Research Networking and Related Systems (RNS)

A Framework for Design, Description, and Evaluation of their Functionality

Dagobert Soergel <dsoergel@buffalo.edu> and Barbara Tafuto <barbarat@buffalo.edu>

Department of Library and Information Studies, University at Buffalo

Research Networking and Related Systems (RNS): 
A Framework for Design, Description, and Evaluation of their Functionality
Version 0 2013-12-28

We present a framework for describing /designing / analyzing / evaluating the functions and characteristics of Research Networking Systems (Research Networking Tools, Faculty Reporting Systems, …) and related systems. (For simplicity, we use RNS in this much expanded sense).

This framework can be used to organize both implemented functions (in whole systems or through apps) and design ideas. The resulting inventory of ideas can be used by system designers as inspiration for added functionality and by managers of local systems as a source of ideas for customizing their systems by adding functions (apps) useful to their system users.

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This draft is meant to start community discussion. Either post a comment below or change/comment on the document directly (track changes) and send to dsoerger@buffalo.edu. The document will be updated periodically.

Table of Contents

Items of most interest to system users (faculty and administrators are up front (#1 - #5)

Items of interest primarily to the people who implement and run the system at the end (#6 - #8).