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A research information system as a research planning & evaluation tool: Recent developments in Denmark

Adrian Price

Faculty of LIFE Sciences LibraryFaculty of Life SciencesUniversity of Copenhagen

CRIS2008, Maribor, June 7th, 2008

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Introduction & Background

The PURE system

”National” metadata format

Data! Data! Data!

Benchmarking is in

PURE cooperation & future development

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Introduction

• Move from research communication to research communication & research documentation

• Research communication: Universities & researchers required to be accessible

• Research documentation: Planning, benchmarking

• From fluffy data to strict data

• A new infrastructure needed: Universities for once came first!

-From organized chaos to standardization

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Background for the new era

• In 2004 4 universities applied & got a grant from DEFF – Denmark’s Electronic Research Library

• …to implement PURE from software company Atira A/S

• PURE a CRISystem, in DK quite often synonymous with institutional repositories

• PURE now in use by 6 universities & their faculties

• Foundation for a new era: Co-operation between universities and preempted by CRIS/PURE cooperation

PURE cooperation well in place by the time universities were merging.

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The PURE system

• The PURE i-pository: a commercial, modular system which

•…collects, documents, preserves the research activities of a research institution

• Content types: publications, projects, activities, areas of expertise, press releases

•”…infrastructural modules”…to maintain, monitor and document…the system and its content

•Researchers and their organizations: the backbone of any CRISystem

Let’s take a closer look at PURE!

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Overview…the PURE system

External systems/functions

Research contenttypes

Administrationmodules/functions

Student projects

PublicationsProjectsActivitiesExpert databaseBibliometrics

Project registrationStudy areas

PersonsOrganizationsUser administrationSystem configurationReport generator

OAI-PMHZ39.50PubMed importImport/export (of publications)

PURE

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A “national” metadata format

• Research documentation: necessary for this is strict metadata quality & a way of documenting it

• Controlled metadata, no free text!

• Standardized metadata for all universities i.e. use of same publication types

• Tight control of authors/researchers & their organisations

• Workflow & validation to ensure data quality

“Oh dear, sloppy metadata always gives problems.”

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A “national” metadata format

• Common format for all “PURE universities”

• A complete workover by the initial PURE implementers

• Agreed on by all & all changes must be co-ordinated

• Format covers all content types: publications, projects, activities, bibliometrics, student projects

• Publication types Top level: Research, Communication, Education, Commissioned

• Lowest level over 100 specific types (very traditional)

The Faculty of Life Sciences Library

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