1. Research Information Systems for Higher Education Institutions in Italy

2. Italian Higher Education context
Ministry of University and Research
Ministerial Information System
Students
Database
Courses
Database
Research funds
Delivery
Professors
Database
Students
and learning
Research
Accounting HR
Planning &
Controlling
University

3. Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca
for
Ministero dell’Istruzione
dell’Università e della Ricerca

4. Thanks God, a simple Summary
Research project assessment
National research assessment exercise

5. Project assessment (1/2)
Each year
All in one month
Only electronic submission
A personal workspace for each researcher
We know all about them
( registered users, with carriers and curricula)
We have scientific production of all of them
( publications)
A catalogue of scientific journal titles
( journals)

6. Project assessment (2/2)
>4.000 project proposals presented every year ( research projects in the last 12 years)
> organizational units involved
>6.500 international experts for peer review
A ranking is calculated
Funds assignment
Monitoring the financial data during project life-cycle
Collect periodical reports and final statements

7. Summary Research project assessment
National research assessment exercise

8. national research assessment exercise (1/2)
Covers from 3 to 5 years
Only the best research products
Bibliometric indicators
Peer review
Good ranking position means more funds and salary increase

9. national research assessment exercise (2/2)
First exercise was successfully concluded in 2006
products were evaluated by 151 panelist, assisted by international experts
At least 2 blind reviews per product
Final ranking calculated by scientific area and by structure
A new (bigger!) exercise will start very soon

10. interoperability
Universities and Research Institutions can exchange data with the National Research Information System via:
web services
file upload/download
OAI-PMH (work in progress)

11. standards
Researchers’ curricula are in Europass format. We are going to use the same format for University professors CVs soon.
We are working to provide research projects data according to the CERIF 2008 standard.
For publications metadata exchange we use many formats, but our main reference is MODS.

12. Italian Higher Education context
Ministry of University and Research
Students
Database
Courses
Database
Research funds
Delivery
Professors
Database
Students
and learning
Research
Accounting HR
Planning &
Controlling
Single University

13. U-GOV Solution Map

14. An Interconnected System
Portal
U-GOV RI
Research
Catalog
Project RU
Carriers
People
Remunerations
Payroll
Org.
Structure DI
Course
Planning
Student
Management
Services 3
Document
Management
CSA 2 1 7
ID management
systems
Ministerial
Database 6
ESSE3 5
Uno degli aspetti che ha avuto maggiore rilevanza e peso in tutte le fasi di lavorazioni di U-GOV è stato senza dubbio quello dell’integrazione.
Interazione tra AA (anagrafiche, SO, progetti, CSA..) e con sistemi esterni (ministero, CSA, ESSE3..).
3° party Apps 4 CO
Accounting Sys.
Sales and
Purchases
Inventory 14

15. CINECA’s vision on research processes
Project management internally and externally funded (Gov, EU, Industry): administering the grant, complying with regulations, reporting to funders.
Research results repository management (publications, patents, conference speeches, proceedings..)
Research results assessment (publication, projects, research groups)
Research assets management (research teams and groups, research units, laboratories, equipments, facilities, skills..)
Dissemination and Technology transfer
Integration with national and istitutional repositories/systems
Projects
Results
Assessment
Assets
Dissemination

16. U-GOV Research facts and figures
U-GOV Research installations:
Managed publications:
Year 2009 publications:
End users:
Publications linked to ministerial systems:
Reviewed/Assessed publications:

17. Full Broad Interoperability?
CDOC-CRM
SOAP
METS
BIBTEX
PUBMED
ENDNOTE
OSIS
DOI
HANDLE
MARC21
SBN-MARC
ONIX
MODS
METS DC
OAI
SWORD
CERIF

18. U-GOV & Full Interoperability
Ministerial
Systems

19. What future for interoperability ?
standards are a feasible goal
but
standards come through adoption
so…
we need to build tangible services for the research community on top of standardization !

20. Thank you for your attention Questions?
Pierluigi Bonetti
Ministerial Services and Support Systems
Fabrizio Luglio
Research Systems and Services for Universities