Anna Clements Data Architect, University of St Andrews

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©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg

UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011

Anna Clements

Data Architect, University of St Andrews

Current Research Information Systems

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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

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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 information could be in a CRIS?

• Who could use a CRIS and for what purpose?

10 – 15 minutes brainstorm

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CERIF Entities

Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Funding

Service

ElectronicAddresse

PostalAddress

Country

Currency

LanguageEventMetrics

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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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CRIS + Repositories

CRISResearch Context

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

facilities, equipment, events]

OA Repository Documents

e-Research repositoryDatasets and Software

OAI-PMH

Variousprotocols

End-User

CERIFCERIF

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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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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

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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 The use today .. and tomorrow ...

• Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands http://www.narcis.nl/

• And the UK ?• http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/research

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Agenda


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CRIS timeline at St Andrews

Standalone ResExp db [non cerif]

Central Oracle db : web front-

end

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

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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…

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Full Text

Repository

Open Access

Linked

Bibtex, Refman

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The team

REF

Open Access

Data

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Demo

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Anna Clements Data Architect, University of St Andrews

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