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Achievements and Experience of the
euroCRIS Organisation
Keith G Jeffery
President, euroCRIS
www.eurocris.org
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Agenda
Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?SynthesisRole of euroCRIS
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Agenda
Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?SynthesisRole of euroCRIS
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CRIS : the hot topic
Europe should stimulate the development of a 'continuum' of accessible and interlinked scientific information from raw data to publications, within and across different communities and countries
http://ec.europa.eu/research/era. The public consultation will be open until 31 August 2007
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CRIS : the hot topicEffective knowledge sharing. State-of-the-art knowledge is crucial for successful research in any scientific discipline. Reliable, affordable and permanent access to, and widespread dissemination of, scientific research results should therefore become defining principles for Europe's research landscape. The digital era has opened up numerous possibilities in this respect. Opportunities for progress can be seen, notably in the development of online libraries, repositories of scientific information and databases of publications and publicly funded research results. These should be integrated at European level and interlinked with similar databases in third countries. In particular, the system by which scientific information is published is pivotal for its validation and dissemination, and thus has a major impact on the excellence of European research.
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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
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CRIS Conference
The first conference on CRISs 1991– Bergen, Norway– Organised by Jostein Helland Hauge– Invited national experts as speakers
Subsequent conferences until 2000– organised with the EC
Conferences 2002 onwards– Organised by euroCRIS
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euroCRISSeminars
euroCRIS founded formally in 2001 (informally since 1991)As well as
– Custodianship of CERIF– Best practice– The CRIS conferences– Community-building
Decided also to run strategic seminars
– 2003 onwards
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CERIF: The Key
This allows not only construction of a new interoperation-ready CRISbut also wrapper-interoperation by generating CERIF from a legacy CRIS
The key to the CERIF datamodel isStructured (syntax)First order logic (semantics)
Legacy CRIS
wrapper
New CRIS
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PROJECT
ORGUNIT
Skills
CV
GeneralFacility
ParticularEquipment
ContactResults
PublicationResultsPatentResultsProduct
Service
FundingProgramme
Event
ClassificationPrize/Award
PERSON
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RESULT_PUBLICATION
PROJECT
ORGUNITPERSON
Result_Publication
Can Express:Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is author of) Publication XOrgunit O (DT1 - DT2) (is owner of IPR in) Publication XPerson A (DT1 - DT2) (is employee of ) Orgunit OPerson A (DT1 - DT2) (is project leader of) Project PPerson A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit MPerson A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit NOrgunit M (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit OOrgunit N (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit O
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Result_PublicationInstance Diagram
Person A
Publication X
OrgUnit O
OrgUnit M
OrgUnit N
Project P
member
member
employee
Part of
Part of
owns IPR
author
Project leader
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CERIFThe Advantages
Neutral ArchitectureData Model can be implemented:
– relational – object-oriented – information retrieval (including WWW)
Process model can be implemented– DBMS and query; centralised or distributed; – html web / harvesting / IR-query;– advanced knowledge-based technology
But interoperation requires structured schema
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CERIFThe Advantages
CERIF 2006 separates cleanlysyntax (structure)semantics (meaning)
Have canonical model (allows data interoperation) for syntaxNow working on canonical model (allows information interoperation) for semantics
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Agenda
Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?SynthesisRole of euroCRIS
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Where are we now?CRISs
Standalone CRISs– Variety of kinds
• Structured relational system• Semi-structured / IR system• Html pages / WWW system
– Some based on or using CERIFInteroperating CRISs
– Homogeneous (all using same schema)• simple technology e.g. METIS
– Heterogeneous (different schemas)• Need data access and exchange schema standard• Only examples to date IDEAS and ERGO (CERIF)
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Where are we now? Commercial CRISs
One commercial offering since late 1980s– COS (COS, USA)
• Based on person as entity • Semistructured CV-style data and IR system
Commercial offerings emerged recently– uniCRIS (uniCRIS AG, CH)– PURE (Atira, DK)– Fedora (Fedora, NL)– Avedas (Avedas, DE)
offerings – Are based on structured database with web user interfaces– appear to be significantly less expensive than developing a
stand-alone CRIS in-house
uniCRIS offers CERIF compatibility and interoperation
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Where are we now? And Where Next?
The need: – The EC has declared
• the ERA (European Research Area)• The Lisbon Targets
The Opportunity– CRISs
• to record IP of an organisation• to encourage innovation, wealth creation, improved quality of life
– Interoperating CRISs • to support the ERA and Lisbon targets• especially to encourage cross-Europe innovation
Note projects CISTRANA and IST-World
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Steps to Nirvana
The Perfect CRIS
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The Solution is Required:
To overcome the ‘effort threshold’ to : – obtain the required answers from the CRIS– input and update the information in the CRIS– maintain data quality in the CRIS
Across – local stand-alone CRIS – heterogeneous distributed CRISs
Thus achieving ‘nirvana’
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The R&D Process
Workprogramme
Proposal
Project
Results
Exploitation
WealthCreation
Note:
some CRIS developers limit recording of outputs from the process to areas indicated
Nir
van
a
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Complete Process ICT Support
Nirvana is – a complete, – integrated, – end-to-end ICT support – for the research process – across heterogeneous distributed CRISs
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The Key: Metadata and Data Exchange Standards
Nirvana is– Formal metadata (machine understandable)– Query: Metadata describing CRIS resources to
improve queries– Answer: Metadata attached to Query result
files (data exchange) so the receiving CRIS or user can understand the output
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The GRIDs Architecture
Knowledge Layer
Information Layer
Computation / Data LayerDat
a to
Kno
wle
dge
Control
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Workflow on the GRIDs Surface
Nirvana is– GRIDs ‘surface’
• Providing computation, information presentation and information management
– Plus Self* resilience– Plus capabilities to support workflow– In a SOA (service-oriented architecture)– SOKU (service-oriented knowledge utility)
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Agenda
Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?SynthesisRole of euroCRIS
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Overall : The Way Forward
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge
CRIS
Management of Research
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PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge
Overall : The Way Forward
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
CRIS
Management of ResearchCDR
(CERIF)
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
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Overall : The Way Forward
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge metadata
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
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Overall : The Way Forward
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge metadata
publish
validate
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
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Overall : The Way Forward
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge metadata
publish
validate
GRIDs
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
Ambient, Pervasive Access
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Overall : The Way Forward
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge metadata
publish
validate
GRIDs
Ambient, Pervasive Access
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Overall : The Way Forward
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge metadata
publish
validate
GRIDs
Ambient, Pervasive Access
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Overall : The Way Forward
Portal with knowledge-assisted user interface
Digital Curation Facility
SCIENTIFIC DATASETS
Data
Information
Knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Data
Information
Knowledge metadata
publish
validate
GRIDs
Ambient, Pervasive Access
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Three Steps to Nirvana
Complete Process ICT Support
Metadata and Data Exchange Standards
Workflow on the GRIDs Surface
The Perfect CRIS
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Agenda
Introduction – speakerCRIS development historyWhere are we now and where next?Role of euroCRIS
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euroCRISThe Role
It is the role of euroCRIS to:– Promote and improve communication and
interaction between global CRIS;– Maintain and publish the CERIF (Common
European Research Information Format) recommendation and any standards endorsed by euroCRIS;
– Organize and run the CRIS series of conferences with associated workshops and other events;
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euroCRISThe Role
– Provide a source of expertise in CRIS to members and to others under business arrangements made at the time;
– Develop euroCRIS guidelines;– Nurture the CRIS community by events, a
newsletter, an online discussion forum and other appropriate mechanisms;
– Provide a forum for exploring and exploiting new and emerging concepts and technologies (including data quality, standards, etc.);
– Establish a one-stop portal / gateway to international CRIS resources. (eurocris charter)