lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 A list of CERIF 2000 problems Walter Niedermayer

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Implementation Full CERIF 2000 was not easy to implement some errors especially in the provided ORACLE database model toolkit correcting errors needs agreement about new field lengths and so on. ==> what to do?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Marketing CERIF 2000 is not yet widely known. How can we organize support and training, feedback and evaluation? When to publish a recommendation in an Official Journal of the EU? Who should use CERIF 2000? ==> what to do?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Documentation – Web Site Site not maintained any morehttp:// One can get lost on this site. An all-in-one CERIF 2000 manual for download seems to be missing, so the promotion of CERIF2000 is a difficult task. ==> what to do?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Subject indexing CERIF 2000 proposes to use the ORTELIUS thesaurus. It is still unclear whether ORTELIUS will be extended for research information purposes and maintained for long term. ==> what to do? change the ORTELIUS thesaurus against that one used in COS?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Data exchange CERIF 2000 relational data model defines the data entities with their attributes and relationships as a good example for CRIS databases ("harmonization for easy data exchange"). But which data exchange ("copy") is intended? Some universities at least probably will not exchange data with others, they are going to be in a new competition process. ==> what to do?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Compliance with national bylaws Which organization level should use CERIF2000 ? Universities have strict bylaws to deliver research data to national ministries (different to CERIF 2000). Especially the classes for publications are defined by the national bylaws differently from CERIF2000. ==> what to do? Compare the national evaluation bylaws?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 User interface standard ? It could be an important benefit of CERIF 2000 to have a proposed quality standard for the user interface (search forms). Any other benefits are not really visible for a CRIS user (when he is querying only via the general web query interface) ==> what to do?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Benefit and Vision What is the greatest benefit of CERIF 2000? To have "integrated" data into a future European network via a uniform query web interface (a new ERGO?)? How we can make that vision understandable? ==> what to do?

lEuroCRIS 31st October 2001 Concluding Remarks I find it very needed and useful to have a continued Help Desk for CERIF2000 It is nice that EuroCRIS will take over the responsibility for the further developments of CERIF 2000