Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information the national information centre and specialized scientific library of the Slovak Republic focused on all branches of technology and selected areas of natural and economic sciences Since 1938

1. Short view of our organisation with emphasis on new national wide tasks in the field of R&D 2. Problem of the Transformation of the Information System on Research and Development in the Slovakia - experience with SK CRIS building EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

State-owned institution with task to gather, process and provide science-related information and build complex information systems for R&D 108 employees 42 servers 206 PC (770 for users) 1 Gbps interent connection New modern building 20 mil.EUR /open 2007/ Budget for year approximately 2,5 mil. EUR Books units Users (active readers) Average salary of employee 751 EUR EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

◦ Library services of scientific library * ◦ Depository Library of the OECD and the EBRD ◦ European Documentation Centre, provision of EU- related information ◦ Grey literature collecting ◦ Centre of Patent Information of the SR – PATLIB * explanation : Our former name was “Slovak Technical Library“ EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

Implementation of Central register of dissertations, theses and habilitations of Universities in Slovakia – in routine from April Implementation of Central register of evidence public activities Universities in Slovakia – in routine from October Implementation of Antiplagiarism system (supplier is private SK firm ) - in routine from April 2010 EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

Methodical and analytical support of management and evaluation in the area of R&D and higher education Management of three National projects funded by EU through ERDF EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

 "National Information system of support research in Slovakia – access to EIS" - NISPEZ "National Information system of support research in Slovakia – access to EIS" - NISPEZ (Budget : 20 mil. €)  "Data Centre for research and development" - DC DR "Data Centre for research and development" - DC DR (Budget: 33 mil. €)  "National infrastructure for technology transfer support in SR" - NITT SR (Budget : 8 mil. €) "National infrastructure for technology transfer support in SR" - NITT SR EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague 20107

8  Project NISPEZ  Free on – line access for all academic and research workers in Slovakia for 2008/2014 to 16 more important on-line databases (WOS, Knovel, Scopus...)  Implementation of MetaLib/SFXMetaLib/SFX ( system to search domestic/overseas databases “at once” – one interface for all databases )  Project DATA CENTRE for R&D  Building modern datacentre in town ZILINA (160 TB, 24 blade servers, full security, 10 GB connectivity)  Digital centre for „science“ in Bratislava

EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague  Project DATA CENTRE for RD  Building modern data centre in town ZILINA (160 TB, 24 blade servers, full security, 10 GB connectivity) Open 1. June 2010  Digital centre for „Science“ in Bratislava (8 scanners for „everythings“ ) Open 7. June 2010

PART 2 „Problem of Transformation of the Information System on Research and Development in the Slovakia „ Experience with SK CRIS building BASIC FACTS This transformation is part of project NISPEZ ! Inspiration: euro CRISeuro CRIS Basic idea : Full implementation of data model CERIF CERIF Source for this activity : max € Main tool: Public Procurement EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

Two forms of interpretation of our aim: Non formal: With EU money to transform our national RIS to European standards what means to SK CRIS Formal : Transformation of Slovak IS of R and D to new functions with respect of standards EU with emphasing to effective using and connections to other IS EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

CIP RDI is hosted and administrated by the SCSTI and provides: Evidence of subjects of R&D (organisations app. 700) Evidence of R&D experts (app.1000) Evidence of R&D infrastructure EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

CIP RDI is hosted and administrated by the SCSTI and provides: R&D related summary reports Information on results of R&D tasks’ solution and participation of the SR in international programmes Information on public calls for research proposals and projects implemented within the state R&D support programmes (app.3800 projects) EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

Be compatible with EU standard /easy to exchange ”right” information/ Augmented with new functions /export by demand, sophisticated searching, etc../ Better interconnections with other R&D related information systems. EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

The improvement of English version of the portal (full bilingual version). Be really complex and actual system /new system of collection information/ System more strongly oriented to ”science” user EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

April 2009 International conference about science in EU /standarts and compatibility of CRIS/ in BratislavaInternational conference about science in EU /standarts and compatibility of CRIS/ in Bratislava AIM : TO SHOW THAT there in EU THEY SOLVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS WE HAVE TO SOLVE - Building effective CRIS Audience: app.80 participants All who have „something” with management of science, state managers and others stakeholders in science Speakers: from Germany, Hungary, Czech republic and Slovakia Outcome : Proceeding from conferenceProceeding from conference EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

April 2009 Seminar about format CERIFSeminar about format CERIF AIM : One of main author of format CERIF explained Slovak IT experts ”What is it CERIF” Audience: 16 experts from public and private IT firms they have knowledge and no possibility to give money / EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

May 2009 – December 2009 elaborated 7 studies Authors: 2 active scientists, 1 expert from science funding organisation, 1 ministry expert / in Slovakia science is subordinate Ministry of Education /, 1 expert from Slovak Technical University, 1 expert from area RD data and indicators, 1 expert from Computer Centre of Slovak Academy of Science Outcomes : we obtained approximately 400 pages of analyses and ideas about “ ideal” CRIS …. EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

First round of so called „Narrow Tender“ Januar 2010 – March 2010 General report from 7 sub studies Elaborated conditions for supplier of SK CRIS : 3 main conditions : Economical, Experts qualification and References Title of procurement’ s subject matter: „The research and development information system respecting and recommended CERIF data model“ EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

Second round of „Narrow Tender“ Elaborated obligatored requirements on tender records (solutions) and mandatory parts of future contract. July September 2010 We obtain 7 offers. October 2010 We have selected the best offer - only one criteria PRICE (approximately half of supposed price) EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

START – DECEMBER 2010 ( Day „D” Date of Signature of contract) D+2 months Preparation phase 02/2011 D+9 months Analytic and project phase 09/2011 D+14 months Development phase 02/2012 D+ 16 months Testing phase 04/2012 D+17 months Pilot operation phase 05/2012 D+ 18 months System launching into the full operation 06/2012 FINISH - JUNE 2012 EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague Some useful link Problems of building Current Research Information Systems in Slovakia K problémom budovania informačných systémov o vede v SR

If you cannot solve a problem you are playing by the rules /Paul Arden/ EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague

EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague Thank you for attention

Ján Turňa, Oleg Cvik EuroCRIS membership meeting Prague