© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 1 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Keith G Jeffery President, euroCRIS Premium Members

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 2 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Agenda Introduction – speaker Role of euroCRIS CRIS Strategic Seminars e-Infrastructure

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 3 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Agenda Introduction – speaker Role of euroCRIS CRIS Strategic Seminars e-Infrastructure

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 4 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure euroCRIS The Role It is the role of euroCRIS to: –Promote and improve communication and interaction between global CRIS; –Maintain and publish the CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) recommendation and any standards endorsed by euroCRIS; –Organise and run the CRIS series of conferences with associated workshops and other events;

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 5 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure euroCRIS The Role –Provide a source of expertise in CRIS to members and to others under business arrangements made at the time; –Develop euroCRIS guidelines; –Nurture the CRIS community by events, a newsletter, an online discussion forum and other appropriate mechanisms; –Provide a forum for exploring and exploiting new and emerging concepts and technologies (including data quality, standards, etc.); –Establish a one-stop portal / gateway to international CRIS resources. (eurocris charter)

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 6 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure euroCRIS  Almost 300 members  Work in Task Groups  Biannual Members’ meetings  Annual Strategic Seminar  With our strategic partners  Biennial Conference Partners

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 7 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Agenda Introduction – speaker Role of euroCRIS CRIS Strategic Seminars e-Infrastructure

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 8 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure CRIS Provides Organisational units Persons Projects Funding Publications Products Patents Facilities Equipment Events A ‘map’ of research activity

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 9 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure PROJECTORGUNIT SkillsCV General Facility Particular Equipment Contact Results Publication Results Patent Results Product Service Funding Programme Event Classification Prize/Award PERSON CERIF

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 10 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure RESULT_PUBLICATION PROJECT ORGUNIT PERSON Result_Publication Can Express: Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is author of) Publication X Orgunit O (DT1 - DT2) (is owner of IPR in) Publication X Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is employee of ) Orgunit O Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is project leader of) Project P Person A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit M Person A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit N Orgunit M (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit O Orgunit N (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit O

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 11 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Result_Publication Instance Diagram Person A Publication X OrgUnit O OrgUnit M OrgUnit N Project P member employee Part of owns IPR author Project leader

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 12 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Interlinking Have demonstrated: 1.Interlinking of CERIF CRIS 2.Interlinking of CERIF-CRIS with a repository of documents 3.Interlinking of CERIF-CRIS with a research data /software repository This provides a complete contextual information resource for the organisation locally, nationally and internationally

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 13 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Why is this Important?  Management Information for decision- making on research priorities  e.g. by funding organisations or research institutions  Management Information on research performance  e.g. by research institution based on information on person, organisational unit, facility…  Information to complete automatically many proformas  eg research project proposal  Management information for Innovation

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 14 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure And more….  CERIF-CRIS can be linked to other systems  E.g. finance, HR, project management, CRM….  So becoming the corporate central system for an organisation  Relating together all the information and acting as a ‘bridge’ across all the different systems

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 15 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure CERIF-CRIS : Enhancing and Enabling CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 16 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure And even more…  And can be used to control  workflow  Access  acting as the central data repository  the organisation’s core information about itself and its customers / suppliers / competitors  The centre for control of access to information and e-facilities within and outside the organisation

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 17 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure The R&D Process: Recording Workprogramme Proposal Project Results Exploitation WealthCreation CRIS DATABASE Information from external systems and CRIS

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 18 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Agenda Introduction – speaker Role of euroCRIS CRIS Strategic Seminars e-Infrastructure

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 19 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Strategic Seminars  2003: Driving the ERA Forward by Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges - The Need for Integration over European Current Research Information Systems  2004: CRIS + Open Access = The Route to Research Knowledge on the GRID - Information exchange through institutional archives and the European Research Area (ERA)  2005: The Research Information System and the Research Process in a GRIDs Environment  2006: CRIS - The strategic tool for supporting innovation  2007: CRIS and European e-infrastructure - enabling European research

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 20 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure 2003  Driving the ERA Forward by Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges - The Need for Integration over European Current Research Information Systems  2006 taken up by euroHORCs and being managed by ESF

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 21 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure 2004  CRIS + Open Access = The Route to Research Knowledge on the GRID - Information exchange through institutional archives and the European Research Area (ERA)  OA taken up widely; various declarations  Some funding agencies mandating OA  CRIS and OA repositories linked  2006 Stevan Harnad recommends CRIS as a way to increase completeness and usability of publication repositories  2006 CRIS used to measure publication output as one parameter of Higher Education Research Funding

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 22 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure 2005  The Research Information System and the Research Process in a GRIDs Environment  Importance of hiding complexity from end- user yet providing service anyhow, anytime, anywhere  CRIS as part of the workbench of researcher, research manager, innovator…  Linking of publication and research dataset repositories via CRIS (context)  Prototypes working

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 23 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure 2006  CRIS - The strategic tool for supporting innovation  Use of CRIS to identify ideas for innovation  Issues of intellectual property and protection – recorded / managed within CRIS  Use of CRIS to measure innovation for strategic decision-making  This topic becoming high on government agendas!

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 24 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure And now…2007  CRIS and European e-infrastructure - enabling European research  ESFRI Roadmap published  Research infrastructures produce research outputs (products, patents, publications) that should be identified and contextualised by CRIS  e-infrastructure must include a ‘map’ of research activity supplied by CRIS  CRIS can be used as the access, interoperation, assessment and management tool

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 25 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure Agenda Introduction – speaker Role of euroCRIS CRIS Strategic Seminars e-Infrastructure

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 26 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure e-Infrastructure network Data & Compute servers Detector arrays middleware applications Access control / UI / accounting users

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 27 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure CRIS & e-Infrastructure network Data & Compute servers Detector arrays middleware applications CRIS Access control / UI / accounting users

© euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery 28 euroCRIS and e-Infrastructure This Seminar  e-infrastructure requirements (government, funders, research infrastructures)  e-infrastructure information resources (publications, datasets, software)  Integrated e-Infrastructure (GRIDs)  Knowledge e-infrastructure (community and research cycle)  Integrating information in e-Infrastructure  Discussion