Members
- Jon Corson-Rikert(Cornell)
- Brian Lowe (Cornell)
- Jing Wang (Johns Hopkins)
- Lisa Charlong (Memorial)
- John Duff (Memorial)
- Bojan Furst (Memorial)
- Jennifer Warburton (Memorial)
- Lisa Goddard (Memorial)
- Sheila Downer (Smart Labrador, Inc.)
- Dave Cantwell (Memorial)
Goals
- To support networking and collaboration among well-established research teams and knowledge users to further the application and mobilization of knowledge
- To improve engagement between researchers and between community members and researchers by promoting mutual awareness and describing common areas of interest and expertise
- To enhance ability for the University and for the Community to discover emergent/informal and formal communities of practice within multiple sectors.
- To explore how researcher and community networking can be employed to meet other objectives.
To this end the working group aims to:
- Model Public/Community persons and groups as well as collaboration(s) between them and university researchers.
- Model forms of collaboration(s) between the Public/Community persons and groups and university researchers
- Model outputs of collaboration(s) between the Public/Community persons and groups and university researchers
Definitions
Knowledge mobilization:
For the purposes of the current Yaffle development, a broker is a person with an academic institution affiliation who moves an idea through its life cycle.
Use cases
- capture community needs systematically and match them with student/faculty interests
- leverage research or materials for academic or corporate endeavors
- promote the meaningful involvement of communities in translational research
From Memorial:
Primary Use Cases
The following use cases describe normal uses of the Yaffle application. A VIVO backend would need to support these cases.
1.0 | Use Case | Example |
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| Public submits Research Opportunity into Yaffle. The goal is to match Public with Researchers. Matches can be made by Broker(s) and using the following criteria: Research Interests, Expertise, Publications, and Research Projects | Transmission Link on Labrador coast |
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Idea articulated by Public Group and entered into system by a person in that Group as a Research Opportunity
| The directors of the regional economic development boards in the area write and submit a Yaffle.ca research opportunity and follow up with a phone call to the Harris Centre. Local fishermen express concern with the proposed transmission link, essentially a high power cable laid on the ocean bottom of their fishing grounds. |
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2.0 | Use Case | Example |
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| University Staff (Broker) enters a Research Opportunity into Yaffle on behalf of public. The goal is to match Public with Researchers. Matches can be made by Broker(s) and using the following criteria: Research Interests, Expertise, Publications, and Research Projects | Transmission Link on Labrador coast |
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Idea articulated at a University Regional Workshop and entered into system by University Staff (Brokers) as a Research Opportunity
| The Directors of the regional economic development boards in the area attend a Regional Workshop. They express a need for more information on a provincial project. Harris Centre Staff (Brokers) document the need and enter it into Yaffle as a Research Opportunity and follow up with a phone call to the Harris Centre. Local fishermen express concern with the proposed transmission link, essentially a high power cable laid on the ocean bottom of their fishing grounds. |
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3.0 | Use Case | Example |
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| Public browses Research Opportunities and Projects in Yafflle and contacts a Researcher The goal is to identify and locate Researchers. Matches can be made by Public using the following criteria: Research Interests, Expertise, Publications, and Research Projects, Research Opportunities. | |
Precondition | Public has a research need. Public user accesses Yaffle online and browses Projects and/or Opportunities or searchers by Keyword |
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Additional Use Cases
The following use cases describe requirements of an enhanced system.
4.0 | Use Case | Example |
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| Public person creates a Profile listing Expertise (User can enter data on research, outreach, teaching, interests, expertise |
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Precondition | Authenticated Logged into Application (Yaffle) |
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Steps | Public logs into Yaffle Public user describes his/her Expertise |
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5.0 | Use Case | Example |
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| University Staff identifies him/herself as a “Broker”
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Precondition | Person has designated Broker status University staff logged into system
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Steps | Broker staff describes themselves as Brokers in the system.
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6.0 (See 1.0) | Use Case | Example |
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| Application tracks and displays Lineage of an Idea | Transmission Link on Labrador coast
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Precondition | A Research Opportunity spawns additional Research Opportunities
| The Directors of the regional economic development boards in the area attend a Regional Workshop. They express a need for more information on a provincial project. Harris Centre Staff (Brokers) document the need and enter it into Yaffle as a Research Opportunity and follow up with a phone call to the Harris Centre. Local fishermen express concern with the proposed transmission link, essentially a high power cable laid on the ocean bottom of their fishing grounds. |
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Steps | Public creates three related Research Opportunities Broker staff match Public with Researchers
Opportunities documented as Projects by Brokers
| They get their funding and create three additional Yaffle.ca research opportunities: impact on the nascent tourism industry; impact on municipal infrastructure; impact on fisheries. The HC knowledge mobilization Staff use Yaffle to identify appropriate expertise and brokers all three projects between the oceanographer who has taken on the initial Project and agreed to stay on to conduct the impact study on the fisheries and marine mammals in the area and Faculty of Business Researcher who agrees to take on the impact or tourism and municipal infrastructure portions of the work.
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| System (Yaffle) tracks status of an Idea from Opportunity to Project Displays as “Brokered” |
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Precondition | A Research Opportunity has been brokered. |
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Steps | Broker staff match Public with Researchers Opportunities documented as Projects by Brokers
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