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EKT activities - Current Research Information Systems

EKT activities - Current Research Information Systems. Dr Nikos Houssos National Documentation Centre (EKT) / National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) ‏. Agenda. About the National Documentation Centre (EKT) EKT and CRIS systems. EKT activities and role. Established in 1980

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EKT activities - Current Research Information Systems

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  1. EKT activities - Current Research Information Systems Dr Nikos Houssos National Documentation Centre (EKT) / National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)‏

  2. Agenda • About the National Documentation Centre (EKT) • EKT and CRIS systems

  3. EKT activities and role • Established in 1980 • Part of National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) - oldest research centre in Greece • Development of research e-infrastructures • Services for libraries • Repositories / Digital Libraries • Electronic publishing • Digitisation services • Open access advocate

  4. EKT and Open Access • NHRF was the first Greek to sign the Berlin Declaration of Open Access • A portal for promotion of Open Access in Greece • openaccess.gr • Repositories • National doctoral theses archive (phdtheses.ekt.gr) • 13,000+ theses on line, 3.500.000 pages in total • Both born digital and digitized material • NHRF institutional repository (helios-eie.ekt.gr) • Retroactive ingest of material since NHRF establishment • Thematic repository of Humanities content (pandektis.ekt.gr) • Electronic publishing • Five e-journals in the Humanities

  5. EKT activities • Services for libraries: • ABEKT – a library automation software – more than 2.000 installations in Greece. • National archive for variety of DBs and all research journals – both in print and electronic ones. • Union catalogues of journals that Greek Academic Libraries subscribe, municipal libraries etc. • Digitization services for cultural and scientific content • Services for the academic/research and business community: • International cooperation, Enterprise Europe Network, National Contact Point for FP7, research metrics extraction

  6. National Documentation Centre – CRIS related activities • Has been building CRIS since 1996 • Examples of systems: • Greek research groups database • Database of research projects with participation of Greek organisations • NISNEST database – researchers and organisations from Eastern Europe • Database of Greek Women in Research

  7. Greek Research Groups Database • Attempt to create a register of all greek research groups/labs in universities and research institutes • Data collected by a survey research company • Numbers: 8500 researchers, 1400 organisations, 4000 publications • In pilot operation (greek-only http://www.ekt.gr/grcris)‏ • Built on the CERIF database schema • Implementation technology: Java EE

  8. Research Projects with Greek Participation • Information about R & D projects with greek participation. • Data collected from project databases: • CORDIS • National bodies • Built on the CERIF database schema - individual schemas mapped to CERIF • In operation (greek-only, http://services.ekt.gr:8080/portal/dt)‏ • Implementation technology: Java EE

  9. NISNEST database – researchers and organisations from Eastern Europe • Part of the NISNEST project - aims to strengthen the cooperation between the EU Member States and the Eastern European countries in the areas of frontier and high risk research • Mainly data from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova • Data collection methods: • Self-submission by researchers • Information extracted from event registration forms • Numbers: ~600 researchers and ~170 organisations • In operation (http://researchers.nisnest.gr)‏ • CERIF-based database schema with certain additions. • Basic faceted browsing functionality • Implementation technology: Ruby on Rails

  10. Mapping of Greek Women in Research • Creation of a register of greek women researchers. • Data solicited from universities and research centres • Additional data collected through questionnaires completed directly by researchers • Numbers: More than 3000 researchers, 80 organisations • System not public (contractual requirement)‏

  11. CERIF-based CRIS – experiences and issues • Model is quite complete – mapping from arbitrary schemas to CERIF without significant loss of information • CERIF-XML very useful for CERIF compatibility, mainly of smaller systems • Open source platform?

  12. Plans for the future • NHRF CRIS – integration with institutional repository and web site • Integration of nation-wide CRIS with National Archive of Doctoral Dissertations • Adoption/development of a common CRIS platform for use by Greek organisations • Use of CERIF in research evaluation systems • Further integration of advanced tools • Data cleaning (e.g., duplicate detection, authority file generation) • Schema matching • Visualization / faceted browsing / mash-ups

  13. Important issues for now and the future (1)‏ • Efficient data collection • Automated ingest/update from available sources (e.g., people, publications, organisations, projects)‏ • Need to ensure availability of sources (e.g., CORDIS, national sources)‏ • Value added services • Faceted browsing • Advanced visualisation • Mashups based on CRIS data • Data quality • Data cleaning (e.g., de-duplication)‏

  14. Important issues for now and the future (2)‏ • Interoperability among CRIS • Harvesting of CRIS data • Cross-CRIS search, browsing • Interoperation with institutional repositories • CRIS role in the implementation of research assessment systems • Semantic web technologies

  15. More info • nhoussos AT ekt.gr

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