This is a slideshow of what the current concepts are around a Research Portal at the University of Cape Town

1. The UCT Research Portal:
a head-in-the-clouds view

2. eResearch Tab on
UCT Home Page
Outside View
Showcase
Scholarly Search Research
Profiles
work Experts Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
My
Storage
My Students My Contracts
Finance My Staff
My Grants My Ethics
HR Research Office
Inside View

3. What is feasible soon? Phase 1, Feb 2012
Create and link / redesign Web pages, link a database, establish Portal
Showcase
Research
Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository My eResearch Tools
NOTE: we presently do not know what to use for Portal – several options exist
NOTE 2: FULL implementation has to wait for UCT Web renewal

4. What is feasible longer term?
Phase 2, Nov 2012
Create some dynamic access links to Irma / other databases, create templated Profiles
Showcase Experts
Research
Scholarly Resources Profiles Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
NOTE: both Scholarly Resources and Profiles require significant development
and policy decisions. Eg: SR not just database output; also represents “non
conventional” publications for Humanities etc – video, digitised artworks?

5. What requires serious integration?
Showcase Experts
Research
Scholarly Resources Profiles Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
My
Storage
My Students My Contracts
Finance My Staff
My Grants My Ethics
HR Research Office

6. What is required for what?
Showcase Web page linking non-login modules
Scholarly
works
Profiles Dynamic access libraries / databases, web pages
Libraries and Rework of libraries site; creation of repository and
Repository access
Search Experts Dynamic access to profiles, publications etc – SciVal?
My Staff Integration of output from:
Finance Faculty / Central Finance (SAP?); Faculty / Central HR
HR (PeopleSoft?); Postgrad Office for postdocs / students
My My Integration of output from:
Grants Ethics
Research Office (Irma?); RCIPS (Irma); Faculty /
Research Office Central Finance

7. What is required for what?
Reconfiguring Vula to allow for researcher access and
Vula sophisticated collaborative space creation
My Adding storage with various modes of access: drag-
Storage and-drop backup / storage, dynamic storage….
Writing specialised modules / pgms for researchers;
adapting other packages for UCT HPC use; pipelining
modules for easier access; providing a Windows HPC
My cluster; facilitating seamless Cloud and Grid access
Tools
for specialist applications