EuroCRIS: integrované systémy vedeckých informácií pre každého

Danica Zendulková, EuroCRIS TG CRIS-IR leaderOtevřené repozitáře 2013

Brno, 30th May 2013

Slides reproduced from presentations by euroCRIS members: Ed Simons, Brigitte Jörg, Anna Clements, Jan Dvořák, Barbara Ebert

http://www.eurocris.org

EuroCRIS, its visions, aims and activities CRIS system CERIF standards EuroCRIS task group CRIS-IR Interoperability example in SK CRIS

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euroCRIS is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to the development of quality CRISs (Current Research Information Systems) enabling a wide-scale interoperability. euroCRIS is the custodian of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF), an EU Recommendation to the Member States.

 

WHY: Vision Towards Open Access to all European Research Information.

WHAT: Mission Towards research institutions’ capability for interoperation, euroCRIS is dedicated to the

development of a high-quality and scalable architecture to facilitate this.

HOW: Realisation Distribute and develop further the CERIF data model and services for homogeneous access

over heterogeneous information sources in the European Research Area (ERA), with support of euroCRIS and its members.

WHO: Utilisation Research managers, evaluators, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, media, citizens.

EuroCRIS

Task groups: CERIF Task Group CRIS-IR Task Group Best Practice Task Group Projects Task Group CRIS Architecture and Development Linked Open Data Task Group Indicators Task Group

Activities: Members meetings twice per year: The purpose is to inspire the local communities that are

planning to use or are using a CRIS. An opportunity to talk inside the euroCRIS community. Annual strategic seminar: The purpose is to discuss with strategic partners and to form

policies. CRIS conferences (every second year): The purpose is to involve communities outside

euroCRIS. Task Group meetings as required: The Task Groups develop actively euroCRIS strategy and

offerings. Board meetings four times per year: The Board steers the organization, both in the sense of

day-to-day management and governance, assesses and controls policy and monitors progress of activities. The current Board of 12 persons is drawn from 9 European countries.

EuroCRIS

“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 data model describing objects of interest to

R&D• a tool or set of tools to manage the data

What is a CRIS?

Current Research Information System ...

What is a CRIS?

… information about

• Researchers• Organisations (Research-

performing, Funding)• Funding Programmes,

Calls• Projects• …

… that means

• of current

interest

• not necessarily ongoing

… driven by

• Concepts• Model

•Implementation (Information System)

Current Research Information System

an integrated approach towards managing research information

= CRIS

CERIF

Information about :• Researchers• Organisations (who Carry out, Fund, Publish, Commercialise, Benefit from: RESEARCH)

• Funding Programmes & Calls• Projects (Proposed, Ongoing, Completed)

• Publications, Patents, Data, Products• Impact (Indicators and Measures)

• Facilities, Equipment, Services• Addresses, Geographic Bindings, Languages

• And their Relationships

What is research information?

Who needs Research Information?

Research Informati

on

Funding Organisations

Researchers

Research Organisations

Decision Makers

Project Managers

Publishers

Enterprises

Intermediaries / Brokers

Media

Education

General Public

visibility, finding collaborations, competitors, CV generation

performance, strategic

decisions, priorities,

bench-,marking

integration of relevant findings into lectures

and trainingfinding research results of

potential market or innovative value

distribution andcommunication

information and education,interest

finding reviewers, editors

distribution of programmesevaluation of results, finding reviewers

finding information for participation in projects, partnerships, usage of results

integration and interoperabilitystrategic management

overview of ongoing activities

Librariesacquisition, dissemination

Common European Research Information Format

Standard format for interchange of R&D information

European Commision: CERIF recommendation to the EU Member States

What is CERIF

Conceptual Level (Specification) Concepts relevant for the research domainand their relationships

Logical Level (ER Model)Entities and their relationships

Physical Level (Database Scripts)Data Definition commands for the database

Semantic Layer (Declared Semantics)A formalized controlled vocabulary describing ageneral contextual semantics of the research domaininline with the conceptual, logical and machine description

Model Levels

Equipment

ProjectProject

OrganisationOrganisation

Service

Funding

Patent

Skills

CV

Product

Event

PersonPerson

Classification

(Semantics )

Classification

(Semantics )

Publication

SQL Script-----------------------CREATE Table cfPersCREATE Table cfProjCREATE Table cfOrgUnit

CERIF Model Structure (Views)

CERIF Entity Types• Base Entities• Result Entities • Infrastructure Entities• 2nd Level Entities• Geographic Bounding Box• Link Entities

CERIF Features• Multiple Language • Semantics• Measures & Indicators

CERIF 1.5 (the current version)

1. CERIF provides an integrated data model for storing or exchanging defined kinds of research information including projects, persons, organisations, funding, publications, patents, products, events, facilities, equipment etc.

2. CERIF may be used to generate researcher CVs and bibliographies, to provide management reports of research activities for funders or research performing institutions, to locate relevant research activities, facilities, equipment or researchers, to stimulate innovation, to evaluate research, to discover potential reviewers.

3. CERIF is in use for research information management by an increasing number of national systems and many individual research funding or performing organisations. There are several commercial companies offering CERIF-compliant systems.

4. CERIF was developed by a group of nominated national experts and is an EU Recommendation to Member States. CERIF is maintained, developed and promoted at the request of the European Commission by euroCRIS. It is continually developed by a defined process involving euroCRIS members.

5. CERIF models the world of research information as a fullyconnected graph (not a restricted hierarchy). CERIF has a formal syntax and declared semantics.

6. CERIF has the concept of base entities (e.g. Person) and dynamic link entities (e.g. Person-Publication). This provides advantages in flexibility but also allows the relationship between entities to have associated role (e.g. (first) author) and temporal information.

7. The link entities also allow instances in CERIF to be linked to instances in external systems such as full-text in an institutional repository or research grant funding for a´project in an institutional finance system.

8. The semantics of values of attributes in base entities (e.g. valid country names) are defined. 9. The semantics of values of role in link entities (e.g. Person- Publication roles of author, editor, reviewer,

illustrator….) are defined. 10. Recent studies (2010) in the UK have demonstrated (a) CERIF is technically the best standard for

research information; (b) adoption of CERIF provides very substantial cost savings and improvements in effectiveness.

Why CERIF

Covering all aspects of research information (researchers, projects, organisations, funding, input (f.t.e. and money), output (publications, patents, other results...), equipment, services, datasets the research is based on...).

An optimal (relational) architecture allowing to express any kind of relation between entities/attributes with every relation “time-stamped” and semantically defined.

Very fine-grained structure, allowing output of the metadata to virtually any format (DC, Didl-Mods, Mark21, etc...).

A separated “semantic layer” allowing the use of multiple (any) controlled vocabularies (classifications, typologies) as well as their cross-linking and mapping.

Strong points of CERIF

Right level of abstraction Normalized model

Record data only once Reference rather than copy

Versatile Semantic Layer Time-based relationships Clean design, regular structure

What makes CERIF shine

• How many articles has author X published in 2011 as a first author?

• How many times have articles by author X been cited by the end of the previous year?

• Did author X publish with institutionally external authors?

• In how many FP7 projects does/did organisation Z participate?

• How many women have been involved in FP7 projects?

• How many projects have been realised in 2010 in field A?

• How many articles have been published in field B?

• How many publications have resulted from project Y?

Worked example …

CRIS-IR Task Group

The CRIS-IR Task Group aims at furthering the science and technology of the linkage between CRIS and repositories and specifically open access institutional repositories of publications, although data and software repositories are also of interest. This involves working on the architecture for linkage, the metadata and the mechanisms. There are outstanding issues in these areas concerned with syntax, semantics and software processes. Technical work must be preceded by communication and approximation of views between two communities: CRIS and Repository managers and specialists.

TG Leader: Danica Zendulková danica.zendulkova@cvtisr.sk

Vision: relation between CRIS and Repository

Cooperation between the CRIS and OAR communities Open access and IPR questions – recommendations for

institutional and national systems

Good practice: Use cases for interoperability between CRIS and IR – put to the webpage

Technical aspects:◦ Prepare model of integration interface (xml data exchange,

web services)◦ Optimal set of metadata. Metadata conversion from/to

common used metadata format ◦ Using Authority file with persistent ID

CRIS-IR: Vision and steps

CRIS and Repositories at an institution(slide by Keith Jeffery)

CRISResearch Context

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

facilities, equipment, events]

OA Repository(hypermedia) Documents

e-Research repositoryDatasets and Software

OAI-PMH

Various

protocols

End-User

CERIFCERIF

Result_Publication Instance Diagram(slide by Keith Jeffery)

Person A

Publication X

OrgUnit O

OrgUnit M

OrgUnit N

Project P

member

member

employee

Part of

Part of

owns IPR

author

Project leader

Rome declaration on CRIS and OAR

At the 2nd CRIS & OAR Workshop, May 2011 Rome Need to coordinate the developments in CRIS and OAR High quality research information is critically

important to research institutions, research funders, policymakers and society at large

Information on publicly-funded research should be available, shareable and integrated seamlessly

http://www.eurocris.org/Documents/RomeDeclaration.pdf

Combine repository with CRIS use metadata from CRIS

Converis -integrated Research Information Management with support along the complete Research Life Cycle

Pure – integrated CRIS and repository „two in one“

Symplectic – research management information system used by universities

Surplus –CINECA Universitas XXI OCU

CRIS & Repository Applications

Country No of applications

Austria 1

Belgium 3

Denmark 45

Finland 2

Germany 4

Italy 1

Netherland 1

Norway 1

Portugal 1

Sweden 2

United Kingdom

43

Anything else ?

EuroCRIS Contact

euroCRIS SecretariatCor van Osnabruggelaan 61

2251 RE VoorschotenThe Netherlands

Phone: +31 6 53187431Email: eurocris@eurocris.orgWebsite: www.eurocris.org

Informačný systém výskumu, vývoja a inovácií SK CRIS /od januára 2013

https://www.skcris.sk

...na čom pracujeme v CVTI SR

Projekty Výskumníkov Organizácie Výsledky VaV (publikácie, patenty,

produkty)

Modul pre zber dát a integračné rozhranie Plnotextové aj rozšírené vyhľadávanie Hypertextové prepojenie objektov

SK CRIS obsahuje

je publikácia A výsledkom riešenia projektu? aké publikácie vznikli v rámci projektu X?

Z bibliografickej dtb CREPČ sa to nedozvieme...

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CREPČ – Centrálny register publikačnej činnosti (v súčasnosti dáta za univerzity; bez úplných textov)

Prepojenie SK CRIS - CREPČ...

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