altmetric and the tools we offer can support this now and in the future.
12.30 Lunch
13.20 Speaker: Simon Porter, Research Knowledge Systems Advisor, University of Melbourne
Simon's presentation will trace the path of the ever changing Australian Research Reporting landscape and take you through the evolution of Melbourne's institutional capabilities, connecting internal sources with external providers demonstrating the power of information when integrated.
14.00 Speaker: Mark Hahnel, CEO, figshare
Mark and the figshare team have been working to understand where figshare fits in the Australian landscape given the current shift for institutions to better manage, store, archive and share their digital academic outputs. Having worked with several Australian institutions to provide an interface that plugs into RDSI and the AAF, they are now looking at interesting ways to encourage better research data management in Australia and New Zealand. By developing out tie ins to the researcher’s existing workflows and better understanding how to enhance the impact of digital outputs, Mark will explain what the future road map looks like in collaboration with Australian institutions.
14.40 Afternoon Break
15.00 Workshops:
Altmetric:
This workshop will focus on core uses of the Altmetric for Institutions platform. We'll be discussing different aspects of the data and functionality offered, and encourage attendees to share their own thoughts on what they see as the most useful indicators of impact. As well as the option to set up trial access to our demo platform, the session will offer some step by step workflows to demonstrate how those involved in research assessment and review can utilise Altmetric data within their existing workflows and reports.
figshare:
Openly-available academic data on the web will soon become the norm. Funders and publishers are already making preparations for how this content will be best managed. With the coming open data mandates meaning that we are now talking about ‘when’ not ‘if’ the majority of academic outputs live somewhere on the web. figshare have been working with leading academic institutions to develop a light-weight, user-friendly platform to help institutions manage their research outputs and make them openly available. Come along to this workshop to see the work we have done to date, how the system could work better for you and help us shape our development road map for 2015.
16.00 Workshops:
The Altmetric and figshare workshops will repeat here allowing attendees to attend both sessions.
17.00 Event drinks and canapes
Conference venue bar, Rydges on Swanston
Who should attend the event?
Executive, DVCR, University Librarians, Research Office Representatives, Administrators, Directors and Repository Managers.
Accommodation:
We are delighted to be able to offer attendees of this event a discounted rate at the event venue should you require overnight accommodation. To book discounted accommodation at Rydges on Swanston please use this link and ensure to book before Sunday 15th March.
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