Anna Clements Enterprise Architect, IT Services University of St Andrews akc@st-andrews.ac.uk

1. CERIF in Action Anna Clements Enterprise Architect, IT ServicesUniversity of St Andrews akc@st-andrews.ac.uk Scott Brander Research Data Project Manager, IT ServicesUniversity of St Andrews scott.brander@st-andrews.ac.uk

2. CERIF in Action Summary ‘Synthesise, standardise and productionise CERIF for UK Higher Educational Institutions’ To develop a standard CERIF-XML schema and agreed vocabularies building on work done in earlier JISC projects such as Readiness4Ref, CRISPool, CERIFy, and IRIOS. Build standard, production-ready plug-ins to import and export data in this agreed format for CRIS, Repository and Research Council software and demonstrate the use of these plug-ins in live systems : • exchanging data between partner institutions e.g. when an researcher moves to a newinstitution • uploading grant-level information to RCUK ROS Produce roadmap with costs/benefits for adoption of this standard CERIF-XML approach for other HEIs and other use cases, in particular the development of an open source aggregator and portal for use by research pools and other consortia.

3. CERIF in Action Scope - model • People * Researcher * Author * PI / Co-I • Publications * Articles * Conference Papers * Journals • Projects * Research grants • Organisations * Institutions * Funders * Publishers

4. CERIF in Action Scope – use cases • Researcher moves from Institution A to Institution B • Researcher / Research Organisation uploads / makes available data to RCUK Research Outcomes System (ROS)

5. CERIF in Action Scope - systems • ePrints • * 100 + registered in UK • Atira – Pure • * 18 UK Institutions • Symplectic • 24 UK Institutions • RCUK – ROS • * ESRC * BBSRC *AHRC *EPSRC

6. Impact Activities Publications Industry / SME’s Interface HEI – Strategic Planning, Benchmarking REF, RCUK SFC, HESA Public, Media Recognition / Impact Collaborations Research Pools Award/ recognition Indicators WoS, arXiv, PubMed, Scopus… Case Studies Dissemination// Engagement MICE Bibtex, Refman Measures Entered WoS API Cerify Manual Input Import CIA Entered Uploaded Harvested University Structure [HR] Entered Research Information System Staff Records [HR] Pulled In Fed Out REF R4R ROS CIA Student Records [Registry] Linked Linked Data from RCs IRIOS Projects, Grants, KT [Finance] C4D Export CIA Full Text Repository Open Access e-Research Repository (Open Access) CRISPool

7. Project blog • http://cerifinaction.wordpress.com/ or http://bit.ly/cerifinaction • Partners

8. Project overview

9. WP2 : Review and define • Technical meeting – Sunderland – 5th December 2011 • http://cerifinaction.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/technical-workshop-review-of-cerif-projects/ • Discussion on euroCRIS forum • http://www.eurocris.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=6 • Review documentation

10. Mapping issues • Unique person IDs … so many ways  • CRISPool: person-[UKPRN]-[Person InstID] • IRIOS: Generated UUIDs • CERIFy: Employee IDs from Incites • Some options: • LOD (Linked Open Data) or new External ID entity in CERIF 1.3 [hot of the press yesterday!]– relates on external ID to internal ID • Internal unique ID and IDs in Person and e.g. OrgUnit link tables • use a Classification scheme to carry the additional external IDs against cfPers as in CRISPool and R4R

11. Mapping issues • Personal/Honorific Titles • CRISPool: not used? • IRIOS: uses cfPerson_Classfication • CERIFy: not used? • Suggest adding to CERIF semantics? • Organisation Types • CRISPool: University > School > Department > etc. • IRIOS: Similar to CRISPool • CERIFy: Mapping roles in OrgUnit_EAddress • CERIF semantics list top-level only