De Castro, Pablo

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De Castro, Pablo
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De Castro, Pablo
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University of Strathclyde Open Access Advocacy Librarian
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    An Updated Snapshot of the CRIS Landscape
    (euroCRIS, 2023-04-25)
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    The Current Research Information System (CRIS) landscape is becoming increasingly complex. In the early days, CRIS systems were often seen as institutional assets, but by gradually realising the many benefits CRIS systems bring to the Research Management and Administration community for organising and supporting research in a more efficient manner, numerous stakeholders have now adopted more region-wide approaches to CRIS system operation. In fact, research information management practice often follows national frameworks, which in turn leads to the emergence of country-specific CRIS vendors and solutions. While it is still possible to provide a generic overview of the system solutions available, any international CRIS landscape description will often need to be fine-tuned for a specific geographic area. This trend may be even more acute in the area of research management and administration.
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    Worldwide implementation of Current Research Information Systems (CRIS): a case study for Asia and China
    (euroCRIS, 2020-12-03)
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    Since 2002 the Dutch non-profit euroCRIS has worked on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS, aka Research Information Management Systems or RIMS). This work started by defining the CERIFstandard (Common European Research Information Format), a conceptual data model for metadata storage and exchange describing all aspects of the institutional research activity. The adoption of CERIF by the European Commission was soon followed by the emergence of CRIS software platforms operated by institutional research offices to collect interlinked information on academic researchers, departments and faculties, research projects, research publications, data and other outputs (patents, software). These platforms – developed and distributed by vendors external to and independently from euroCRIS – have become particularly useful for the implementation of Open Science at an institutional level and also to derive business intelligence from the wealth of data stored in them regarding areas like co-authorships, collaborations with industry or research impact. euroCRIS maintains the Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS) with over 750 records for worldwide CRIS implementations and their distribution by country and software platforms. Regarding this latter aspect, while the Elsevier-provided PURE CRIS is the most popular commercial solution in the world, there are also plenty of open source software alternatives showing a growing adoption such as DSpace-CRIS or VIVO. This presentation aims to examine CRIS implementation in Asia and specifically in China, where they're frequently called KMS or Knowledge Management Systems. While the research information management community around euroCRIS is largely based in Europe, CRIS adoption is a worlwide phenomenon (in fact the country currently topping the DRIS list of CRIS by country is India). We are aware that there are still significant gaps in the DRIS landscape and the presentation aims to establish the academic links that will allow the Chinese institutional KMS landscape to be more comprehensively described by the DRIS directory.
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    Common Research Information Management from a European University Alliance Perspective
    (euroCRIS, 2025-06-05)
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    As befits an initiative supported by the European Commission DG for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European University Alliances are expected to deliver a leap forward in the way transnational education is implemented at a European level. The opportunities these cross-institutional collaboration networks offer in the domain of research are however as relevant as those available in the area of teaching and learning. Aware that little has been presented in this domain at previous EUNIS annual congresses, the coauthors set out to explore what European university alliances might achieve (and are already achieving) in the realm of research through an effective collaboration across its member institutions. This exploration aims to identify some best practices against the framework provided by euroCRIS's regular community management work in the area of research information.
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    The DRIS+ Project – Enhancing the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems
    (euroCRIS, 2021-05-18)
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    The presentation introduces the OpenAIRE-funded DRIS+ project to enhance the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS). Following an introduction to the DRIS and its features, the DRIS+ project goals and achievements are summarised -- these include a new geolocation feature for DRIS entries, the development of an API to automatically exchange metadata for CRIS entries with external stakeholders, notably OpenAIRE, and the inclusion of 'OpenAIRE' and 'RDM+' badges on CRIS records to facilitate their identification when already OpenAIRE-compliant or when holding research datasets ortheir associated metadata. It is argued that the community input -- mostly from institutional CRIS managers -- is critical to consolidate the implementation of these features. The presentation concludes with a live demo of the DRIS API features.