© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 1 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Brigitte Jörg, M.A. (Information Science) Language Technology Lab, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Saarbrücken, Germany CERIF TG Report

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 2 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Introduction of Speaker Brigitte Jörg M.A. Information Science Information Systems, Business Administration  Researcher, Project Manager DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Saarbrücken  CERIF TG Leader, Board Member euriCRIS  Contact: dfki.de

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 3 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Overview  Reference: Current Release CERIF 2008 – 1.0  Ongoing Developments for the next Release Bugfixes Formalizing CERIF Semantics XML Formalization  UK CERIF-related Activities  Ready4REF  UK Councils  Towards Ontologizing CERIF (interest expressed)  Next Steps and Plan  Identify Priorities for next Release  UK Councils -> Ready4Ref  Funding-related Extensions  Ontologizing CERIF  Administrative

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 4 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Current CERIF Release 2008 – 1.0  Model Introduction and Specification  Scripts for Most Common Databases  Data Exchange Format Specification  CERIF Semantics (for publication types and publication related roles)  CERIF XML Examples  XML Schema Files for the validation of XML Files 

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 5 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Ongoing Developments for the next Release  Bugfixes  Formalizing CERIF Semantics (IDs + Terms)  Schema IDs in general ( )  cfPerson-ResultPublicationRoles_firstAuthor  cfPerson-ResultPublicationRoles_secondAuthor  cfPerson-ResultPublicationRoles_externalAuthor  cfPerson-ResultPublicationRoles_50%Author ...  ID=cfPublicationTypes_  ID=cfPublicationRoles_  XML Formalizations of Updates in Schemas and Examples  Discussions about the UK Activities (partly to decide on Friday)  Funding-related extensions for Flemish Activities (not mature enough)

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 6 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report UK-related CERIF Activities  UK Councils (CERIF TG to decide upon Modelling)  Using CERIF as an Exchange Format between Councils  projects should be classifiable into (say) 3 classifiers, with a % associated to each - enabling the money to be split accordingly  projects can be X% funded by OrgUnit A and y% funded by OrgUnitB  Ready4REF (will require another Meeting with UK Parties)  Using CERIF for REF reporting (sustainable)  Choose the model adequately for needs  Completeness of the CERIF model for R4R  Is „Unit of Assessment“ a Classification?  Is „Unit of Assessment“ an Organisation?  Currently ongoing: Mappings  Towards Ontologizing CERIF (needs communication)  „CERIF Ontology“ in Semantic Web Technology

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 7 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Funding-related extensions for Flemish Activities  Adding new Entities to the Model (ongoing)  Funding Programme (is there)  to add Grant ?  to add Call ?  Discussing about related Semantics (for example)  Is there a difference between Funding Programme (more general then call) Call (specified amount of time, topic)  Should we keep the entities separate at the model level  requires use cases  requires testing

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 8 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report CERIF Model Entities Citation CV Prize Qualification ExpertiseAndSkills Equipment Facility Funding Service ElectronicAddresse PostalAddress Country Currency LanguageEvent Metrics

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 9 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report CERIF “Modules” per Request / Application

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 10 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Next Steps and Plans (>> Details in TG Meeting) Currently a lot of adhoc incoming activities and events (UK) >> Current Priorities (1) Decision about CERIF extensions towards UK Council needs (2) Mapping CERIF to Ready4REF requirements (3) Next Release (incorporating UK Requirements) (4) Funding-related extensions (5) Ontologizing CERIF (long- term) Priorities depend on the outcome of this Membership Meeting discussions and on the deadlines within above projects.

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 11 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Administrative  Who wants to be added to the mailinglist ?  to  CERIF TG Meeting on Friday  Starting Time 8:30 >>> 09:30 Friday 13th,  Who is interested in participating in the meeting ?  CERIF Tutorial – 15:30 Today  Presenting the CERIF 2008 – 1.0 Model  Who is interested in participating in the Tutorial ?

© Brigitte Jörg November 11th, 2009 St. Andrews, Scottland 12 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Notes from the Meeting