1. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF: A format to enable interoperability of research information

2. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF C urrent E uropean R esearch I nformation F ormat in the responsibility of euroCRIS handed over to euroCRIS as a recommendation to New Member States by the European Commission in 2000 to build Research Information Systems to enable interoperation between Research Information Systems

3. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF C urrent E uropean R esearch I nformation F ormat What is CERIF ? a model representing the entities involved in research processes and their interrelationships by metadata to aim at current (in time, in context) information to support the building of quality research information systems to allow for quality data interchange between research information systems

4. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF C urrent E uropean R esearch I nformation F ormat

5. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF Some Entities and Relationships Person Classification ( Semantics ) Classification (Semantics ) personID Lastname OtherNames FirstName Sex publicationID Title Abstract Keywords Date Book Article Technical Report Thesis …… Relationship personID publicationID isAuthor isEditor isReviewer isContributor Publication

6. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF Some Entities and Relationships Classification ( Semantics ) Classification (Semantics ) organisationID Acronym Name Research Interest Keywords Headcount Turnover publicationID Title Abstract Keywords Date Publisher Editor Supporter …… Relationship organisationID publicationID isPublisher isEditor isSupporter Publication Organisation

7. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF Interchange Format (XML) Publication 1 Anne Asserson http://www.linkedin.com1 female 2 Keith Jeffery G. http://www.linkedin.com2 male --- 1 Grey in the R&D Process 2006 http://www.epubs.org/ID1 2 Whats new in Grey Literature … 2005 http://www.greynet.org/thegrey journal.html?ID2 --- Person

8. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF XML Interchange Format Publication 1 isAuthor 2005 2 1 isEditor 2006 --- Person Relationship organisationID publicationID isAuthor isEditor Date

9. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF2006 Release (online) Model Introduction and Specification Document Full Data Model SQL Database Scripts XML Data Exchange Specification Document XML Schemas for XML Validation http://www.eurocris.org/

10. Brigitte Jörg ©euroCRIS CERIF TG GL9 Conference, Antwerpen December 2007 CERIF C urrent E uropean R esearch I nformation F ormat THANK YOU !