1. CERIF in Action Anna Clements
Enterprise Architect, IT Services University of St Andrews

2. Summary CERIF in Action
‘Synthesise, standardise and productionise CERIF for UK Higher Educational Institutions’
To develop a standard CERIF-XML schema and agreed vocabularies building on work done in earlier JISC projects such as Readiness4Ref, CRISPool, CERIFy, and IRIOS.
Build standard, production-ready plug-ins to import and export data in this agreed format for CRIS, Repository and Research Council software and demonstrate the use of these plug-ins in live systems :
exchanging data between partner institutions e.g. when an researcher moves to a new institution
uploading grant-level information to RCUK ROS
Produce roadmap with costs/benefits for adoption of this standard CERIF-XML approach for other HEIs and other use cases, in particular the development of an open source aggregator and portal for use by research pools and other consortia.

3. CERIF in Action

4. Where we are Kick off meeting earlier this week
CERIF in Action
Where we are
Kick off meeting earlier this week
CERIF Technical workshop – review 5th Dec in Sunderland
* R4R/MICE *IRIOS *Cerify *CRISPool
* euroCRIS – Brigitte & Keith
Who else should be there?
Links to current projects
* IRIOS * C4D * IRIOS02 * RMAS

5. Scope - model People Publications Projects Organisations
CERIF in Action
Scope - model
People
* Researcher * Author * PI / Co-I
Publications
* Articles * Conference Papers * Journals
Projects
* Research grants
Organisations
* Institutions * Funders * Publishers

6. Scope – use cases Researcher moves from Institution A to Institution B
CERIF in Action
Scope – use cases
Researcher moves from Institution A to Institution B
Researcher / Research Organisation uploads / makes available data to RCUK Research Outcomes System (ROS)

7. Scope - systems ePrints Atira – Pure Symplectic RCUK – ROS
CERIF in Action
Scope - systems
ePrints
* registered in UK
Atira – Pure
* 18 UK Institutions
Symplectic
24 UK Institutions
RCUK – ROS
* ESRC * BBSRC *AHRC *EPSRC

8. Issues - interoperability
CERIF in Action
Issues - interoperability
Authority lists - organisations; journals; publishers
What can we use to map to? Invent our own 
Are services available?
Name disambiguation
Which do we use? Invent our own 

9. Issues - interoperability
CERIF in Action
Issues - interoperability
Semantics/vocabularies
Are there euroCRIS schemas already?
Are these suitable for UK?
Examples
Researcher roles * Researcher job titles * Funding types * Organisation types * Publication types

10. Issues – project risks CERIF-XML restructuring timescale
CERIF in Action
Issues – project risks
CERIF-XML restructuring timescale
Many partners …
… Can we agree – do we ‘cut our cloth …’
… and not get side-tracked …
Key personnel .. (lack of) CERIF expertise available

11. Issues for RIMG Alignment of definitions used by sector
Research Output
Research Transfer
Research Outcome
Research Impact
Clear definitions e.g. those from Australia?

12. Australian definitions

13. Issues for RIMG Affordable bibliographic & and bibliometric data
Should we be moving data around … or should we concentrate on reusing it from authoritative sources in the cloud … how realistic and in what timescale?

14. MICE WoS API Cerify Import CIA REF ROS R4R CIA Data from RCs IRIOS C4D
Activities
Entered
Impact
Indicators
Measures
Case Studies
Publications
Award/ recognition
WoS, arXiv, PubMed, Scopus…
Bibtex, Refman
Dissemination// Engagement
MICE
WoS API
Cerify
Manual
Input
Import
CIA
Entered
Harvested
Uploaded
Entered
Fed Out
REF, RCUK
SFC, HESA
HEI – Strategic
Planning, Benchmarking
Public, Media Recognition / Impact
Industry / SME’s
Interface
Collaborations
Research Pools
Pulled In
Staff Records [HR]
Student Records [Registry]
University Structure [HR]
Projects, Grants, KT
[Finance]
Research
Information
System
REF
R4R
ROS
CIA
Full Text
Repository
Open Access
Linked
Linked
e-Research
Repository
(Open Access)
Data from RCs
IRIOS
C4D
Export
CIA
CRISPool