Strategy / External Relations

Athens, 10th May 2009

Anne Asserson

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Key issues of the euroCRIS strategic plan

1. Promotion of CERIF

2. Increased membership

3. Website

4. Strategic partners

5. OA community to move from DC to CERIF

6. EU funded project to demonstrate capability

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1. Promotion of CERIF

• Companies that are already CERIF compatible– uniCRIS– Atira– Avedas

• Moving towards CERIF– E-prints– Symplectic

• Improving CERIF – CERIF 2008 includes improved result output, eg. Publication and

imporved seminatics on linking semantics– Funding

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2. Increased membership

• New individual members 2009– 7 personal – 8 institutional

• Total – Institutional members 69– 14 affiliate

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3. Website

• Website is succesfully tranferred and rescued by GESIS• Planning new changes • Plans to make more info visible

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4. Cooperation with strategic partners– ICSU/Codata conference in Kiev. As outcome an

invitation to edit a special issue of Data Science Journal, DSJ, based on the presentations

– Grey Net (Grey Litterature) conferences; Paper each year, much interest for CERIF as metadata

– ERCIM/DIS (Data and Information Spaces) Ercim Working Group, Keith presentation at workshop

– JISC lot of work going on in UK to link funding organisations to Universities using CERIF-CRIS

– ESF Keith meetings on CERIF, Brigitte also– ALLEA Harrie has been in contact, new secretary– EARMA workshops in the past, not much now– EU invited to seminars

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Annual Strategic Seminarseptember, Brussels

“Recording research”

“The background is that both nationally and

internationally there is a lot of informationFrom research activities, but it isfragmented, varies in quality/structure andis not easy to get at.”

7th euroCRIS Strategic Seminar,September 14-15, 2008

Hotel Errera, Koningsstraat/Rue Royale14,Brussels

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• Session 1: What is/should be recorded ? (Researcher workbench, automated recording of research proposals, project systems, outputs)

• Session 2: Who does/should record it? (Librarians, researchers themselves, research managers (or all)?

• Session 3: How should it be recorded?(Digitally, incrementally, workflow)

• Session 4: Once recorded, how is it used, by whom, for what purpose?

• Session 6: How is it protected? (security, privacy) • Session 7: How is it curated/preserved for future generations ?

“Recording research”

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euroCRIS road show

Kiev One full day at the CODATA conference

CRISs for European e-Infrastucture

Session 1: Structure and use of a CRIS, the Common European Research Information Format Model (CERIF)

Session 2: CRIS and the European e-Infrastucture, Enabling European research

Invited to edit a special issue of Data Science Journal

Next euroCRIS road show?

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5. Persuade OA community to move from DC metadata to CERIF

• CERIF-CRIS and repository is one of our core activity The major current thrust of euroCRIS activity is the relationship between the CERIF metadata and the Institutional Repositories (IR) in a wider context of an e-infrastructure supporting research.

• Penetrate the Open Access community and ensure OA is seen within the wider CRIS contextA future e-infrastructure the OA need formal metadata and the CERIF-CRIS is the proper start/way to go forward.

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6. EC

• EC funded project to demonstrate capability • EC funding will give euroCRIS

– recognition of CERIF and euroCRIS– resources to further develop CERIF in a CRIS

environment,• eg. Link to repositories

– OCRIS ( Open Collaborative Research Information Space) has been suggested

– funding for cooperation and travel

• euroCRIS submitted a proposal under Call Infra-2009-10203 as a coordinated action

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Research Output of Europe ROE• The objective is to provide open access to linked repositories of research

output publication (hypermedia) information and with extension to scientific research data (and presumably associated software).

• Submitted 17th march 2009• (Coordinator) INTRASOFT International SA INTRASOFT Belgium• Partners:

– Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC United Kingdom– University of Bergen UiB Norway– Radboud University RU Netherlands– Atira A/S Atira Denmark– Departement Economie,Wetenschap en Innovatie, VlaamsGewest, EWI

Belgium– Jozef Stefan Institute JSI Slovenia– German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,DFKI Germany– Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of

Sciences, CEMI RAS Russia– Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen e.V.

GESIS Germany

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Background

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Future….

• Keep up the same strategic goals• Apply for funding as a Network of excellence• Special project with OA/IR community• Interoperation of CRIS