1. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 1 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Brigitte Jörg, M.A. (Information Science) Language Technology Lab, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Saarbrücken, Germany CERIF TG Report

2. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 2 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Introduction of Speaker Brigitte Jörg M.A. Information Science Information Systems, Business Administration  Researcher, Project Manager DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Saarbrücken  CERIF TG Leader, Board Member euriCRIS  Contact: brigitte.joerg @ dfki.de http://www.dfki.de/~brigitte/

3. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 3 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Overview  Reference: Current Release CERIF 2008 – 1.1  Towards CERIF 2008 – 1.2 -> Formal CERIF Semantics for Discussion / Testing  UK CERIF-related Activities  CRISPool (University of St. Andrews)  Ready4REF (Kings College, University of Southampton)  UK Councils finalized their Report to recommend CERIF  Next Steps and Plan for a major Release CERIF 2011  Towards a formal CORE CERIF Semantics  Input from Ready4Ref  Ontologizing CERIF  Defining new Priorities  Administrative

4. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 4 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Current CERIF Release 2008 – 1.1  Model Introduction and Specification  Scripts for Most Common Databases  Data Exchange Format Specification  CERIF Semantics CERIF 2008 – 1.2 (First recommendation of a formal CERIF Core Semantics)  CERIF 2008 - 1.0 XML Examples to be finalized  XML Schema Files for the validation of XML Files  http://www.eurocris.org/cerif/cerif-releases/ http://www.eurocris.org/cerif/cerif-releases/

5. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 5 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Updates with the CERIF 2008 – 1.1 Release Concerning Entities: - cfCall (pending) - cfCall_FundingProgramme (pending) - cfCallName (pending) - cfCallKeywords (pending) - cfCallDescription (pending) - cfGrant (pending) - cfGrant_FundingProgramme (pending) - cfGrantName (pending) - cfGrantKeywords (pending) - cfGrantDescription (pending) - cfService_FundingProgramme - cfResultPatent_ResultPatent - cfResultProduct_ResultProduct Concerning Entities: - cfOrgUnit_Prize - cfProj_Prize - cfPers_Prize

6. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 6 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Updates with the CERIF 2008 – 1.1 Release Concerning Attributes: - cfBirthdate (added) - cfProductInternId (non mandatory) - cfFraction in all Link Entities (added) - all Identifiers now have IDs of Char(128) instead of Char(32) - default values removed from cfTranslation (o,m,h) cfSex (u,m,f) cfSkillReading (m,f,w) cfSkillSpeaking (m,f,w) cfSkillWriting (m,f,w) Concerning CERIF Semantics (not part of the physical model): - (is part of) added to cfResultPublication-ResultPublication Roles - towards a CORE Semantics (to be reviewed!!) Uploading the CERIF Release to SEMIC.EU

7. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 7 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report UK-related CERIF Activities  CRISPool Project (St. Andrews)  Workshop in Edinburgh (April 20th, 2010)  Use-case=Exchanging RO Information (Person, OrgUnit, ResPubl)  Ready4REF (will require another Meeting with UK Parties)  Using CERIF for REF reporting (sustainable)  Choose the model adequately for needs  Completeness of the CERIF model for R4R  Is „Unit of Assessment“ a Classification?  Is „Unit of Assessment“ an Organisation?  Ongoing: Mappings  UK Councils (CERIF TG to decide upon Modelling)  Using CERIF as an Exchange Format between Councils  projects should be classifiable into (say) 3 classifiers, with a % associated to each - enabling the money to be split accordingly  projects can be X% funded by OrgUnit A and y% funded by OrgUnitB -> Request: Ontologizing CERIF  „CERIF Ontology“ in Semantic Web Technology EXRI Report publicly available Incorporated in CERIF 2008 – 1.1

8. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 8 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Funding-related extensions for Flemish Activities  Adding new Entities to the Model (done)  Funding Programme (is there)  to add Grant ?  to add Call ?  Discussing about related Semantics (for example)  Is there a difference between Funding Programme (more general then call) Call (specified amount of time, topic)  Should we keep the entities separate at the model level  requires use cases  requires testing Has been added as pending !! Needs further discussions Not finalized !!

9. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 9 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report CERIF Model Entities Citation CV Prize Qualification ExpertiseAndSkills Equipment Facility FundingProgramme Service ElectronicAddresse PostalAddress Country Currency LanguageEvent Metrics Call Grant

10. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 10 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Next Steps and Plans (>> Details in TG Meeting) Incoming ad hoc activities and events in the UK >> CERIF Tutorial @ Imperial College (July 12th) >> Mapping CERIF to Ready4REF requirements Ongoing development activities (1) Results from Ostende TG Meeting (Report) (2) Formalizing the CERIF Core Semantics (3) Ontologizing CERIF (4) Funding-related extensions (5) Collection (to be extended)? - Contract as an entity - Product Sub-Types (Teaching, Media, Software, Resources)? - External Resources - Identifier Issues Setting up the Collibra tool to manage the Formal Semantics

11. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 11 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Administrative  Who wants to be added to the mailinglist ?  Email to brigitte.joerg@dfki.debrigitte.joerg@dfki.de  Next CERIF TG Meeting in Berlin, June 24th, 25th  Two Days Meeting  DFKI Office  CERIF Tutorial – 17:00 – 18:30 Today  Presenting the CERIF 2008 - 1.1 Model

12. © Brigitte Jörg June 2nd, 2010 Aalborg, Denmark 12 euroCRIS Members Meeting CERIF TG Report Notes from the Meeting