Andy, Les, everyone
Those of you who were at the WRN/ARMA/JISC Repositories CRIS meeting in
Leeds last Friday will be aware of eurocris.org, CRIS and the CERIF
exchange format (although I don't blame you if you were asleep during my
presentation.. or like Les weren't allowed into the main room because of
oversubscription ;))
To recap, CERIF has all (or most of) the entities (objects) attributes
required for research evaluation including, of course, grant (and even
allows projects with >1 grant or parts of a grant). Furthermore it
relates together research outputs (including publications) with persons,
organisational units, projects, facilities equipment, events .... see
www.eurocris.org for more info or take a look at the slides from my
presentation last week .. due to be posted up at
http://www.wrn.aber.ac.uk/events/cris/
Also of interest is that there is a recommendation from the EXRI project
accepted by JISC, UK Research Councils, HEFCE, ARMA, etc to use CERIF
for research information exchange .. hence also the Readiness4Ref
project Les mentioned and others being funded by JISC. The report can
be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2010/bpexriv1.aspx and
there is also lots of interesting stuff and links at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/informationenvironment/researchinfomgt.aspx
The model we have at St Andrews [jointly with Aberdeen] is a CERIF-CRIS
holding all the metadata for the various entities [integrated with our
corporate systems such as HR, Finance, Student Records] and with a
direct link to our dSpace repository [hosted at Edinburgh].
Publications metadata is entered once into the CRIS [manually, scanned
from WoS, ArXiv, Pubmed, imported from file such as BibTex, Endnote, RIS
etc] and if we have full-text we can make publicly available that gets
uploaded and pushed through to dSpace with a rich subset of the metadata
we want. Within the CRIS, the publications can be linked to projects
(grants), people, organisations (eg internal schools, departments &
external collaborators etc), events eg book launches and [assuming
Impact survives the coalition] to impact case studies too.
[Note :we have very few full-text deposits so far but that is because OA
has not been on the agenda of our senior management .. it is becoming so]
My view is that both systems are needed and the sum of the two is
greater than each in isolation. A CERIF-CRIS is generally used for
answering complicated contextual questions such as how many publications
has did author x produce as a result of grant y or projecy p while at
department z.
Whereas repositories are more designed to provide fast, unambiguous
access to a particular scholarly output identified by a unique id.
For info a recent workshop in Rome (10-11 May) with wide international
representation (volcanic ash permitting - I didn't make it - did you
Les?) discussed these issues. See
http://www.irpps.cnr.it/eventi/OAworkshop/oaworkshop.php
If you are interested there's more at eurocris.org and there is a
conference next month in Aalborg - see cris2010.org
Anna
Leslie Carr wrote:
> What's the purpose? To act as a public shop window for funded
> projects, or a private corporate memory for funding applications? Or a
> bit of both?
>
> The Readiness for REF project is adding project handling (and other
> CRIS features) to EPrints. I can give you more details if you are
> interested.
>
> Sent from my iPhone, on my bike
>
> On 14 May 2010, at 13:54, Andy Barrow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Comrades!
>>
>> We are about to start the design process for our new Institutional
>> Repository and one data type that our academics would like adding is
>> 'Grant application'. They have suggested some metadata, but if you
>> are (a) using EPrints and (b) have a 'Grant application' item type
>> I'd be very grateful if you would share its metadata elements with me.
>>
>> With my best wishes,
>>
>> Andy
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