University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Anna Clements Data Architect, University of St Andrews Current Research Information Systems

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Agenda What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 What is a CRIS? “a Current Research Information System, commonly known as "CRIS", is any information tool dedicated to provide access to and disseminate research information” ( A CRIS consists of a datamodel describing objects of interest to R&D a tool or set of tools to manage the data

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 What information could be in a CRIS? Who could use a CRIS and for what purpose? 10 – 15 minutes brainstorm

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 CERIF Entities Citation CV Prize Qualification ExpertiseAndSkills Equipment Facility Funding Service ElectronicAddresse PostalAddress Country Currency LanguageEvent Metrics

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Linkages From CERIF CERIF does not only provide strong, role-typed, timestamped within-links But also provides the facility for strong, role-typed, timestamped outward-links

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 CRIS + Repositories CRIS Research Context [projects, persons, organisational units funding, products, patents, publications facilities, equipment, events] OA Repository Documents e-Research repository Datasets and Software OAI- PMH Various protocols End-User CERIF

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Who needs it and why? opolitical decision-makers ofunding organisations oresearch institutions oindividual researchers oentrepreneurs and innovators omedia and general public

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Agenda What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 CERIF & euroCRIS CERIF is an EU Recommendation to Member States The European Commission (EC) has authorised euroCRIS to maintain and develop CERIF and its usage

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 CERIF & euroCRIS EU Working Group on Research Databases Workshop CERIF 91 PROJECT Similar Ideas UN/UNESCO OECD CODATA Acronym: ERGO Participant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many more Organisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, … Acronym: ERGO Participant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many more Organisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, … 2000 CLASSIFICATION RESULTSEQUIPMENT PROJECT OrgUnitPERSON EXPERTISE Role s CERIF 2000 Model - Networking of DBs - Exchange of Records - Recommendation to Member States - Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR) - Multilinguality - Controlled Vocabulary - Roles / Types - User-driven - EC Recommendation to Member States 2ndLevel CORE Language Semantics Link CERIF 2006 / 2008 Model - Data Model (RDBMS, OO, IR) - Model Normalization - Robust Structure - Extensible Structure - Consistent Structure - Semantic Layer - XML Exchange Specification - Elaboration on Publication - (Core) CERIF Semantics

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 CERIF The use today.. and tomorrow... Examples in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands And the UK ?

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Agenda What is a CRIS? Who needs it and why? A brief history of CERIF and euroCRIS CERIF-CRIS at St Andrews

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 CRIS timeline at St Andrews Standalone ResExp db [non cerif] Central Oracle db : web front- end Link to dSpace RAE outputs selection & submission PURE CERIF-CRIS [with Aberdeen] REF submission 2010 Research Portal Link to dSpace

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Publications Fed Out Research Information System REF, RCUK SFC, HESA HEI – Strategic Planning Public, Media Recognition / Impact Industry / SME’s Interface Collaborations Research Pools Pulled In Student Records Grants, Projects, KT Human Resources Finance Manual Input Entered Web of Science, arXiv, PubMed… Harvested Full Text Repository Open Access Linked Bibtex, Refman Uploaded

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 The team REF Open Access Data

University of St Andrews ©University of St Andrews/Anna Clements ©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery ©Brigitte Jörg UKSG, Harrogate, April 2011 Demo