Title of the presentation | Date |1 Nikos Houssos National Documentation Centre (EKT/NHRF) CRIS for research information management

Title of the presentation | Date |1

Nikos Houssos

National Documentation Centre (EKT/NHRF)

CRIS for research information management

Title of the presentation | Date |2IntroductionIntroduction

Nikos Houssos nhoussos AT ekt.gr

National Documentation Centre (EKT / NHRF) Head, Software Development Unit

euroCRIS BoardMember, Leader TG Projects

9th euroCRIS Strategic Seminar, September 12th -13th, 2011 Brussels9th euroCRIS Strategic Seminar, September 12th -13th, 2011 Brussels

Title of the presentation | Date |3AgendaAgenda

Introduction to CRIS systems and CERIF CRIS systems purpose and benefits Architectures of CRIS infrastructures


Title of the presentation | Date |4CRISCRIS

“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



Purpose of a CRISPurpose of a CRIS

To assist users in their recording, reporting and decision-making concerning the research process

Whether developing programmes, allocating funding, assessing projects, executing projects, generating results, assessing results or transferring technology, looking for experts

Contextual metadata – very important for high quality reporting and search!



Users of a CRISUsers of a CRIS

Researchers Decision makers Research administration Third-party systems / data providers


Title of the presentation | Date |7Questions for a CRISQuestions for a CRIS

How many articles has author X published between 2005-2010 as a first author?

What percentage of author X publications were co-authored by institutionally external researchers?

In how many FP7 projects does research group Z participate? How many publications of research group Z have resulted from

project Y? How many highly cited publications have resulted from funding

programme Y? How many citations have been received by publications produced

by FP7 projects funded by the 1st ICT call? How many PhD students have participated in FP7 projects? How many women have been involved in FP7 projects in the role

of project coordinator?


Title of the presentation | Date |8CERIFCERIF

Common European Research Information Format CERIF is an EU Recommendation

to Member States http://cordis.europa.eu/cerif/

The European Commission (EC) has authorised euroCRIS to maintain and develop CERIF and its usagehttp://www.eurocris.org/

Used in many national and institutional systems and by international organisations (ERC, ESF)



• data model (conceptual, logical, physical)• allows for a (metadata) representation of – research entities – their activities / interconnections (research)– their output (results)• allows for high flexibility with formal semantic

relationships • enables quality maintenance, archiving, access and

interchange of information

What is CERIF?What is CERIF?


Title of the presentation | Date |10CERIF CharacteristicsCERIF Characteristics

Normalised, graph-based view of the world (contrary to flat schemata like library catalogue formats and Dublin Core)

Direct mapping to RDF, easy to provide as Linked Data

Captures clearly declared semantics of entities and their relationships

Captures contextual metadata about resources– For example: In which context was a research

publication or data set produced



Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment Facility

Funding

Service

ElectronicAddress

PostalAddress

Country

Currency

LanguageEventMetrics

ResultProduct

ResultPublication

ResultPatent ResultProduct

ResultPublicationResultPublication

ResultPatent

Person OrganisationUnit

Project

PersonPerson OrganisationUnitOrganisationUnit

ProjectProject

CERIFCERIF EntitiesEntities overviewoverview



Person

OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication

Person_ResultPublication

Person_Project

OrganisationUnit_ResultPublication

Project_ResultPublication

Project_OrganisationUnit

Person_OrganisationUnitPersonPerson

OrganisationUnitOrganisationUnit

ProjectProject

ResultPublicationResultPublication

Person_ResultPublication

Person_Project

OrganisationUnit_ResultPublication

Project_ResultPublication

Project_OrganisationUnit

Person_OrganisationUnit

role=authorrole=author1role=reviewerrole=... ?

role=coordinatorrole=manager

role=CEOrole=researcherrole=project-manager

role=deliverable1.2role=journal articlerole=public report

role=author1-instituterole=editorrole=... ?

role=funderrole=investigatorrole=member

CERIF Link Entities and Semantic LayerCERIF Link Entities and Semantic Layer


Title of the presentation | Date |13CERIF Link EntitiesCERIF Link Entities

Links/relationships among entities Role-typed

– CERIF Semantic Layer Timestamped (date range), fractions Examples:

– OrgUnit X merged with OrgUnit Y in April 2011– Person X was Project Manager of Project Y from

January 2010 to April 2011 Facilitates role-typed, timestamped links to

entities in other systems (e.g. identifier systems, registries, authority files)



CRIS ArchitecturesCRIS Architectures

Interoperable CRIS and repositories Integrated CRIS + Repository Repository with (some) CRIS features


Title of the presentation | Date |15CRIS + Repositories of documents CRIS + Repositories of documents and data setsand data sets

CRISContext

[projects, persons, organisational unitsfunding, products, patents, publications

facilities, equipment, events]

OA Repository(hypermedia) Documents

Repository ofDatasets and Software

OAI-PMH

Various

protocols

End-User

CERIFCERIF


Title of the presentation | Date |16CRIS in multiple institutionsCRIS in multiple institutions

CRIS

OA repository

Data setsrepository

CRIS

OA repository

Data setsrepository

CRIS

OA repository

Data setsrepository

End-User / 3rd party systems

Institution A Institution B Institution C





Thank you!Thank you!

More information– nhoussos AT ekt.gr
