The New Dimensions in Scholcomm: How a Global Scholarly Community Collaboration Created the World’s Largest Linked Research Knowledge System

Abstract

This presentation introduced the audience to and showed the applications of Digital Science's linked database, Dimensions. Pulling together disparate sources of scholarly profiles, grant awards, publications and citations, and resulting clinical trials, patents, or policies, Dimensions enables a university or research institution to track their institutional research progress. Heidi Becker, from Digital Science, presented on the data aggregation behind Dimensions. Dr. Robert Scott provided a use case study from the University of Georgia. Ralph O'Flinn detailed the University of Alabama at Birmingham's integration of Dimensions with their scholarly profiles system, Scholars@UAB, and gave a live demonstration of their system, including possible ways of collecting and representing the raw data from the backend of Dimensions.