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CRIS + Repositories: Setting the Scene

www.eurocris.org. CRIS + Repositories: Setting the Scene. Keith G Jeffery President euroCRIS. Structure. Introduction Requirement Technologies Architectures Purpose. Introduction: Speaker. Director International Relations Previously Director IT

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CRIS + Repositories: Setting the Scene

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  1. www.eurocris.org CRIS + Repositories: Setting the Scene Keith G Jeffery President euroCRIS

  2. Structure • Introduction • Requirement • Technologies • Architectures • Purpose

  3. Introduction: Speaker • Director International Relations • Previously Director IT • 360000 users, 1100 servers, 8 Pb data / year, 140 staff • CRIS – CERIF • e-Science • Open access

  4. Introduction: euroCRIS • Purpose • Not for profit organisation registered in Netherlands • Mandated by EC to maintain, develop, promote CERIF • Independent advice and expertise • Constituency • Members in all continents except Africa and Antarctica • Strategic partners: ALLEA, ICSU/CODATA, EARMA, ESF, APA, JISC, ERCIM, CASRAI (and strong links to EC) • Success • CERIF now nationally approved standard in 8 countries and widely used in many more • 4 commercial companies offer CERIF-compliant CRIS systems • 2 more developing CERIF-compliant versions of their offerings

  5. The Requirement • Research managers • Evaluation • Comparison • Strategic management • Finding reviewers • Researchers • Access to research information including scholarly publications) • Publicity (webpages, CV, bibliography) • Semi-automated research proposals, publications, evaluation • Cooperation (integrated with intercommunication) • Innovators • Knowledge and technology transfer • leading to wealth-creation and improvement in the quality of life • Public • Usually via the media

  6. Institution Books Information of Interest Project Person / CV Publisher Event Research Group Patent Journal/article Equipment

  7. The Technologies • CRIS • Emerged 1960s from research management world • Early systems ‘catalog card’ like (flat metadata) • 1990s to now formal syntax and declared semantics (CERIF) in fully connected graph model of (meta)data • Cover all aspects of research information • Usually do not cover scholarly publication objects (but do cover the metadata) • Used for management queries retrieving groups of instances for further processing • Repositories • Emerged 1990s from publication world (ArXiv, CogPrints) • Based on ‘catalog card concept’ (often DC) plus full text (multimedia) – ‘flat’ metadata model and objects • Cover scholarly publications (and sometimes datasets etc) • Used for access to individual instances

  8. Funding Programme Organisation Organisation Person Person Project Project Service Skills Publication Equipment CV Patent Classification Classification Product ( ( ) ) Semantics Semantics Event CERIF-CRIS CommonEuropeanResearchInformationFormat

  9. Funding Programme Organisation Organisation Person Person Project Project Service Skills Publication Equipment CV Patent Classification Classification Product ( ( ) ) Semantics Semantics Event REPOSITORY Full-text or multimedia scholarly publication As author As address bibliographic

  10. The Architectures: Intent The intent of the architectures is • To meet the requirements defined previously for • Research managers • Researchers • Innovatators • Public (via media) • By providing storage for and access to • Research information (meta)data • Full text / multimedia scholarly publications • Research datasets / software • Including interoperation • across systems of research funding and research performing organisations

  11. Architectures: Models • CRIS alone • Integrated holistic solution including full text/multimedia objects and research datasets • Repository alone • ‘catalog card’ metadata plus scholarly publication full text/multimedia objects • CRIS + Repository • CRIS provides research contextual information • Repository provides full text/hypermedia objects • BUT where does the metadata for the publication reside? • euroCRIS recommends: in the CERIF-CRIS to link up with the contextual information

  12. Architectures: Variants • CRIS + filestore(s) • for full text/multimedia and datasets/software • Metadata in the CRIS, objects in the filestore • Repository extended metadata with CRIS elements • Extended metadata in the repository • objects in the repository

  13. Architecture: Recommended CERIF CRIS (meta)data Repository of objects (full-text / multimedia) Metadata for one publication within context of projects, organisation, person etc One publication full text / multimedia Note: metadata in the CERIF-CRIS to have it in context for management decision-making and researcher enhanced information

  14. Purpose of Seminar • To amplify descriptions / characterisations of • Requirements • Technologies • Architectures • To discuss optimal architecture(s) to meet requirements • To map out a way forward to obtain best offerings for the research community

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