1. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 1 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems euroCRIS Members Meeting Keith G Jeffery President www.eurocris.org Premium Members

2. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 2 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Agenda 18:30 Task Groups CERIF – Brigitte Joerg Best Practice – Aleš Bošnjak Projects – Neil Jacobs DRIS – Marika Meltsas 18:50 Executives Strategy & External Communications – Anne Asserson Conference –Wolfgang Adamczak Workshops – Maximilian Stempfhuber 19:10 Business Membership – Harrie Lalieu Finance – Geert van Grootel Seminar September – Anne Asserson Membership Meeting November –Harrie Lalieu Planning 2008 -Harrie Lalieu

3. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 3 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Agenda 18:30 Task Groups CERIF – Brigitte Joerg Best Practice – Aleš Bošnjak Projects – Neil Jacobs DRIS – Marika Meltsas 18:50 Executives Strategy & External Communications – Anne Asserson Conference –Wolfgang Adamczak Workshops – Maximilian Stempfhuber 19:10 Business Membership – Harrie Lalieu Finance – Geert van Grootel Seminar September – Anne Asserson Membership Meeting November –Harrie Lalieu Planning 2008 -Harrie Lalieu

4. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 4 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems CERIF TG Brigitte Jörg

5. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 5 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Workplan / Actions Release CERIF 2006 – 1.1 (end of May) –Bugfixes and minor changes –General documentation –HTML documentation –XML / XML Schema files –SQL scripts Update Mailinglist Establish again a formalised Change Proposal Process Invite CERIF TG members for support

6. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 6 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Workplan / Actions Define Mappings / Check CERIF Extensions towards –Formalised Dublin Core –European CV Standard Semantic Level (Classification) –Collaboration with Best Practise TG (Ales Bosnjak) –Role / Type Definitions (mid-term) –Terminology / Classification (long-term) SOA (long-term) Start Discussions –Triple Joins –Statistics

7. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 7 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems For later Discussion Budgeting as an Object (FundingProgramme) Lecture as an Event Contract as an Object Model for User Extensions Connection to Financial / HR / Other Applications (Interfaces)

8. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 8 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Agenda 18:30 Task Groups CERIF – Brigitte Joerg Best Practice – Aleš Bošnjak Projects – Neil Jacobs DRIS – Marika Meltsas 18:50 Executives Strategy & External Communications – Anne Asserson Conference –Wolfgang Adamczak Workshops – Maximilian Stempfhuber 19:10 Business Membership – Harrie Lalieu Finance – Geert van Grootel Seminar September – Anne Asserson Membership Meeting November –Harrie Lalieu Planning 2008 -Harrie Lalieu

9. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 9 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Directory of Research Information Systems maintained by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Artts and Sciences Discontinued in 2004 In 2007 50% out of date

10. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 10 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems CONTENT? Free of charge / Public / Commercial Online / Offline / Archived What type of CRIS? More than one type of information? First priority – European, euroCRIS members’ CRIS portal

11. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 11 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Form for gathering data Original name English name Acronym URL Description of content and purpose Main entities (researchers, research institutions, research teams, projects, funding programs, publications, patents, research equipment

12. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 12 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Form for gathering metadata Classification schemes used Subject coverage Geographic coverage Language(s) of content Language(s) of user interface Update frequency Searchability Interoperability with other systems (OPAC, PubMed, IR etc. Sources of information (input by researchers, funding agency etc.) Hosting institutions Contact information Degree of CERIF compliance

13. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 13 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems

14. © euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 14 Mutual enhancement of CERIF and project management systems Agenda 18:30 Task Groups CERIF – Brigitte Joerg Best Practice – Aleš Bošnjak Projects – Neil Jacobs DRIS – Marika Meltsas 18:50 Executives Strategy & External Communications – Anne Asserson Conference –Wolfgang Adamczak Workshops – Maximilian Stempfhuber 19:10 Business Membership – Harrie Lalieu Finance – Geert van Grootel Seminar September – Anne Asserson Membership Meeting November –Harrie Lalieu Planning 2008 -Harrie Lalieu