IDEA Lab Research Group

IDEA Lab Research Group comprises members making up an inter-university and inter-institutional network for the pursuit of research and the transfer of knowledge in the following areas of interest: management, evaluation and administration of information and documentation organizations and services.
Its members comprise both senior and junior researchers with the following common denominator: research lines and prior experience in research collaboration.
Within this line, the group includes a number of university lecturers, researchers and other professionals related to research (alumni and/or current students of the degrees taught at the Faculty of Documentation Sciences of the UCM University) in the areas of interest mentioned in the research areas section.
Taken as a whole, the IDEA Lab is designed as a laboratory and an observatory of innovating trends, strategies and models in the areas of management, evaluation and administration of organizations with a view to the submission of proposals for implementation at information and documentation units and services in both the public and private sectors.
Consultancy and advisory services for documentation management and training are available for institutions in both the public and private sectors.
The members of IDEA Lab have continuously taken part in over 40 competitive projects with both national and international funding.

Management of information and documentation units.
Innovation and entrepreneurship in the area of information and documentation.
Smart librariesin the context of Smart cities and Smart universities.
Internationalization strategies of universities and strategic actions by university libraries.
Measuring efficiency in university libraries.
Management and planning of information and documentation projects.
Documentation in Health Sciences.
Quality and standardization of information and documentation products and services.
Evaluation of competencies and new professional profiles in Library and Information Science area.
Organization and management of open data portals.
Governance and interoperability of data semantics.