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euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure

Keith G Jeffery

President, euroCRIS

keith.g.jeffery@.rl.ac.uk

www.eurocris.org

Premium

Members

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Agenda

Introduction – speakerRole of euroCRIS CRISStrategic Seminarse-Infrastructure

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Agenda

Introduction – speakerRole of euroCRIS CRISStrategic Seminarse-Infrastructure

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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;

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

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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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euroCRISAlmost 300 membersWork in Task GroupsBiannual Members’ meetings Annual Strategic Seminar

With our strategic partners

Biennial Conference

Partners

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Agenda

Introduction – speakerRole of euroCRIS CRISStrategic Seminarse-Infrastructure

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CRIS Provides

Organisational units

Persons

Projects

Funding

PublicationsProductsPatents

FacilitiesEquipment

Events

A ‘map’ of research activity

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PROJECT

ORGUNIT

Skills

CV

GeneralFacility

ParticularEquipment

ContactResults

PublicationResultsPatentResultsProduct

Service

FundingProgramme

Event

ClassificationPrize/Award

PERSON

CERIF

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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

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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

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Interlinking

Have demonstrated:1. Interlinking of CERIF CRIS2. Interlinking of CERIF-CRIS with a

repository of documents3. Interlinking of CERIF-CRIS with a

research data /software repositoryThis provides a complete contextual information resource for the organisation locally, nationally and internationally

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Why is this Important?

Management Information for decision-making on research priorities

e.g. by funding organisations or research institutionsManagement Information on research performance

e.g. by research institution based on information on person, organisational unit, facility…

Information to complete automatically many proformas

eg research project proposalManagement information for Innovation

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And more….

CERIF-CRIS can be linked to other systems

E.g. finance, HR, project management, CRM….

So becoming the corporate central system for an organisation

Relating together all the information and acting as a ‘bridge’ across all the different systems

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CERIF-CRIS : Enhancing and

Enabling

CRIS

FinanceHuman

Resources

Project Management

Publications

Patents

Products

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And even more…

And can be used to control workflow Access

acting as the central data repository the organisation’s core information about itself and

its customers / suppliers / competitorsThe centre for control of access to information and

e-facilities within and outside the organisation

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The R&D Process: Recording

Workprogramme

Proposal

Project

Results

Exploitation

WealthCreation

CRISDATABASE

Information from external systems and CRIS

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Agenda

Introduction – speakerRole of euroCRIS CRISStrategic Seminarse-Infrastructure

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Strategic Seminars

2003: Driving the ERA Forward by Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges - The Need for Integration over European Current Research Information Systems

2004: CRIS + Open Access = The Route to Research Knowledge on the GRID - Information exchange through institutional archives and the European Research Area (ERA)

2005: The Research Information System and the Research Process in a GRIDs Environment

2006: CRIS - The strategic tool for supporting innovation

2007: CRIS and European e-infrastructure - enabling European research

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2003

Driving the ERA Forward by Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges - The Need for Integration over European Current Research Information Systems

2006 taken up by euroHORCs and being managed by ESF

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2004CRIS + Open Access = The Route to Research Knowledge on the GRID - Information exchange through institutional archives and the European Research Area (ERA)

OA taken up widely; various declarationsSome funding agencies mandating OA2004-2006 CRIS and OA repositories linked2006 Stevan Harnad recommends CRIS as a way to increase completeness and usability of publication repositories2006 CRIS used to measure publication output as one parameter of Higher Education Research Funding

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2005The Research Information System and the Research Process in a GRIDs Environment

Importance of hiding complexity from end-user yet providing service anyhow, anytime, anywhereCRIS as part of the workbench of researcher, research manager, innovator…Linking of publication and research dataset repositories via CRIS (context)2005-2006 Prototypes working

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2006CRIS - The strategic tool for supporting innovation

Use of CRIS to identify ideas for innovationIssues of intellectual property and protection – recorded / managed within CRISUse of CRIS to measure innovation for strategic decision-makingThis topic becoming high on government agendas!

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And now…2007CRIS and European e-infrastructure - enabling European research

ESFRI Roadmap publishedResearch infrastructures produce research outputs (products, patents, publications) that should be identified and contextualised by CRISe-infrastructure must include a ‘map’ of research activity supplied by CRISCRIS can be used as the access, interoperation, assessment and management tool

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Agenda

Introduction – speakerRole of euroCRIS CRISStrategic Seminarse-Infrastructure

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e-Infrastructure

network

Data &

Compute

servers

Detector

arrays

middleware

applications

Access control / UI / accounting

users

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CRIS & e-Infrastructure

network

Data &

Compute

servers

Detector

arrays

middleware

applications

CRIS

Access control / UI / accounting

users

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This Seminar

e-infrastructure requirements (government, funders, research infrastructures)e-infrastructure information resources (publications, datasets, software)Integrated e-Infrastructure (GRIDs)Knowledge e-infrastructure (community and research cycle)Integrating information in e-InfrastructureDiscussion