1. Knowledge Exchange Initiative CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability Project Ed Simons Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands

2. Knowledge Exchange  http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/ http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/

3. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project  Resulted from a Knowledge Exchange Workshops meeting in January 2007 at SURF, Utrecht.  More specifically as a follow-up activity of the conclusive report of the workshop “Exchanging Research Information” (Matthias Razum, Ed Simons, Wolfram Horstmann, Institutional Repositories Workshop Strand Report; Strand title: Exchanging Research Information, Utrecht, February 2007).

4. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project  The Knowledge Exchange collaboration between DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURF has initiated this project to increase the practical interoperability between CRIS ( Current Research Information Systems) and OAR (Open Access Repositories) systems by defining and proposing a metadata exchange format for publication information with an associated common vocabulary – and thus contributing to:Knowledge ExchangeCurrent Research Information Systems Making metadata input more efficient Avoiding or reducing duplicated inputs on the two platforms Increasing metadata quality, reliability and reusability Increasing quality level of services based on these metadata Reducing costs of metadata handling and exchange.

5. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

6. Tasks TaskATaskA : Document and compare current practices of (selected) OAR and CRIS TaskBTaskB : Define/propose exchange format syntax TaskCTaskC : Define/propose common exchange vocabulary TaskDTaskD : Stipulate best practice recommendations TaskETaskE : Project management TaskF : Dissemination and workshop Deliverables ReportOneReportOne: Report on CRIS and OAR metadata requirements ReportTwo : Report on Metadata definition for CRIS/OAR interoperability ReportThree : Report on Common vocabularies for CRIS/OAR interoperability ReportFour : Report on best practices for use of project outcome CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

8. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project Step 1: writing out the metadata in various formats

9. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

12. METIS

13. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project

14. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project Step 2: comparing the various format’s metadata

18. CRIS-OAR Metadata Interoperability project Step 3: defining a common metadata vocabulary  In Progress at the moment.  I have proposed to use the CERIF-XML vocabulary.  First proposal will on the table of next meeting 4th of June 2009. Project’s WIKI: https://infoshare.dtv.dk/twiki/bin/view/KeCrisOar/