A new paradigm for the RI ecosystemEuroCRIS Strategic Seminar, Brussels, 9-10 September 2013

Torulf LindCIO, Swedish Research Counciltorulf.lind@vr.se

Some milestones in the Swedish RI development

• Jan 2002 Joint venture between funders and universities launch a national research news portal, forskning.se. Broad target group (also outside of research community)

• Jan 2007 Joint venture between major universities launch Sweden ScienceNet, a national project database based on Converis.

• Nov 2009 The National Library launches SwePub, a national service for research publications.

• May 2010 Joint venture between the Swedish Research Council, Formas and Forte (former FAS) to build a common grants management service; Prisma

• Feb 2012 Ministry of Education and Research appoints the Swedish Research Council to takeover Sweden ScienceNet. Service is renamed to SweCRIS

• Dec 2012 Ministry of Education and Research assigns The National Library to, in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council, improve quality in SwePub for bibliometrical studies

Digital ecosystem - definition

A distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability inspired from natural ecosystems1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem1

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrogen_Cycle.svg

Role of the council in the RI ecosystem

• National RI governance framework – Guidelines and standards– Governance model– Architecture framework including metadata and

solution architecture

• Integrated national CRIS portal• Coordination of national CRIS conference • Contact point for international collaborations

Mapping the ecosystem to the research cycle

Research idea

Grants management

Research project

Research results

Research intelligence

Solu

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Informationarchitecture

Portal

ProcessAktörer

The Swedish RI ecosystem – target view

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Ansökningar(Prisma)

Ansökningar(Prisma)

Ansökningar(Prisma)

Ansökningar(Prisma)

Projekt(lokala)

Övriga lärosäten

Projekt(EKO m.fl.)

News(local)

Universities

Ansökningar(Prisma)

Grants(local)

Other funders

Projects(local)

Other univ.

Publikationer(EKO m.fl.)

Publications(local)

Other univ.

Publications(DIVA)

UU+

Projects(TBD)

Grants(Prisma)

VR Forte Formas

Research ideas

Grants management

Research projects

Research results

Research intelligence

Research ethics

Ethics(Codex)VR/UU

Editorial/news(forskning.se)

forskning.se

Publications (SwePub)

KB

CallsLink portalforskning.se

R&DOrg. register

VR

ResearchersCV database

VR

Projects(SweCRIS)

VR

Research.se (forskning.se)

For journalists(Expertsvar)forskning.se

ORCID OECD + SCBCERIF

DOIMODS

ORCIDCERIF

Next step – quality RI Intelligence

Business Intelligence

platform

Tactical level

Operationallevel

Strategiclevel

Service

Frameworkgovernance

Publications SwePub

EthicsCodex

Grants mgmt. Prisma

Projects SweCRIS

Steering committee

VR

Group of expertsVR

Editorial/news forskning.se

It coordinationVR

Editorial officeforskning.se

Steering committee(Director General VR, national system owners, SUHF)

User forumVR

Governance model RI ecosystem and national services

Group of Experts

KB

Steering committee

VR

Steering committee

KB

Steering committeeforskning.se

Steering committee

VR, UU

Prisma – a federated service for grants mgmt.

In Q4-2013 the Swedish Research Council, Forte and Formas will launch a federated grants management service• Scalability Designed for an extension of the federation• Adaptive Highly configurable for local call processes• Distributed Integrations with publication databases, national project

database, local ECM and financial systems• Self-organizing Natural incentives in self-service functions for

researchers, peer-reviewers and university administrators• Sustainable Data reused in the ecosystem rather than duplicated

entries of CV:s, publication lists, organization data, etc.• Open Public project information and open data standards such as CERIF

Data exportsData sources Prisma portal

Swedish Research Council

Prisma - service overview

Researcher

My pages• Personal data• CV• Publications

Apply & Report• Application• Scientific and

financial reporting

Review• Extensive peer-

review functionality

Organization• Admin internal

organization• Contract signing• Grants overview

Administrator (University)

Grants mgmt.• Form designer• Grants mgmt.• Reporting tool

Financial mgmt.• Budget • Reporting

Grantsadministrator

Financialcontroller

SwePub

ORCID

PubMed

[BibTex]

Forte

Grants mgmt.• Form designer• Grants mgmt.• Reporting tool

Financial mgmt.• Budget • Reporting

Grantsadministrator

Financialcontroller

Formas

Grants mgmt.• Form designer• Grants mgmt.• Reporting tool

Financial mgmt.• Budget • Reporting

Grantsadministrator

Financialcontroller

SweCRISEnterprise service bus

Local db:s

Prisma - portal prototype

Prisma – next step

• Extend federation Process started with Karolinska Institute (internal grants mgmt.), Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Vinnova, Ethical Review Board

• Contract API for export to university contract databases• National CV database Turn the CV database in Prisma into

a national CV portal for researchers• Open source Create an open source project of proprietary

parts?• Electronic archiving Implementation of 3rd part archiving

module from Formpipe.

Conclusions

• A digital ecosystem approach catalyzes the information ecology in the research community

• A RI governance framework is a cost efficient way to provide a foundation for quality RI intelligence

• Federated system for grants management, Prisma, launching in Q4-2013

Thank you! Torulf LindCIO, Swedish Research Council+46 (0)765 26 72 97torulf.lind@vr.se