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An Ideal CRIS?

Anna Clements

Data Architect, University of St AndrewseuroCRIS member since 2006

www.eurocris.org

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Agenda

• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS• CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?

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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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What is a CRIS?

Current Research Information System = CRIS

… information about

• People +• Organisations +• Projects +• Funding Programmes +• Research Results +• …

… that means

• Timeliness• Vitality

… driven by

• A Concept• A Model … incorporated as a

• Implementation (ICT)

an integrated approach towards managing research information

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What is a CRIS?

Current Research Information System = CRIS

… information about

• People +• Organisations +• Projects +• Funding Programmes +• Research Results +• …

… that means

• Timeliness• Vitality

… driven by

• A Concept• A Model … incorporated as a

• Implementation (ICT)

an integrated approach towards managing research information

changing

relationships

heterogenous entities

Metadata

Integration

CERIF

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Who needs it and why?

o political decision-makerso funding organisationso research institutionso individual researcherso entrepreneurs and innovatorso media and general public

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• a tool for policy making• evaluation of research

based on outputs • document the research

activities • document research

output• a formal log of

research in progress• to assist project

planning.

Purpose at institution level

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Purpose for individual researchers

• to evaluate opportunities for research funding

• avoid duplication of research activity

• analyse research trends, locally, regionally and internationally

• references/links to full text• locate new contacts/networks • identify new markets for

products of research

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Example outputs from a CRIS

Researcher CV

Researcher CV

Research Bibliography

Research Bibliography Commercial

output report

Management information

Management information

Reports to Funder

Equipment use

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CERIF & euroCRIS

EU Working Group

on Research DatabasesWorkshop

1987 1991

CERIF CERIF 9191

PROJECT

Similar IdeasUN/UNESCOOECDCODATA

Acronym: ERGOParticipant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many moreOrganisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, …

Acronym: ERGOParticipant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many moreOrganisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, …

2000

CLASSIFICATIONCLASSIFICATION

RESULTSRESULTS EQUIPMENTEQUIPMENT

PROJECTPROJECT

OrgUnitOrgUnit PERSONPERSON

EXPERTISERoleRoles s

CERIF 2000 CERIF 2000 ModelModel

- Networking of DBs- Exchange of Records

- Recommendation to Member States

- Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR)- Multilinguality- Controlled Vocabulary- Roles / Types- User-driven

- EC Recommendation to Member States

ProjectProject OrganisationOrganisation

Service

Funding Programme

Patent

Skills

CV

Product

Event

PersonPerson

Classification(Semantics)

Classification(Semantics)

PublicationEquipment

2ndLevel

CORE

LanguageSemantics

Link

CERIF 2006 / CERIF 2006 / 2008 2008 ModelModel

- Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR)- Model Normalization - Robust Structure - Extensible Structure - Consistent Structure - Semantic Layer - XML Exchange Specification- Elaboration on Publication- (Core) CERIF Semantics

2006 2008

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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/cerif/cerif-releases/

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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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Core Entities

Person OrganisationUnit

Project

PersonPerson OrganisationUnitOrganisationUnit

ProjectProject

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Result Entities

ResultProduct

ResultPublication

ResultPatent ResultProduct

ResultPublicationResultPublication

ResultPatent

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CERIF 2nd level Entities

Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

FundingProgramme

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

Currency

LanguageEventMetrics

ResultProduct

ResultPublication



ResultPatent


Project


ProjectProject

Call

Grant

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CERIF example Link Entities

Person

OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication

Person_ResultPublication

Person_Project

OrganisationUnit_ResultPublication

Project_ResultPublication

Project_OrganisationUnit

Person_OrganisationUnitPersonPerson

OrganisationUnitOrganisationUnit

ProjectProject



Person_Project




Person_OrganisationUnit

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CERIF Multi language features


Project

ResultProduct

ResultPublication

ResultPatent

Title Subtitle Abstract Keywords

Keywords

Keywords

Keywords

KeywordsKeywords

Title

NameResearchActivity

ResearchInterest

Name

Descr

Abstract

TitleAbstract


Project


ProjectProject

ResultProduct

ResultPublication



ResultPatent

Title Subtitle Abstract Keywords

Keywords

Keywords

Keywords

KeywordsKeywords

Title

NameResearchActivity

ResearchInterest

Name

Descr

Abstract

TitleAbstract

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CERIF Semantic features

Person

OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication


Person_Project






ProjectProject



Person_Project





role=author

role=coordinator

role=CEO

role=deliverable1.2

role=author1 institute

role=funder

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CERIF Semantic features - more

Person_ResultPublicationPersIDPublIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

Project_PersonProjIDPerslIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

OrganisationUnit_Result PublicationOrgIDPublIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

Project_ResultPublicationPersIDPublIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

Project_OrganisationProjIDOrgIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

Person_OrganisationUnitPersIDOrgIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

Project_FundingProgrammeProjIDFundProgIDClassificationIDClassificationSchemeIDStartDate; EndDate

Person

OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication


Person_Project






ProjectProject



Person_Project





role=author

role=coordinator

role=CEO

role=deliverable1.2


role=funder

Person

OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication


Person_Project






ProjectProject



Person_Project




Person_OrganisationUnitPerson

OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication


Person_Project






ProjectProject



Person_Project





role=author

role=coordinator

role=CEO

role=deliverable1.2


role=funder

role=author

role=originator

role=coordinator

role=affiliation


role=co-funder

role=investigatedBy

CERIF Model

fraction

fraction

fraction

fraction

fraction

fraction

fraction

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Core Entities ERM

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Example questions

How many articles has author X published in 2007 as a first author?

How often have articles by author X been cited? Did author X publish with institutionally external authors? In how many FP7 projects does organisation Z participate? How many publications have resulted from project Y? How many people have been employed in the course of

FP6 projects from the 1st call in the NMS? How many PhD students have participated in FP6 projects? How many women have been involved in FP6 projects? How often have articles in journal A been requested in 2007? How many articles have been published in the field of B? …

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CERIF The use today .. and

tomorrow ...• Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland and

the Netherlands • And the UK ?• JISC/HEFCE

EXRI recommendation http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2010/bpexriv1.aspx

RMAS http://as.exeter.ac.uk/rmas/index.htm RCUK RIM projects such as CRISPool and Enquire

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/projects/CRISpool.aspxhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/enrich/

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• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS• CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?

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In the beginning …

• Inhouse system from 2002 - non CERIF CRIS

• Used for RAE• Linked to dSpace• Principles of good data management

RAE was the driver

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Publications

Fed Out

Research

Information

System

REF, RCUK

SFC, HESA

HEI – Strategic

Planning

Public, Media Recognition / Impact

Industry / SME’s

Interface

Collaborations

Research Pools

Pulled In

Student

Records

Grants,

Projects, KT

Human

Resources

Finance

Manual

Input

Entered

Web of Science,

arXiv, PubMed…

Har

vest

ed

Full Text

Repository

Open Access

Lin

ked

Bibtex, Refman

Up

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… what happened next - post RAE

• CRIS rising up agenda• More functionality; better interoperability - inhouse or

3rd party?• Requirements similar across sector • .. So why go alone? Why reinvent the wheel across

the sector?• Joint project to tender and implement with Aberdeen

University for CERIF-CRIS

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• What is a CRIS?• Who needs it and why?• A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS• CRIS at St Andrews• .. Where is the IR?

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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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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

repository

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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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IR is not disappearing

• It is being put into context• Expertise and advocacy still required• … but an IR linked to a CRIS is greater

than the sum of the two parts• … and will make your life easier

New driver : funder mandates

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Thank you!

Anna [email protected]

eurocris.org

Aalborg June 2-5www.cris2010.org