This presentation outlines the steps that NUI Galway took to build a research portal by integrating Vidatum Academic with TERMINALFOUR Site Manager.

1. Building a research portal
with
Cillian Joy – NUI Galway ( cillianjoy)
Shafiq Far – Vidatum Technologies

2. What’s a portal?

3. Building a research portal
stargate portal (2009) by jen. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/61928261@N00/3763260108.
Science fiction?

4. Portal into the Trees (2014) by Mike Kniec. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/112923805@N05/14957806600.
Building a research portal
Artistic?

5. Holey Cow! (2006) by Roger Smith. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/rogersmith/125700894.
Building a research portal
Or just strange?

6. Web pages for researcher profiles
and research

7. More like this …

8. Welcome Xinyu Liu to Invo (2014) by Juhan Sonin. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/juhansonin/15084037810. Charles (Chick) Macal (2011) by Argonne National Laboratory.
Building a research portal
Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/5764725283.

9. Building a research portal

10. While trying to avoid this …

11. Reading researchers profiles (2011) by PGRsOnline. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordpgrs/5508982211.
Building a research portal

12. Implementation of researcher profiles
with Site Manager and Vidatum Academic
Cillian Joy – NUI Galway ( cillianjoy)
Shafiq Far – Vidatum Technologies
with

13. What we’ll cover
Background
Project goals
Technical design
Vidatum Academic
Implementation
Demonstration

14. Background

15. Background
NUI Galway Web site migrated to Site Manager in 2010
Vidatum Academic implemented at NUI Galway in 2011
A push to publish research activity on the University Web site

16. Project goals

17. Project goals
Build a University Web site research section with Site Manager
Automatically publish researcher profiles and activity
Dynamic listing of profiles by discipline and other categories
Dedicated site search and browse for researcher profiles

18. Project goals
Integrate with existing enterprise applications (HR, CRM)
No-code
Use a write once, publish many approach
Google Search-enable full text search

19. Technical design

20. Technical design
Web site
• JavaScript
• Search
Site
Manager
• APIs
• Web Object
Vidatum
Academic
• HR data
• SSO
• Researcher input

21. Vidatum Academic

22. Vidatum Academic
Consists of two key modules
which have been developed with the input of over 200 Academics
tailored for the Irish Universities and Institutions
1. Research Management System (RMS)
2. Grant Management System (GMS)

23. Vidatum Academic
Vidatum
Academic
Profiles
Grants
Reports
External Data
Sources
•Web of Science
•PubMed
Internal Data
Sources
•HR
•Finance
•Student
Individuals
•Researchers
•Administration Staff
Management &
Administration
Reporting &
Analysis
Exporting & Reuse
Website &
Academic CVs

24. Vidatum APIs
APIs used to expose data from Vidatum Academic
Overview of APIs (IDs, Format, Count)
API include (Schools / Colleges, Published Profiles,
Publications)

25. Vidatum Client list

26. Implementation

27. Implementation: Integration
Vidatum Academic APIs expose data
Site Manager Web Object scrapes data
Site Manager requires new:
Page layout
To support CSS and JS from used in Vidatum Academic
Content type
To scrape data from Vidatum Academic API using a Web Object
Sections
To publish content

28. Implementation: Integration example for School
Content type element
School Id
Content type web object
<t4 type="web-obj" max-level-site="5" link-match="/!W_VA_CV_BUILDER " parse-body="true"
import-method="subsection" method="http" use-title-attribute="true" start
url="https://iris.nuigalway.ie/live/w_valocal_nuig_profile_list.profiles?p_school_id=$template.School$”
cache-expiry="12“ object-name="StaffProfilesBySchool" />
Section
Use content type for web object with filled in element for School Id

29. Implementation: Integration example for School:
Content type elements

30. Implementation: Integration example for School:
Content type web object

31. Implementation: Integration example for School:
Section

32. Implementation: Search & Browse

33. Implementation: Browse from Sub-site

34. Implementation: Browse School

35. Implementation: Browse: Filter

36. Implementation: The profile

37. Implementation: The profile

38. Implementation: Search

39. Implementation: Search

40. Implementation: Find a Supervisor

41. Demonstration
If we have time …

42. Thank you for your time
Questions?