CERIF2006-1.1 - November 2007, Vienna©euroCRIS CERIF / Best Practice TG
CERIF / Best Practice
Brigitte Jörg, Ales Bosniak
CERIF2006-1.1 - November 2007, Vienna©euroCRIS CERIF / Best Practice TG
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
CERIF2006-1.1 - November 2007, Vienna©euroCRIS CERIF / Best Practice TG
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
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CERIF CORE Entities
Person OrganisationUnit
Project
ResultPublication
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CERIF 2nd Level Entities
Person OrganisationUnit
Project
ResultPublication
ResultPatentResultProduct
Event
Service
Equipment
FundingProgramme
Skills
Facility
CV
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Interlinked CERIF Entities
Person OrganisationUnit
Project
ResultPublication
ResultPatent
ResultProduct
Service
Equipment
FundingProgramme
Facility
CV
Event
Skills
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CERIF Link Entities
PersonPerson OrgUnitOrgUnit
ProjectProject
ResultPublicationResultPublication
Project_OrgUnitProject_Person
Person_ResultPublicationOrgUnit_ResultPublication
Project_ResultPublication
PersonPerson OrgUnitOrgUnit
ProjectProject
ResultPublicationResultPublication
Person_OrganisationUnit
Project_OrganisationUnitProject_Person
Person_ResultPublicationOrgUnit_ResultPublication
Project_ResultPublication
OrganisationUnit
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CERIF Link Entitieswith Types/Roles
Person OrgUnit
Project
ResultPublication
Project_OrgUnitProject_Person
Person_ResultPublicationOrgUnit_ResultPublication
Project_ResultPublication
PersonPerson OrgUnitOrgUnit
ProjectProject
ResultPublicationResultPublication
Person_OrganisationUnit
Role=CEO
Project_OrganisationUnit
Role=Organiser
Project_Person
Role=Co - ordinator
Person_ResultPublication
Role=Author
OrgUnit_ResultPublication
Role=Publisher
Project_ResultPublication
Role=TechnicalReport
OrganisationUnitPersonPerson OrgUnitOrgUnit
ProjectProject
ResultPublication
Project_OrgUnitProject_Person
Person_ResultPublicationOrgUnit_ResultPublication
Project_ResultPublication
PersonPersonType=open
OrgUnitOrgUnit
ProjectProjectType=EU
Person_OrganisationUnit
Role=CEO
Project_OrganisationUnit
Role=Organiser
Project_Person
Role=Co -ordinator
Person_ResultPublication
Role=Author
OrgUnit_ResultPublication
Role=Publisher
Project_ResultPublication
Role=TechnicalReport
OrganisationUnitType=Academic
ResultPublicationType=Article
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Language-dependent Entities
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CERIF Classification Entities (Semantic Layer)
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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>
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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")
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Work Strategy
Smaller groups with TG leaders recruited from countries that provided data
• more effective
• real work within meetings
• plenary for presentations
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DiscussionOpen Issues
Results from Discussion:
-> Start with Roles rather than Types