“And the winner is…” ORAP – An open master data service for scientific awards and prizes – concepts, structures and its application using the example of a university-wide CRIS

Author(s)
Biesenbender, Sophie
Kommission für Forschungsinformationen in Deutschland
Gausmann, Ulrike
Keywords

research information ...

current research info...

scientific awards

Research Core Data Se...

University of Münster...

Germany

Issue Date
May 22, 2026
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euroCRIS
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Conference Paper
Abstract
Prizes, awards and honours are essential parts of the scientific reputation system and evidence of scientific expertise and success. They are integral components of rankings like the Shanghai Ranking and subject to science studies, research reporting and institutional research information management. In its current release, CERIF considers prizes and awards with a specific entity (cfPrize). This notwithstanding, there is a lack of systematic data and data standards for prizes and prize awardings on the international and national levels which might hamper the systematic integration of such information in Current Research Information Systems – CRIS.
In Germany, the Commission for Research information in Germany (KFiD) that is in charge of maintaining the KDSF standard (short for Kerndatensatz Forschung), a research information standard and blueprint for research information systems, recently published a new and freely accessible data service: the Open Registry for Awards and Prizes (ORAP) provides curated lists of prizes and awards along with relevant metadata. In this paper, we introduce and describe the rationale behind this new master data service.
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21 slides.-- Presentation delivered at the CRIS2026 session "Connecting CRIS Ecosystems: Interoperability, Knowledge Graphs, and Open Research Infrastructure".-- Includes extended abstract
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https://dspacecris.eurocris.org/handle/11366/9798
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