UCSF Profiles Open Forum

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UCSF Profiles is a tool that helps you search, discover and network with colleagues. Today it automatically derives and displays research information and networks, and also allows for individual customization.

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UCSF Profiles helps to keep our website the most up to date

Created by Katja Reuter on March 13, 2012 - 11:13am.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I wanted to thank CTSI for UCSF Profiles, a good resource. I managed the website at my former division, the Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education. We linked each of the faculty profiles (link at the very bottom) to the relevant UCSF Profiles page. This way the info at our site is the most up to date, and it allows the faculty member not to have to update info in multiple places.

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Within a second I got a list of experts on the given topic

Created by Katja Reuter on March 12, 2012 - 9:44pm.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I had a faculty who came to the library and looked for expert researchers at UCSF on a specific topic. I used UCSF Profiles, within a second, I got a list of experts on the given topic. He was very impressed. This is an invaluable expertise mining tool and should be widely promoted on campus. Submitted by Min-Lin Fang

Experimental surgery/surgeon; animal models

Created by Anonymous on April 27, 2011 - 1:56pm.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I noticed that there are no listings or references for either experimental surgery or animal models.  As most pre-clinical work requires expertise in this field, it would be helpful to solicit those experts for consultation.

Search by Location

Created by Anonymous on March 31, 2011 - 11:55am.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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It would really be nice to be able to search by location on the UCSF Profiles. Then I could know who my neighbors were and maybe collaborate.

Improving navigation within Profiles to support how people are actually using the tool to find experts ...

Created by Maninder Kahlon on October 4, 2010 - 10:17am.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I watched my husband use the tool this morning to find experts at UCSF that have a clinical, epidemiological or other T2 interest that intersected his social science interest in hunger (if yes, he was going to facilitate collaborations with some interesting non-UCSF groups). His general pattern of usage was to get a list of folks, click on a profile, then click 'Back' because he needed to explore others.

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Recognition and getting the word out: periodic spotlight of each faculty member's UCSF Profile by Executive Vice Chancellor's office

Created by Anonymous on October 1, 2010 - 11:44am.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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How about profiling all faculty members however insignificant one may be.

It would be a form of recognition as well as a method for students to access the informantion about each faculty member.

Improve visualization of networking view

Created by Katja Reuter on September 12, 2010 - 7:52pm.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I’m intrigued by the networks and their visualizations, especially the networking view. I’d be interested to see how this view could be used more effectively, tailored to the information needs of researchers. The current networking view provides a highly complex overview at the expense of extractable information “tidbits”. I’m sure it provides interesting information that is not revealed by the list of co-authors, but at this point it’s difficult to grasp. Also, it might be interesting to see such a view for other networks.

Search results show me "Why" people matched the keyword I search for -- this is great!

Created by Leslie Yuan on September 10, 2010 - 11:03am.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I like the fact that the Search Results page has link to "Why?" each person matched my search term. The ability for me to see a filtered publication list for any individual, based on the keyword that I searched on is a great feature.

I also like the fact that the search result list shows me the people who have the most relevant publications based on my search term at the top.

Expertise discovery and Similar People list

Created by Rachael Sak on September 10, 2010 - 9:19am.
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I've found the “Similar People” list intriguing and useful as you can explore profiles of colleagues you would expect to find in the list along with those you may not expect to find but, for example, have published in similar areas outside your primary research field

Similar People are matched to that person's Keywords (the weighted MeSH terms associated with their publications). This helps you quickly explore and expand the universe of potential collaborators

Add links to Profile narrative

Created by Anonymous on September 9, 2010 - 4:55pm.
Last revised by CTSI Communications on April 17, 2013 - 5:09pm.
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I'd like to be able to add links to other work-related websites on my Profile narrative. Perhaps a WYSIWYG editor like the one on this forum could be implemented?

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