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Current Research Information Systems. Anna Clements Data Architect, University of St Andrews. Agenda. What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews. What is a CRIS?.
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Current Research Information Systems Anna Clements Data Architect, University of St Andrews
Agenda • What is a CRIS? • Who needs it and why? • A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS • CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews
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
What information could be in a CRIS? • Who could use a CRIS and for what purpose? 10 – 15 minutes brainstorm
CERIF Entities Facility Equipment Funding ExpertiseAndSkills Service Qualification ElectronicAddresse Prize PostalAddress CV Country Citation Currency Metrics Event Language
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
End-User CRIS Research Context [projects, persons, organisational units funding, products, patents, publications facilities, equipment, events] CERIF CERIF OA Repository Documents e-Research repository Datasets and Software OAI-PMH Variousprotocols CRIS + Repositories
Who needs it and why? • political decision-makers • funding organisations • research institutions • individual researchers • entrepreneurs and innovators • media and general public
Agenda • What is a CRIS? • Who needs it and why? • A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS • CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews
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 usage • http://www.eurocris.org
CERIF & euroCRIS CERIF 2006 / 2008 Model Similar Ideas UN/UNESCO OECD CODATA Link CORE Semantics Language 2ndLevel EU Working Group on Research Databases Workshop CERIF 2000 Model Roles EXPERTISE OrgUnit PERSON CERIF 91 PROJECT RESULTS EQUIPMENT PROJECT CLASSIFICATION Acronym: ERGO Participant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many more Organisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, … - Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR) • Model Normalization - Robust Structure - Extensible Structure - Consistent Structure - Semantic Layer • XML Exchange Specification- Elaboration on Publication • (Core) CERIF Semantics - Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR) - Multilinguality • Controlled Vocabulary • Roles / Types • User-driven • EC Recommendation to Member States - Networking of DBs • Exchange of Records • Recommendation to Member States 1987 1991 2000 2006 2008
CERIF The usetoday .. and tomorrow ... • Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands http://www.narcis.nl/ • And the UK ? • http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/research
Agenda • What is a CRIS? • Who needs it and why? • A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS • CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews
CRIS timeline at St Andrews REF submission 2013 Link to dSpace Research Portal 2011 PURE CERIF-CRIS [with Aberdeen] 2010 2009 Central Oracle db : web front-end 2008 2007 RAE outputs selection & submission Link to dSpace 2006 2005 Standalone ResExp db [non cerif] 2004 2003
Publications Web of Science, arXiv, PubMed… Manual Input Industry / SME’s Interface Human Resources Entered Harvested HEI – Strategic Planning Student Records REF, RCUK SFC, HESA Pulled In Grants, Projects, KT Public, Media Recognition / Impact Linked Finance Collaborations Research Pools Full Text Repository Open Access Bibtex, Refman Uploaded Research Information System Fed Out
The team Data REF Open Access
Demo • http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/