Bråten, Anders Eivind
Preferred name
Bråten, Anders Eivind
Official Name
Bråten, Anders Eivind
Main Affiliation
Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
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Item type:Publication, The Importance of User Involvement in the Development of the Norwegian Research Information Repository(euroCRIS, 2026-05-20); This paper examines how systematic user involvement helped shaping the design and development of the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA), a national infrastructure for open access and research information. The project was developed using an iterative and agile development approach. Due to a scope expansion, the project underestimated the functional diversity and the institutional heterogeneity and struggled with large volumes of feedback from the user community. To address this, a tighter collaboration with internal experts on CRIS was established, and different forms for user participation were introduced. This helped identify key functional requirements, improve the user interface, and align workflows with existing research administration practices. The paper list five recommendations for similar national projects: secure early but structured user representation, anchor work at both operational and strategic levels, involve CRIS experts from the outset, phase user involvement, and communicate clearly about development processes and the handling of user feedback. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A Brief Description of the Development of the Norwegian Research Information Repository(euroCRIS, 2026-05-20); The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is a national, open‑source infrastructure for documenting current Norwegian research activities and results and underpins national reporting to the Norwegian Scientific Index (NVI). It is deployed as a service‑oriented, serverless platform on AWS, using a graph data model aligned with FAIR principles and persistent identifiers. The platform has enabled the Norwegian government to effectively mandate open access for publicly funded research and provides institutions with shared tools, workflows, and best practices for research documentation. The paper describes the historical context, development process, technical architecture, achieved results, lessons learned, and future work, offering practical guidance when developing national‑scale research information infrastructures.