Enhancing interoperability: the implementation of OpenAIRE Guidelines and COAR NGR Recommendations in CRIS/RIMS

Abstract

The continuous work of the OpenAIRE community on guidelines for CRIS managers, literature repositories, and data archives, together with the publication of the “Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group”, are raising important challenges for the CRIS and the repository communities, working together to make research information more an more interoperable, and, hopefully, open. The recommendations of the Open Science Policy Platform, published by the European Commission, identify FAIR (Findable-Accessible-Interoperable-Reusable) data among its priorities. In an interoperable world, all these indications lead toward a common direction, where implementers are encouraged to use open protocols, such as the OAI-PMH and ResourceSync, open standards such as CERIF, persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCiDs, to make this happen. The presentation will go through these challenges, illustrating how CRIS and repository managers should work together toward a successful information exchange, and exemplifying how a single free open platform, DSpace-CRIS, can implement both a CRIS and a repository and fulfill requirements for a FAIR environment for research information and research objects.