1. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 1 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Brigitte Jörg, M.A. (Information Science) Language Technology Lab, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin, Germany C E R I F The Common European Research Information Format

2. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 2 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Introduction of Speaker Brigitte Jörg M.A. Information Science Information Systems, Economics  Researcher, Project Manager DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Manager Virtual Information Center Berlin  CERIF TG Leader, Board Member euroCRIS  Contact: brigitte.joerg @ dfki.de http://www.dfki.de/~brigitte/

3. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 3 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CERIF TG Report  CERIF 2008 – 1.2 Release  CERIF activities since Aalborg Conference in June, 2010  CERIF Mid-Term Steps  CERIF Long-Term Steps

4. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 4 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CERIF C ommon E uropean R esearch I nformation F ormat

5. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 5 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format What is CERIF ? C ommon E uropean R esearch I nformation F ormat – Conceptual Level ( Specification) A concept about research entities and their relationships – Logical Level (Conceptual Model) A formal abstract description of the research entities and their relationships according to the concept – Physical Level (Database Scripts) A formal machine readable description of the entities and their relationships according to the concept – Semantic Layer (current Formal Semantics) A formalized controlled vocabulary describing a general contextual semantics of the research domain SQL Script ----------------------- CREATE Table Person CREATE Table Project CREATE Table OrgUnit is author (numbered) of is author of is reviewer of is author (percentage) of is editor (numbered) of is editor of is subject of is translator of is publisher of Person_Publication Scheme

6. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 6 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CERIF Base, Result and 2nd Level Entities Citation CV Prize Qualification ExpertiseAndSkills Equipment Facility Funding Service ElectronicAddresse PostalAddress Country Currency LanguageEvent Metrics

7. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 7 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format The CERIF Evolution EU Working Group on Research Databases Workshop 1987 1991 CERIF 91 PROJECT Similar Ideas UN/UNESCO OECD CODATA Acronym: ERGO Participant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many more Organisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, … Acronym: ERGO Participant: Keith Jeffery, Anne Asser son, many more Organisations: Rutherford Appleton, Uni- versity of Bergen, … 2000 CLASSIFICATION RESULTSEQUIPMENT PROJECT OrgUnitPERSON EXPERTISE Roles CERIF 2000 Model - Networking of DBs - Exchange of Records - EC Recommendation to Member States -Data Model - Multilinguality - Controlled Vocabulary - Roles / Types - User-driven - EC Recommendation to Member States 2ndLevel Base Language Semantics Link CERIF 2006 / 2008 Model - Data Model - Model Normalization - Robust/Consistent Structure - Extensible Structure - Semantic Layer - XML Exchange Specification - Elaboration on Publication - CERIF Core Semantics (2008 1.2) 20062008 2011/2012 FORMALSEMANTICSFORMALSEMANTICS + CERIF Ontology

8. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 8 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CURRENT CERIF Releaseand Future Plans CERIF 2008 – 1.2 ( http://www.eurocris.org/ ) http://www.eurocris.org/  CERIF Model Intruduction and Specification  CERIF XML Data Exchange Format Specification  CERIF Formal Semantics  CERIF SQL Scripts  CERIF XML Schemas  CERIF XML Examples Mid-term Plan:  Current Core Semantics to be setup and improved within collibra  CERIF Semantics to be further developed  Funding-related Semantics / Abstraction / Generity Long-term Plan:  2011 Model with extended Semantics  CERIF Ontology  More CERIF XML Examples  CERIF XML Efficiency  CERIF XML Use cases (DC Mapping) available before December 2010

9. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 9 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CERIF 2008 – 1.2 Upgrades Pending Entities have been discussed with the following results: No cfCall and no cfGrant entity and related entities will be added. Instead, the Funding entity will be renamed and via the cfClass plus cfClassScheme entities, a typification for FundingProgramme, Call, Tender, etc. can be realized. Deletion of Entities in the Context of Funding: cfCall (so far pending, now removed) cfCall_FundingProgramme (so far pending, now removed) cfCallDescription (so far pending, now removed) cfCallKeywords (so far pending, now removed) cfCallName (so far pending, now removed) cfGrant (so far pending, now removed) cfGrant_FundingProgramme (so far pending, now removed) cfGrantDescription (so far pending, now removed) cfGrantKeywords (so far pending, now removed) cfGrantName (so far pending, now removed)

10. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 10 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CERIF 2008 – 1.2 Upgrades Renaming of Funding Programme entity and its related entities: cfFundingProgramme -> cfFunding cfFundingProgramme_Classification -> cfFunding_Classification cfFundingProgramme_FundingProgramme -> cfFunding_Funding cfFundingProgrammeDescription -> cfFundingDescription cfFundingProgrammeKeywords -> cfFundingKeywords cfFundingProgrammeName -> cfFundingName cfFundingProgramme_Equipment -> cfFunding_Equipment cfEvent_FundingProgramme -> cfEvent_Funding cfFacility_FundingProgramme -> cfFacility_Funding cfService_FundingProgramme -> cfService_Funding cfOrganisationUnit_FundingProgramme -> cfOrganisationUnit_Funding cfPerson_FundingProgramme -> cfPerson_Funding cfProject_FundingProgramme -> cfProject_Funding cfResultPatent_FundingProgramme -> cfPatent_Funding cfResultProduct_FundingProgramme -> cfProduct_Funding cfResultPublication_FundingProgramme -> cfResultPublication_Funding

11. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 11 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format CERIF 2008 – 1.2 Upgrades Renaming of Attributes: cfSex -> cfGender cfFundProgId -> cfFundId cfFundProgId -> cfFundId cfFundProgId1 -> cfFundId1 cfFundProgId2 -> cfFundId2 Renaming of Relationships: "(...)FProg" -> "(...)Fund" // for all CERIF Semantics (not physically a part of the model): The terms for relationships between CORE CERIF entities have been collected and definitions provided for a better understanding The CERIF 2008 - 1.2 release is the last version in the 2008 series.

12. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 12 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Citation CV Prize Qualification ExpertiseAndSkills Equipment Facility Funding Service ElectronicAddresse PostalAddress Country Currency LanguageEvent Metrics CERIF Entities CERIF Relationships Current CERIF CORE CERIF Semantics Manager

13. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 13 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Current CORE Entities cfPerson_Person cfPerson_Classification cfPerson_OrgansiationUnit cfPerson_Project cfPerson_ResultPublication cfPerson_Funding cfOrgansationUnit_OrganisationUnit cOrganisationUnit_Classification cfOrganisationUnit_Project cfOrganisationUnit_ResultPublication cfOrganisation_Funding cfProject_Project cfProject_Classification cfProject_ResultPublication cfProject_Funding cfResultPublication_ResultPublication cfResultPublication_Classification cfResultPublication_Funding cfFunding_Funding cfFunding_Classification CERIF 2008 – 1.2 Semantics maintained within the Semantic Layer cfPerson_Person: Manager cfPerson_Person: Mentor cfPerson_Person: Supervisor ResultPublication Organisation Unit Project Funding Current CERIF CORE Classification Manager Supervisor Mentor Author FirstAuthor Person

14. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 14 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Maintaining the CERIF Semantics Consider an elaboration of the CERIF Semantic Layer by attribute extension – SBVR Vocabulary Term (Concept) – SBVR Description – SBVR Definition – SBVR Example – SBVR Synonym – SBVR Source CERIF 2008 – 1.2 Person-Person Roles

15. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 15 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Situation in UK (by Keith Jeffery) Research Councils –ROP: Research outcomes project HEFCE –REF: Research Excellence Framework JISC –Commissioned study (EXRI): recommended CERIF –Convened experts from stakeholders: accepted –Supporting several projects to demonstrate: Business case for using CERIF Feasibility of interoperation universities-universities and universities-funders using CERIF

16. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 16 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Situation elsewhere Norway: CRISTIN Belgium: FRIS Denmark: PURE Sweden: Converis Netherlands: METIS, NARCIS euroHORCS recommended convergence to CERIF ESF specified CERIF for new system Plans in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Czech Republic?, Slovakia, Russia, Austria, Slovenia ERC: tender for a CERIF-based System EC: intension to move to a CERIF-based system OpenAIRE: declared to move to CERIF interest expressed by VOA3R project emerging market of commercial solutions

17. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 17 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Activities since Aaalborg, June 2010 Tutorial @ Imperial College, July 2010 CERIF 2 R4R Mapping @ Kings College, July 2010 Setup of the collibra tool @ DFKI -> to manage/maintain/improve/develop CERIF Semantics August 2010 Keynote at Int. Conference for Metadata & Semantics (MTSR 2010), October 2010

18. © Brigitte Jörg euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, November 7th, 2010 18 CERIF – The Common European Research Information Format Participation / Contribution / Membership Interested in Participation / Contribution / Becoming a Member ? Upcoming Events: euroCRIS Members Meeting in Prague November 7th-9th, 2010 http://eurocris.infoscience.cz/ http://eurocris.infoscience.cz/ CERIF TG Meeting December 8 th + 9 th, 2010 euroCRIS Members Meeting in Bologna May 25th – 27th, 2011 euroCRIS 2012 Conference in Prague