How Research Becomes Even More Visible Now
New Dashboard Unlocks Content from the TUHH Open Research (TORE) Research Information System for the Public, Science, and Universities
29.06.2026
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) presents the new TORE Dashboard, a tool that makes the university’s research information clearly structured, transparent, and interactively accessible. The dashboard consolidates data from the TUHH Open Research (TORE) research information system and presents it in specialized reports, visualizations and lists. Research information is generated in many areas: publications, projects, research data, equipment information, collaborations, and institutional affiliations. TORE brings these data together. Now, the new dashboard makes this information easier to see and use. Users can quickly gain an overview of research projects, publication activities, research data, and equipment. Numerical data are not just statistics but link directly to the corresponding datasets in the research information system. The dashboard targets a variety of audiences: researchers, university administration, research management, funding organizations, cooperation partners, and the interested public. It can provide both general overviews of research at TU Hamburg and targeted reports on individual programs and collaborative projects.
Compactly Presenting Research Contexts
Already implemented are specialized dashboards and reports on TU Hamburg’s research focus areas, the Collaborative Research Centre SMART Reactors, the Excellence Cluster BlueMat, and the I3 program. These allow comprehensive research contexts to be presented in a compact form: Which projects belong to a focus area? Which publications and research data are linked? Which institutes and individuals are involved? A particular advantage lies in linking overview and detail. Tables, charts, networks, maps, and enriched publication lists reveal patterns without losing connection to individual research results. For example, publications can be displayed together with projects, research data, DOI links, full texts, or graphical abstracts. The TORE Dashboard complements traditional search in the research information system with a curated approach. It not only shows which information is available but organizes it according to specific questions. This makes TORE more usable as a data basis for communication, reporting, and strategic analysis. TU Hamburg demonstrates how research information from an existing research information system with open interfaces, static HTML reports, and modular dashboards can be prepared with low barriers. The result is a flexible tool that makes research more visible while ensuring the quality of the underlying data remains verifiable.
http://tuhh.de/tore-dashboard/
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Elke Schulze
E-Mail: elke.schulze@tuhh.de
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