yaffle: a matchmaking tool for engagement
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Outline
• What is Yaffle?
• The Harris Centre @ MUN
• Yaffle within the Harris Centre mandate
• Building Yaffle
• Running Yaffle
• The future of Yaffle
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What in the world is a Yaffle?
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• There are lots of databases and online tools
• To our knowledge, nowhere has a university
committed to link its research and expertise
in such an accessible way
• Nowhere is there a vehicle for
citizens, communities and organizations to
submit ideas for new research or propose
ways to collaborate
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A „marketplace‟ for knowledge
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Yaffle within the Harris Centre
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Building Yaffle
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A partnership from day 1
• The Harris Centre developed Yaffle through a collaborative process with the support of the Office of Research, Marketing & Communications, Computing & Communications and the QEII Library
• A project steering committee: NL Regional Economic Development Association, Municipalities N&L, Federal and Provincial governments
• A project technical advisory committee
• Project staff
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Funding Partnerships
• Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Labour Market Development Agreement
• System Development
• Regional Workshops (14): With the Regional Economic
Development Boards (additional support from the
Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development)• Memorial University
• VP (Research) Office• School of Graduate Studies
• SSHRC KIS Program• College of the North Atlantic• Rural Secretariat; 9 Regional Councils• Over 50 Graduate Students• Knowledge Transfer Sessions
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Lessons from Development Process
• Executive Support
• Integration into existing systems and processes while shifting the university culture
• Faculty buy-in• “Something else to update”
• Graduate student lay summary collection across different faculties
• Regional Workshops (funded by LMDA)• Assisted in lay summary and new opportunity collection
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Solutions
• Projects administered through Office of Research included in Yaffle
• Tri-council proposals already require lay summaries
• Marketing to faculty – finding ways to impart the value of promotion through Yaffle• Find research collaborations• Attract graduate student research• Demonstrate KMb for grant opportunities
• Track and report output for P&T
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Running Yaffle
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Current Memorial Operations
• 3 person operational staff
• Technical & developmental support from Memorial’s institutional IT department
• MUN Champion Steering Committee in place
• VP Research support for Yaffle operations
• Yaffle supports the work of the KMb team
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Yaffle Today
• Over 75,000 searches since public launch (Feb. 2009)• Accessed from 177 countries over 6 continents• Average of 100 users per day
• Graduate Students using Yaffle for thesis topics
• MITACS Identification of Internships
• Government, Community and Media constant users
• 2010 – 18 new brokered projects
• Formalized communications w/ Office of Research
and School of Graduate Studies to automatically
communicate research awards
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Lay Summary
Submitted by
User
Lay Summary
Submitted to
Review Queue
Lay Summary
Reviewed by
Yaffle Staff
Revision/Approval Process (if required)
Lay Summary Approved and
Added to Active Database
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Some of our stories – Part I
• Healthcare in Labrador
• Provincial government wants to better understand
why people in Labrador are not accessing quality
healthcare in their communities
• They submitted an Opportunity in Yaffle
• A MUN researcher found the Opportunity and
contacted the sponsoring government
department
• A project is now underway to explore these issues
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Some of our stories – Part II
• Energy Model for Southern Labrador
• Southeastern Aurora Development Corporation
wants to explore possible solutions to the limited
energy reserves problem in Southern Labrador
• A possible researcher emerged through a Yaffle
connection
• The Harris Centre is now facilitating a possible
longer term connection related to this project
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Some of our stories – Part III
• Biochemistry – Dr. Sue Ghazala
• Uses Yaffle to find prospective graduate students
• Placed 2 graduate International graduate students
• Is contacted at least twice a week from prospective
students
• Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Uses Yaffle to find researchers
• Pending projects in bio-fuels and water-quality with
Ms. Kelly Hawbolt in Engineering
• Funded project with Dr. Sue Ghazala in Biochemistry
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The Future of Yaffle
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Yaffle 2.0
• Running for 2 years
• Revisiting initial requirements
• Choose changes and enhancements
• Expansion exploration – Gardiner Centre
Solutions Report
• Pilot update – intention to partner to share
Yaffle
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Discussion
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