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Anna Clements
Data Architect, University of St Andrews
Current Research Information Systems
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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
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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 information could be in a CRIS?
• Who could use a CRIS and for what purpose?
10 – 15 minutes brainstorm
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CERIF Entities
Citation
CV
Prize
Qualification
ExpertiseAndSkills
Equipment Facility
Funding
Service
ElectronicAddresse
PostalAddress
Country
Currency
LanguageEventMetrics
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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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CRIS + Repositories
CRISResearch Context
[projects, persons, organisational unitsfunding, products, patents, publications
facilities, equipment, events]
OA Repository Documents
e-Research repositoryDatasets and Software
OAI-PMH
Variousprotocols
End-User
CERIFCERIF
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Who needs it and why?
o political decision-makerso funding organisationso research institutionso individual researcherso entrepreneurs and innovatorso media and general public
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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
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CERIF & euroCRIS
• 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 usagehttp://www.eurocris.org
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CERIF & euroCRIS
EU Working Group
on Research DatabasesWorkshop
1987 1991
CERIF CERIF 9191
PROJECT
Similar IdeasUN/UNESCOOECDCODATA
Acronym: ERGOParticipant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many moreOrganisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, …
Acronym: ERGOParticipant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many moreOrganisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, …
2000
CLASSIFICATIONCLASSIFICATION
RESULTSRESULTS EQUIPMENTEQUIPMENT
PROJECTPROJECT
OrgUnitOrgUnit PERSONPERSON
EXPERTISERoleRoles s
CERIF 2000 CERIF 2000 ModelModel
- Networking of DBs- Exchange of Records
- Recommendation to Member States
- Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR)- Multilinguality- Controlled Vocabulary- Roles / Types- User-driven
- EC Recommendation to Member States
ProjectProject OrganisationOrganisation
Service
Funding Programme
Patent
Skills
CV
Product
Event
PersonPerson
Classification(Semantics)
Classification(Semantics)
PublicationEquipment
2ndLevel
CORE
LanguageSemantics
Link
CERIF 2006 / CERIF 2006 / 2008 2008 ModelModel
- Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR)- Model Normalization - Robust Structure - Extensible Structure - Consistent Structure - Semantic Layer - XML Exchange Specification- Elaboration on Publication- (Core) CERIF Semantics
2006 2008
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CERIF The use today .. and tomorrow ...
• Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands http://www.narcis.nl/
• And the UK ?• http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/research
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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
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CRIS timeline at St Andrews
Standalone ResExp db [non cerif]
Central Oracle db : web front-
end
Link to dSpace
RAE outputs selection & submission
PURE CERIF-CRIS [with Aberdeen]
20042004
20052005
20062006
20072007
20092009
20112011
20032003
20082008
20132013 REF submission
20102010
Research PortalLink to dSpace
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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
Linked
Bibtex, Refman
Up
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The team
REF
Open Access
Data
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Demo
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/