Frank Diepmaat Pure conference Philadelphia 31-10-2018

A new academic profile page for Tilburg University: too little too late?

“I am not planning to maintain

another profile in Pure, the

University’s website, or elsewhere.

I keep my own website up to date

and I think that’s already a lot of

work…. I think it is too little too

late, especially if it has such

limited possibilities.”

Quote

• Facts and figures

• Portal - previous

• Use of other profile pages

• Project Improved Profile pages

• Reuse of data in Pure

• How do we help our researchers?

• First comments after go live of portal

• Conclusion

• Questions

Table of content

Facts and figures

“I have to update it myself. I keep

forgetting it (and also dislike

doing it, because it costs quite a

bit of time) and it seems that it is

never up to date. Also when

looking up other researchers”

Portal – previous

Use of other profile pages

Researchers with a non-University profile page

80%

10%

4%

2% 1%

3%

None

Personal

Twitter

LinkedIn

Other (ie Researchgate, Academia etc)

Combination 2 or more

• Three objectives:

1. Reuse data out of other systems:

• Daily sync: HR-, Education system, IdM

• Migration- sync once: Experts & Expertise

2. Encourage researchers to update profile information, publications, activities etc. in Pure

3. Implement cloud portal Pure

Project improved profile pages

Inspired by: Scott Taylor, University of Manchester (“Raising the bar: how Pure is helping us build world class library research services at Manchester”, Pure conference Barcelona 2017)

Flyer for our researchers….and chocolate!

Project improved profile pages

VOIPREG

IDM

Project improved profile pages

Project improved profile pages

Reuse of data in PureSuccesfactors

(HRM)

IDM

VoIPreg

E&E DB

PGPRD (tables)

Pure backend

Pure portal

Configurable Person Sync

Academic profile & publications

PERSON_DATAPERSON_EXTERNAL_POSITIONS

PERSON_KEYWORDSPERSON_LINKS

PERSON_NAMESPERSON_PHOTOS

PERSON_PROFILE_INFORMATIONPERSON_TITLES

STAFF_ORG_RELATION

VIEWS

External positions

Job title + organization dataAcademic+ support staff

Telephone + Room numbers

SAP HR

Email adresses

One-time sync profile info

Academic staff data

Data entry academic staff

Academic profile information & publications

How do we help our researchers: help texts backend

How do we help our researchers: FAQs

How do we help our researchers: user manual

• In use since October 16, 2018

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• “New profiles look very nice!”

• Big improvement compared to E&E

• Increased registration of publications and activities

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• External positions shown too prominently

• PhD dissertations shown in publication list professors

• Emphasis on quantity by showing graphic with publications

First comments after go live of portal

For a succesful implementation of profile pages in the Pure cloud portal:

• Make maximum use of profile data already recorded in other university

systems

• Point out the benefits of using the university profile page to researchers

• Let researchers link as much as possible to their other profile pages

• Guide your researchers in keeping their profile pages up to date with

help texts, FAQs and a customized manual

Conclusions

Mailto:

f.g.diepmaat@tilburguniversity.edu

Questions?