The North Rhine-Westphalian CRIS-Initiative CRIS.NRW – An update on a cooperative approach

Abstract

Over three years since the previous project snapshot provided at the Autumn 2019 euroCRIS meeting in Münster (the last euroCRIS membership meeting held on-site before the pandemic), the presentation provides an update on the CRIS.NRW project to implement research information management systems in all public universities in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia. This comprises 14 universities and 16 universities of applied sciences with different process landscapes and technical interoperability requirements. The software solution that CRIS.NRW is adopting is HISinOne-RES + VIVO and this comes with the parallel goal of enabling the Research Core Dataset (KDSF) as a reporting standard for all institutions.

The presentation summarises the challenges faced by the project -- highlighting the multiple roles the CRIS.NRW entity is expected to fulfill and the very complex technical integration landscape with a wealth of previously existing systems in the various institutions -- and the goals it has already achieved.