Eco-systems of research information
systems: a global perspective
João Mendes Moreira
PT-CRIS

Agenda
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Background
Survey
Conclusions
PT-CRIS
PT-CRIS

Background
FCT- FCCN
merger
WG created
Consultancy
Workshop
FCT
1st
Workshop
PT-CRIS
Diagnosis
(processes & IT)
PT-CRIS further
studies approved
Expert group
Improvement
opportunities
2nd
workshop
PT-CRIS
Reference model
Strategic plan
Go No-Go
Technical studies
for reference model
definition
Today
Recommendations
• 6 short/medium term
• 1 long term (PT-CRIS)
Collaboration
Realization
Studies and strategy
PT-CRIS

The research information space
Source:
EUROCRIS.org
Editors
Industry
Research
institutions
Research
organizations
Investment
opportunities
Publications
Libraries
Patents
Products
Data centres
Projects
Researchers
Research data
Equipment
Facilities
Researchers
Governments
Financiers

Background - goals
• Reference Architecture
• Components / modules to support
• Interoperability (IRs, CRIS, Other scientific
SI systems)
• Norms and standards (data model, interfaces)

Background - 1st workshop deliverables
Deliverable
D2.1 – Eco-systems
D2.2 – Academic expertise (CVs)
D2.3 – CRISs
D2.4 – Outputs/Outcomes
Responsável
FCT
DeGóis
UP
SDUM /
Authenticus
D2.5 – Guidelines and standards
DeGóis
D2.6 – Organizations management
DGEEC

Survey eco - design
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•
•
•
Institution profile
Services
Services dimension (national, federated, local)
Protocols and standards
Interoperability
Logical architecture
SWOT
CRIS-PT

Agenda
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•
Background
Survey
Conclusions
PT-CRIS
PT-CRIS

Survey eco – institution profile
Country
Suisse
Check Republic
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Slovak Republic
Netherlands
Brazil
TLD
CH
CZ
PT
ES
SE
SK
NL
BR
Trends, not certainties!
CRIS-PT

Survey eco – institution profile
Organization type
Organization Name
Funding
Research Library
Agency
Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic,
Research and Development and Innovation
Council
Foundation for Science and Technology
SPANISH FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (FECYT)
Swedish Research Council
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical
Information (SCSTI)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico
e Tecnológico – CNPq
Data
Archive
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Data Archiving and Networked Services – DANS
CRIS-PT
Govern.
X
4
1
X
2
3
1

Survey eco - Services
CRIS
Academic
expertise
Project
database
Organizations
database
Outcomes /
outputs
Grant
management
Reserach
news
Research
ethics
Scientific
equipment
Research
portal
CRIS-PT

Survey eco - Services
CRIS
Academic
expertise
Project
database
Outcomes /
outputs
Organizations
database
Grant
management
Research
ethics
Scientific
equipment
Project call
Research
portal
Statistics
Evaluation
Scientific
Journals
CRIS-PT
Reserach
news
Research data

Survey eco - services
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
CRIS-PT

Survey eco - Software
Service
COUNTRY
Custom vs Proprietary
CH
Organizations database
C
Scientific equipment
PT
ES SE
SK
NL
BR
Total
-
Academic expertise (CVs)
CZ
C
C
C
P
C
C
C=5, P=1
C
P
C
C
C=4, P=2
P
C
C=1,P=1
PC
P
C
C=4, P=2
C
C
P
C
C
C=6, P=2
P
-
Grant management
C
-
C
Outcomes/outputs
C
P
C
Project database
C
P
C
P
P
C
C
C=4, P=2
Research portal
NA
P
C
PC
P
C
C
C=4, P=2
P
P
PC
P
C
C
C=3, P=3
Research news
CRIS-PT

Survey eco - Staff
Number of staff involve in
development
Function
COUNTRY
CH CZ PT ES SE SK NL BR
Academic expertise (CVs)
NA
Organizations database
2
4
med
CH CZ PT ES
SE
3,0
3
3,0
6
NA 3
?
4
3
?
2
4
3
3,5
3,0
3
3,5
3
5
Grant management
Outcomes/outputs
Project database
2
10
NA
Research portal
NA
5
6
3
0,35
4
3
NA 3
151
0,5
4
3
2,5
3,0
3,0
3,0
NA 3
3
?
6
1
3,0
3
3,0
4
6
2,3
3
1
3,0
3
1,6
1
0,8
9
15
7,5
8
2
2,5
5
2,3
1
8
3
0,7
4
3,5
5
3
0,8
3
6
2,3
0,1
1
Research news
Research ethics
7
31
9
18
SK NL BR med
4
4
1,2
8
1,2
Scientific equipment
Sub-Total
Number of staff involved in operations
18 0 2,5 45
CRIS-PT
29,8
2
5
3
1
0,5
9 18 7
169
4,65
29 0,75
30,3

Survey eco - dimension
Dimension
Federated
National
Service /data
CH CZ PT ES SE SK NL BR
Academic expertise (CVs)
X
Organizations database
X
X
X
D
X
D
X
X
Scientific equipment
Grant management
X
Outcomes /outputs
X
X
0
4
0
Y
2
1
X
3
X
X
6
0
2
X
6
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
D
X
X
3
X
X
2
X
X
X
3
X
1
X
X
X
3
X
3
X
7
X
X
X
X
X
5
X
X
D
X
X
6
Research news
X
X
X
X
X
5
0
X
X
other - Research data
X
X
X
3
0
X
X
2
other - Statistics survey of
research potential
X
X
X
3
0
X
X
2
other - Evaluation of
quality of science
X
X
X
3
0
X
X
2
45
7
X
CRIS-PT
X
X
X
X
X
1
X
Research portal
X
6
X
Project database
X
CH CZ PT ES SE SK NL BR Total CH CZ PT ES SE SK NL BR Total
1
X
X
Total
Local (institutional)
X
X
X
33

Survey eco - Protocols & Standards
• 5 reported some use of CERIF
• 3 reported some proprietary protocols
– ES – CVN – Normalized CV
– NL – Proprietary identifiers, vocabulary
– LATTES-XML
CRIS-PT

Survey eco - Interoperability
Data providers
Service
AE (CVs) Org.DB
Grant
Outcomes Project External Scientific
Total
management /outputs DB
Sources equip.
3
1
3
1
3
5
2
2
2
Grant management
Data collectors
Academic expertise (CVs)
Organizations database
3
3
1
1
1
Outcomes /outputs
Project database
External Sources
Scientific equipment
Research portal
Research news
Research ethics
Other - project calls
other - Statistics survey of
research potencial
2
2
3
4
1
2
3
1
1
3
2
1
3
2
1
3
2
1
1
1
1
3
3
1
2
1
2
1
2
other - Qvaluation of quality
of science
Total
4
2
1
1
12
24
1
1
CRIS-PT
20
9
14
14
2
3
14
3
0
1
5
1
9
21
9
2
14
14
4

Survey eco – Architecture - SE
CRIS-PT

Survey eco – Architecture - ES
Researchers
National
services
CVN
Grants
management
Research
projects
Research
results
PAID
RECOLECTA
Research
Researchs
Research news
results
ethics
ICONO
Others
SINC
RECYT
Universities
and Research
Organizations
Spanish
Scientific
Journals
Ez PUBLISH
OAI-PMH
OJS
Federated
services
Local services
Information
standards
SIC
CVN
PDF
XML
CERIF
Institutional
Repository
OAI-PMH
CSV
Oracle
DRIVER
TXT
Discoverer/S OPEN AIRE
Google API
QL
D-NET
Dublin Core
CRIS-PT

Survey – Architecture - BR
Function
Stakeholders
Research
projects
Research
results
Grants
management
Research
portal
0
lattes.br
carloschagas.br
Researchers
Oportunities
National Services
CVs
Research
Patents
Groups
Grants
Publications
Scholarships
Publications
Grants and
(Universities
Scholarships
Repositories)
(State Funders)
R&D
Institutions &
Projects
Facilities
Local Services
Solution architecture
and students
Lattes
Institutional
Databases
Lattes-XML
Projects
(State Funders)
DOI, DSpace,
Scopus, ISI
PT-CRIS
Editorial/news

Survey – Architecture - SE
CRIS-PT

Survey eco - Examples of services - SK
CRIS-PT

Examples of services - CZ
CRIS-PT

Survey eco - SWOT
Country TLD Strengths
Check
Republic
Slovak
Republic
Weaknesses
Opportunities
A stable national CRIS with a long tradition. It
enables transparency in the research funding
domain.
Certain types of
entities missing,
most notably
Facility, Equipment
and Research
Dataset
Quality (Czech)
researcher identification
but not shown on the
portal for personal data
privacy reasons
Linked Open Data
exposure
CERIF compatibility
• Legislative background for national R&D
portal and information system providing
10 years of experience of SCSTI with providing
the similar system
• Established system for R&D organization data
identification (system of evaluation as
condition for use of public resources)
• Implementation of EU standards (CERIF)
• Absence of
institutional CRIS
systems in Slovakia
• Quality and
complexity of
received data is not
lawfully guaranteed
• Improve the
cooperation of Slovak
R&D stakeholders in the
area of R&D data exchange
and systems integration
• Improve the legislation
for reach more complex
and more valid data
CZ
SK
•
•
Portugal PT
Threats
Outputs and outcomes module
Team potential and completeness
(expertise , networking (COAR,
euroCRIS, OCDE, etc))
•
•
CRIS-PT
Underdevelo
ped or nonexistent
modules
Non-CERIF
•
•
•
•
Best practices
Efficiency
Transparency
Better service
• Ensure
continual and
sufficient
funding of SK
CRIS
•
•
Funding
Political
instability

Survey eco – Conclusions
• Survey
– survey response rate was near 50%
– Some questions were complex to answer
– One should read the results in terms of trends
• Responders were mostly Funding agency or
governmental institutions
CRIS-PT

Survey eco – Conclusions
• Services
– New services emerged:
• Some related to outcomes/outputs research data,
scientific journals
• Some related to grants and projects: project call
• Some related to statistics and evaluation
– Most well established services are:
• Outcomes/outputs (8), project database , research
portal (7), academic expertise and org. database (6)
PT-CRIS

Survey eco - Conclusions
• Software - most of the systems are custom developments
• Staff
– Staff is distributed equally between operations and development
– All services, operation sum of medians was dev (28), ops (32)
• Services national (45) and/or local (33), not federated (7)
• Most of the responders indicated some form of CERIF use
• Interoperability
– The top data collectors are CVs, research portal, outcomes / ouputs
and project database
– The top data providers are Organizations
database, outcomes/outputs
PT-CRIS

Survey Eco - Highlights
• Suisse – how to set up a strategical vision
http://www.crus.ch/dms.php?id=28920
• Slovakia – Components of a national CRIS
• Danica Zendulkova: State-operated CRIS systems
in the EU. CVTI SR : Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
2011. ISBN 978-80-89354-04-7
PT-CRIS

Agenda
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Background
Survey
Conclusions
PT-CRIS
PT-CRIS

Conclusions
• The state of the art reports were very
important to:
– Learn the best practices
– Get decision makers confident
• euroCRIS played an important role in this
process
– Guidance on the survey
– Facilitator for identifying respondents
PT-CRIS

euroCRIS whish list
• Architecture reference model
• Modules specs / requirements (ex:
RFPs)
• One layer up: from tables to objects
PT-CRIS

Agenda
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Background
Survey
Conclusions
PT-CRIS
– PT systems maturity
– Critical analysis
– Strategy
– Next Steps
PT-CRIS

Web
Maturity
Outcomes /outputs
Statistics
Academic exp.
Research portal Research ethics
CRISs
Scientific Eqpt.
Org. database
Research news
Evaluation
Grant mngt
Core
Interoperabilidade
PT-CRIS

Survey Eco – Critical analysis (PT)
• Portugal has a long way to go:
– Authoritative organizations database
– Call, grants and project services are obsolete
– Research portal to be considered
– Evaluation and stats to be further analyzed
– CRISs needed
• Swedish logical architecture seams to be the
most comprehensive
• CERIF seams to be imperative
PT-CRIS

Strategy
PT-CRIS
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Vision and mission
Benefits
Stakeholders
Fields of activity
Principles
Service architecture
Organization of the
program
• Operating model
CRIS-PT

Digital ecosystem for research information
Grants
management
Function
Portal
Research
results
Research
news
Research
ethics
National services
Research portal
Academic
expertise
Research
news
Organizations
database
Federated
services
Scientific
equipment
Academic
expertise
Grants mgmt
Projects
database
Outcomes /
outputs
CRISs
CRISs
Outcomes /
outputs
Local
Services
Solution architecture
Research
projects
Business
Intelligence
Expert
service
Outcomes /
Projekt
Projekt
outputs
(EKO m.fl.)
(EKO m.fl.)
Grants mgmt
Ansökningar
Ansökningar
(local)
(Prisma)
(Prisma)
funders
Projects
Projekt
Ansökningar
database
(lokala)
(Prisma)
(local)
Övriga
Outcomes /
Publikationer
Ansökningar
outputs
(EKO m.fl.)
(Prisma)
Statistics
News
Projekt
Ansökningar
(local)
(EKO m.fl.)
(Prisma)
Research
ethics

Strategy - Priorities
Risk
Fed. CRIS Syst.
Grant Manag.
Evaluation
Statistics
Research portal
Scientific equipt
Research news
Research ethics
Organizations database
Academic exp.
Outcomes / outputs
Impact
Cost
PT-CRIS

Background
FCT –WG
2nd
workshop
PT-CRIS
Go No-Go
Program
management
Prioritization
Investment plan
Implementation
planning
Reference model
Strategic plan
Today
Phase 2
Strategy – phase 1
PT-CRIS
Realization

Cooperation is power!
PT-CRIS

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