Journal article
Direct2Experts: a pilot national network to demonstrate interoperability among research-networking platforms
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Vol.18(Suppl 1), pp.i157-i160
Focus on clinical and translational research
12/2011
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000200
PMCID: PMC3241163
PMID: 22037890
Abstract
Research-networking tools use data-mining and social networking to enable expertise discovery, matchmaking and collaboration, which are important facets of team science and translational research. Several commercial and academic platforms have been built, and many institutions have deployed these products to help their investigators find local collaborators. Recent studies, though, have shown the growing importance of multiuniversity teams in science. Unfortunately, the lack of a standard data-exchange model and resistance of universities to share information about their faculty have presented barriers to forming an institutionally supported national network. This case report describes an initiative, which, in only 6 months, achieved interoperability among seven major research-networking products at 28 universities by taking an approach that focused on addressing institutional concerns and encouraging their participation. With this necessary groundwork in place, the second phase of this effort can begin, which will expand the network's functionality and focus on the end users.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Direct2Experts: a pilot national network to demonstrate interoperability among research-networking platforms
- Creators
- Griffin M Weber - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAWilliam Barnett - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAMike Conlon - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USADavid Eichmann - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAWarren Kibbe - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAHolly Falk-Krzesinski - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAMichael Halaas - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USALayne Johnson - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAEric Meeks - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USADonald Mitchell - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USATitus Schleyer - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USASarah Stallings - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAMichael Warden - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAManinder Kahlon - Elsevier, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USADirect2Experts Collaboration
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Vol.18(Suppl 1), pp.i157-i160
- Publisher
- BMJ Group; BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR
- Series
- Focus on clinical and translational research
- DOI
- 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000200
- PMID
- 22037890
- PMCID
- PMC3241163
- ISSN
- 1067-5027
- eISSN
- 1527-974X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2011
- Academic Unit
- School of Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984003173802771
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