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© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 1Achievements & Experience of euroCRIS

Achievements and Experience of the

euroCRIS Organisation

Keith G Jeffery

President, euroCRIS

[email protected]

www.eurocris.org

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Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?SynthesisRole of euroCRIS


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CRIS : the hot topic

Europe should stimulate the development of a 'continuum' of accessible and interlinked scientific information from raw data to publications, within and across different communities and countries

http://ec.europa.eu/research/era. The public consultation will be open until 31 August 2007


CRIS : the hot topicEffective knowledge sharing. State-of-the-art knowledge is crucial for successful research in any scientific discipline. Reliable, affordable and permanent access to, and widespread dissemination of, scientific research results should therefore become defining principles for Europe's research landscape. The digital era has opened up numerous possibilities in this respect. Opportunities for progress can be seen, notably in the development of online libraries, repositories of scientific information and databases of publications and publicly funded research results. These should be integrated at European level and interlinked with similar databases in third countries. In particular, the system by which scientific information is published is pivotal for its validation and dissemination, and thus has a major impact on the excellence of European research.


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


CRIS Conference

The first conference on CRISs 1991– Bergen, Norway– Organised by Jostein Helland Hauge– Invited national experts as speakers

Subsequent conferences until 2000– organised with the EC

Conferences 2002 onwards– Organised by euroCRIS


euroCRISSeminars

euroCRIS founded formally in 2001 (informally since 1991)As well as

– Custodianship of CERIF– Best practice– The CRIS conferences– Community-building

Decided also to run strategic seminars

– 2003 onwards


CERIF: The Key

This allows not only construction of a new interoperation-ready CRISbut also wrapper-interoperation by generating CERIF from a legacy CRIS

The key to the CERIF datamodel isStructured (syntax)First order logic (semantics)

Legacy CRIS

wrapper

New CRIS


PROJECT

ORGUNIT

Skills

CV

GeneralFacility

ParticularEquipment

ContactResults

PublicationResultsPatentResultsProduct

Service

FundingProgramme

Event

ClassificationPrize/Award

PERSON


RESULT_PUBLICATION

PROJECT

ORGUNITPERSON

Result_Publication

Can Express:Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is author of) Publication XOrgunit O (DT1 - DT2) (is owner of IPR in) Publication XPerson A (DT1 - DT2) (is employee of ) Orgunit OPerson A (DT1 - DT2) (is project leader of) Project PPerson A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit MPerson A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit NOrgunit M (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit OOrgunit N (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit O


Result_PublicationInstance Diagram

Person A

Publication X

OrgUnit O

OrgUnit M

OrgUnit N

Project P

member

member

employee

Part of

Part of

owns IPR

author

Project leader


CERIFThe Advantages

Neutral ArchitectureData Model can be implemented:

– relational – object-oriented – information retrieval (including WWW)

Process model can be implemented– DBMS and query; centralised or distributed; – html web / harvesting / IR-query;– advanced knowledge-based technology

But interoperation requires structured schema


CERIFThe Advantages

CERIF 2006 separates cleanlysyntax (structure)semantics (meaning)

Have canonical model (allows data interoperation) for syntaxNow working on canonical model (allows information interoperation) for semantics


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Where are we now?CRISs

Standalone CRISs– Variety of kinds

• Structured relational system• Semi-structured / IR system• Html pages / WWW system

– Some based on or using CERIFInteroperating CRISs

– Homogeneous (all using same schema)• simple technology e.g. METIS

– Heterogeneous (different schemas)• Need data access and exchange schema standard• Only examples to date IDEAS and ERGO (CERIF)


Where are we now? Commercial CRISs

One commercial offering since late 1980s– COS (COS, USA)

• Based on person as entity • Semistructured CV-style data and IR system

Commercial offerings emerged recently– uniCRIS (uniCRIS AG, CH)– PURE (Atira, DK)– Fedora (Fedora, NL)– Avedas (Avedas, DE)

offerings – Are based on structured database with web user interfaces– appear to be significantly less expensive than developing a

stand-alone CRIS in-house

uniCRIS offers CERIF compatibility and interoperation


Where are we now? And Where Next?

The need: – The EC has declared

• the ERA (European Research Area)• The Lisbon Targets

The Opportunity– CRISs

• to record IP of an organisation• to encourage innovation, wealth creation, improved quality of life

– Interoperating CRISs • to support the ERA and Lisbon targets• especially to encourage cross-Europe innovation

Note projects CISTRANA and IST-World


Steps to Nirvana

The Perfect CRIS


The Solution is Required:

To overcome the ‘effort threshold’ to : – obtain the required answers from the CRIS– input and update the information in the CRIS– maintain data quality in the CRIS

Across – local stand-alone CRIS – heterogeneous distributed CRISs

Thus achieving ‘nirvana’


The R&D Process

Workprogramme

Proposal

Project

Results

Exploitation

WealthCreation

Note:

some CRIS developers limit recording of outputs from the process to areas indicated

Nir

van

a


Complete Process ICT Support

Nirvana is – a complete, – integrated, – end-to-end ICT support – for the research process – across heterogeneous distributed CRISs


The Key: Metadata and Data Exchange Standards

Nirvana is– Formal metadata (machine understandable)– Query: Metadata describing CRIS resources to

improve queries– Answer: Metadata attached to Query result

files (data exchange) so the receiving CRIS or user can understand the output


The GRIDs Architecture

Knowledge Layer

Information Layer

Computation / Data LayerDat

a to

Kno

wle

dge

Control


Workflow on the GRIDs Surface

Nirvana is– GRIDs ‘surface’

• Providing computation, information presentation and information management

– Plus Self* resilience– Plus capabilities to support workflow– In a SOA (service-oriented architecture)– SOKU (service-oriented knowledge utility)


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Overall : The Way Forward

SCIENTIFIC DATASETS

Data

Information

Knowledge

PUBLICATIONS

Data

Information

Knowledge

CRIS

Management of Research


PUBLICATIONS

Data

Information

Knowledge


Digital Curation Facility

SCIENTIFIC DATASETS

Data

Information

Knowledge

CRIS

Management of ResearchCDR

(CERIF)

Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface




SCIENTIFIC DATASETS

Data

Information

Knowledge

PUBLICATIONS

Data

Information

Knowledge metadata





SCIENTIFIC DATASETS

Data

Information

Knowledge

PUBLICATIONS

Data

Information

Knowledge metadata

publish

validate





SCIENTIFIC DATASETS

Data

Information

Knowledge

PUBLICATIONS

Data

Information

Knowledge metadata

publish

validate

GRIDs


Ambient, Pervasive Access





SCIENTIFIC DATASETS

Data

Information

Knowledge

PUBLICATIONS

Data

Information

Knowledge metadata

publish

validate

GRIDs



Three Steps to Nirvana

Complete Process ICT Support

Metadata and Data Exchange Standards

Workflow on the GRIDs Surface

The Perfect CRIS


Agenda

Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?Role of euroCRIS


euroCRISThe Role

It is the role of euroCRIS to:– Promote and improve communication and

interaction between global CRIS;– Maintain and publish the CERIF (Common

European Research Information Format) recommendation and any standards endorsed by euroCRIS;

– Organize and run the CRIS series of conferences with associated workshops and other events;


euroCRISThe Role

– Provide a source of expertise in CRIS to members and to others under business arrangements made at the time;

– Develop euroCRIS guidelines;– Nurture the CRIS community by events, a

newsletter, an online discussion forum and other appropriate mechanisms;

– Provide a forum for exploring and exploiting new and emerging concepts and technologies (including data quality, standards, etc.);

– Establish a one-stop portal / gateway to international CRIS resources. (eurocris charter)

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