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BP/DRIS TG

BP/DRIS TG. Sergey Parinov, euroCRIS membership meeting, St. Andrews, November 2009. Best Practice (BP). Best Practice legacy - 1998. Code of good practice, 1998:

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BP/DRIS TG

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  1. BP/DRIS TG Sergey Parinov, euroCRIS membership meeting, St. Andrews, November 2009

  2. Best Practice (BP)

  3. Best Practice legacy - 1998 • Code of good practice, 1998: • it has been created to establish a framework for encouraging interoperation and harmonisation between European(and other) research institutions • its intention is to focus clearly on the reasons for having a CRIS and on the main components of the system • adoption of it will lead to: • Increased usability of data and value of CRISs to the users (often with varied demands and requirements) • Increased interoperability between CRISs • Reduced operating cost for CRISs • Reduced effort for information exchange

  4. Best Practice legacy - 2006 • Code of the Best Practice, 2004-2006 • the inter-relationships between CRISs, and between CRIS and other related information systems environments (e.g. digital libraries, scientific datasets) has become clearer

  5. “Best Practice” definitions • “… best-practice is considered by some as a business buzzword used to describe the process of developing and following a standard way of doing things…” (Wikipedia) • “Best practices can also be defined as the most efficient (least amount of effort) and effective (best results) way of accomplishing a task, based on repeatable procedures that have proven themselves over time for large numbers of people.” (Wikipedia)

  6. Ideas for the Code of Best Practice 2010 ? • General view: • What are current tasks of CRIS development according target groups of users • … taking from a “large number of people” as repeatable ways to solve the tasks • … and publishing as “standard ways for doing things”

  7. Topics suggested by Keith Jeffery • What data structure do I use for a CRIS • What questions can it answer • Can it produce researcher VCs? • Can it produce web pages describing a group or department? • Can it help in research proposals? • Can it store information on research outputs? • Will it interface to an existing OA IR? • Can it produce a publication list for a group or department or project? • Can I link it with other CRIS to get a continent or world view? • How do I reduce the manual input from researchers? • Will the CRIS interoperate with existing finance, HR, project systems? • How does it relate to patents databases? • Financial and business topics • Can it provide a breakdown of research funding by year, by source, by department, by group in my university?

  8. Ideas from Max Stempfhuber • “it should be a nice looking publication downloadable as PDF and also printable” • “it could be more efficient if we work on the individual chapters in a coordinated way and put it up for comments the moment we feel that the euroCRIS members will be willing to contribute”

  9. Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS)

  10. DRIS legacy - 2008 • Current list: • ARAMIS, Swiss Information System on Research and Development • Austrian Science Fund project database • Bulgarian Current Research Information System • Dutch Research Database • Estonian Research Information System • Estonian Research Information System • FRIDA - national research documentation system • Inventory on Scientific and Technological Research in Flanders (IWETO) • ISTC Portal "Science and Technology in CIS" • Oasis database • Portuguese Science and Technology Platform • Slovak R&D Information System • Slovenian Current Research Information System

  11. Example of a record • cfName: Inventory on Scientific and Technological Research in Flanders (IWETO)  • Acronym: IWETO  • cfURI: http://www.iweto.be/Home.html • cfResProdId: IWETO  • cfDescription: IWETO supplies information about Flemish research teams and projects, specifically the most important research themes, priorities and current research projects.

  12. Ideas for DRIS from Keith Jeffery • “My personal view is that DRIS is a component of Best practice and acts as an index to exemplars of best practice in CRIS” • “The DRIS system itself should be CERIF compatible since we are moving towards the whole euroCRIS website being CERIF-driven.  As a CERIF-compatible database DRIS itself forms an example of best practice” • “…each system indexed by DRIS is a product related to organisations, persons and probably there are associated publications, events....”

  13. DRIS+BP overview

  14. DRIS+BP is a CRIS of a community of euroCRIS members • “…each system indexed by DRIS is a product related to organisations, persons and probably there are associated publications, events....” Keith Jeffery, president euroCRIS • DRIS+BP information system should serve euroCRIS community and create strong benefits for users to be a part of this community • In general, it can accumulate CRIS artifacts of digital heritage for future euroCRIS members • A platform for DRIS+BP current implementation is SharePoint 2007, we looking for better platform, e.g. integrated with future euroCRIS web site

  15. DRIS+BP technical details • Pilot version - http://eurocris.socionet.ru/ with public ‘read’ access to all DRIS+BP materials, surveys and additional services: • free registration to get ‘participant’ permissions (for euroCRIS members only) • DRIS wiki with technical requirements, specifications and other details • DRIS forum for discussions about further development • Help Desk for DRIS+BP users

  16. DRIS+BP main functionality • live demonstration, it starts from http://eurocris.socionet.ru/DRIS-CERIF/

  17. Increasing motivations and benefits for DRIS+BP users • Create/update your complex professional portrait by presenting your data as a set of cross linked objects {CRIS – Pers – OrgUnit - BP_articles}, it can be stored and updated for a long time • Present your professional achievements and ideas as a part of community’s Archive/Museum • Participate in a DRIS+BP development to build a professional ‘social network’ and increase benefits of euroCRIS community (see e.g. a 'Facebook for Scientists‘,http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Federal-Stimulus-Funds-From/8568/) • Using DRIS+BP tools and access to the community produce substantial professional “products”

  18. DRIS+BP annual report • Idea: to list the best of current year achievements, hot problems and new future trends as euroCRIS community opinion • Procedure: online nomination of CRISs, Pers, Orgunits, articles (using DRIS+BP forms), discussing (online forum) and voting (online survey) during a year • Title: Annual report of euroCRIS community • Structure of the report: • achievements (articles+CRISs+pers+orgunits) • the most popular, hot professional problems • the most challengeable future trends, expectations • Initial Editorial Committee: Max Stempfhuber, Anne Asserson, Sergey Parinov

  19. Surveys of euroCRIS community • As first steps to better understanding of possible benefits from euroCRIS “community of practice”, the online surveys can be useful, e.g.: • Who are we? • What were done by us (a registry of professional results/achievements)? • What common/specific professional problems are we solving? • What future are we building/expecting?

  20. Professional impact index • A registry of professional results and achievements (within DRIS+BP) as information objects: • “results”+”pers”+”orgunit”+”BP_articles” • A tool for semantic linking of info_objects • A service for monitoring changes in DRIS+BP and linkages, accumulating statistics • A service for statistics processing to build a set of professional impact indexes

  21. DRIS+BP TG workplan

  22. List of main actions for 2009-2010: • Preparing of the first issue of an annual report with publishing it in December 2010 • Surveys of “things” related with CRISs and forming digital collections of them (as an Archive or Museum of CRIS artifacts) • Survey of people from euroCRIS community to find and exploit new community’s benefits

  23. 1. Annual Report • We will announce (in December 2009) a start of preparing of the report’s first issue • It will include suggestions for discussing: • a title and a structure • tools/rules to submit/nominate materials • tools/rules to vote for them • Editorial Committee

  24. 2. Digital Museum of CRIS artifacts • In January 2010 a concept of collections of digital artifacts related with CRIS will be presented for discussing, including • A definition of a CRIS artifact, what is not the artifact • Principles of collections’ forming, submission rules/tools • Who will maintain it and bear responsibility • Technical solution, including long-term “preservation” approach • Currently we invite euroCRIS members to help us with this first step

  25. 3. euroCRIS community benefits • In February 2010 a concept of the euroCRIS community’s survey will be presented for discussion and improvement • What aspects of the community could be investigated • What community’s benefits or “products” are of interest • What survey tools could be used, etc • We invite euroCRIS members to participate in building this initial concept (to provide ideas, criticism, online tools, etc)

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