Pubman Func Spec Researcher Portfolio

Scenarios

• The scientists wants to provide an individual entry point to his research stored in the repository, aligned with personal information, a personal link collection and the possibility to upload content, e.g. photos, pdfs or movies.

• The public user has found an interesting publication and wants to see more publications of the author.

• The public user has found an interesting publication and wants to contact the author for more details.

Functional Specification

UC Generate researcher portfolio

Status: in specification

Schedule: R5

• Condition: The person related to a publication must have person ID to provide researcher portfolio.
• Researcher portfolio is generated on demand, by searching for User ID
• Searching by User Id can be done via Advanced Search or Search&Output.
• The query returns all released publications related to the provided person ID.
• An XSLT is applied to the results and generates a standard layout of publication list,including the personal information of the author (see below data structure)
• The photo is stored externally and integrated (?).
• Provision of pre-defined pre-defined Local tagscan be used for standard categorization of publications.

Open: Is the researcher portfolio generated on demand (see below, view researcher portfolio) or is it generated as a separate object, with persistent ID?

UC View researcher portfolio

Status: in specification

Schedule: R5

• "view profile" should be offered for any person which is stored with PersonID
• should list all publications related to this PersonID
• Can be triggered from detailed item view

Technical specification

Data structure

Following information should be available on a researcher portfolio, based on the Person ID and the Named Entity Service:

• Photo (stored externally)
• local/internal ResearcherID (once), including URI
• external ID (multiple), including URI if available
• Keywords of research fields (free text)
• Position (title)(controlled list?)
• PhD, year
• Awards (free text field)
• Organizational unit (controlled)
• Other affiliations (free text)

Future development

• Provide functionality to define own layout of researcher portfolio
• Search within researcher portfolio
• The scientist wants to modify and update his portfolio. He wants to have easy possibility to organize the content on his portfolio and to decide on the structuring keywords.

Tools

• SelectedWorks web-service, Berkeley
• VITRO ontology editor, Cornell
• Any blog software? (see Discussion page)
• ISI's HighlyCited.com or ISI's researcherID

Use Case

Identifier

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations

Uniform Resource Identifier

philosophiae doctor