Summary
Research Management Systems (also sometimes referred to as CRIS Current
Research Information Systems) are becoming a popular infrastructure
component of universities and research labs as well as of national funding
bodies. Such RMS often entail very detailed, structured and accurate
descriptions of organisations, projects, researchers, their economy and
their publications and other forms of output. The RMS on the one hand focus
the needs of research administrators, funders and managers (input versus
output, etc.) and on the other hand facilitate the administrative tasks of
researchers by providing a high quality metadata pool that may be reused in
project proposals, CVs, Personal profile pages, reference lists etc.
Open Access Repositories primarily focus the deposit, preservation and
dissemination of publications as nodes in a new scholarly information
system taking full advantage of the Internet. Focus is on building
interconnected full text collections rather than obtaining highly detailed
metadata descriptions. Most often these are in the form of Institutional
Repositories and thus addressing the same researcher constituencies as the
Institutional RMS.
Thus there is an interest in establishing an optimal synergy between these
two types of systems (1). This may entail:
- metadata interoperability - see for example the Knowledge Exchange CRIS-OAR metadata interoperability project (2)
- full integration of RMS and repository systems, by for example:
- adding a repository module to a RMS - as we typically see in the Danish systems (3)
- reconfiguring an OA repository system to work with a RMS-oriented metadata format such as CERIF - as we see with Fedora (4) and ePrints (5) or the UK R4R project (6)
Just to name two aspects. It is hoped that the breakout session participants
will shared their views on the key challenges in this area as well as their
experiences with addressing these.
Time permitting, there might be an opportunity to take a look at the current
Danish experiences of building a national system for research assessment
based on metadata harvested from the universities. This could touch upon the
challenges involved in deducing research quality/performance indicators from
decentrally produced metadata and the potential Open Access aspect and
impact of such a system.
Links:
(1) http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=293
(2) https://infoshare.dtv.dk/twiki/bin/view/KeCrisOar/WebHome
(3) http://orbit.dtu.dk/app
Commercial http://atira.dk/en/
(4) https://or09.library.gatech.edu/fedora89.php
(5) https://or09.library.gatech.edu/eprints205.php
(6) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/projects/portfolio/r4r.html
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