Presentation on Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), Institutional Repositories (IRs) and their interoperability delivered at the 5th Portuguese-Brazilian Open Access Conference (ConfOA) in Coimbra on Oct 7th, 2014.

1. CRISs, IRs and their interoperability: an updated picture
[with some focus on Portuguese initiatives]
Pablo de Castro
euroCRIS Board member
GrandIR Ltd
pcastromartin@gmail.com
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-1033

2. System interoperability (beyond CRIS/IR): the key concept
Publications
Bibtex,
Refman
Uploaded
Harvested
L inked
Full Text
Repository
Open Access
Activities
University of
St Andrews
CRIS
(Pure)
Fed Out
Industry / SME’s
Interface
HEI – Strategic
Planning, Benchmarking
REF, RCUK
SFC, HESA
Public, Media
Recognition / Impact
Collaborations
Research Pools
WoS, arXiv,
PubMed,
Scopus…
Pulled In
Manual
Input
University
Structure [HR]
Staff Records
[HR]
Student
Records
[Registry]
Projects, Grants,
KT
[Finance]
Entered
Award /
recognition
Dissemination
/ Engagement
Research data sets
(multiple locations and
formats)
Impact
Indicators
Measures
Case
Studies

3. System interoperability (beyond CRIS/IR): the key concept
'Interoperability' has two different and simultaneous implications:
1. Effective data exchange ('imported' as good as 'created')
2. External record querying and visualization as if local
Actual cross-institutional system implementations rather relying on a 'service layer'
that will interoperate with whatever systems are available at institutional level
(not quite following this ideal-world model)

4. Forthcoming COAR Repository Observatory release:
"7 things you should know about CRISs, IRs and their
interoperability"
https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-observatory/

5. Forthcoming COAR Repository Observatory release:
"7 things you should know about CRISs, IRs and their
interoperability": case studies
Case Studies:
U Glasgow – Enlighten
Sigarra U.Porto
PT-CRIS
https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-observatory/

6. Four main CRIS/IR interoperability areas at UGla factsheet
1. Metadata exchange for bibliographic records
2. Data exchange on research context (mainly projects & funding)
3. Finance information exchange for GoldOA payment management
4. Metadata exchange for Research Data Management purposes
https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Jisc-Monitor/APC-data-collection/

7. Gold OA leads to improvement on policy compliance monitoring
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/library/2014/09/23/lse-87-compliant-with-the-rcuk-policy-on-open-access/

8. Moving towards IR-as-CRIS scenario (but also CRIS-as-IR)
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271048/

9. Extending the repository datamodel (EPrints)

10. Whatever the institutional systems and their specific
configuration, exchange between systems and
communities is a key requirement for building the
needed services on top of the whole array of use cases

11. Some key interoperability trends (I): global standards

12. Some key interoperability trends (II): CERIF-XML
[OpenAIRE – H2020]
https://guidelines.openaire.eu/wiki/OpenAIRE_Guidelines:_For_CRIS

13. Some key interoperability trends (II): CERIF-XML
[Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya – Catalan Research Portal]

14. Some key interoperability trends (III): RDM the next key challenge
(at much an earlier stage than previous use cases)
http://dspacecris.eurocris.org/handle/11366/184

15. Interoperability the leitmotiv for next euroCRIS SMM

16. Obrigado!
Pablo de Castro
euroCRIS Board member
GrandIR Ltd
pcastromartin@gmail.com
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-1033