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ORBIT, everyone will be able to follow with ease the research being conducted at DTU – in the form of projects, publications and department profiles. Data from ORBIT is forward to the Danish National Research Database and, as something new, will be available through Google Scholar, ensuring optimum national and international exposure of DTU’s research findings.
A major effort on behalf of the departments means that ORBIT’s contents are now up-to-date, and the old system, DARWIN, will be phased out. In coming months, ORBIT will we be expanded with a digital archive of the publications in full text and with comprehensive CVs for interested researchers. ORBIT has been designed with a view to DTU’s requirements – central and at the departmental and personal level. From now on, the individual researcher can maintain his or her CV within the system, extract data to personal reference tools and other types of reuse, and thereby help to keep the team’s, the department’s and DTU’s research database and statistics complete and up-to-date. If you log on as a DTU associate, you get an extra tab, called “Statistics”, that enables you to keep up with the latest UMV figures.
DTU’s new CMS-based web, which will go live at the Annual Dinner-Dance, draws on ORBIT via XML web services in order to display data on the departments’ publications, projects, etc. The departments will, likewise, be able to regularly extract data into any local databases. Data needs only to be registered once in ORBIT in order to be reused and disseminated – locally, nationally and internationally. Similarly, ORBIT is integrated with DTU’s persons database, DTUbasen, from which information on specific persons can be obtained.
ORBIT offers its users “myBit” – a personal collection of selected documents. If you log in, the collection is permanent and will also be available the next time you log in. If you like, this feature can be used to manage reference data.
ORBIT comprises research data from 1996 and onward. DARWIN data, from 1996-2000, has been converted to ORBIT, while data from 2001 and onward has been entered into ORBIT’s cataloguing module or imported from local databases. The goal is for DTU’s staff to regularly enter their activities into ORBIT, so their data is always up-to-date and so that the entries can be used on the department homepages, in personal CVs and for DTU’s common homepages and research statistics.
Research data is still entered via ORBIT’s cataloguing module at http://orbit.dtu.dk/app. ORBIT also has a helpdesk, , where you can send any comments or questions.