Research Networking Systems: The State of Adoption at Institutions Aiming to Augment Translational Research Infrastructure.

Fostering collaborations across multiple disciplines within and across institutional boundaries is becoming increasingly important with the growing emphasis on translational research. As a result, Research Networking Systems that facilitate discovery of potential collaborators have received significant attention by institutions aiming to augment their research infrastructure. We have conducted a survey to assess the state of adoption of these new tools at the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) funded institutions.

Adoption of Research Networking Systems in the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium.

Research Networking Systems (RNSs) have been of substantial interest for large research organizations as a means of fostering collaboration and increasing the visibility of individual investigators. A survey of the CTSA consortium assessed the state of first generation RNS adoption by member institutions. The survey queried the level of research networking adoption, system diversity, implementation maturity, data sources, use of Linked Open Data (LOD) and the VIVO core ontology, resources required, and individuals and roles profiled.

Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: analysis of common data elements.

Physical medicine rehabilitation interventions for post-acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) are heterogeneous and subject to differences based on multi-disciplinary treatment plans [1]. There is no universal knowledge representation (KR) model for TBI rehabilitation which impedes data collection, aggregation, computation, and sharing. This paper describes results of an analysis of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) TBI "Common Data Elements" (CDE) clinical data standardization set.

Developing E-science and Research Services and Support at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries.

This paper describes the development and implementation of e-science and research support services in the Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) within the Academic Health Center (AHC) at the University of Minnesota (UMN). A review of the broader e-science initiatives within the UMN demonstrates the needs and opportunities that the University Libraries face while building knowledge, skills, and capacity to support e-research. These experiences are being used by the University Libraries administration and HSL to apply support for the growing needs of researchers in the health sciences.

The informatics imperative in veterinary medicine: collaboration across disciplines.

Information and data management are essential to support the collaborative and interdisciplinary pursuits of an academic veterinary medicine enterprise, ranging from research conducted by individual investigators, education processes, clinical care, and outreach to administration and management. Informatics is an academic discipline that focuses on the creation, management, storage, retrieval, and use of information and data and how technology can be applied to improve access to and use of these resources. In this article, we discuss the challenges in integrating informatics across a large academic enterprise from a veterinary medicine point of view.