Frequently Asked Questions

Where does RLA source data?

The current release of RLA is a minimum viable product. Please refer to the RLA Information Model and Metadata for what data RLA collects.

In particular, RLA current version sources data from the following publicly available sources. (See the table below from https://github.com/ResearchLinkAustralia/RLA-Graph/blob/main/RLA-GRAPH.md ).

Why does RLA not have my profile?

RLA has three indexes: researchers, research activities, and organisations. The researcher index includes Australian researchers and international researchers who have a collaboration with an Australian researcher through jointed publication or research activity, and their ORCID profile indicates their current affiliation(s) in the ORCID employment section. If researchers who don’t have employment information in their ORCID profile, they wouldn’t be included in the researcher index - as the purpose of this researcher/expert index is for RLA users to find expert in an area and be able to reach out to discuss potential collaboration.

However, even a researcher is not included in the researcher index, the researcher’s work and research activities may be discoverable through the research activities index or the organisation index.

Why does RLA doesn’t cover a complete information on my work (e.g. publication)?

RLA aims to provide information that enables research and industry collaboration, it doesn’t intent to cover a complete record of research activities or outputs of a researcher or an organisation. So RLA tries to provide recent information that indicates a researcher or an organisation’s research capability or research-industry collaboration capability.