A new paradigm for the RI ecosystem
EuroCRIS Strategic Seminar, Brussels, 9-10 September 2013
Torulf Lind
CIO, Swedish Research Council
torulf.lind@vr.se
Some milestones in the Swedish
RI development
•
Jan 2002 Joint venture between funders and universities launch a national
research news portal, forskning.se. Broad target group (also outside of research
community)
•
Jan 2007 Joint venture between major universities launch Sweden ScienceNet, a
national project database based on Converis.
•
Nov 2009 The National Library launches SwePub, a national service for research
publications.
•
May 2010 Joint venture between the Swedish Research Council, Formas and Forte
(former FAS) to build a common grants management service; Prisma
•
Feb 2012 Ministry of Education and Research appoints the Swedish Research
Council to takeover Sweden ScienceNet. Service is renamed to SweCRIS
•
Dec 2012 Ministry of Education and Research assigns The National Library to, in
collaboration with the Swedish Research Council, improve quality in SwePub for
bibliometrical studies
Digital ecosystem - definition
A distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with
properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability
inspired from natural ecosystems1
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrogen_Cycle.svg
1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem
Role of the council in the RI
ecosystem
• National RI governance framework
– Guidelines and standards
– Governance model
– Architecture framework including metadata and
solution architecture
• Integrated national CRIS portal
• Coordination of national CRIS conference
• Contact point for international collaborations
Mapping the ecosystem to the
research cycle
The Swedish RI ecosystem – target view
Aktörer
Research
ideas
Process
Grants
management
Research
results
Research
intelligence
Research ethics
Research.se (forskning.se)
Researchers
CV database
Editorial/news
(forskning.se)
VR
forskning.se
R&D
Org. register
Calls
Link portal
Projects
(SweCRIS)
Publications
(SwePub)
For journalists
(Expertsvar)
Ethics
(Codex)
VR
forskning.se
VR
KB
forskning.se
VR/UU
Grants
(Prisma)
Projects
(TBD)
Publications
(DIVA)
Federated
services
National services
Portal
VR Forte Formas
Local services
Solution architecture
Research
projects
Information
architecture
Grants
Ansökningar
Ansökningar
(local)
(Prisma)
(Prisma)
Other
funders
ORCID
ORCID
CERIF
UU+
Projects
Projekt
Ansökningar
(local)
(lokala)
(Prisma)
Other
univ.
Publications
Publikationer
Ansökningar
(local)
(EKO
m.fl.)
(Prisma)
Other
univ.
OECD + SCB
CERIF
DOI
MODS
Övriga lärosäten
News
Projekt
Ansökningar
(local)
(EKO
m.fl.)
(Prisma)
Universities
Next step – quality RI Intelligence
Governance model RI ecosystem and national services
Service
Grants mgmt.
Prisma
Projects
SweCRIS
Tactical
level
Operational
level
Editorial/news
forskning.se
Ethics
Codex
Steering committee
(Director General VR, national system owners, SUHF)
Framework
governance
Strategic
level
Publications
SwePub
Steering
committee
Steering
committee
Steering
committee
Steering
committee
Steering
committee
VR
VR
KB
forskning.se
VR, UU
Group of experts
VR
User forum
VR
Group of
Experts
KB
It coordination
VR
Editorial office
forskning.se
Prisma – a federated
service for grants mgmt.
In Q4-2013 the Swedish Research
Council, Forte and Formas will launch a
federated grants management service
• Scalability Designed for an extension of the federation
• Adaptive Highly configurable for local call processes
• Distributed Integrations with publication databases, national
project database, local ECM and financial systems
• Self-organizing Natural incentives in self-service functions for
researchers, peer-reviewers and university administrators
• Sustainable Data reused in the ecosystem rather than duplicated
entries of CV:s, publication lists, organization data, etc.
• Open Public project information and open data standards such as
CERIF
Prisma - service overview
Prisma portal
Data sources
Administrator
(University)
Researcher
ORCID
PubMed
My pages
• Personal data
• CV
• Publications
Data exports
Review
Organization
• Extensive peerreview
functionality
• Admin internal
organization
• Contract signing
• Grants overview
Apply & Report
• Application
• Scientific and
financial
reporting
Local db:s
[BibTex]
SwePub
Grants mgmt.
• Form designer
• Grants mgmt.
• Reporting tool
Grants
administrator
SweCRIS
Enterprise service bus
Financial mgmt.
• Budget
• Reporting
Financial
controller
Swedish Research Council
Grants mgmt.
• Form designer
• Grants mgmt.
• Reporting tool
Financial mgmt.
• Budget
• Reporting
Grants
administrator
Financial
controller
Forte
Grants mgmt.
• Form designer
• Grants mgmt.
• Reporting tool
Financial mgmt.
• Budget
• Reporting
Grants
administrator
Formas
Financial
controller
Prisma - portal prototype
Prisma – next step
• Extend federation Process started with Karolinska Institute
(internal grants mgmt.), Swedish Environmental Protection
Agency, Vinnova, Ethical Review Board
• Contract API for export to university contract databases
• National CV database Turn the CV database in Prisma into
a national CV portal for researchers
• Open source Create an open source project of proprietary
parts?
• Electronic archiving Implementation of 3rd part archiving
module from Formpipe.
Conclusions
• A digital ecosystem approach catalyzes the
information ecology in the research
community
• A RI governance framework is a cost efficient
way to provide a foundation for quality RI
intelligence
• Federated system for grants management,
Prisma, launching in Q4-2013
Thank you!
Torulf Lind
CIO, Swedish Research Council
+46 (0)765 26 72 97
torulf.lind@vr.se