total-impact blog: total-impact gets £17,000 support from OSF

[From the total-impact website at http://total-impact.org/about] “Total-Impact is a website that makes it quick and easy to view the impact of a wide range of research output. It goes beyond traditional measurements of research output -- citations to papers -- to embrace a much broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly output types. The system aggregates impact data from many sources and displays it in a single report, which is given a permaurl for dissemination and can be updated any time... Total-Impact data can be: [1] highlighted as indications of the minimum impact a research artifact has made on the community [2] explored more deeply to see who is citing, bookmarking, and otherwise using your work [3] run to collect usage information for mention in biosketches [4] included as a link in CVs [5] analyzed by downloading detailed metric information...” On March 8, 2012 the following announcement was made on the total-impact blog: “total-impact has come full circle: we were born out of a hackathon thrown by the Beyond Impact project, funded by the Open Society Foundations. Now we’re being generously supported from that same Beyond Impact grant, helping us move from prototype to a reliable, scaleable service. The budget on the grant is pretty simple: £16k goes to open-source devs Cottage Labs to help build out Jean-Claude, our next release. The other £1k flew me here to Edinburgh to work with CL for a week. There are more details in our grant application; in keeping with our radical transparency philosophy, we are posting that as a gDoc here, so you can see more specifics. It probably goes without saying that we’re really excited about this grant…it’s a great chance to work with Cottage Labs, a great vote of confidence from Beyond Impact, and a great push toward our goal of revolutionizing the dissemination and evaluation of scholarship. Special thanks to Cameron Neylon for his vision and leadership in setting up the original workshop, for suggesting we apply for funding, and for helping us along when we did.”