NARCIS - Integrating CRIS, OAI and Web Crawling

Abstract

NARCIS, National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System, is a Dutch project to build a portal for research information. This project combines Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) with structured information, with information from OAI repositories (obtained via harvesting), and websites and news pages via web crawling. A major goal is to create a central facility for searching all these data.

In this paper the result of the NARCIS project will be described: a (prototype) portal containing 400,000 items. We will show how and why we have used different techniques for the different sources of NARCIS. Finally, we will present the results of end-user testing.