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CASRAI

CASRAI. Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information David Baker, Executive Director. The players. Research Teams (largely the data owners) Research Institutions Research Funders. The problems. Researcher time wasted Unnecessary duplication Data quality

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CASRAI

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  1. CASRAI • Consortia Advancing Standards in • Research Administration Information • David Baker, Executive Director

  2. The players • Research Teams (largely the data owners) • Research Institutions • Research Funders

  3. The problems • Researcher time wasted • Unnecessary duplication • Data quality • Data availability • Data silos

  4. The solution • Leading players agree on semantics and structure of data and publish specifications • Software and databases align to produce and consume data that is conformant to these specifications • Research teams maintain a single file on themselves and their activities and generate any reports from that file on demand

  5. Communities • Health Sciences • Natural Sciences • Engineering • Humanities • Social Sciences • Arts and Literature

  6. Focus • Document-centric (familiar concept for business stakeholders) • Write once, reuse anywhere • Person to org exchange centric but also facilitates org to org • Business-first focus • Implementation agnostic

  7. Conceptual Structures • Profiles • Documents • Packages

  8. Profiles • Complete history of an entity • Includes current state (which will become history) • Sections, Record-types, Fields, Lists • Technical labels, humans labels, semantic definitions, data structures, rules

  9. Documents • Template definition for a subset of a profile at a point in time • Meets the info needs of one step in a process • Can be validated separately

  10. Packages • Collections of documents • Culled from multiple, independently managed profiles

  11. Personnel Data • Describes people conducting research • Can generate: Academic CV, Funding CV, Community CV, Student CV, Faculty Annual Reports. • Includes: Contact, Education History, Employment History, Funding History, Contributions (services and outputs)

  12. Activity Data • Describe the research projects and programs conducted. • Can generate: Funding Applications, Compliance Reports, Financial and Progress Reports, Impact Reports. • Includes: Participants, Partners, Funding Received, Training of Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP), Impacts.

  13. Impact Data • Captures the direct and derived impacts of research activity on new outputs and outcomes and upon society • Inserts simple indicator elements into the Personnel and Activity data profiles • Distills all impact indicators down to common data sources (less duplication)

  14. Classification Taxonomy • An integrated taxonomy for classifying researchers and activities • Includes disciplines, subjects, and fields of application

  15. CASRAI Outputs • Conceptual data dictionary (business users) • XML data dictionary (technical users) • Lists update services • Version control • Test Suites

  16. dbaker@casrai.org Thank-you

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