cerif / best practice brigitte jörg, ales bosniak

CERIF2006-1.1 - November 2007, Vienna©euroCRIS CERIF / Best Practice TG

CERIF / Best Practice

Brigitte Jörg, Ales Bosniak


Outline

• CERIF 2006 1.1 in Brief • Semantic Layer (Classification) • Current Activities CERIF / Best Practice

– Type Definitions– Role Definitions– Normalization of Values – Not yet Subject (Discipline)-related

-> Recommendation to Members


CERIF 2006-1.1 Release

– ERM Model -> SQL Scripts– Introduction and Specification Document– CERIF XML Interchange Specification– Dynamic HTML Documentation– XML Examples– XML Schema Examples for Validation


CERIF CORE Entities

Person OrganisationUnit

Project

ResultPublication


CERIF 2nd Level Entities


Project

ResultPublication

ResultPatentResultProduct

Event

Service

Equipment

FundingProgramme

Skills

Facility

CV


Interlinked CERIF Entities


Project

ResultPublication

ResultPatent

ResultProduct

Service

Equipment

FundingProgramme

Facility

CV

Event

Skills


CERIF Link Entities

PersonPerson OrgUnitOrgUnit

ProjectProject

ResultPublicationResultPublication

Project_OrgUnitProject_Person

Person_ResultPublicationOrgUnit_ResultPublication

Project_ResultPublication


ProjectProject


Person_OrganisationUnit

Project_OrganisationUnitProject_Person



OrganisationUnit


CERIF Link Entitieswith Types/Roles

Person OrgUnit

Project

ResultPublication





ProjectProject



Role=CEO

Project_OrganisationUnit

Role=Organiser

Project_Person

Role=Co - ordinator

Person_ResultPublication

Role=Author

OrgUnit_ResultPublication

Role=Publisher


Role=TechnicalReport

OrganisationUnitPersonPerson OrgUnitOrgUnit

ProjectProject

ResultPublication




PersonPersonType=open

OrgUnitOrgUnit

ProjectProjectType=EU


Role=CEO

Project_OrganisationUnit

Role=Organiser

Project_Person

Role=Co -ordinator

Person_ResultPublication

Role=Author

OrgUnit_ResultPublication

Role=Publisher


Role=TechnicalReport

OrganisationUnitType=Academic

ResultPublicationType=Article


Language-dependent Entities


CERIF Classification Entities (Semantic Layer)


CERIF XML Interchange Format

• Specification Document• Each entity 1:1 representation• XML Schemas for validation<cfProj_Proj>

<cfProjId1>Char(32)</cfProjId1><cfProjId2>Char(32)</cfProjId2><cfClassId>Char(32)</cfClassId><cfClassSchemeId>Char(32)</cfClassSchemeId><cfStartDate>2001-01-01T12:00:00-05:00</cfStartDate><cfEndDate>2001-01-01T12:00:00-05:00</cfEndDate>

</cfProj_Proj>


Misunderstandings Clarification

Short history: • at the last EUROCRIS membership meeting in Helsinki some 20 participants agreed to contribute in setting up a common European classification of types and roles of research entities

• we aim to do it by collecting from all national roles/types which can be identified from the national CRIS systems.

• after collection we will:extract the most overlapped structure of roles andtypes provide the mappings between the common and national roles (mappings would carry the expressions like "is a subtype of", "is equal to" and "is a super type of")


Misunderstandings Clarification

In general two problems occurred: people did not send the types/roles classification (instead of this we got contents classification like scientific disciplines etc., which belong to step 2)the received data of roles/types was at a certain amount not limited to real classification lookup tables with a predefined limited set of values but was related to ordinary free text (lookup tables represent a limited set of possibilities, like for instance LANGUAGE, COUNTRIES, …whereas free text is used for descriptive fields like name, abstract, … ) Current status and next steps: we finally got data from about 8 countriesin the future we want to concentrate on the mappings by working in a smaller group (up to 4 countries)each country will help to do the mapping between his and the other 3 countries by filling out a selected E-questionnaire


Current ActivitiesCERIF / Best Practice

• Type / Role Schemes• Classifications (Subject Terms / Scientific

Disciplines) later !– Bottom Up Approach – Analyze Input for Overlappings

(not only values but also datatypes freetext / controlled vocabulary; i.e. academic titles)

Goal: Global euroCRIS Type/Role Scheme for interconnecting Research Entities


Current Activities Use Case (OrgUnit)

discontinued (no longer existent)

organisation as part of the ministry and/or government

organisation

society, association of sicieties

scholarship holder

private researcher keeping account books

private researcher

sole trader

commercial company

other institutions (not PRS or PHEI)

independent higher education institution

faculty department

other organisational unit of PHEI

institute - research unit of PHEI

professional college

art academy

faculty

public higher education institution (university) PHEI

public infrastructural institution

public research institution PRI

status not defined

External

Research Group

Department

Faculty

Virtual Organisation

Association

Institution

Administrative Unit

Research Unit

science-technology park

business-technological incubator

company providing infrastructure for innovation activity

innovation centre

research-development centre

development-enterprise centre

Innovation organisation

CEESIWETOSiCRIS


Current Activities Use Case Project / Publication

Research Project

Collaboration Contract

Material Transfer Agreement

Service Contract

not accepted

in negotiation

accepted

Journal Article

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Journal Letter

Journal Comment

Journal Debate

Journal Review

Journal Scientific Review

Journal Editorial

Newspaper Article

Peer-reviewed Newspaper Article

Newspaper Comment

Newspaper Debate

Newspaper Review

Newspaper Scientific Review

Newspaper Editorial

Book Contribution

Anthology Contribution

PublicationsProject

Scientific Report Contribution

Encyclopedia Article

Foreword / Postscript

Scientific Book

Scientific Anthology

Doctoral Dissertation

PhD Dissertation

Scientific Report

Preprint

Conference Article

Peer-reviewed Conference Article

Poster

Published Abstract

Presentation Manuscript

Presentation File


Work Strategy

Smaller groups with TG leaders recruited from countries that provided data

• more effective

• real work within meetings

• plenary for presentations


DiscussionOpen Issues

Results from Discussion:

-> Start with Roles rather than Types

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