{"id":4492,"date":"2025-01-14T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:38:00","slug":"the-role-of-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2025\/01\/14\/the-role-of-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">Currently, all staff members within the University are able to create a profile on EdWeb which enables them to present personal information, including biographical and contact details in a number of fields. This allowed information to be shared across multiple pages from a single source by adding the staff&#8217;s unique user number (UUN). Colleagues were able to update their own staff profile which would then automatically be updated on the pages where that profile appeared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">However, our research suggests that only a fraction of University staff make use of their online profiles, and of the profiles that do exist, many contain minimal or out-of-date information. This, coupled with the platform upgrade has provided us with an opportunity to reassess staff profiles and improve the feature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">Our next\u00a0 new project will:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"customListStyle\">\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">Explore the opportunity to improve the provision for staff profiles on the University website by using the functionality of the new platform to optimise this type of content.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">Research the current use of staff profiles in EdWeb and the expectations and requirements of academic and professional services staff for the display and presentation of their profile content.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">Research whether colleagues believe there is a requirement for staff profiles on the University web publishing platform (EdWeb2), or whether there is a desire to optimise the display and presentation of staff profile content hosted elsewhere e.g., on LinkedIn, Research Explorer (PURE), or other platforms, databases and repositories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uoe.sharepoint.com\/sites\/EdWeb2\/SitePages\/New-project-will-improve-staff-profiles.aspx?csf=1&amp;web=1&amp;e=EudFiG&amp;CID=54ca9b5a-3452-489e-9256-49479987b955\">Find out more: New Project will improve Staff Profiles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, all staff members within the University are able to create a profile on EdWeb which enables them to present personal information, including biographical and contact details in a number of fields. This allowed information to be shared across multiple pages from a single source by adding the staff&#8217;s unique user number (UUN). Colleagues were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}