Knowledge Exchange Initiative

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability Project

Ed SimonsRadboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands

Knowledge Exchange

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

Resulted from a Knowledge Exchange Workshops meeting in January 2007 at SURF, Utrecht.

More specifically as a follow-up activity of the conclusive report of the workshop “Exchanging Research Information” (Matthias Razum, Ed Simons, Wolfram Horstmann, Institutional Repositories Workshop Strand Report; Strand title:

Exchanging Research Information, Utrecht, February 2007).

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

The Knowledge Exchange collaboration between DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURF has initiated this project to increase the practical interoperability between CRIS ( Current Research Information Systems) and OAR (Open Access Repositories) systems by defining and proposing a

metadata exchange format for publication information with an associated common vocabulary

– and thus contributing to:

Making metadata input more efficient Avoiding or reducing duplicated inputs on the two platforms Increasing metadata quality, reliability and reusability Increasing quality level of services based on these metadata Reducing costs of metadata handling and exchange.

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

Tasks TaskA : Document and compare current practices of (selected) OAR and

CRIS TaskB : Define/propose exchange format syntax TaskC : Define/propose common exchange vocabulary TaskD : Stipulate best practice recommendations TaskE : Project management TaskF : Dissemination and workshop

Deliverables ReportOne: Report on CRIS and OAR metadata requirements ReportTwo : Report on Metadata definition for CRIS/OAR interoperability ReportThree : Report on Common vocabularies for CRIS/OAR

interoperability ReportFour : Report on best practices for use of project outcome

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability projectStep 1: writing out the metadata in various formats

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

METIS

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability projectStep 2: comparing the various format’s metadata

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability projectStep 2: comparing the various format’s metadata

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability projectStep 2: comparing the various format’s metadata

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability projectStep 2: comparing the various format’s metadata

CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability projectStep 3: defining a common metadata vocabulary

In Progress at the moment.

I have proposed to use the CERIF-XML vocabulary.

First proposal will on the table of next meeting 4th of June 2009.

Project’s WIKI: https://infoshare.dtv.dk/twiki/bin/view/KeCrisOar/