Open Source Community
Profiles Research Networking Software has an active and rapidly growing open source user community.
Profiles RNS Users Group
The Profiles RNS Users Group contains over 300 members from institutions around the world. These partner sites have all worked hard to make Profiles RNS a success. We particularly appreciate UCSF's contributions to Profiles RNS, which included developing promotional strategies for research networking, assisting with quality assurance, and ongoing work to add OpenSocial support to Profiles RNS.
University Spotlights
Click an image below to see examples of how universities have customized their Profiles RNS websites.
 Harvard University
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 University of California, San Francisco
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 Boston University
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 RTRN (18 RCMI Institutions)
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 South Carolina (HSSC/SCTR)
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 Baylor College of Medicine
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 University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Meetings and Mailing Lists
The Profiles RNS Users Group has a mailing list and a monthly community webinar held from 11am-12pm on the 1st Monday of every month. The Users Group is mostly focused on issues of interest to the people who are implementing Profiles RNS at their institutions. However, anyone is welcome to join, and we frequently have broader discussions about research networking in general. The typical topics of the monthly meetings include:
- Introduction to new Profiles RNS users
- Information about upcoming releases
- High-level "vision" talks about where Profiles RNS is heading
- Announcements about events and activities relevant to Profiles RNS
- Feedback and technical questions from Profiles RNS users
- Invited speakers to talk about how they are using/customizing Profiles RNS
Email us at profiles@hms.harvard.edu if you would like to be added to the official Profiles RNS Users Group mailing list, which we use for meeting invites and announcements of product releases. Also, join the Profiles RNS Google Group to participate in discussions among people from different institutions using the software.
Below are presentations from past Profiles RNS Users Group meetings:
- June 18, 2010
- July 7, 2010
- August 20, 2010
- September 17, 2010
- October 22, 2010
- November 19, 2010
- December 17, 2010
- January 21, 2011
- February 18, 2011
- March 18, 2011
- April 22, 2011
- June 17, 2011 - Special presentation from UCSF on OpenSocial gadgets for Profiles RNS.
- July 15, 2011
- August 19, 2011
- September 16, 2011
- November 18, 2011
- December 16, 2011
- January 20, 2012 - Overview of the Profiles RNS Disambiguation Service.
- February 17, 2012
- April 20, 2012
- May 25, 2012
- June 15, 2012
- July 20, 2012
- September 28, 2012
- October 19, 2012
- January 18, 2013
- March 15, 2013
- May 17, 2013
- June 21, 2013
- July 19, 2013
- September 20, 2013 - Presentations from Lindsey Sakonchick (website updates), Tanu Malik (grants and patents), Richard Whaling (faceted browsing)
- October 18, 2013
- January 17, 2014
- February 21, 2014
- April 18, 2014
- June 20, 2014
- August 19, 2014
- February 20, 2015
- August 21, 2015
- January 15, 2016
- January 15, 2016
- April 15, 2016
- May 20, 2016
- September 16, 2016
- November 18, 2016
- January 20, 2017
- March 17, 2017 - User interface changes
- June 16, 2017 - Analyzing teams
- October 20, 2017 - User interface changes
- November 17, 2017 - Group Profiles
- February 16, 2018 - Harvard Profiles RNS infrastructure
- June 15, 2018 - Profiles RNS 2.11.1, VIVO Recap
- December 21, 2018 - Expert Finder Systems National Forum, Upcoming new features
- April 22, 2019 - Group Profiles, Person List
- December 2, 2019 - Profiles RNS 3.0
Community Wiki
Participate in the Profiles RNS Google Group.