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About the CALS Research PortalThe CALS Research Office and Mann Library have collaborated to create the CALS Research Portal, designed to bring together the varied research activities of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as the people, facilities, and events that nurture this vibrant research environment. The portal is structured around the four academic priority areas of the College--Land-Grant Mission, Applied Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and New Life Sciences--and can be searched and browsed to find people, events and seminars, research grants, and funding opportunities. New content is constantly being added to all four areas of the portal, with priority given to suggestions and interests expressed by CALS faculty, departments, and students. Such suggestions can be sent to the portal team via the Contact Us link in the portal. In addition to soliciting content from individuals and departments, Mann Library has also established automatic feeds of information from a variety of sources, including CALS administration and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) to bring data drawn from faculty annual reporting and from the OSP Data Warehouse directly into the CALS Research portal. Recent article citations by CALS authors are downloaded from the databases Biosis and PubMed, many with links to the full text; article citations from a third major database, ISI Web of Knowledge, should be available soon. Plans are also underway to link directly to the Cornell News Service, the Cornell events calendar, and other campus data sources as they become available to us. |
AcknowledgementsMany aspects of the visual organization of this application's pages and interface controls were inspired by and adapted from the University of Washington Healthlinks web site, especially the Bioresearcher Portal curated by Mark Minie. The underlying structure of this application is an ontology most closely adapted from the AKT reference ontology,developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies project, winner of the Semantic Web Challenge 2003. Extensions to this ontology have been based in part on concepts from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' report on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and from the Harmony Project as reported in ABC: A Logical Model for Metadata Interoperability. The CALS Research Portal is a collaborative project under the direction of Susan Riha, the CALS Director for Sponsored Research, and Janet McCue, Director of Mann Library. Aaron Goldweber in the CALS Office of Communications coordinates interconnections with the CALS web site, and Mann Library contributors include:
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