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42 results found
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Impact Idea 3: Extra Research Topics/Subjects
Expand the range of research topics and subjects within Esploro Projects by adding options for ANZSRC Socio-economic Objectives (Why), ANZSRC Fields of Research (What/How), and Sustainable Development Goals. We propose including up to three Fields of Research (FoRs), three Socio-economic Objectives (SEOs), and three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This enhancement will improve project categorization, aligning better with global research standards and facilitating more effective tracking and reporting of research impact.
5 votes -
Impact Idea 6: Integration of Research Activity Identifier (RAiD)
Integrate RAiD as a persistent identifier for research Projects and certain activities. RAiD will align with the European Open Science Cloud infrastructure, enhancing the visibility and traceability of research activities. This integration will support more robust Project identification and linking across various platforms.
5 votes -
Impact Idea 5: Moderation/Approval Step
Introduce a moderation step or approval process before Projects are made public. This step will ensure content quality and accuracy, maintaining high standards for Project visibility and reducing the likelihood of errors or inappropriate content being published.
7 votes -
Impact Idea 2: Association of Projects with More Entities
Enable Projects to be linked with additional entities, such as Activities, Media mentions, and Resources to Projects. This will enhance the depth of project information and make it easier to track various related aspects of research activities. Improved association with these entities will provide a more comprehensive view of each project's impact.
5 votes -
Impact Idea 1: Date Field for Added Files & Links
Incorporate a date field for files and links added to a project in Esploro. This feature will be crucial for tracking the timeline of project-related documents, such as appreciation emails, blog posts, or reports.
As we begin collecting a 'paper trail' of engagement leading to societal impact, and potentially in many future cases, academics will need to add information to their projects retrospectively. For supporting evidence that is temporarily or not publicly available (e.g., emailed testimonials or government websites), it is best practice to capture and store these locally, preferably in Esploro.
The date field will help document when the…
5 votes -
Enhance the Project Entity in Esploro to Store the Path to Societal Impact
We propose a series of feature enhancements for the Project Entity within Esploro. These features aim to boost functionality, streamline user experience, and enable the Project Entity to maintain a comprehensive 'paper trail' demonstrating societal impact.
Esploro’s Researcher Profiles can evolve into a robust platform for showcasing achievements and discovering funding opportunities. Beyond displaying automated publications, citations from Web of Science, altmetrics, awarded funding, student supervision, and press mentions, we envision integrating an SSO link to tailored funding opportunities in Pivot-RP profiles.
To drive engagement and inspire a "Monkey See, Monkey Do" effect, we propose adding an "Engagement & Impact"…
3 votes -
Remove formatting bar from 'Biography and expertise' field when field is disabled in front end
When the 'Biography and expertise' field is disabled for researchers in the front end, the formatting bar should be removed to avoid confusion.
Please see image attached.
1 vote -
allow researcher to edit an asset
Sometimes researchers find errors in assets that have already been approved (either assets that have come in through SmartHarvest or submitted by the researchers themselves). Rather than have them email an admin and request the edit, it would be more efficient if they could edit the asset and (re)submit it for re-approval.
8 votes -
Add media availability to researcher profile
In partnership with our campus's communications office, we would like to be able to use the Researcher Profiles to easily identify faculty who are willing to speak to media on topics relating to their areas of expertise. This could be a simple "Media Availability" field: yes/no.
10 votes -
Bulk update/delete activities
While one can load activities (e.g., courses being taught) via spreadsheet, one cannot modify or delete existing ones except manually one by one. The ability to remove a set of activities in bulk would allow an institution to refresh data of faculty activities at scale. (Support for activities in the API could also serve this use case.)
2 votes -
Ability to create a customise CV at the institution level
We'd like to be able to customise a CV template at the institution level so that we can choose the desired fields/assets/activities to export.
Additionally, we'd like to be able to change the labels of the sections on the CV. We found a labels table (CV Researcher Categories) but this doesn't seem to change the labels either in the Portal view or on the exported CV.3 votes -
Option to display just the Output on the Researcher Profile
Hello,
It would be great to be able to have the option to display either just the Output section for the Researcher Profile or have the option to display the Output tab first before the profile. Since most of the information from the profile page requires active perusal from the faculty, some of the information can be outdated or not "fleshed out" (some of our faculty does not have any profile information on their page)3 votes -
Add Teams, Committees, Working Groups as data in Profiles
We would like to see information in the profiles that indicates what Teams, Committees, and Working Groups a person is on or has been on in the past. The field should be indexed so it is searchable and include a date range.
1 vote -
Allow researchers to reorder Members and Member Organisations in Projects.
In the Projects section of a profile Members and Member Organizations appear in the order they are added by the researcher. It is not possible for researchers to change the order once added without deleting and starting gain. Please allow researchers to reorder these fields in their profiles.
5 votes -
Add option to display more than 9 researcher profiles on a page.
Currently, only nine researcher profiles are listed per page. It would be nice if the defaults could be set by the user so that one does not need to scroll through several pages to see all profiles. Perhaps break it into 12, 24, 48 or all.
6 votes -
Allow users to sort assets
In the Scholarship section of the profile, assets appear in reverse chronological order and there is no way to change the sort. Please add a sort feature as we have in Primo.
9 votes -
Ability to create/modify default settings for researcher profiles synchronized with Alma
I would like the ability to create a default profile for all new researchers loaded in by our SIS through Alma. Currently we are using XML and XSLT on top of our SIS import.
Our university is being selective to which faculty has a profile versus a public profile. This is causing an issue with the current set up, specifically for the faculty who has edit their information in our SIS. Currently, our only set up is that all researchers gets loaded in with a private profile, despite being already in Esploro with a public profile.It would be helpful…
3 votes -
Add ability to export assets from public researcher profile in Excel format
Right now if you look at a public researcher profile, the only export options you have are BibTex and RIS. Our users would like to use Excel as well to make reporting easier.
Example: https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/profile/franklin_dexter/output/all?institution=01IOWA_INST4 votes -
Close current internal affiliations for purged users
When a user is purged their researcher record is updated from "Affiliated" to "Non-Affiliated - Previously Affiliated." However, their internal affiliations are not moved from "Current" to "Previous". In order to do that, customers must additionally run the Update Set of Researchers job. We recommend that this functionality be added to the purge job so that when a user is purged all open internal affiliations are closed with todays date.
1 vote -
Expertise Finder
Esploro is capable of being an Expert Finder but limited to subject matter expertise gleaned from your Research Topics. What about an entire area for Expertise in the profile? The idea would be to list things you consider yourself an expert in (using the same taxomonies already available or free text) and offer toggles for :
-willing to be contacted about
-willing to mentor
-willing to assist in an emergency
-willing to serve on a committee
etc..Then the expertise is explicitly searchable and also indicative of people willing to apply that expertise in those scenarios. Then we would not…
9 votes
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