The University of Melbourne’s Research Systems Upgrade project has received approval to re-implement Find an Expert on the VIVO platform.
(Official announcement here: http://www.its.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/480097/Find_an_Expert_on_VIVO.pdf )
About Find an Expert
Since its launch in 2007, Find an Expert has had a significant impact on the way research expertise is communicated at the University both internally, and externally to the media and boarder community. Web Statistics for Find an Expert highlight its impact:
- Over 6.3 million pages have been accessed from Find an Expert by more than 1.8 million visitors
- Find an Expert is accessed daily by the major Australian media outlets such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, News Limited, and Fairfax
- Find an Expert has also played an important part in connecting researchers to the University community, with one sixth of its usage coming from on campus sources
- Links into Find an Expert can be found across 200 separate university websites.
Increasingly Find an Expert is also being used as a researcher’s primary home page.
Implementation Timelines
Find an Expert is scheduled to be migrated to VIVO by March 2012. Before then, early releases will be opened up in parallel with the main Find an Expert site for user community feedback.
Development screenshots of what Find an Expert will look like on VIVO can be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29677457/VIVO13FAEScreenshots.pdf
Find an Expert will become a core part of the Research data Registry as it will provide the URIs for people, publications, and grants required for the registry.
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