Open Research Networking Gadgets (ORNG)
Many gadgets are already available
We've developed a library of open source gadgets you can install on your research networking system. Most of these gadgets will work in VIVO or Profiles without alteration. Others have back end processes that are specifically coded to the Profiles data structure, and a few are specific to UCSF data sources. However, all are open source and we hope that you will use these to make your particular research network sites more feature rich, making alterations as necessary and then contributing back to the ORNG open source community.
Featured publications
Emphasize highly cited or most relevant publications.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example
Videos
Incorporate a YouTube viewer into profile pages so owners can add video lectures and other presentations to their profile. Videos are hosted in the cloud, via the free YouTube service.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example
NIH grant search
Match profile owners to top grant opportunities from NIH RePORTER.
- Developer: Wake Forest
- View source code
- This gadget is under log in so an example is not viewable.
SlideShare presentations
Profile owners can add presentations to their profile with this gadget. Presentations are hosted in the cloud, via the free SlideShare service.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example
Faculty mentoring availability
Profile owners can add data to their profile indicating their interest in mentoring fellow faculty. It includes mentor types, a mentor-focused narrative and contact information. This gadget could easily be altered to support student mentoring.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example
Live links to Web sites
Profile owners can add live hyperlinks to their lab, department, or other research sites. This feature was requested by more users than any other gadget.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example
Grants awarded by the NIH
This gadget pulls grant numbers and titles from NIH Reporter and displays them on the investigator's profile. Customization will be required to disambiguate your institution's investigators!
- Developer: UCSF
- Dependencies: Profiles Beta (.NET process to access NIH Exporter) and UCSF disambiguation.
- View gadget source code
- .NET process source code
- See an example
News stories
Profile owners can add links to news stories or other media announcements about their research.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example
Recommended Reading
See a list of recent publications from other authors that match your research topics.
- Developer: Wake Forest
- View source code
- This gadget is under log in so an example is not viewable.
KNODE Search
Automatically search the KNODE network of global experts and their expert content and see relevant cross-institutional results within your local research network system.
- Developer: KNODE (gadgets@knodeinc.com)
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View source code
- See an example (look at the bottom of the page)
KNODE Profile
Display a snapshot of local profile owners KNODE profile, including expertise tag cloud, expert content totals (papers, grants, clinical trials, patents) relevant to the user, all with automatic full search links.
- Developer: KNODE (gadgets@knodeinc.com)
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View Source Code
- See an example
Twitter Feed
Show tweets from the linked Twitter account.
- Developer: UCSF
- Works on VIVO and Profiles
- View Source Code
- See an example
Activity stream
See recent activity of fellow researchers - Just like on Facebook!
- Developer: UCSF
- View source code
- See an Example
Profile list tool
Build a list of profiles and export certain data about them.
- Developer: UCSF
- View source code
- This gadget is under log in so an example is not viewable.
Google site search
Search all data in your local data set.
- Developer: UCSF
- View source code