The case for interoperability in CRIS solutions euroCRIS membership meeting Bologna May Susanna Mornati, CILEA
Mission & Members CILEA is an inter-university not-for-profit consortium, based in Italy and founded in 1974 to: promote innovation coordinate initiatives develop services in information and communication technologies (ICT) 12 members (Italian Ministry of HE and Research and 11 universities)
Main dimensions Over 27M € annual revenue (red: financial contribution from the Ministry, green: revenues from activities) Over 120 employees (high degree of specialization) Headquarters in Milan (Segrate) and offices in Rome.
Main activities (by revenue) ICT services for Higher Educatioo n ICT services for Research E-learning ICT services for the Ministry Cilea Digital Library Libraries Automation Cultural Heritage HPC Network Systems mgm ServerFarm Storage Mainframe
CILEA’s role in CRIS Some years ago CILEA started to partner with Italian universities and research centres that needed a CRIS to control and enhance their performance: 2003 repositories (DSpace) 2004 research activities management 2006 business intelligence 2008 complete platform for Current Research Information Systems: SURplus was born
SURplus architecture
Input from legacy systems: 1. merge people and organizations External Partners Suppliers Customers Telephone directory Researchers Faculties Students & courses
Input from legacy systems: 2. merge financial data External Funding Supplies Purchases Contracts Accountability
Input from legacy systems: 3. merge data on research activities External Projects Seminars & events Depts info Internal Funding procedures
Input from legacy systems: 4. merge data (+full-text) on publications Digital collections E-Publishing systems Depts Publications directories Legacy lists
Input from external systems: merge data from any sources! Sherpa/ Romeo Ministry Databases (publications, projects,…) Bibliographic metadata (CrossRef, PubMed, ArXiv, RePEc, …) Future: Linked data, … Bibliometric data (Scopus, WoS, …)
OUTPUT to internal & external systems
OUTPUT to publish data for visibility & prestige
How we do it RELATIONAL DATABASES XML/HTML SOAP REST JSON OAI-PMH SWORD ATOM/RSS …..
Technologies
SURplus architecture
Data Aggregation
Dissemination & Impact
Visibility first two results out of 424,000
Data Reports Impact Factor
Statistics and data analysis Average number of publications per researcher by disciplinary area
Statistics and data analysis Average IF per researcher by quintile Quintile: the portion of a frequency distribution containing one fifth of the total sample.
Diagrams and Dashboards
OLAP CUBES online analytical processing for multi- dimension al analytical queries
Why interoperability? Interoperability among components and external systems goes beyond system integration It preserves independence in choosing how to build one’s own CRIS infrastructure It preserves previous investments in technologies and organizational efforts
Conclusions There is a need to share your data among systems and reuse them There is a need to disseminate your research output Open standards and protocols enhance your chances for interoperability, so: go beyond integration, go open!
Thanks for your attention! Susanna Mornati CILEA