1. Towards a national research information infrastructure in the Netherlands based on CERIF: challenges and opportunities
Chris Baars, supervisor Electronic Services
EuroCRIS, Barcelona November 2015

2. National Information Infrastructure before 2014
Same CRIS’s on national level (1990)
One exchange format (no standard, national)
Policy / agreements
Digital Author Identifier (2007)
Not international

3. After 2014: Changes of National Information Infrastructure
15 CRIS’s (5 vendors) and >35 repositories and archives
Integration of CRIS with IR
Broadened scope to international
DAI will be phased out (start 2015)
Conclusion: new interoperability challenges!
CERIF is recognized as solution, but change is needed

4. Need of change ...?

5. Creating a new information landscape with CERIF
Creating a new information landscape with CERIF! But more hurdles are to be taken ….

6. Hurdle 1# Vision & policy
Create Awareness & build vision
Ask for mandate: directors & administrators
Landscape more complex
Clear roles: Executive (Sponsor), DP, SP, other stakeholders
Policy issues:
What about long-term preservation?
What about Data Seal Approval?
OAIS framework?
Data Curation
Other recognized formats (DataCite etc?)

7. Hurdle 2# CERIF format
CERIF: a database model, CERIF compliancy, application profiles like; NL-CERIF, Open-AIRE CERIF, API CERIF: don’t be vague!
CRIS’s don’t deliver CERIF XML > common application profile?
Data-model to complex for exchange > OpenAIRE or CERIF- API might be useful as M?
Implementation must be: Common, European (Int) useful for Research Information

8. Hurdle 3# Vocabularies
Do CERIF vocabularies need national / local customization?
CERIF does not automatically solve vocabulary problems
Interest of different stakeholders: universities, funding agency, information portals et cetera ..
As international as possible! (COAR etc.)

9. Hurdle 4# Protocol / API
All tested systems had an API, not all very useful
Common protocol
New / edit / delete need to be supported; incremental
Export / import

10. Hurdle 5# Identifiers Global Unique Identifiers, not local
DAI >> ISNI and ORCID more to follow…
For all digital objects (person, organization, project, publication, datasets etc.)
Persistent
Namespace, otherwise meaningless
Management!

11. Hurdle 5# Replacing DAI ORCID (Open Researchers and Contributor ID)
Author-claim principle (as organisation possible)
More known by researchers
Free self registration
ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier)
Management by University Libraries
Free conversion DAI to ISNI (done!)
Royal Library as ‘NRA’
Quality check

12. Hurdle 6# Maintaining standards
Platform for maintaining standards (Edustandaard)
Workflow for changes
Communication
Clear roles

13. Finish: chris.baars@dans.knaw.nl