Building on the success of the VIVO community day last year, we are pleased to announce a Research Profiles Conference 2013 at The University of Melbourne.

Research Profiles Conference 2013
Date: Monday 18 February 2013
Venue: The University of Melbourne
Sponsored by Symplectic

Theme: Taking a strategic approach to publicly profiling research; maximising Australia and New Zealand's opportunity to communicate and collaborate on research in an international arena.

Unlike many regions of the world, Australian and New Zealand universities have long had the capability to comprehensively report on their research, both at an aggregate and individual researcher level. Whilst much of this capability has been driven by government reporting, many of our universities have leveraged their mastery of their research information to create both public and internal research portals, dramatically increasing the number of people that are able to access information about a University's activities. This one-day conference will explore how Australasian universities as a whole can leverage this capability to gain advantage on an international stage.

Topics covered will include:

• The international state of play in research profiling
• An assessment of the technologies and standards that assist in the syndication of research information, with a particular emphasis on VIVO as an enabling platform
• Local experiences of implementing research profiling systems
• A road map for open research data and the university
• The future of research reporting and assessment in an era of open data

Who should attend?

Creating and implementing a University-wide research profiling strategy requires collaboration across university boundaries. The 2013 Research Profiles program aims to stimulate discussion around a vision that should appeal to research managers and decision makers, research technologists, those in media and public relations, and the library.

Tentative Agenda:

9:15am Introduction

9:30am Daniel Hook: CEO Symplectic (Summary of international standards, and developments in research profiling )

10am  Michael Gallagher Executive Director Go8 : Australia’s Knowledge Gateway

10:30am Paul Jensen Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research: The ASTRA project: STAR Metrics in Australia

11:00-11:30am break

11.30am Jack Rejtman General Manager The Conversation : The evolving role of the public researcher

12pm VIVO invited Guest Alex Viggio, University of Colorado: An overview of VIVO

12:30pm VIVO at the University of Melbourne: The elevation of Research Information as a strategic public asset: Simon Porter

1-2pm break for lunch

2pm VIVO at Griffith

2:30pm UWA VIVO and research data: Toby Burrows

3pm Proposed Panel: open research data and the University – What should be the road map?

3:30-3:45pm break

3:45-5:30pm Implementing VIVO and the VIVO Development Agenda. Jim Blake (Cornell University), Alex Viggio, Simon Porter and others.

Note: on Tuesday 19th Febuary, there will be a related Symplectic User Conference at the same venue.