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University of St Andrews www. eurocris. org An Ideal CRIS? Anna Clements Data Architect, University of St Andrews euro. CRIS member since 2006 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Agenda • • • What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euro. CRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews. . Where is the IR? ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews 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 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews What is a CRIS? Current Research Information System = CRIS … information about … that means • Timeliness • Vitality • People + • Organisations + • Projects + • Funding Programmes + • Research Results + • … … driven by • A Concept • A Model … incorporated as a • Implementation (ICT) an integrated approach towards managing research information ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews What is a CRIS? Current Research Information System = CRIS Metad … that means • Timeliness • Vitality ing chang ips nsh relatio ata … information about heter ogen ous e • People + ntitie s • Organisations + • Projects + • Funding Programmes + • Research Results + tion a r g e t In • … … driven by RIF CE • A Concept • A Model … incorporated as a • Implementation (ICT) an integrated approach towards managing research information ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Agenda • • • What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euro. CRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews. . Where is the IR? ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Who needs it and why? o o o political decision-makers funding organisations research institutions individual researchers entrepreneurs and innovators media and general public ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Purpose at institution level • 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. ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews 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 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Example outputs from a CRIS Researcher CV Research Bibliography Reports to Funder Management information Commercial output report Equipment use ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Agenda • • • What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euro. CRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews. . Where is the IR? ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

CERIF & euro. CRIS University of St Andrews CERIF 2006 / 2008 Model Similar Ideas UN/UNESCO OECD CODATA Semantics 2 nd. Level EU Working Group on Research Databases Workshop Language CERIF 2000 Model Role s CERIF 91 PROJECT Acronym: ERGO Participant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many more Organisations: Rutherford Appleton, University of Bergen, … 1987 Link CORE EXPERTISE Org. Unit PERSON PROJECT RESULTS EQUIPMENT CLASSIFICATION - Networking of DBs - Exchange of Records - Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR) - Multilinguality - Controlled Vocabulary - Roles / Types - User-driven - Recommendation to Member States - EC Recommendation to Member States 1991 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements 2000 - 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 WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF & euro. CRIS • CERIF is an EU Recommendation to Member States http: //cordis. europa. eu/cerif/ • The European Commission (EC) has authorised euro. CRIS to maintain and develop CERIF and its usage http: //www. eurocris. org/cerif-releases/ ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF Entities CERIF Entity Types Core Entities Result Entities 2 nd Level Entities Link Entities CERIF Features Multiple Language Semantics ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Core Entities ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Result Entities ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF 2 nd level Entities Call Facility Equipment Grant Funding. Programme Expertise. And. Skills Service Qualification Electronic. Addresse Prize Postal. Address CV Country Citation Currency Metrics ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements Event Language WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF example Link Entities ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF Multi language features ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF Semantic features role=author 1 institute role=author role=deliverable 1. 2 role=CEO role=funder role=coordinator ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF Semantic features - more Person_Result. Publication Pers. ID role Publ. ID =au thor Classification. ID frac Classification. Scheme. ID tion Start. Date; End. Date CERIF Model Project_Result. Publication. Pers. I D role= origin Publ. ID ator Classification. ID frac tion Classification. Scheme. ID Start. Date; End. Date Project_Person Proj. ID role= Persl. ID coord inato Classification. ID r f r a Classification. Scheme. ID ction Start. Date; End. Date ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements Organisation. Unit_Result Publication role= auth Org. ID or 1 i nstitu Publ. ID te f ract Classification. ID ion Classification. Scheme. ID Start. Date; End. Date Project_Funding. Programme Proj. ID role=co-fu Fund. Prog. ID nder Classification. ID fraction Classification. Scheme. ID Start. Date; End. Date Person_Organisation. Unit Pers. ID role=a ffiliatio Org. ID n Classification. ID frac Classification. Scheme. ID tion Start. Date; End. Date Project_Organisation Proj. ID ro le=in vestig Org. ID ated. B Classification. ID y frac t i o Classification. Scheme. ID n Start. Date; End. Date WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Core Entities ERM ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Example questions v How many articles has author X published in 2007 as a first author? v How often have articles by author X been cited? v Did author X publish with institutionally external authors? v In how many FP 7 projects does organisation Z participate? v How many publications have resulted from project Y? v How many people have been employed in the course of FP 6 projects from the 1 st call in the NMS? v How many Ph. D students have participated in FP 6 projects? v How many women have been involved in FP 6 projects? v How often have articles in journal A been requested in 2007? v How many articles have been published in the field of B? v… ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews CERIF The use today. . and tomorrow. . . • Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland the Netherlands • And the UK ? • JISC/HEFCE ü EXRI recommendation http: //www. jisc. ac. uk/publications/briefingpapers/2010/bpexriv 1. aspx ü RMAS http: //as. exeter. ac. uk/rmas/index. htm ü RCUK ü RIM projects such as CRISPool and Enquire http: //www. jisc. ac. uk/whatwedo/projects/CRISpool. aspx http: //www. gla. ac. uk/enrich/ ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Agenda • • • What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euro. CRIS at St Andrews. . Where is the IR? ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews In the beginning … • Inhouse system from 2002 - non CERIF CRIS • Used for RAE • Linked to d. Space • Principles of good data management RAE was the driver ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

Publications Web of Science, ar. Xiv, Pub. Med… Grants, Projects, KT Finance ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ste rve Research Information System Linked Pulled In Full Text Repository Open Access Industry / SME’s Interface Ha ed Student Records Uploaded ter Human Resources d Bibtex, Refman En University of St Andrews Manual Input HEI – Strategic Planning Fed Out REF, RCUK SFC, HESA Public, Media Recognition / Impact Collaborations Research Pools WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews … what happened next - post RAE • CRIS rising up agenda • More functionality; better interoperability - inhouse or 3 rd 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 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

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University of St Andrews ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Agenda • • • What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euro. CRIS at St Andrews. . Where is the IR? ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews 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 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews 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. ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Result_Publication Instance Diagram member Org. Unit M Part of employee Person A Org. Unit O member Org. Unit N Project leader Project P author owns IPR Publication X ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements Part of repository WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

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University of St Andrews CRIS + Repositories 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 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements e-Research repository Datasets and Software WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews 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 ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010

University of St Andrews Thank you! Anna Clements akc@st-andrews. ac. uk eurocris. org Aalborg June 2 -5 www. cris 2010. org ©euro. CRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements WRN/ARMA May 2010