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©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg

©University of St Andrews/Anna ClementsDCC RDMF Leicester May 2011

Anna Clements

Data Architect, University of St AndrewseuroCRIS member since 2006

Chair, Pure UK User Group

The emergence of research information systems and the management of research outputs

Current research information systems

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Agenda

• What is a CRIS?• A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS• CRIS at St Andrews• CERIF & CRIS in the UK

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What is a 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

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Who needs it and why?

o political decision-makers

o funding organisations

o research institutions

o individual researchers

o entrepreneurs and innovators

o media and general public

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The pain of RAE 2008

REF will require at least as much data collection by Universities

RAE/REF determines a third of research income in UK > £1.5 billion

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Agenda

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CERIF & euroCRIS

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CERIF & euroCRIS

• CERIF is an EU Recommendation to Member States http://cordis.europa.eu/cerif/

• The European Commission (EC) has authorised euroCRIS to maintain and develop CERIF and its usagehttp://www.eurocris.org/Index.php?page=CERIFr

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CERIF Entities

CERIF Entity Types

Core Entities

Result Entities

2nd Level Entities

Link Entities

CERIF Features

Multiple Language

Semantics

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CERIF entities

Citation

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Funding

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

Currency

LanguageEventMetrics

ResultProduct

ResultPublication

ResultPatent ResultProduct

ResultPublicationResultPublication

ResultPatent

Person OrganisationUnit

Project

PersonPerson OrganisationUnitOrganisationUnit

ProjectProject

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Linkages From CERIF

• CERIF does not only provide strong, role-typed, timestamped within-links

• But also provides the facility for strong, role-typed, timestamped outward-links

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Linkages From CERIF

• publication X full-text (or multimedia) is not stored within the CERIF data model but in an institutional repository or publisher’s online database. CERIF provides the direct linkage to the full text.

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CRIS + Repositories

CRISResearch Context

[projects, persons, organisational unitsfunding, products, patents, publications

facilities, equipment, events]

OA Repository(hypermedia) Documents

e-Research repositoryDatasets and Software

OAI-PMH

Various

protocols

End-User

CERIFCERIF

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Agenda

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Publications

Fed Out

ResearchInformation

System

REF, RCUKSFC, HESA

HEI – StrategicPlanning

Public, Media Recognition / Impact

Industry / SME’sInterface

CollaborationsResearch Pools

Pulled In

StudentRecords

Grants, Projects, KT

HumanResources

Finance

ManualInput

Entered

Web of Science, arXiv, PubMed…

Full TextRepository

Open Access

Bibtex, Refman

Uploaded

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CRIS timeline at St Andrews

Standalone ResExp db [non cerif]

Central Oracle db : web front-

Link to dSpace

RAE outputs selection & submission

PURE CERIF-CRIS [with Aberdeen]

20042004

20052005

20062006

20072007

20092009

20112011

20032003

20082008

20132013 REF submission

20102010

Research PortalLink to dSpace

Link to research

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Pure project model

Full text in IR

Data sets Data sets

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The team

Open Access

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Agenda

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CERIFThe use today .. and tomorrow ...

• Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands

• http://www.narcis.nl /

• And the UK ?• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/rim/

‘Universities rely on accurate and reliable research information to support strategic planning, manage the research process and improve reporting to external bodies such as funders.’

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Thank you!

akc@st-andrews.ac.uk

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research

www.ukoln.ac.uk/rim

www.eurocris.org

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