A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: CERIF CRIS UK landscape study: work in progress report euroCRIS membership meeting Bonn, May 2013 Rosemary Russell, UKOLN, University of Bath

A centre of expertise in digital information management Jisc Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN (until July 2013) Includes support for Jisc Research Information Management (RIM) Programme eg –CERIF resources –project syntheses –‘landscape’ studies CERIF support project (Brigitte Jörg)

A centre of expertise in digital information management Wider UK CERIF landscape (by Brigitte Jörg)

A centre of expertise in digital information management CERIF CRIS UK landscape study aims document the adoption and current use of CERIF CRIS in UK HE institutions update March 2012 report –compare progress/ reveal how far things have moved on/ identify common issues… –inform future Jisc planning…

A centre of expertise in digital information management CRIS used in UK (provisional %)

A centre of expertise in digital information management CRIS adoption in UK HE Symplectic ‘publications’ product launched in 2005 –CERIF compliant data model in st UK Pure system - mid 2009 (St Andrews/Aberdeen) 1st UK CONVERIS system - beginning 2010 (Cranfield) Intensive CRIS procurement in 2011, slowed down since… –eg between May and October 2011 UK Pure users grew from 7 to 17 –2 new Pure users since March 2012 Now 57 CERIF CRIS users in UK = 33.7% adoption of CERIF in higher education institutions (was 30.7% in March 2012) Although eg in Russell Group – large majority have CRIS Also - Research in View (TR), Dspace CRIS...

A centre of expertise in digital information management Study progress to date 13 interviews carried out (20 institutions in 2011/2012) –7 Pure, 3 CONVERIS, 3 Symplectic Elements –plus 2/3 newer implementations contrast to earlier institutional experiences (eg development of UK data model) Interviewee – ‘CRIS project manager’ or similar, based in: –Research Office (7) –Library/Info Services (5) –IT Department (1) RH –[Some changeover when implementation project ends]

A centre of expertise in digital information management [Coverage] Management/implementation/functionality Developing services eg MRD, benchmarking Data exchange CRIS benefits Community buy-in CERIF experiences User group activity Will just highlight here a few of the key issues emerging…

A centre of expertise in digital information management REF is painful! Research Excellence Framework = UK research assessment system, used to allocate funding… Biggest research information management issue for institutions Key driver for CRIS adoption Majority agreed CRIS functionality to support REF met key requirements although impossible to meet every single requirement two said vendor late in providing REF functionality one underestimated implementation time needed, so CRIS only being used partially – rest in spreadsheets… most reported gripes from individuals using CRIS saved time

A centre of expertise in digital information management Managing research data Next most immediate issue –under discussion but many putting off decisions until after REF Difficult to address – large, disparate datasets for different subject areas –“don’t know what to do” –“too many variations in research data for a single template” –“academics using range of external data archives” Pure user group drafting list of required fields Some concern whether CERIF is keeping up with demands Bath developing standalone pilot data registry in EPrints – to link with Pure in longer term (Strathclyde also considering EPrints, with Pure as catalogue) Another looking at Dspace

A centre of expertise in digital information management Replacing IR with CRIS? Ongoing discussion at many institutions Most continuing with both repository and CRIS –CRIS populates IR (one user interface) –Integration works well for most Exceptions: –1 of interviewees using CRIS to provide IR functionality already –1 on verge… ‘fairly sure will go ahead’

A centre of expertise in digital information management CERIF views/engagement Not much change most have basic understanding only no time/staff resources to take further most still rely on external expertise: vendor/user group “as a manager, I’m happy to be protected!” some had planned to get involved in CERIF after implementation – not happened – other priorities eg REF… “There still isn’t a really clear business driver for CERIF effort” “Fair bit of hype about CERIF a few years ago – but no longer talked about so much” One user with CERIF expertise had changed view: “Suppliers have won the CERIF battle for us, now we don’t have to worry”

A centre of expertise in digital information management Publication end of June euroCRIS Newsflash