DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Regine Tobias & Dr. Barbara Ebert CRIS in German universities and research institutions - position paper of the DINI AG-FIS 1 Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Content DINI Working Group on Current Research information systems (DINI AG-FIS) First Position Paper on CRIS in Germany Going forward: Future topics of the group Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. 3 Rising interest at many universities and research institutions Why a German CRIS Working Goup? Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. 4 DINI Working Group on Research Information Systems DINI AG FIS Established in May 2012 –11 members from 9 research organizations, today 15 members Lots of connections –German Initiative for Network Information (DINI) –Research Core Dataset –euroCRIS –Professional communities, f.e. research management, libraries & repositories Series of workshops  Strategy: embedded in events of our partner communities / / Main focus in the first 2 years: Position Paper 4 Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Aims of the Working group Exchange of knowledge and best practice on technology solutions and implementations Cooperation with European initiatives on standardisation and data exchange Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. MAIN TOPICS Best practice data workflows (projects, persons, publications) Data security in CRIS Standards and exchange formats Implementation of CRIS Acceptance of CRIS Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. 7 Position paper First summary on CRIS in Germany Published as a DINI recommendation: 7 DINI-Jahrestagung, Oktober 2013, Stuttgart

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. What is the current practice in Germany? Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. What is the current practice in Germany? Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. First steps: What are the basic requirements and what is necessary to achieve them in practice? Data must be: –Available –Reliable –Up to date and consistent -Secure -Collection must be: -Efficient -Sustainable Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Second step: Divide in 2 parts For Strategists and decision- makers For practitioners Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. For strategists and decision makers What are the current challenges? Ideal environment for research documentation? How could these challenges be solved? Eurocris Spring Meeting Downlad English translation here:

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Some Key Recommendations for the management level Eurocris Spring Meeting Accept CRIS as basic element in your IT environment and develop it accordingly Look beyond immediate local needs and help to reduce barriers between systems by using standards Support the mobility of researcher portfolios Agree on a set of basic requirements and help to develop standards in Germany  Use the new research core dataset as common vocabulary  Recognise CERIF when developing internal data models and definitions  Provide Linked Open Data to support semantic web applications  ….

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Eurocris Spring Meeting CRIS in the local IT environment

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Part 2: Recommendation for practitioners  Which system for which use case?  Rollout and operation  Creating added value Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Eurocris Spring Meeting Systems - integrated CRIS Distributed data curation, relation of information Data aggregation from different sources Multiple analysis and export functions, flexible reuse of information

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Main discussion: Which system for which purpose? Eurocris Spring Meeting Pro´s and con´s of investments Integrated FISvs.Inhouse solutions Initial investment:Programming Project managmt:Project management Licenses:Maintenance Exploration of alternatives > cross-linking existing systems step by step?

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. What´s next? Eurocris Spring Meeting

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Eurocris Spring Meeting ff: disseminate ideas & recommendations : status of research documentation Going foreward… involve decision makers

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. Ideas for future activities Modular CRIS systems Exploit research core data set as a common vocabulary –Mobile researcher portfolios –Data exchange via CERIF xml DINI-Jahrestagung, 24. – 25. September 2010, Karlsruhe 20

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. 21 More Information 21 Eurocris Spring Meeting Study on German CRIS Landscape by Kendra Sticht DOI /zenodo (Master thesis/German) /zenodo DOI /zenodo (Data set) /zenodo Our Community Collection at zenodo -ag-fis DINI AG FIS Position Paper DOI /zenodo (German) /zenodo DOI /zenodo (English) /zenodo.17491

Berichte aus den DINI- Arbeitsgruppen DEUTSCHE INITIATIVE FÜR NETZWERKINFORMATION E.V. 22 Contact Dr. Barbara Ebert, University of Lüneburg / Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (since 02/2015) Regine Tobias KIT Library, Karlsruhe Website & Mailing list Eurocris Spring Meeting