Towards a national research information infrastructure in the Netherlands based on CERIF: challenges and opportunities Chris Baars, supervisor Electronic Services Chris.Baars@dans.knaw.nl EuroCRIS, Barcelona 10 - 11 November 2015

National Information Infrastructure before 2014 Same CRIS’s on national level (1990) One exchange format (no standard, national) Policy / agreements Digital Author Identifier (2007) Not international

After 2014: Changes of National Information Infrastructure 15 CRIS’s (5 vendors) and >35 repositories and archives Integration of CRIS with IR Broadened scope to international DAI will be phased out (start 2015) Conclusion: new interoperability challenges! CERIF is recognized as solution, but change is needed

Need of change ...?

Creating a new information landscape with CERIF Creating a new information landscape with CERIF! But more hurdles are to be taken ….

Hurdle 1# Vision & policy Create Awareness & build vision Ask for mandate: directors & administrators Landscape more complex Clear roles: Executive (Sponsor), DP, SP, other stakeholders Policy issues: What about long-term preservation? What about Data Seal Approval? OAIS framework? Data Curation Other recognized formats (DataCite etc?)

Hurdle 2# CERIF format CERIF: a database model, CERIF compliancy, application profiles like; NL-CERIF, Open-AIRE CERIF, API CERIF: don’t be vague! CRIS’s don’t deliver CERIF XML > common application profile? Data-model to complex for exchange > OpenAIRE or CERIF- API might be useful as M? Implementation must be: Common, European (Int) useful for Research Information

Hurdle 3# Vocabularies Do CERIF vocabularies need national / local customization? CERIF does not automatically solve vocabulary problems Interest of different stakeholders: universities, funding agency, information portals et cetera .. As international as possible! (COAR etc.)

Hurdle 4# Protocol / API All tested systems had an API, not all very useful Common protocol New / edit / delete need to be supported; incremental Export / import

Hurdle 5# Identifiers Global Unique Identifiers, not local DAI >> ISNI and ORCID more to follow… For all digital objects (person, organization, project, publication, datasets etc.) Persistent Namespace, otherwise meaningless Management!

Hurdle 5# Replacing DAI ORCID (Open Researchers and Contributor ID) Author-claim principle (as organisation possible) More known by researchers Free self registration ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Management by University Libraries Free conversion DAI to ISNI (done!) Royal Library as ‘NRA’ Quality check

Hurdle 6# Maintaining standards Platform for maintaining standards (Edustandaard) Workflow for changes Communication Clear roles

Finish: chris.baars@dans.knaw.nl