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Tools to Find Connections Between Researchers – Findings from Preliminary Work with a Prototype as Part of a University Virtual Research Environment

This paper describes development work in progress on tools to identify connections between researchers, as well as between researchers and business and other wider partners. The work is being carried out as part of a project, the Building Research and Innovation Networks (Brain) project, based at Coventry University in the UK with Leeds University as partners, and is part of a JISC funded Virtual Research Environment Programme. The Brain project aims to facilitate the building of Communities of Practice and networks of researchers and business and community partners to help enable the collective intelligence that potentially exists if these participants could be suitably engaged. In this endeavour, the project has explicitly identified the Research 2.0 approach as being central. Within the scope of this paper, only certain aspects of the project will be considered in any depth. The wider project includes work on business and knowledge related processes which impact on the nature and validity of the data used by tools such as those described here. Also central to the project is the building of Communities of Practice of researchers and other partners and the development of physical and virtual networks to support these. The development work on the tools described here was carried out by Dimoklis Despotakis and Ajdin Brandic.