VOA3R Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, food, and environment Gabriella Scipione, Alessio Favorite Cineca: The U-GOV Research repository An integrated Information System for University Governance

University Consortium No-Profit Founded in Members: 40 Universities 2 Research institutes Italian Ministry of University and Research Total turnover:  60 mil. Employees:  400 Owned company: Kion (.. and others) CINECA for Higher Education

E-Learning Multimedia CINECA for Higher Education Mission & Core Activities: Supercomputing services for scientific research IT services for the Italian Ministry of university and research IT services for universities

Italian Higher Education context Students and learning ResearchAccountingHR Planning & Controlling Students Database Courses Database Research funds Delivery Professors Database Ministry of University and Research Single University

U-GOV Solution Map

Number of Users Applications HR management (since 1990) Accounting management (since 1997) Student management (since 1999, Kion) Research management (since 2005) Planning & Controlling (since 2002) At least one CINECA’s solution Total Italian Universities (public, private, telematic) University Users 67 (69%) 44 (45%) 68 (70%) 30 (32%) 20 (21%) 83 (86%) 97 About contents in Ugov repository Full documents and/or metadata Related to any domain With different IP Rights: Free to access /use, copyrights retained by authors… Increasing number of users Cineca is not the direct owner of the contents and metadata stored in U- GOV repositories…. Formal agreement from each university. Cineca role in VOA3R: Content provider Technical partner The VOA3R project represents for Cineca the chance to promote the openness of the institutional catalogues beyond the national University’s sphere.

U-GOV: main features and benefits Modular and integrated System. Planning and Controlling integrated with operations. Operations and business rules can be customized on the organization models/processes. One central Database for all applications. Shared Information about people and structures. Webservices for internal and external integration.

Data and Process integration

U-GOV Technological Architecture

InvestmentB udget Finacial Planning Modelling, Forecast, Planning Economic Budgeting Cash Flow Learning, Research Accounting, HR Users Transactional Operational Reporting Reporting Ad-Hoc Dashboard KPI Management Reporting Management Reporting 3 rd Party Applications Single Database Cineca ’ s vision on Information Systems in Higher Ed Bodies of Govern. Administration Evaluation Council Controllers

Collaboration 2 – Research standard EuroCRIS – Research standard European no-profit Organization working since 1991 Broad approach Viewpoint of Research funders, Research performers, other institutions. Not only publications, but also projects, skills, persons.. Partners Network An actual standard, CERIF, since 2000 Adopters Network (standards comes through adoption) European Projects about digital repositories MeDRA, European Registration Agency of DOI Arrow Project Others..

Thank you for your attention Alessio Favorite, Gabriella Scipione CINECA Questions?

Research Management Processes Call for Proposal Proposal Assessment Project Management Financial/Scientific Reporting Final Result (Product) Management Resources, Tools, Labs Product and Project Assessment Product “Advertising”