assessment and improvement of a corporate research information system maria castriotta (*), daniela...
TRANSCRIPT
Assessment and improvement of a corporate research information system
Maria Castriotta (*), Daniela Luzi (**), Mariarosaria Manco (***)
(*) ISPESL – Department of Documentation, Information and Training, Rome, Italy
(**) CNR – National Institute of Population Research and Social Policies, Rome, Italy
(***) LINK s.r.l, Rome, Italy
Index Objectives Methodology
Brief overview of the Research Information System in Occupational Safety and Health (RisOSH)
System design and developmentSystem components
Analysis of RisOSH information content Results of assessment activities Discussion and conclusion
Objectives of the assessment Analysis of RisOSH information content
Qualitative as well as quantitative Verifying the efficacy of the developed
functionalities
Improving the communication flow of the information producers in order to increase the number and quality of project results collection
Identifying best practices for the direct involvement of researches as well as of the top management
Methodology Analysis of RisOSH data until February 2007 Contacting ISPESL’s scientific referees Analysis of the answers Analysis of the number of project descriptions and
related project results Analysis of the content quality of project results,
in particular: Descriptions of Results (i.e. Grey information) Availability of Deliverables (i.e. Grey Literature) Descriptions of Products (i.e. Grey information) Publications produced during the project
Major aim of RisOSH• Developing a CRIS giving particular emphasis on the diffusion of research results• Building part of the institutional repository focused on research activities funded to external organisations
Requirements Solutions
• Facilitate the collection of projects and project results
Distributed input by the identified information producers using workflow technology
• Interoperability with other CRISs CERIF2000 database schema
• Integration with in-house already developed systems
• Interoperability with other ISs on Occupational Safety OSHA Thesaurus
• Promotion of the technological transfer
NACE Classification
Direct link to GL Database
Actual updating of RisOSH Central input of project descriptions:
Back-office
RationaleProject aims
Project assignees
Project duration
Budget
ClassificationResults
Consultation of RisOSH
How to participate
Access for internal usersSearch options:• Browsing of NACE/ATECO and OSHA codes• Simple textual search• Guided search Electronic template
collecting project results
Electronic template collecting research results
The project assignees provide: Abstract in Italian and English of the project results
Bibliographic information on the deliverable and possible full-text downloading Description of products
Bibliographic description of publications
Results of the assessment
122
37
121
32
133
49
168
7463
17
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
1999/2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Number of funded projects Number of project results sent
RisOSH data until February 2007 distributed by year of project funded and description of project results
Project results descriptions today
RisOSH project descriptions in November 2007 distributed by year of project funding
42,6
31,4
44,448,8
60,3
0,0
10,0
20,0
30,0
40,0
50,0
60,0
70,0
% of projects
1999/2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Project result descriptions
Information on available full-text, publications, products and patents
17,311,5
3,8
42,1
7,95,3
42,4
3,4 5,1
74,4
19,524,4
89,5
34,2
42,1
5,3
0,0
10,0
20,0
30,0
40,0
50,0
60,0
70,0
80,0
90,0
100,0
1999/2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Full text Publications Products Patents
Conclusions
Communication flow with project assignees is improving quantitatively and qualitatively:Autonomous sending of research resultsGood quality of the project result descriptions Increasing tendency to downloading the full text Increasing number of descriptions of productsReporting of bibliographic references of publications
Improvements Promotion of a more active participation of internal project referees Foster a greater commitment of the top management Integration of RisOSH with future information systems