Avedas presentation by Thorsten Hoellrigl at the ORCID Outreach meeting, Oxford, UK, May 23, 2013

1. Research
Informa.on
Systems
www.avedas.com
CONVERIS
Research
Informa8on
System
ORCID
Outreach
Mee.ng,
23/05/2013
Dr.
Thorsten
Hoellrigl

2. 2
©
AVEDAS
AG
AVEDAS
Company
Overview

3. 3
©
AVEDAS
AG
AVEDAS
implements
CONVERIS
Research
Informa8on
System
for:
•
Universi.es
•
Research
organisa.ons
•
Funding
agencies
Facts
&
Figures:
•
Founded
in
2004
•
Privately
owned
by
founders
&
employees
•
Main
office
in
Karlsruhe,
Germany
•
>
40
employees
•
>
70
clients
in
13
countries
AVEDAS
Key
facts

4. 4
©
AVEDAS
AG
CONVERIS
Managing
the
Research
Life
Cycle

5. 5
©
AVEDAS
AG
Why
CONVERIS?
Managing
the
complete
Research
Life
Cycle
• Increased
visibility:
Provide
access
over
the
web
to
informa.on
on
the
organisa.on’s
researchers,
units
and
their
research
ac.vi.es
and
results.
• BeNer
management
informa8on:
CVs,
collabora.on
analyses,
publica.ons
&
bibliometrics,
research
projects
&
applica.ons,
data
exports,
…
for
internal
decision-­‐making
and
external
demands.
• Efficiency:
A
more
efficient,
streamlined
administra.ve
process
for
managing
research
informa.on
for
researchers
and
administrators.
• Scalability:
A
configura.on
module
enabling
the
organisa.on
without
involvement
from
AVEDAS
to
ensure
that
the
system
can
match
its
evolving
needs
over
.me.

6. 6
©
AVEDAS
AG
CONVERIS
–
Managing
the
Research
Life
Cycle
Ideas
Proposals
Projects
Results
Exploita.on
Interna.onal
Office
Library
External
Collaborators
Research
Office
Funders
Researchers
University
Management
Post-­‐Award
Finance
Graduate
Students
Research
Ethics
Board

7. 7
©
AVEDAS
AG
All
informa8on
at
hand
in
one
system
for
each
user

8. 8
©
AVEDAS
AG
Integra8on

9. 9
©
AVEDAS
AG
?
Finance
HR
Local
IT-­‐infrastructure
Grants
&
Contracts
Student
records
Ins8tu8onal
repository
Fragmenta8on,
data
inconsistency,
high
costs,
...
CMS
Patents
Login
server
Different
IDs
Gaps
Text
vs.
rela.ons
Ad-­‐hoc
vs.
Systema.c
processes
Out-­‐of-­‐date
Scopus
Web
of
Science
Funding
bodies
PubMed
Data
inconsistencies
&
duplicates
Patent
offices

10. 10
©
AVEDAS
AG
ORCID
Integra8on
• ORCID
Integra.on

11. 11
©
AVEDAS
AG
Summary
• Huge
interest
• EMBL
already
ORCID
member
• Many
universi.es
are
interested
• University
of
Saskatchewan
• Oxford
• Turku
• …
• Funders
show
interest
to
put
the
ORCID
ID
on
the
applica.on
• Swedish
Research
Councils
• RCUK
• DFG
• …
• Ini.a.ves
• CERIF
• CASRAI