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conference! <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/2017_virtconf/aug16_virtconf/"><b>Research
Information Networks: The Connections Enabling Collaboration</b></a><b><span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Date & Time:
Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Eastern)</b><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are what just three of the day’s speakers will address:<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Making Sense of the Confusing World of
Research Information Management<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Confirmed Speaker: Rebecca Bryant</b>, <i>Senior
Program Officer, OCLC Research, OCLC</i><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Research Information Management (RIM) is the aggregation,
curation, and utilization of metadata about institutional research activities,
and represents growing resource allocation by research institutions worldwide.
As institutions, consortia, and nations attempt to solve different problems,
their systems, workflows, infrastructure, and nomenclature are developing in
different ways. In this presentation, Dr. Bryant will provide an introduction
to the RIM landscape and offer a model for understanding RIM activities,
developed in collaboration with <a href="http://www.oclc.org/research/partnership.html">OCLC Research Library
Partnership member institutions</a> from three continents. She will talk about
the key drivers for RIM adoption, and how these have influenced RIM adoption
and scaling in EMEA, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Creating a Culture of Research Reputation through Research
Information Management Systems<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Confirmed Speakers: Scott Warren</b>, <i>Associate
Dean for Research and Scholarship, Syracuse University Libraries</i>, and <b>Anne
Rauh</b>, <i>Collection Development and Analysis Librarian, Syracuse
University Libraries, Syracuse University<span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Research institutions have increasingly strong needs to
manage the reputations of their research portfolios. From primary investigator
activities to awarded grants, scholarly output, and related media mentions,
universities need to be able to retrieve and integrate information about their
research endeavors in order to successfully showcase impact at an institutional
level. However, all too often this information is siloed and not easily
discoverable, retrievable, or reusable. Syracuse University Libraries
traditionally provide research reputation services to individual researchers,
but recently collaborated with the Office of Research to expand this work in a
systematic, scalable manner throughout the university via a pilot
implementation of a Research Information Management System (RIMS). This
partnership helped the Libraries demonstrate value in a new way to different
stakeholders as an important member of the university research enterprise. The
presenters will give an overview of RIMS, discuss the implementation of such a
system at Syracuse University, outline challenges to implementing such systems,
and articulate why libraries should be involved in their operation. The
speakers will also address impacts of the use of these systems, and their
complex data needs, on the broader information community.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Case Study: From Researcher Profiling to System of
Record<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Confirmed Speaker: Jan Fransen</b>, <i>Service
Lead for Researcher and Discovery Systems, University of Minnesota - Twin
Cities</i> <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One look at the home screen of the University of Minnesota's
Experts@Minnesota shows that this is a sprawling institution: Experts@Minnesota
includes public profiles for 6,400 faculty and staff organized into almost 300
research units. At last count, it held almost 230,000 research outputs. Such a
near-comprehensive data set brings benefits as well as challenges. Ms. Fransen
will review those challenges, both initial and ongoing, and discuss the
rationale for the 2012-15 pilot project as well as the current (often
unexpected) benefits of the service. She will also discuss key partnerships and
review the Experts@Minnesota roadmap.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Other confirmed speakers during this August 16 event include:<b><span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Muhammad Javed</b>, <i>Ph.D., Ontology
Engineer/Tech. Lead (Scholars@Cornell), Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell
University</i><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Julie Griffin</b>, <i>Associate Dean,
Research and Informatics, Virginia Tech University Libraries, Virginia Tech</i><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(254,255,255)">Marlee Givens, </span></b><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(254,255,255)">Librarian for Modern Languages and Library Learning
Consultant, Georgia Tech</span></i><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(254,255,255)"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About Registration:</b> Purchase of a single
registration entitles you to gather an <u>unlimited</u> number of
staff from your organization/institution in a class- or conference-room setting
to view the event on the day of the live broadcast. It also includes access to
an archived recording of the event to allow those with conflicting obligations
to still benefit from the day’s content.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For details on registration costs and additional information
provided by speakers, please see the <a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/2017_virtconf/aug16_virtconf/">NISO
event page</a>.<span></span></p>
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