Group 2

Lead: Brian Butler

Participants: Michael Wardlow – Elaine Collier – Mike Conlon – Robert McDonald – Ying

Ding – Janos Hajagos – Neo Martinez

Breakout Session on

“What NRN Applications Exist and/or Are Desirable?”

General Considerations

• Serves as many people or institutions as possible• Tools to get work done• Search Tools – • What is in the conversation?

– VIVO– LOKI– Harvard Catalyst Profiles– Stanford CAPS– Google Apps– Confluence– MediaWiki– BaseCamp– Sharepoint– Community of Science– Biomed Experts– Lattice Web– Goto Meeting

General Considerations cont...

• Research Networking – What is the Research Networking Stack

• Networking Applications - VIVO-LOKI-CAPS-Catalyst

• Semantic Layer for Sharing Data– Creating more connections locally to work outside of the local– Ontology

• Tools to work with data

• Data Infrastructure to populate the networking tools and infrastructure

– Idm/LDAP/Directories/HR ERP Data

– Tools need to be network enabled– Scuba Divers vs Fish – gaps between the two in this analogy– Universities – how to go from IdM/LDAP/Directories

Existing NRN Tools

– VIVO– LOKI– Harvard Catalyst

Profiles– Digital Vita– Stanford CAPS– Google Apps– Confluence– MediaWiki– BaseCamp– Sharepoint– Community of

Science– Biomed Experts– Lattice Web– Goto Meeting

– IdM/LDAP/Directories/HR ERP

– Kindle Shared Annotations

– Facebook– Mendeley– Research Gate– Research

Crossroads– Digital Measures– Symplectic– Research in View– MySciet– Pure– IEEE Portal– ACM Portal– SciiVal

– Individual Tools– Professional

Tools– Association

Tools– Research Group

Specific Tools

Existing NRN Services

– People Search– Precise

Semantic Search– New Info Alert

Service– Document Mgmt

Service-CV-Vita– Relationship with

other researchers service

Desirable/Needed NRN Tools and Services• How to query a system for... – Who at my university is most like Jim Hendler?

– SciVal uses a fingerprint profile to segregate scholars in like groups• General tools that can help get data into the semantic layer• Semantic Tools that can work with other network enabled tools

– RDFizer– D2R Map

• End-User Interfaces– Administrative Report Generator– Space Visualization– Personnel Management– Researcher Notification (New Data – New Entries)– Document Management (Vita Builder)– Public Relations Lead Generator– University Foundation Fundraising Interface– Research Admin Grant Program/Team Matching– Funding Announcement from any org/institution – come in the next day – parsed information

– suggested teams from an institution– Bundle identification (people/labs/equipment/resources) for context specific packages– Reporting Tools for Large Distributed Grant Teams – back to agencies and funders

Associated Challenges and Opportunities

• Ex. GoogleTalk – microsoft im and yahoo im hooking into googletalk

• Using SPARQL Endpoint like OpenAPI• How to get VIVO or tools like it in place at institutions

– Lower the cost– Show the benefit– Audience

• Administrators

• Investigators

• Administrator will fund Semantic tools that offer– Efficiency for research reporting– Effectiveness for funding agency relationships