CERIF-based CRISs are nowadays very quickly spreading across universities and research centres worldwide, and specifically across European institutions. Driven by internal institutional reporting needs plus the requirements for external research assessment exercises, they have undergone a fast expansion process. Different approaches to institutional CRIS implementation do however coexist in Europe: while institutions based in Northern European countries such as the UK, Germany, Denmark or The Netherlands will very often rely on CERIF-compliant CRISs delivered by the main CRIS vendors to meet their reporting requirements, many institutions – mainly in Southern European countries – run effective CRIS platforms that do not (yet) meet the CERIF standard – since a CRIS needn’t be CERIF-compliant for becoming a useful institutional research information management platform. Most vendors offering these non CERIF-compliant platforms are nevertheless gradually evolving their data models towards CERIF, since it will ensure harmonisation and interoperability. This presentation will provide a preliminary snapshot of the institutional CRIS implementation in Europe as an outcome of the ongoing information gathering process being carried out by the euroCRIS Best Practice/DRIS Task Group. Models based on a national/regional CRIS implementation will also be examined, together with its coexistence with institutional ones in specific countries.

1. euroCRIS Membership Meeting – Autumn 2013
Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal, Nov 14-15, 2013
CRIS implementation models in Europe:
one goal, different strategies and speeds
Pablo de Castro
euroCRIS Best Practice/DRIS Task Group Leader
GrandIR Ltd.
http://www.grandir.com/en/
pcastro@grandir.com

2. RIM System Configuration at Institutional Level
[Slide: Keith Jeffery, euroCRIS]

3. RIM System Configuration at National Level

4. Characterising CRIS and repositories
CRIS and Repositories: two sides of the same RIM coin

5. IR-as-CRIS, CRIS-as-IR: new RIM models

6. Characterising CRIS and repositories
The so-called “CRIS/IR dichotomy”
Internal
Research Office
Research Information Mgt
Metadata
Automatic harvesting
CERIF
Proprietory software
External
Library
Open Access
Full-text/Digital objects
Manual ingest
DC/MODS/METS
Open source
“Does it make sense to maintain two independent systems?”

7. The Complex CRIS/IR Landscape in the UK

8. Analysis of institutional CRIS implementation: use cases

9. An equally successful institutional CRIS implementation – on
a different model

10. Quick evolution in many countries

11. The euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS)

12. The need to collect comprehensive information and best practices

13. euroCRIS Membership Meeting – Autumn 2013
Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal, Nov 14-15, 2013
Obrigado!
Pablo de Castro
euroCRIS Best Practice/DRIS Task Group Leader
GrandIR Ltd.
http://www.grandir.com/en/
pcastro@grandir.com