© brigitte jörg strategic seminar september 2009, brussels 1 metadata for all research information...

© Brigitte Jörg Strategic Seminar September 2009, Brussels

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Metadata for all Research Information - CERIF

Metadata for all Research InformationMetadata for all Research InformationCERIFCERIF

Brigitte Jörg, M.A. (Information Science)Brigitte Jörg, M.A. (Information Science)

Language Technology Lab,Language Technology Lab,German Research Center for German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Saarbrücken, GermanySaarbrücken, Germany


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Introduction of Speaker

Brigitte Jörg M.A. Information ScienceInformation Systems, Business Administration

Researcher, Project Manager DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab,Saarbrücken

CERIF TG Leader, Board Member euriCRIS

Contact: brigitte.joerg @ dfki.de

http://www.dfki.de/~brigitte/


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Outline

What is CERIF?

Some Grounding Explanations The CERIF Model Levels Research Information CRIS

CERIF Examples

The CERIF 2008 1.0 Release


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Equipment

ProjectProject OrganisationOrganisation

Service

FundingProgramme

Patent

Skills

CV

Product

Event

PersonPerson

Classification(Semantics)Classification(Semantics)

Publication

What is CERIF ?

Common European Research Information Format


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What is CERIF ?


Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Funding

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

Currency

LanguageEventMetrics

ResultProduct

ResultPublication

ResultPatent ResultProduct

ResultPublicationResultPublication

ResultPatent

Person OrganisationUnit

Project

PersonPerson OrganisationUnitOrganisationUnit

ProjectProject


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What is CERIF ?


– A Concept about Research Entities and their Relationships Specification (Conceptual Level)

– A Description of Research Entities and their Relationships Model (Logical Level)

– A Formalization of Research Entities and their Relationships

Database Scripts (Physical Level)

SQL Script-----------------------CREATE Table PersonCREATE Table ProjectCREATE Table OrgUnit


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What is CERIF ?

Common European Research Information Format(1) conceptual, logic, physical model

(2) allows for a (metadata) representation of – research entities – their activities / interconnections (research)– their output (results)

(3) allows for high flexibility with formal semantic relationships

enables quality maintenance, archiving, access and interchange of research information

supports knowledge transfer to decision makers, for research evaluation, research managers, strategists, researchers, editors, the general public



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What is CERIF ?


CERIF is an EU Recommendation to Member States

http://cordis.europa.eu/cerif/

The European Commission (EC) has authorised euroCRIS to maintain and develop CERIF and its usage

http://www.eurocris.org/cerif/cerif-releases/

http://cordis.europa.eu/cerif/



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What is a conceptual model ?

a particular idea or description of a particular area of interest

in the mind of individuals often in written language (specifcations)

„A research a project is mostly funded by a Funding Agency.“

„In research, journal impact is measured by citation counts.“

„A researcher ‚produces‘ knowledge in publications.“

„A University is an organisational unit that has departments doing Research and produce Results.“


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What is a logical model ?

a simplified formal view to describe a particular area of interest

„A research project is funded by a Funding Agency.“




A Bis funded by

C Dis measured By

X Zpublishes

F Ghas parts

F Yproduces

F Xperforms


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What is a physical model ?

a machine-readable code to describe a particular area of interest

„A research project is funded by a Funding Agency.“





SQL Script-----------------------CREATE Table Project_OrgUnit

INSERT into ClassID „is funded by“

SQL Script-----------------------CREATE Table ResultPublication_Metrics

INSERT into ClassID „is measured by“

SQL Script-----------------------CREATE Table Person_ResultPublication

INSERT into ClassID „has published“

SQL Script-----------------------CREATE Table OrgUnit_OrgUnit

...


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Summary: What is a model / CERIF ?

A concept about entities andtheir relationships

An abstract formal description of the concept about entities and theirrelationships

A formal machine readable description of the concept


Organisation of Data/Information accordingly !!


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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

heterogenous entities

changing

relationships

CERIF

Metadata

Integration


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What is Research Information ?

Information about Research Entities:

• Scientists• Project Managers• Ongoing and Completed Projects• Research Departments• Funding Organisations and Programmes• Research Results• Publications• Equipment

• their timely Relationships (Semantics) ...


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Users of CRISs

• Researchers (find partners, track competitors, form collaborations)

• Research Managers (assess performance, assess research output, find reviewers for evaluation of proposals)

• Research Strategists (decide on priorities and resourcing, compare with other countries)

• Publication Editors (find potential authors, find reviewers for proposed papers)

• Intermediaries / Brokers (find research products, identify ideas to be carried forward)

• Media (communicate results)

• General Public (for interest)


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What kind of Questions do we want to answer?

How many projects has the EC funded in FP6? How many articles has author X published in 2007

as a first author? How often have articles by author X been cited? Did author X publish with institutionally external authors? In how many FP7 projects does organisation Z participate? How many publications have resulted from project Y? How many people have been employed in the course of

FP6 projects from the 1st call in the NMS? How many PhD students have participated in FP6 projects? How many women have been involved in FP6 projects? How often have articles in journal A been requested in 2007? How many articles have been published in the field of B? …


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How can we (CERIF) answer such questions?

• Entities around an example

Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

Currency


ResultProduct

ResultPublication



ResultPatent


Project


ProjectProject

Funding

Project Funding Programme

ResultPublication

Role X Role

YRole Z


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Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

CurrencyLanguageEventMetrics

ResultProduct

ResultPublication



ResultPatent


Project


ProjectProject

Funding


ResultPublication


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Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

CurrencyLanguageEventMetrics

ResultProduct

ResultPublication



ResultPatent


Project


ProjectProject

Funding


ResultPublication


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Metadata

– Basic Metadata with Entities• person names• organisation name• project acronym• ...

– Relational Metadata (Semantics / Context)

• Subject Headings – Medicine– Computer Science

• Contextual Metadata– is author of – is first author of – is cited by

Metadata representing Entities and Relationships

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Metadata Categories

– Descriptive Metadata [intellectual contents]

– Administrative Metadata• Technical [file formats ...]• Rights Management [permissions ...]• Provenance [creation, subsequent treatment, ...]• ...

– Structural Metadata [internal structure of items: page order ...]

– Contextual Metadata• Project Context [funding programme, participating organisations …] • Publication Context [number of authors, external authors, first …]• Usage Context [downloads, requests, …] • ...

See also: JISC Report from April 2008 “Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions” by Richard Gartner http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw_0801pdf.pdf


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw_0801pdf.pdf


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Metadata Categories

– Descriptive Metadata [intellectual contents]

– Administrative Metadata• Technical [file formats ...]• Rights Management [permissions ...]• Provenance [creation, subsequent treatment, ...]• ...

– Structural Metadata [internal structure of items: page order ...]

– Contextual Metadata• Project Context [funding programme, participating organisations …] • Publication Context [number of authors, external authors, first …]• Usage Context [downloads, requests, …] • ...

See also: JISC Report from April 2008 “Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions” by Richard Gartner http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw_0801pdf.pdf


Form

aliza

tion

= bas

ed on

a Mod

el

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw_0801pdf.pdf


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CERIF Model Structure

CERIF Entity Types

Core Entities Result Entities 2nd Level Entities Link Entities

CERIF Features

Multiple Language Semantics


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CERIF Formal Semantics

BookReview

BookChapter

BookChapter Abstract Inbook

BookChapter Review

Anthology Monograph ReferenceBook

Textbook

Encyclopedia

Otherbook

Journal

JournalArticle

JournalArticle Abstract

JournalArticle Review

ConferenceProceedings Article

Letter toEditor

PhD Thesis

Doctoral Thesis

Poster Presentation

BookManual

ConferenceProceedings Letter

Report

ShortCommunication

Commentary

Annotation

NewsClippingPublication

Types


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is author (numbered)

of

is author

of

isreviewer

of

is author (percentage)

of

is editor (numbered)

of

is editor

of

is subject

of

is translator

of

is publisher

of

Person_PublicationScheme


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number ofauthors

number ofincomingcitations

number of requests

number ofexternal institutes

number ofdownloads

number ofaccess

is ofpublication type

ISIImpact Factor

claimsIPRof

Publication_MetricsRoles

receivedBest Paper

Award

number ofself

citations

area/typeof research

number ofcitations


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What is the situation ?

Multiple proprietery Schemas / Formats / Applications / Services :

Publication Records: Dublin Core Marc Code Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL) Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) …

For Person Records: FOAF

For Audio/Video Files: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) …

Subject Headings: Ortelius Thesaurus MESH (Medical Subject Heading) …

DSpace Eprints Open Repositories … GoogleScholar CiteSeer …

LinkedIn Facebook, …

MySpace YouToube …

Wikipedia del.icio.us …


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What CRISs aim at

Data Silos

People

Organisations

Patents

Projects

Publications

FundingProgrammes

HumanResource

ManagementFinance

ProjectManagement

CERIF for Interoperability


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What CRISs aim at

Data Silos

People

Organisations

Patents

Projects

Publications

FundingProgrammes

HumanResource

ManagementFinance

ProjectManagement


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CERIF examples

http://www.ist-world.org/

Aim: investigate the thematic range of SSA projects in FP6

Thematic Areas (Blue Clouds):SEMANTICHEALTHLEGALCHANGINGROADMAPSOFTWARE

Projects (Red Dots)Linked with Full Record in Repository


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CERIF examples


Aim: investigate the thematic range of SSA projects in FP6

Goals

Themes


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CERIF examples


Aim: investigate the collaboration of SSA partners in FP6

Number of joint partners

Project


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What is CERIF ?


Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Funding

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

Currency


ResultProduct

ResultPublication



ResultPatent


Project


ProjectProject


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Active People

Active participation in current release (2008): Brigitte Jörg, (German Res Center for AI) TG Leader Keith G. Jeffery (UK Science and Techn Facilities Council) Geert van Grootel (Flemish Ministry) Anne Asserson (University Bergen) Henrik Rasmussen (atira A/S) Adrian Price (University Copenhagen) Thomas Vestam (atira A/S)

Active participation in past release (2006): Ojars Krast (uniCRIS AG) Edward Grabczewski (UK Science and Tech Facil Council)


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CERIF TG Activity

Regular CERIF TG meetings and Discussions Tests and major bugfixes before Releases Strong Relation to ongoing implementation activities

(Geert van Grootel, EWI, Flanders; atira A/S, Aalborg, Denmark)

Exchange with TG Best Practice (Sergey Parinov, CEMI-RAS, Moskow, Russia)

Collaborate with TG Institutional Repositories (IR-CERIF)(Ed J. Simons, Radbound University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Next Steps: Extension of Semantic Layer with Funding-related Content Check Tools for Managing the Semantics Mappings of major Schemas (Standards) Check OAI Wrapping CERIF Ontology


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CERIF 2008 – 1.0 Release

Model Introduction and Specification

Scripts for Most Common Databases

Data Exchange Format Specification

CERIF Semantics(for publication types and publication related roles)

CERIF 2008 - 1.0 XML Examples

XML Schema Files for the validation of XML Files




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for your attention !!!

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