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An Ideal CRIS?
Anna Clements
Data Architect, University of St Andrews & euroCRIS member
since 2006
@.rl.ac.uk
www.eurocris.org
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Agenda
• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and
euroCRIS• CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?
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What is a CRIS?
“a Current Research Information System, commonly known as "CRIS", is any information tool dedicated to provide access to and disseminate research information” (www.eurocris.org)
– A CRIS consists of• a datamodel describing objects of
interest to R&D• a tool or set of tools to manage the data
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What is a CRIS?
Current Research Information System = CRIS
… information about
• People +• Organisations +• Projects +• Funding Programmes +• Research Results +• …
… that means
• Timeliness• Vitality
… driven by
• A Concept• A Model … incorporated as a
• Implementation (ICT)
an integrated approach towards managing research information
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What is a CRIS?
Current Research Information System = CRIS
… information about
• People +• Organisations +• Projects +• Funding Programmes +• Research Results +• …
… that means
• Timeliness• Vitality
… driven by
• A Concept• A Model … incorporated as a
• Implementation (ICT)
an integrated approach towards managing research information
changing
relationships
heterogenous entities
Metadata
Integration
CERIF
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Agenda
• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and
euroCRIS• CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?
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Who needs it and why?
• To assist users in their recording, reporting and decision-making concerning the research process
• whether developing programmes, allocating funding, assessing projects, executing projects, generating results, assessing results or transferring technology
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Who needs it and why?
The Users o political decision-makerso funding organisationso research institutionso individual researcherso entrepreneurs and innovatorso media and general public
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• a tool for policy making
• evaluation of research based on outputs
• document the research activities
• document research output
• a formal log ofresearch in progress
• to assist project planning.
Purpose at institution level
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Purpose for individual researchers
• to evaluate opportunities for research funding
• avoid duplication of research activity
• analyse research trends, locally, regionally and internationally
• references/links to full text• locate new contacts/networks • identify new markets for
products of research
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Example outputs from a CRIS
Researcher CV
Researcher CV
Research Bibliography
Research Bibliography Commercial
output report
Management information
Management information
Reports to Funder
Equipment use
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Agenda
• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and
euroCRIS• CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?
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CRIS InteroperationThe Need
• In Europe – recognised need for standard
format for interchange of R&D information
•Two reports– Conference of European Rectors
Conferences– Committee of Heads of Research
Funding Agencies
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CRIS Interoperation The Need (Wider)
• European Commission picked up the ideas
• 1987-1990 Put together a group of experts nominated by national governments
• Purpose to define a Common European Research Information Format (CERIF)
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CRIS Conference
• The first conference on CRISs 1991– Bergen, Norway– Organised by Jostein Helland Hauge– Invited national experts as speakers
• Subsequent conferences until 2000– organised with the EC
• Conferences 2002 onwards– Organised by euroCRIS
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CERIF & euroCRIS• CERIF-91, CERIF2000, CERIF2002, CERIF2004, 2006,
2008• euroCRIS founded formally in 2001 • EC handed over responsibility for CERIF to euroCRIS
in 2002
• euroCRIS setup CERIF Task Group to oversee improvements to CERIF standard
• Also ….– The CRIS conferences and membership meetings – www.cris2010.org Aalborg 2-5th June – Strategic seminars (EC, ESF, EARMA, ALLEA,
ICSU/CODATA, ERCIM, JISC, GreyNet)– Community-building
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CERIF The model today
• CRIS can be implemented using subset or superset of full CERIF model:– for projects– for people– for organisations– for publications, patents , products– for services– for facilities, particular equipment
• with role-based, temporally-bound relationships
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PROJECT
ORGUNIT
Skills
CV
GeneralFacility
ParticularEquipment
ContactResults
PublicationResultsPatentResultsProduct
Service
FundingProgramme
Event
ClassificationPrize/Award
PERSON
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CERIF The use today
• As a model for an implemented standalone CRIS– But interoperation ready
• As a model to define the wrapper around a legacy non-CERIF CRIS– To allow homogenous access to
heterogeneous systems
• As a definition of a data exchange format– To create a common data warehouse from
several CRIS
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CERIF The use today .. and
tomorrow ...• Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland
and the Netherlands • And the UK ?• JISC funded EXRI project
recommendationhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/
2010/bpexriv1.aspx
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Agenda
• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and
euroCRIS• CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?
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In the beginning …
• Inhouse system from 2002 - non CERIF CRIS
• Used for RAE• Linked to dSpace• Principles of good data
management
RAE was the driver
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Publications
Fed Out
Research
Information
System
REF, RCUK
SFC, HESA
HEI – Strategic
Planning
Public, Media Recognition / Impact
Industry / SME’s
Interface
Collaborations
Research Pools
Pulled In
Student
Records
Grants,
Projects, KT
Human
Resources
Finance
Manual
Input
Entered
Web of Science,
arXiv, PubMed…
Har
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Full Text
Repository
Open Access
Lin
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Bibtex, Refman
Up
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… what happened next - post RAE
• CRIS rising up agenda• More functionality; better
interoperability• Requirements similar across sector • .. So why go alone? Why reinvent the
wheel across the sector?• Joint project to tender and implement
with Aberdeen University for CERIF-CRIS
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Extract from model
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Agenda
• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and
euroCRIS• CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?
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Linkages From CERIF
• CERIF does not only provide strong, role-typed, timestamped within-links
• But also provides the facility for strong, role-typed, timestamped outward-links
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Linkages From CERIF
• publication X full-text (or multimedia) is not stored within the CERIF data model but in an institutional repository or publisher’s online database. CERIF provides the direct linkage to the full text.
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Result_PublicationInstance Diagram
Person A
Publication X
OrgUnit O
OrgUnit M
OrgUnit N
Project P
member
member
employee
Part of
Part of
owns IPR
author
Project leader
repository
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Linkages From CERIFStaying with this
example:
• more information about Person A may be found in the HR (human resources) system of OrgUnit O, or on web-pages associated with either OrgUnit M or N.
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Result_PublicationInstance Diagram
Person A
Publication X
OrgUnit O
OrgUnit M
OrgUnit N
Project P
member
member
employee
Part of
Part of
owns IPR
author
Project leader
repository
HR System
webpages
webpages
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CRIS + Repositories
CRISResearch Context
[projects, persons, organisational unitsfunding, products, patents, publications
facilities, equipment, events]
OA Repository(hypermedia) Documents
e-Research repositoryDatasets and Software
OAI-PMH
Various
protocols
End-User
CERIFCERIF
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IR is not disappearing
• It is being put into context• Expertise and advocacy still required• … but an IR linked to a CRIS is
greater than the sum of the two parts
• … and will make your life easier
New driver : funder mandates
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Thank you
Anna Clements
www.eurocris.org
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