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©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery Plenary Membership Meeting 20050711 1

Plenary Membership Meeting

Keith G Jeffery

President, euroCRIS

[email protected]

www.eurocris.org


Members

• This is your chance to • Hear reports on euroCRIS activity

– You heard already the Task Group reports– Now it is general euroCRIS Board issues

• influence euroCRIS – By discussing, stating your opinion, persuading

the Board to a line of action– As well as your active participation in

appropriate Task Groups


Topics 1

• Secretariat (Harrie Lalieu)– Membership, elections 2006 Board, newsflashes

• Treasurer (Geert van Grootel)– Accounts status, audit, budget 2005,2006, membership

fees invoicing

• Strategic Issues (Keith Jeffery)– Strategic partners

– Subscription structure

– Re-involvement of the EC


Topics 2

• euroCRIS Strategy (Neil Jacobs)• Task Group Decisions

– Conferences Wolfgang Adamczak – Projects Neil Jacobs– CERIF Geert van Grootel– External Relations Anne Asserson

• Members Meetings (Harrie Lalieu)Dates for 2006, 2007 and possible places

• CRIS2006 Conference 11-13 May 2006(Wolfgang Adamczak & Anne Asserson)

• Any Other Business


Secretariat

• Membership issues– Steady increase; mechanisms to increase

• Elections Result: 2006 Board– President: Keith Jeffery– Secretary: Harrie Lalieu– Treasurer: Geert van Grootel– Confererences: Wolfgang Adamczak– Projects: Neil Jacobs– CERIF: Eddie Grabczewski– External Comms: Anne Asserson


Treasurer

• Accounts status

• audit

• budget 2005,2006

• membership fees invoicing


Strategic Issues

– Strategic partners• EARMA

• ALLEA

• ESF

• ERCIM

• ICSU/CODATA

– Subscription structure• Board to determine rate for commercial members (e-vote

result)

– Re-involvement of the EC• Opening discussions jointly with ESF and euroHORCs


euroCRIS Strategy: aims

a) Promote and improve communication and interaction between global CRIS;

b) Maintain and publish the CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) recommendation and any standards endorsed by euroCRIS;

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

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

e) Develop euroCRIS guidelines; f) Nurture the CRIS community by events, a monthly newsletter, an

online discussion forum and other appropriate mechanisms; g) Provide a forum for exploring and exploiting new and emerging

concepts and technologies (including data quality, standards, etc.);

h) Establish a one-stop portal / gateway to international CRIS resources.


euroCRIS Strategy: State1

Here is the current situation for euroCRIS, with reference to the organisation’s aims:CERIF/BEST PRACTICE (a) Promote and improve communication and interaction between global CRIS• Increased adoption of CERIF during 2005 has been facilitated by the progress of

uniCRIS, a commercial company marketing a CERIF-compliant product. The uniCRIS product underpins the new CERIF-compliant CRIS implemented by the Flemish Research Database IWETO. The relationship between euroCRIS and uniCRIS is still under discussion, but is likely to be defined by a revised euroCRIS membership structure. Other commercial products exist that deploy CERIF, and bespoke systems have also been built. Active discussion has taken place within the Board and wider membership on the extent to which euroCRIS should promote and improve communication and interaction between global CRIS exclusively by reference to CERIF.

(b) Maintain and publish the CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) recommendation and any standards endorsed by euroCRIS

• The latest release remains CERIF 2004 Full Data Model Release 1.1, available from the euroCRIS website. This is available in a variety of expressions including RDF and OWL, thanks to the work of the IST-World project and, in particular, Brigitte Jörg.

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CERIF / BEST PRACTICE (continued)(d) Provide a source of expertise in CRIS to members and to others under business

arrangements made at the time• The euroCRIS email list is available for sharing advice and expertise among members, but is

lightly used. The euroCRIS email lists are now hosted at Bergen rather than by Yahoo.(e) Develop euroCRIS guidelines• The euroCRIS code of good practice remains available.

CONFERENCE(c) Organize and run the CRIS series of conferences with associated workshops and other

events• The Spring 2006 conference will be held in Bergen, and arrangements are ongoing for this.

This will be evaluated by the Board. The September 2005 seminar took place in Brussels, and will be evaluated by the Board at the next opportunity. A CERIF tutorial is forming one part of the Autumn 2005 members’ meeting in Lisbon.

EXTERNAL RELATIONS(f) Nurture the CRIS community by events, a monthly newsletter, an online discussion forum

and other appropriate mechanisms• The euroCRIS community has come together in Estonia in Spring 2005, and will convene

again in Lisbon in Autumn 2005, with the Brazilian CRIS community.• The “Newsflash” has disseminated CRIS news effectively.


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PROJECTS(g) Provide a forum for exploring and exploiting new

and emerging concepts and technologies• The various projects in which euroCRIS members are

involved have explored and exploited new concepts and technologies, including RDF and OWL expressions of CERIF via IST-World. CISTRANA remains active.

(h) Establish a one-stop portal / gateway to international CRIS resources

• The euroCRIS website has served as a portal for CRIS resources, but changes within its host organization now mean that new arrangements need to be made to ensure continuity.


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euroCRIS Strategy: 2006 Plan1

In consideration of the above, the euroCRIS strategy (objectives) for 2006 under each aim is as follows.

CERIF/BEST PRACTICE(a) Promote and improve communication and interaction between global

CRIS by:i. Seeking actively new models and techniques to improve communication and

interaction between global CRIS. Meantime, support and develop CERIF. ii. Identifying, documenting and pursuing ways in which euroCRIS can legitimately

support the efforts of commercial and non-commercial organizations in broadening the implementation base for CERIF.

iii. Identifying and pursuing ways to publicise the technical benefits of CERIF among development communities.

iv. Identifying and pursuing ways to publicise the commercial and social benefits of CERIF among commercial, institutional and political communities.

v. Reviewing the Lisbon CERIF tutorial, assessing demand, and planning accordingly


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(b) Maintain and publish the CERIF recommendation and any standards endorsed by euroCRIS, by:

i. Ensuring continuity within the CERIF Task Groupii. Reviewing and, if necessary, revising the CERIF change management, release

and maintenance procedures, to ensure that they continue to meet high standards of transparency and quality.

(d) Provide a source of expertise in CRIS to members and to others under business arrangements made at the time, by:

i. Documenting the procedures and conditions under which non-members of euroCRIS may seek guidance from the organization.

ii. Reviewing and, if necessary, improving the static documentation and dynamic forums through which members may access CRIS expertise within the organization.

(e) Develop euroCRIS guidelines, by:i. Reflecting the outcome from (a)i.ii. Maintaining up-to-date guidance on implementing CERIF in bespoke systems.iii. Maintaining up-to-date guidance on procuring CERIF-compliant products.iv. Reviewing and, if necessary, updating other aspects of the best practice

guidelines as appropriate.


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CONFERENCE(c) Organize and run the CRIS series of conferences with associated workshops and

other events, by:i. Running the 2006 conference in Bergen, ensuring the proceedings are published, and

evaluating the conference to inform future events.EXTERNAL RELATIONS(f) Nurture the CRIS community by events, a monthly newsletter, an online discussion

forum and other appropriate mechanisms, by:i. Holding Spring and Autumn members’ meetings.ii. Continuing to publish the Newsflash, and encouraging members to use it to inform the

community of developmentsiii. Reviewing the 2005 Brussels seminar and deciding what form this should take in future

years.PROJECTS(g) Provide a forum for exploring and exploiting new and emerging concepts and

technologies (including data quality, standards, etc.), by:i. Developing an inventory of technologies and concepts of interest to membersii. Using (g)i, (a)i, and other information to draft a roadmap for interoperable CRIS.iii. Using the above, plus a review of CRIS domains represented within euroCRIS, to identify

relevant EU calls, as information about these becomes available, in order to excite interest among members in putting collaborative bids together.


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• … and especially

• Establish a one-stop portal / gateway to international CRIS resources, by:– Identifying and securing a permanent

organizational and technical host for the euroCRIS website.


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Task Group Discussions

• Conferences

• Projects

• CERIF

• External Relations


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Conferences

• No further decisions / actions


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Projects

• Barriers to Participation and possible solutions• Substantive topics

– Tools for national implementations of CERIF

– European CRIS portal

– E-doctoral theses

– Information retrieval topics

– Integrating CERIF with OAI

– Working with LATTES


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CERIF

• Reviewed website – positively• Procedure

– 1. change ‘changes’ to ‘changes / additions’

– 7. change ‘publish’ to ‘publish full CERIF datamodel with version number and date’

• Completing the documentation– RDF/XML

– OWL

possible project with OAI community


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External Relations

• Seminar– Keep as is or more interactive

– PR activity or technical?

• Website– Hosting problem

– Change to update / change

– Agreed by vote to proposal ‘board to explore if possible to move towards a CERIF-database-driven, content-managed, website’


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Future Members’ Meetings

• 20060510 (Wed) Bergen, Norway– Day before CRIS2006 Conference

• 20061109-10 (Thu-Fri) ?Copenhagen, Denmark?

• 20070510-11 (Thu-Fri) ?Ireland?• 20071108-09 (Thu-Fri) ?Switzerland?

• Volunteers to organise?


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CRIS2006

• 20060511-13 (Thu-Sat)

• Bergen, Norway

• SAS Hotel, Bryggen


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CRIS2006 Programme

• PROCESS– Management of the research process: CRISs and workflow management viewed

from different perspectives (the researcher desktop, the research administrator in a re search institution (academic or commercial), funding agency or government depart ment) and covering the research process through proposal, funding, execution, deliv ery of outputs and on to innova tion and exploitation

• INTERACTION– Interoperation of systems and people, interaction of CRIS users with systems,

integra tion of different CRIS-related inputs, portals and information access (including Open Access), data warehouse construction, new support paradigms such as GRIDs

• EVALUATION– CRISs as evaluation tools, use of a data warehouse, measurement of research out

puts, quality assessment, novel methods for peer review of proposals and publica tions, identification of strategic future R&D topics

• ARCHIVES– CRISs providing intelligent contextual access to repositories of pub li ca tions,

patents, products, primary datasets and associated management of curation with legalistic, media and metadata aspects


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CRIS2006 Programme

• Papers in plenary sessions• Workshops• Poster sessions and presentations as part of an exhibit• Paper proposals should be approximately 3 pages in length

and include a 10-line summary (abstract).• The call closes on November 14, 2005 (28th?)• For further information on how to make a proposal, as well

as details about CRIS2006 and the location of the conference, please consult the conference's web site at:

• http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/


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CRIS2006 Organisation

• Accommodation reserved in hotel

• Meeting rooms reserved in hotel

• Social programme arranged


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CRIS068th CRIS conference, Bergen, May

2006


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Suggested title

”Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic

League"

11-13 May 2006, Bergen


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Why & When

• 15 years since the first CRIS conference

• 11. May to Saturday 13. May 2006

• Raddisson SAS Hotel at Bryggen


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Bergen seen from Fløyen

SAS hotell


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Bergen Harbour

Fløyen

Bryggen


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Raddisson SAS Hotel Bryggen

Conference price:

• Pr night in single room NOK 895 /€106

• Pr night in double NOK 545/€65

• Indoor swimming pool, weight-training facilities and a relaxing sauna and


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Reception Wednesday 10th May

• Bryggen Museum


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Dinner, Thursday 11 May

Fløyen


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Dinner Friday 12th May

• SAS Hotel, Bryggen– (conference hotel)


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How to reach Bergen?

– Direct• Amsterdam, KLM

• London Gatwick and Stansted

• Most flights via Copenhagen or Oslo

• Brussels, KLM, Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia,…

• Flights approx. from 1500 - 2500NOK (over the weekend)

www.sasbraathens.no


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Activities for accompanying person

• Sightseeing at Bryggen and Haakonshallen ending with lunch on Traktørstedet

• Visit to Troldhaugen and the Stave Church

• Tour of the local Art galleries

• Visit to Håkonshallen

• Aquarium

• Sightseeing in Old Bergen, open air museum

• Norway in a Nutshell– Train to Voss, with local train to Flåm

– Boat to Gudvangen

– Return to Bergen by bus or boat


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Troldhaugen, Edvard Griegs Home


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Local Art Galleries


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Local Art Gallery, China Collection


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Fedje


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Norway in a Nutshell


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Any Other Business


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And remember

• Keep up-to-date with euroCRIS activities by checking regularly

• www.eurocris.org

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