Testing Strategies for the National CRISrael Community

Abstract

CRISrael, a national CRIS consolidating data from nine Israeli public universities' CRIS systems, was launched in 2023. The intricate synchronization and deduplication processes inherent in Elsevier's CRIS ("Pure") community module, compounded by reliance on data from multiple CRIS systems, pose challenges in monitoring processes and data at the national level.

This presentation will outline CRISrael's core-up strategy for testing the aggregated database. Initial steps involve a thorough investigation of data structures and errors, followed by quantitative and qualitative analyses of data quality, guided by four key objectives: Fix, Learn, Share, and Document.

Implementation of this strategy hinges on collaborative efforts among diverse user groups representing all institutions, supported by robust technological communication infrastructures. These collaborative mechanisms will be examined in detail.