Current Research Information Systems in Greece
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Current Research Information Systems in Greece
Dr Nikos Houssos
National Documentation Centre (EKT) /
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
Dr Nikos Houssos
/ National Documentation Centre (EKT)
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
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Agenda
• About the National Documentation Centre • CRIS systems in Greece• Important issues for CRIS development
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NDC activities and role
• Part of National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) - oldest research centre in Greece
• Research and technology content and services:– National doctoral theses archive
• 13,000+ theses on line, 3.500.000 pages in total• Both born digital and digitized material
– National archive for variety of DBs and all research journals – both in print and electronic ones.
– Union catalogues of journals that Greek Academic Libraries subscribe, municipal libraries etc.
– Digitization services for cultural and scientific content– Development of CRIS - research results dissemination
• Services for the academic/research community: – International cooperation, Enterprise Europe Network, National
Contact Point for FP7, research metrics extraction
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National Documentation Centre – CRIS related activities
• Has been building CERIF-compliant CRIS since 2002• Since early 2007 runs a funded project related mainly to open access
infrastructures– Institutional repository of NHRF– 5 open access journals
• A part of the project concerns enhancements on existing CRIS• Funding for developing open access systems and CRIS is
(practically) secured for at least two more years, beginning 2009
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Greek Research Groups Database
• Attempt to create a register of all greek research groups/labs in universities and research institutes
• Data collected by a survey research company• Numbers: 8500 researchers, 1400 organisations, 4000 publications• In pilot operation (greek-only http://www.ekt.gr/grcris)• Built on the CERIF database schema• Implementation technology: Java EE
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Research Projects with Greek Participation
• Information about R & D projects with greek participation.• Data collected from project databases:
– CORDIS
– National bodies• Built on the CERIF database schema - individual schemas mapped to
CERIF • In operation (greek-only, http://services.ekt.gr:8080/portal/dt)• Implementation technology: Java EE
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NISNEST database – researchers and organisations from Eastern Europe
• Part of the NISNEST project - aims to strengthen the cooperation between the EU Member States and the Eastern European countries in the areas of frontier and high risk research
• Mainly data from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova• Data collection methods:
– Self-submission by researchers
– Information extracted from event registration forms• Numbers: ~600 researchers and ~170 organisations• In operation (http://researchers.nisnest.gr)• CERIF-based database schema with certain additions.• Basic faceted browsing functionality• Implementation technology: Ruby on Rails
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Database of researchers and organisations in humanistic studies and natural sciences
• Part of the efforts to promote open access journals • Researchers and organisations from all over the world• Data collected from various sources in the Internet• Numbers: ~1400 researchers and ~150 organisations• In operation (http://resorgs.ekt.gr)• Non-CERIF database schema, can be mapped to CERIF
XML.• Basic faceted browsing functionality in development• Implementation technology: Ruby on Rails
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Mapping of Greek Women in Research
• Creation of a register of greek women researchers.• Data solicited from universities and research centres • Additional data collected through questionnaires completed
directly by researchers• Numbers: More than 3000 researchers, 80 organisations• System not public (contractual requirement)
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Experiences with CERIF
• Model is quite complete – mapping from arbitrary schemas to CERIF without significant loss of information
• Needed to extend the CERIF schema in some cases
• Interoperability at the database schema level – in some case not the best choice – Example: flexibility of Ruby on Rails not utilised
• Support for other databases desirable– MySQL, PostGreSQL
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Important issues for now and the future (1)
• Efficient data collection– Automated ingest/update from available sources (e.g., people,
publications, organisations, projects)
– Need to ensure availability of sources (e.g., CORDIS, national sources)
• Enhance user experience– Faceted browsing
– Advanced visualisation
– Mashups based on CRIS data
• Data quality – Data cleaning (e.g., de-duplication)
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Important issues for now and the future (2)
• Interoperability among CRIS– Harvesting of CRIS data– Cross-CRIS search, browsing
• Interoperation with institutional repositories• CRIS role in the implementation of research assessment
systems• Semantic web technologies
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More info
nhoussos AT ekt.gr