Researcher registration
The registration process of registration is the same consistent for all roles in within the Virtual Campus. Each researcher can register on the Virtual Campus with the electronical using the electronic identity issued to them by the their home institution. The first sign-in to the system is actually functions as the registration process.
The registration form is pre-filled with data fetched retrieved from the Identity Provider (IdP), which can be modified /or added to if necessary. By selecting the home institution and the appropriate role (here in this case, Researcher), the ORCID widget appears will appear (Figure 1.).
Figure 1. Research registration Registration - connect profilesConnect Profiles
Connecting researcher profile with ORCID
With that Using the ORCID widget, researchers connects can link their ORCID profile with the one in the to their Virtual Campus account. This step is a prerequisite for the researcher to be able to register in the Virtual Campus.required to complete the registration process.
Clicking on the ORCID Click on that widget redirects the researcher to the ORCID sign-in page and after . After successfully signing in to ORCID, the researcher is redirected back to the Virtual Campus registration page with a success message (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Research registration - successful profile connectionRegistration - Successful Profile Connection
After submitting Once the registration is submitted, the UNIC admin receives an email notification for confirmation. Each researcher can see view publicly available data retrieved from ORCID. By authenticating into After signing in to the system, these this data are will be displayed under the Personal Information option. Some of these data are “Personal Information” section. This data includes items such as Biography, Websites & social links Social Links, and Keywords (Figure 3.). Also, if some If any data is not correctincorrect, it is necessary to change it must be updated in the source system, which is ORCID. There is an option here that allows researchers Researchers can also choose to share their personal data and preferences with other researchers within the UNIC Open Science Campus.
Figure 3. Researcher portal Portal – Personal Information
Research interests and matchmaking
There is an option for additional profiling of researchers under the Research and Teaching Interests option Researchers can further refine their profiles under the “Research and Teaching Interests” section (Figure 4.). The researcher ca select They can select keywords from the following categories : such as thematic lines, disciplines, fields of research, fields of teaching, and modes of cooperation (categories as defined by the leaders of the Work package Package 5). Each researcher can choose as much keywords from each of the categories as they wantResearchers may select as many keywords as desired. For this purpose, the following catalogues catalogs are used: Thematic Lines, Web of Science keywordsKeywords, ISCED fields Fields, and Modes of Cooperation. These catalogues catalogs are read-only and searchable.
Figure 4. Researcher portal - Portal – Research and Teaching Interests
Based on those the selected keywords, the matchmaking algorithm in the background calculates the total percentage of matching of alignment between the researcher with each of the and other researchers in within the Virtual Campus. This is shown in displayed under the “UNIC Mapping” option called UNIC mapping (Figure 5.).
Figure 5. Researcher portal Portal – UNIC mappingMapping
The algorithm also calculates Additionally, the matching percentage is calculated for each of the chosen categories. The results of these calculations selected category. Results are presented in a table for each of the categories with a comparison of the chosen keywords and the corresponding percentage of matching , comparing the researcher’s selected keywords with the matching percentage for each category (Figure 6.). These results details are available accessible by clicking on the details Details. This algorithm was implemented as an addition to the original plans, in order to help build networks of to enhance networking opportunities among researchers within the UNIC Open Science Campus.
Figure 6. Researcher portal Portal – Co-researcher details: keywords comparisonResearcher Details: Keywords Comparison
The detailed view also includes In the details view, there are also information about the co-researcher’s ORCID profile of the co-researcher:(Figure 7.) as well as various graphs visualizing the percentage match of keywords within different categories (Figure 8.).
Figure 7. Researcher portal Portal – Co-researcher detailsResearcher Details: ORCID information
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Figure 8. Researcher portal Portal – Co-researcher details: keywords category comparisonResearcher Details: Keywords Category Comparison