1. The case for interoperability in CRIS solutions euroCRIS membership meeting Bologna May 26-27 2011 Susanna Mornati, CILEA

2. Mission & Members  CILEA is an inter-university not-for-profit consortium, based in Italy and founded in 1974 to:  promote innovation  coordinate initiatives  develop services in information and communication technologies (ICT)  12 members (Italian Ministry of HE and Research and 11 universities)

3. Main dimensions Over 27M € annual revenue (red: financial contribution from the Ministry, green: revenues from activities) Over 120 employees (high degree of specialization) Headquarters in Milan (Segrate) and offices in Rome.

4. Main activities (by revenue) ICT services for Higher Educatioo n ICT services for Research E-learning ICT services for the Ministry Cilea Digital Library Libraries Automation Cultural Heritage HPC Network Systems mgm ServerFarm Storage Mainframe

5. CILEA’s role in CRIS Some years ago CILEA started to partner with Italian universities and research centres that needed a CRIS to control and enhance their performance: 2003  repositories (DSpace) 2004  research activities management 2006  business intelligence 2008  complete platform for Current Research Information Systems: SURplus was born

6. SURplus architecture

7. Input from legacy systems: 1. merge people and organizations External Partners Suppliers Customers Telephone directory Researchers Faculties Students & courses

8. Input from legacy systems: 2. merge financial data External Funding Supplies Purchases Contracts Accountability

9. Input from legacy systems: 3. merge data on research activities External Projects Seminars & events Depts info Internal Funding procedures

10. Input from legacy systems: 4. merge data (+full-text) on publications Digital collections E-Publishing systems Depts Publications directories Legacy lists

11. Input from external systems: merge data from any sources! Sherpa/ Romeo Ministry Databases (publications, projects,…) Bibliographic metadata (CrossRef, PubMed, ArXiv, RePEc, …) Future: Linked data, … Bibliometric data (Scopus, WoS, …)

12. OUTPUT to internal & external systems

13. OUTPUT to publish data for visibility & prestige

14. How we do it RELATIONAL DATABASES XML/HTML SOAP REST JSON OAI-PMH SWORD ATOM/RSS …..

15. Technologies

16. SURplus architecture

17. Data Aggregation

18. Dissemination & Impact

19. Visibility first two results out of 424,000

20. Data Reports Impact Factor

21. Statistics and data analysis Average number of publications per researcher by disciplinary area

22. Statistics and data analysis Average IF per researcher by quintile Quintile: the portion of a frequency distribution containing one fifth of the total sample.

23. Diagrams and Dashboards

24. OLAP CUBES online analytical processing for multi- dimension al analytical queries

25. Why interoperability?  Interoperability among components and external systems goes beyond system integration  It preserves independence in choosing how to build one’s own CRIS infrastructure  It preserves previous investments in technologies and organizational efforts

26. Conclusions There is a need to share your data among systems and reuse them There is a need to disseminate your research output Open standards and protocols enhance your chances for interoperability, so: go beyond integration, go open!

27. Thanks for your attention! Susanna Mornati CILEA mornati@cilea.it