1. Profiles Research Networking Software Users Group Meeting August 20, 2010

2. Agenda Welcome to new partner sites. Questions about the last week's beta software update. Updates from partner institutions. Summary of the CTSA Research Networking Group's August 6 meeting in San Francisco to discuss interoperability between different Research Networking tools.

3. Beta Partners UCSF UC Davis (CBST) Charles Drew Arizona State Univ Minnesota Jackson State (RTRN) Case Western Univ Cambridge (UK) Harvard Dartmouth Univ Mass Univ Rochester Thomas Jefferson Penn State Wake Forest HSSC Makerere (Uganda) Harvard - http://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/profileshttp://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/profiles UCSF - http://profiles.ucsf.eduhttp://profiles.ucsf.edu Univ of Minnesota - http://profiles.ahc.umn.eduhttp://profiles.ahc.umn.edu

4. Research Networking Interoperability August 6: meeting at UCSF – Representatives from several institutions with different research networking software tools – Discussion of goals and technical options – Agreement that institutional buy-in was the most important first step; design architecture around this concept October: meeting at NIH January: launch pilot project

5. Aggregate Federated Search

6. Local Search - UCSF

7. Local Search - UMN

8. Interoperability Pilot Sites InstitutionSoftware HarvardProfiles UCSFProfiles U MinnesotaProfiles U FloridaVIVO StanfordCAP U IowaLoki U PittsburghDigital Vita U Michigan?Collexis (Initial list, not confirmed, others welcome to join.)