http://www.eurocris.org
Danica Zendulková, EuroCRIS TG CRIS-IR leader
Otevřené repozitáře 2013
Brno, 30th May 2013
Slides reproduced from presentations by euroCRIS members:
Ed Simons, Brigitte Jörg, Anna Clements, Jan Dvořák, Barbara Ebert
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EuroCRIS, its visions, aims and activities
CRIS system
CERIF standards
EuroCRIS task group CRIS-IR
Interoperability example in SK CRIS
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euroCRIS is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to the development of quality CRISs
(Current Research Information Systems) enabling a wide-scale interoperability. euroCRIS is the
custodian of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF), an EU
Recommendation to the Member States.
WHY: Vision
Towards Open Access to all European Research Information.
WHAT: Mission
Towards research institutions’ capability for interoperation, euroCRIS is dedicated to the
development of a high-quality and scalable architecture to facilitate this.
HOW: Realisation
Distribute and develop further the CERIF data model and services for homogeneous access over
heterogeneous information sources in the European Research Area (ERA), with support of
euroCRIS and its members.
WHO: Utilisation
Research managers, evaluators, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, media, citizens.
Task groups:
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CERIF Task Group
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CRIS-IR Task Group
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Best Practice Task Group
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Projects Task Group
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CRIS Architecture and Development
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Linked Open Data Task Group
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Indicators Task Group
Activities:
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Members meetings twice per year: The purpose is to inspire the local communities that are
planning to use or are using a CRIS. An opportunity to talk inside the euroCRIS community.
Annual strategic seminar: The purpose is to discuss with strategic partners and to form
policies.
CRIS conferences (every second year): The purpose is to involve communities outside euroCRIS.
Task Group meetings as required: The Task Groups develop actively euroCRIS strategy and
offerings.
Board meetings four times per year: The Board steers the organization, both in the sense of
day-to-day management and governance, assesses and controls policy and monitors progress
of activities. The current Board of 12 persons is drawn from 9 European countries.
“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 data model describing objects of interest to R&D
• a tool or set of tools to manage the data
Current Research Information System ...
Current
Research Information
System
= CRIS
… driven by
… that means
… information about
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of current
interest
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not
necessarily
ongoing
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Researchers
Organisations (Researchperforming, Funding)
Funding Programmes,
Calls
Projects
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• Concepts
• Model
•Implementation
(Information System)
an integrated approach towards managing research information
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Information about :
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Researchers
Organisations (who Carry out, Fund, Publish, Commercialise, Benefit from: RESEARCH)
Funding Programmes & Calls
Projects (Proposed, Ongoing, Completed)
Publications, Patents, Data, Products
Impact (Indicators and Measures)
Facilities, Equipment, Services
Addresses, Geographic Bindings, Languages
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And their Relationships
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visibility, finding collaborations,
competitors, CV generation
Researchers
Decision Makers
Funding Organisations
performance,
strategic decisions,
priorities,
bench-,marking
Project Managers
distribution of programmes
evaluation of results, finding reviewers
overview of ongoing activities
Libraries
Research Organisations
integration and interoperability
strategic management
Research
Information
finding reviewers, editors
integration of relevant
findings into lectures
and training
finding research results of
potential market or innovative value
finding information
for participation in projects,
partnerships, usage of results
Publishers
Education
Intermediaries / Brokers
Enterprises
acquisition, dissemination
Media
General Public
information and education,
distribution and
interest
communication
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Common European Research Information
Format
Standard format for interchange of R&D
information
European Commision: CERIF recommendation
to the EU Member States
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Conceptual Level (Specification)
Concepts relevant for the research domain
and their relationships
Funding
Organisation
Person
Project
Service
Skills
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Logical Level (ER Model)
Entities and their relationships
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Physical Level (Database Scripts)
Data Definition commands for the database
Publication
Equipment
CV
Patent
Product
Classif ication
Semantics
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Event
SQL Script
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CREATE Table cfPers
Semantic Layer (Declared Semantics)
CREATE Table cfProj
A formalized controlled vocabulary describing aCREATE Table cfOrgUnit
general contextual semantics of the research domain
inline with the conceptual, logical and machine
description
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CERIF Entity Types
• Base Entities
• Result Entities
• Infrastructure Entities
• 2nd Level Entities
• Geographic Bounding Box
• Link Entities
CERIF Features
• Multiple Language
• Semantics
• Measures & Indicators
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1. CERIF provides an integrated data model for storing or exchanging defined kinds of research information
including projects, persons, organisations, funding, publications, patents, products, events, facilities, equipment
etc.
2. CERIF may be used to generate researcher CVs and bibliographies, to provide management reports of
research activities for funders or research performing institutions, to locate relevant research activities, facilities,
equipment or researchers, to stimulate innovation, to evaluate research, to discover potential reviewers.
3. CERIF is in use for research information management by an increasing number of national systems and many
individual research funding or performing organisations. There are several commercial companies offering
CERIF-compliant systems.
4. CERIF was developed by a group of nominated national experts and is an EU Recommendation to Member
States. CERIF is maintained, developed and promoted at the request of the European Commission by euroCRIS. It
is continually developed by a defined process involving euroCRIS members.
5. CERIF models the world of research information as a fullyconnected graph (not a restricted hierarchy). CERIF
has a formal syntax and declared semantics.
6. CERIF has the concept of base entities (e.g. Person) and dynamic link entities (e.g. Person-Publication). This
provides advantages in flexibility but also allows the relationship between entities to have associated role (e.g.
(first) author) and temporal information.
7. The link entities also allow instances in CERIF to be linked to instances in external systems such as full-text in
an institutional repository or research grant funding for a´project in an institutional finance system.
8. The semantics of values of attributes in base entities (e.g. valid country names) are defined.
9. The semantics of values of role in link entities (e.g. Person- Publication roles of author, editor, reviewer,
illustrator….) are defined.
10. Recent studies (2010) in the UK have demonstrated (a) CERIF is technically the best standard for research
information; (b) adoption of CERIF provides very substantial cost savings and improvements in effectiveness.
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Covering all aspects of research information (researchers,
projects, organisations, funding, input (f.t.e. and money),
output (publications, patents, other results...), equipment,
services, datasets the research is based on...).
An optimal (relational) architecture allowing to express any
kind of relation between entities/attributes with every
relation “time-stamped” and semantically defined.
Very fine-grained structure, allowing output of the
metadata to virtually any format (DC, Didl-Mods, Mark21,
etc...).
A separated “semantic layer” allowing the use of multiple
(any) controlled vocabularies (classifications, typologies) as
well as their cross-linking and mapping.
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Right level of abstraction
Normalized model
 Record data only once
 Reference rather than copy
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Versatile Semantic Layer
Time-based relationships
Clean design, regular structure
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How many articles has author X published in 2011 as a first author?
How many times have articles by author X been cited by the end of
the previous year?
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Did author X publish with institutionally external authors?
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In how many FP7 projects does/did organisation Z participate?
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How many women have been involved in FP7 projects?
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How many projects have been realised in 2010 in field A?
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How many articles have been published in field B?
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How many publications have resulted from project Y?
The CRIS-IR Task Group aims at furthering the science
and technology of the linkage between CRIS and
repositories and specifically open access institutional
repositories of publications, although data and software
repositories are also of interest. This involves working
on the architecture for linkage, the metadata and the
mechanisms. There are outstanding issues in these
areas concerned with syntax, semantics and software
processes. Technical work must be preceded by
communication and approximation of views between
two communities: CRIS and Repository managers and
specialists.
TG Leader: Danica Zendulková
danica.zendulkova@cvtisr.sk
Vision: relation between CRIS and Repository
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Cooperation between the CRIS and OAR
communities
Open access and IPR questions – recommendations for
institutional and national systems
Good practice: Use cases for interoperability
between CRIS and IR – put to the webpage
Technical aspects:
◦ Prepare model of integration interface (xml data
exchange, web services)
◦ Optimal set of metadata. Metadata conversion from/to
common used metadata format
◦ Using Authority file with persistent ID
End-User
CERIF
CRIS
Research Context
[projects, persons, organisational units
funding, products, patents, publications
facilities, equipment, events]
CERIF
Various
OAIPMH
protocols
OA Repository
(hypermedia) Documents
e-Research repository
Datasets and Software
OrgUnit M
member
Part of
employee
Person A
OrgUnit O
member
OrgUnit N
Project leader
Project P
author
Publication X
Part of
owns IPR
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At the 2nd CRIS & OAR Workshop, May 2011 Rome
Need to coordinate the developments in CRIS and OAR
High quality research information is critically important
to research institutions, research funders, policymakers
and society at large
Information on publicly-funded research should be
available, shareable and integrated seamlessly
http://www.eurocris.org/Documents/RomeDeclaration.pdf
Combine repository with CRIS
use metadata from CRIS
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Converis -integrated Research
Information Management with support
along the complete Research Life Cycle
Pure – integrated CRIS and repository
„two in one“
Symplectic – research management
information system used by universities
Surplus –CINECA
Universitas XXI OCU
Country
No of
applications
Austria
1
Belgium
3
Denmark
45
Finland
2
Germany
4
Italy
1
Netherland
1
Norway
1
Portugal
1
Sweden
2
United
Kingdom
43
euroCRIS Secretariat
Cor van Osnabruggelaan 61
2251 RE Voorschoten
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 6 53187431
Email: eurocris@eurocris.org
Website: www.eurocris.org
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Informačný systém výskumu, vývoja a inovácií
SK CRIS /od januára 2013
https://www.skcris.sk
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Projekty
Výskumníkov
Organizácie
Výsledky VaV (publikácie, patenty, produkty)
Modul pre zber dát a integračné rozhranie
Plnotextové aj rozšírené vyhľadávanie
Hypertextové prepojenie objektov
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je publikácia A výsledkom riešenia projektu?
aké publikácie vznikli v rámci projektu X?
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Z bibliografickej dtb CREPČ sa to nedozvieme...
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Ale:
nechceme údaje vkladať dvakrát
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Riešenie:
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CREPČ – Centrálny register publikačnej
činnosti (v súčasnosti dáta za univerzity; bez
úplných textov)