1. Profiles Research Networking Software Users Group Meeting http://profiles.catalyst.harvard.edu http://profiles.catalyst.harvard.edu December 16, 2011

2. Agenda Welcome to new members Call for DIRECT2Experts participants Profiles RNS 1.0 Updates Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) and Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENCV) Discussion

3. Profiles Users Group Members UCSF Fred Hutchinson CRC Oregon Health Sci U UC Davis (CBST) U Southern California UC San Diego Charles Drew U Hawaii Arizona State Montana State U Colorado Denver UW Madison U Illinois U Chicago Baylor College Med UT Southwestern UT Houston Jackson State (RTRN) Ohio State Cincinnati Children’s Case Western U Kentucky Vanderbilt Stem Cell Leadership in Med U Alabama Birmingham Harvard Univ Minnesota Dartmouth Univ Mass Boston Univ Tufts Univ Boston VA Rensselaer Univ Connecticut Univ Rochester NYU Med Ctr MedMeme Thomas Jefferson UPenn Johns Hopkins USUHS-CNRM NIH George Wash U Penn State Childrens Nat Med Ctr Wake Forest HSSC Georgia Tech Piedmont Healthcare Emory University McGill University (Canada) Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia e Inovação (Brazil) University of Cambridge (UK) Clinical & Biomedical Computing Ltd (UK) Symplectic Limited (UK) Makerere University (Uganda) Velammal Engineering College (India) Nati Sci Lib, Chinese Acad of Sci (China) Beijing Normal University (China) University of the South Pacific (Fiji)

4. University Spotlights Harvard UniversityUCSFUniversity of Minnesota South CarolinaPenn StateUConn Health Center http://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/profileshttp://profiles.ucsf.eduhttp://profiles.ahc.umn.edu http://profiles.healthsciencessc.orghttp://profiles.psu.eduhttp://profiles.uconn.edu

5. Wake Forest School of Medicine Translational Science Institute (TSI) http://profiles.tsi.wakehealth.edu

6. ORCID http://orcid.org 276 participating organizations in 25 countries as of 11/3/2011 From the ORCID website: “ORCID aims to solve the author/contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.”

7. SciENCV Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae Multi-agency pilot project to create research profiles for both extramural and intramural investigators that will link data from institutional systems (like Profiles), funding and publication databases, ORCID, etc.

8. Discussion