Profiles Research Networking Software (RNS)

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About Profiles RNS

Part - 1

1Profiles (http://profiles.catalyst.harvard.edu) is an open source web-based application for research networking and scientific collaboration developed by Harvard Catalyst, Griffin M. Webber, MD, PhD at the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (HCTSA).

Training Overview

Part 1

Introduction – Profiles RNS Software

Software Requirements

Search Options and Profiles Home Page Review

Parts of a Researcher’s Profile

Visualization of Profiles Data

Part 2

Maintaining and Editing a Researcher’s Profile

Managing Active Networks

UMMS Support Model

ABOUT PROFILES RNS

Profiles Research Networking Software (RNS): Phase I and Phase II

Phase I: Profiles implementation included only active UMASS Medical School and UMASS Memorial faculty and later voluntary faculty

Phase II: of Profiles will integrate faculty from UMASS Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell campus’ that are part of the CCTS to provide a seamless searchable view of a faculty member’s expertise and network

Profiles RNS Tool

About Profiles RNS Tool

Speeds the process of finding researchers with specific areas of expertise for collaboration and professional networking

Imports and analyzes “white Pages directory” information, publications, and other data sources to create and maintain a complete searchable library of web-based CVs

Self-populates a database of publication history , research interests, and professional relationships for each investigator within the organization

Includes built-in network analysis and data visualization tools to allow administrators to generate research portfolios of their institution, discover connections between parts of their organization , and understand what factors collaboration

Passive and Active Networks

Passive networks are automatically created based on current or past co-authorship history, organizational relationships and geographic proximity. It extends these networks by discovering new connections, such as identifying “similar people” who share related keywords

Users can manually create active networks by identifying advisor, mentor and collaborator relationships with colleagues

Once the data is loaded and processed the first time, disambiguation process is run

Conservative algorithms reduce chance of false positives.

Disambiguation Process

Disambiguation process provides automatic identification of PubMed publications

Researchers can also add publications that the disambiguation process doesn’t add, and they can remove incorrect publications; they will not be added again

Each Publication gets a probability and the probability must be at least 98% for it to be added

Software Requirements

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Software Requirements

UMMS Profiles Research Networking Software works best using any of the following Operating Systems / Browsers:

– Windows / Internet Explorer 7, 8

– Windows / Firefox 3+

– Macintosh / Firefox 3+

– Macintosh / Safari 3+

– If the user is using an older browser or a browser not listed above such as Chrome, they may experience some errors in functionality

– System also requires “Adobe Flash Player” to see Network View

Profiles Home Page and

Search Options

Profiles RNS Home Page

Find researchers with interest in a

particular area by searching with

keyword(s). Profiles uses MeSH

keywords from PubMed.

Keywords most

viewed today

(updated hourly)

Keywords most

viewed this month

(updated monthly)

This Profiles

menu appears on

all pages.

Additional menu

options will

appear after you

click on Login to

Profiles. There

is no login screen

if you are already

logged in with

your login

credentials.

Find researchers

using demographic

information

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®)MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

Keyword Search

Demographic Criteria

Search Options

Search Options

Search Results

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Search Results

Search Results

Publications Matching Keywords

Link to PubMed Abstract

Clicking on Search Results takes you back

to the Search Results

Click to see the

Researcher’s Profile

PARTS OF A

RESEARCHER’S PROFILE

Parts of a Researcher’s Profile

Parts of a Researcher’s Profile

Co-Authors

Similar People

Same Department

NOTE: All co-authors will not appear in this Passive Network, only those that are loaded into the UMMS Profiles Database.

Parts of a Researcher’s Profile

Parts of a Researcher’s Profile

VISUALIZATIONSDATA FROM PASSIVE NETWORKS

Keyword Cloud View: Keyword

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Keyword Cloud View: Categories

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Co-Authors: List View

Co-Authors: Network View

Profiled Researcher

NOTE: You must have Adobe Flash Player installed in order to see the Network View.

Co-Authors: Network View

Mouse over the

Profiled Researcher

Co-Authors: Network View

Mouse over a co-author

and that co-author’s

network is highlighted. If

you click on the co-

author’s name, they

move to the center of the

radial graph.

Co-Authors: Map View

Red markers (push

pins) indicate the

profiled researcher and

his/her co-authors. You

can mouse over each

one to see who it

represents.

Blue lines connect all

people who have

published together.

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Similar People: List View