CRIS in the Netherlands
Marjan Vernooy-GerritseneuroCRIS - St. Andrews – November 2009
Agenda
• Laboratorial Assessment of CRIS’s• Prioritising criteria (MoSCoW)• Dreaming of …. As-is To-be
Dutch Situation
• Metis - Built by UCI of Radboud University Nijmegen
- Started in 1993, based on Oracle
- Used by all 13 universities and KNAW
- Metadata of content in Open Access Repositories
- Affiliation central (person – organisation)
• Next Generation Metis- Oracle Forms Java
• Rethinking the function of CRIS
MetisEntity Relationship Diagram
Equipment
ProjectProjectOrganisationOrganisation
Service
Funding Programme
Patent
Skills
CV
Product
Event
PersonPerson
Classification(Semantics)
Classification(Semantics)
Publication
CERIF: Common European Research
Information Format
Request of Interest
• Laboratorial assessment of three Current Research Information Systems:- Converis (version 3.1), Avedas, Germany
- Metis (version 2.1) + Personal Metis, UCI, The Netherlands
- PURE (version 3.10), Atira, Denmark
• Installed and filled with same case • Hands-on assessment took place from
May 2008 until December 2008.
Laboratorial assessment
Main issues
1. Input & registration
2. Output & reporting
3. Functional application management
4. Workflow engine
5. Usability
6. Interoperability
7. Adaptability
8. Technical architecture and technical application management
9. Pricing and implementation
10. Supplier and client ratings
Laboratorial Assessment (2)
Main issues
1. Input & registration
2. Output & reporting
3. Functional application management
4. Workflow engine
5. Usability
6. Interoperability
7. Adaptability
8. Technical architecture and technical application management
9. Pricing and implementation
10. Supplier and client ratings
1
2
- Weak or not
available
V OK
+ Strong
n/a Not
applicable
and not
scored
* Score
weighted
double
Input & Registration
1 Input & Registration Converis Metis PURE
1.1 * Input of research output metadata v + +Input of research programs and projects by manually filling-in electronic forms. Registration of funding by (part of) research programs and projects. Registration of relations between organizational units and research programs and projects. Registration of relations between persons and research programs and projects.
1.2 Import of research output metadata (by file batch) v + +
Import of research output metadata by manual import of digital metadata (ex. BibTeX entry). Input of multiple research publications. Automatic metadata association. Automatic person recognition (DAI), optionally within a pre-defined range.
etcetera
Input & Registration
1 Input & Registration Converis Metis PURE
1.1 * Input of research output metadata v + +
1.2 Import of research output metadata (by file batch) v + +
1.3 Import of research output metadata (by web service/API) v v +
1.4 Import and registration of full-text (by file batch) + v +
1.5 Import and registration of full-text (by web service/API) v + +
1.6 Input of research programs and projects + v +
1.7 Diacritics and multi-byte characters v v v
Total score v + +
Interoperability
6 Interoperability Converis Metis PURE
6.1 Interoperability with external repositories v v +
6.2 Interoperability with external research programs and –project databases v v v
6.3 Interoperability with institutional repository full text files v + +
6.4 Interoperability with HRM-systems + + v
6.5 Interoperability with international programs v v v
6.6 Interoperability with financial systems v - v
6.7 Output to business intelligence tools - v v
6.8 Systems accessibility (API's etcetera) v v
Total score v v v
Total Score
Main Issue Converis Metis PURE
1 Input & registration v + +
2 Output & reporting v v +
3 Functional application management v v +
4 Workflow engine v - v
5 Usability v v +
6 Interoperability v v v
7 Adaptability v - +
8 Technical architecture and technical application management + v +
9 Pricing and implementation + + v
10 Supplier and client ratings + + +
MoSCoW priorities
• Must have• Should have• Could have• Won’t have (now)
• 7 Main Issues• 8.1 Agreement on co-operation / shared service• 8.2 Agreement for centralised reference databases
(authors, organisations, journals, titles, etcetara)
MoSCoW priorities (2)
MoSCoW priorities (3)
MoSCoW priorities (4)
Repository InfrastructuurCurrent Research Information System (CRIS)
Delfi(NWO)
Metis (university)
Repositories(universities)
NARCIS(KNAW)
(DAREnet)
NOD(KNAW)
ERP-systeem(university)
HRM-systeem (university)
Iris(NWO)
ERP(NWO)
DWH(NWO)
D-NET(DRIVER
Europa)
As-is situation (2009)CRIS landscape Metis
eDepot(KB)
metadata
publications
metadata
metadata
metadata
metadata
publications
DataDepot(DANS)
metadata
metadata
Academic Information Domain
Customised Interfaces
Universities, 3TU datacenter, …
Research Information System
Beyond(NWO)
NL-RIS(Shared Service)
NARCISPortal(KNAW)
ERP(NWO)
DWH(NWO)
D-NET(DRIVER
Europa)
ERP
HRM
To-be situation 2012 (?)
DataDepot
(3TU)
eDepot(KB)
DataDepot(DANS)
repositories
publications
datasets
metadata
metadata
metadata metadatametadata
Danish design
DRIVER infrastructuur
Enabling Layer
Data Layer
EU Open AccessRepositories
Functionality Layer
Ad
min
istr
ato
rE
nd
use
rsD-NET / DRIVER portal
Nationale portals
Project Applicatie
aggregator
Next steps
• Step 0:Inventarisation, September 2009• Step 1:Decision stakeholders, December 2009• Step 2:Impact analyse, Risc analyse, April 2010• Step 3:etcetera
• Step x: 2012 Development, Implementation ?
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