Sicilia, Miguel Angel

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    CERIF-CRIS Reference Implementation (CC-REFIM) and CERIF compatibility testing system: Project Charter
    (euroCRIS, 2015-10-02)
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    A technical description is provided of the CERIF-CRIS Reference Implementation (CC-REFIM) project internally developed by euroCRIS. This project aims to provide a reference system able to reliably check and confirm CERIF compatibility of (a) CERIFCRIS software platforms (e.g. PURE, CONVERIS, Symplectic Elements, Research in View, etc.) and (b) individual operational CERIF-CRIS systems currently in production, for example institutional,national or international CRIS (e.g. OpenAIREplus, EuroRIs-Net+); for example, candidates for checking with Scenario (b) are all systems that are registered on the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS)..
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    Decentralized Persistent Identifer Design: a basic model for immutable handlers
    (euroCRIS, 2018-06-14)
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    García-Barriocanal, Elena
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    Sánchez-Alonso, Salvador
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    Persistent Identifier (PID) Systems have evolved in the last decade to mitigate the problem of link rot and provide unique and resolvable identifiers for digital objects. However, they still depend on services that may become unavailable or cease to behave as expected. Decentralized technologies may serve as the infrastructure of a trustless PID system. Here we discuss their design and provide an example test deployment using a combination of IPFS and smart contract transactions over a public blockchain.
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    Entities and Identities in Research Information Systems
    (euroCRIS, 2012-06-08)
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    Where science is increasingly becoming a global business and furthermore with open data and access initiatives, means to identify and thus to connect system-internal with non-internal entities are urgently needed. The need for identifiers beyond systems is thus a global requirement but also relevant within organization boundaries spanning multiple systems. Various identifier initiatives and systems have started in the scientific domain and beyond. However, they have not yet achieved the required interoperability. With this paper we aim to collect additional essential ingredients towards designing a sustainable CERIF identifier sub model, contributing to ongoing discussions and supporting design decisions. Here, we first present common issues with identifiers in the wider academic domain, before we analyze available systems, technologies and current initiatives solving the global identity gap.
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    Towards automating FAIR dataset record deployment as a continuous integration process: use of GitHub Actions (GHA) on RDA maDMP metadata
    (euroCRIS, 2026-05-20)
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    García-Barriocanal, Elena
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    Mora-Cantallops, Marçal
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    GitHub Actions constitutes a viable approach to maintaining FAIR metadata consistently and up to date across different repositories, enabling a policy-guided, organization-wide account of metadata quality and richness. The approach has a relatively low technical entry barrier for organizations with varying IT capacities and implements the “continuous metadata” approach at the conclusion of research projects to guarantee FAIR publication of outcomes.
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    Community curation in open dataset repositories: insights from Zenodo
    (euroCRIS, 2016-06-11)
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    García-Barriocanal, Elena
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    Sánchez-Alonso, Salvador
    The increasing concern for the availability of scientific data has resulted in a number of initiatives promoting the archival and curation of datasets as a legitimate research outcome. Among them, dataset repositories fill the gap of providing long-term preservation of diverse kinds of data along with its meta-descriptions, and support citation. Unsurprisingly, the concern for quality arises as in the publication of papers. However, repositories support a larger variety of use cases, and many of them implement minimal control on the data uploaded by users. An approach to tackle with quality control in repositories is that of letting communities of users to filter the relevant resources for them, at the same time providing some form of trust to users of the data. However, there is a lack of knowledge of the extent to which this social approach that relies on communities self-organizing actually contributes to the effective organization inside repositories. This paper reports the results of a study on the Zenodo repository, describing its main contents and how communities have emerged naturally around the deposited contents.
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    Building CERIF Databases from CVN
    (euroCRIS, 2012-11-05)
    This presentation describes the CVN-to-CERIF project carried out by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and euroCRIS for mapping the Spanish Normalized Curriculum Vitae (CVN) standard to CERIF. Examples are provided for the CVN metadata set conversion into a CERIF-compliant structure and its further exposure as linked open data.
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    CERIF-CRIS: A Research Information Model for Decision Support: Use and Trends for the Future
    (CODATA, 2012-10-31)
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    Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) are dedicated to manage information about Research through CERIF. CERIF is a data model describing the Research involved entities and their manifold relationships in an efficient and scalable way. In addition to the ER-Model CERIF specifies an XML exchange format and develops a domain vocabulary – aimed at re-use and mappings, and towards increased openness. CRISs serve many stakeholders in their recording, reporting and decision-making alongside the entire research process ; whether they are developing programmes, allocating funding, assessing projects, executing projects, generating results, assessing results or transferring technology. A CRIS contains data and metadata or information about e.g. project managers, ongoing and completed projects, research departments, funding organisations, programmes and funding, researchers, research results (publications, patents, products), events, infrastructures (facilities, services, equipment) and their timely relationships (semantics), enabling an integrated approach for managing research information. CERIF – the Common European Research Information Format – is a European Commission Recommendation to Member States and its roots date back to the late 80ies, where it has always been tightly related with CRISs). It is now in the responsibility of euroCRIS, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the development of Research Information Systems and their interoperability.
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    Combining VIVO and Google Scholar data as sources for CERIF Linked Data: A case in the agricultural domain
    (euroCRIS, 2014-05-14)
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    The needs of global science have fostered open access to the results and contextual information of research organizations at an international scale. This requires the use of standards or shared data models to exchange information preserving its semantics when transferred between systems. In that direction, standards as CERIF or projects as VIVO were developed to exchange or expose the scientific knowledge. Also, there are other sources of scientific information in the Web that are useful to complement institutional repositories and CRISes. The heterogeneity of data models behind each source in turn raises the need for mappings between them to ease interchange and aggregate information. In this paper, we present a tool that integrates three sources of research information and enables their aggregating and export into both VIVO and CERIF models. We present a case study in agriculture using OpenAGRIS, a bibliographic database linked to Web sources with more than 7 million records. Concretely, we describe the methods to combine Google Scholar data for the scholarly content indexed in OpenAGRIS and aggregating new information provided by the first one, using our tool. Finally the information is stored in a VIVO instance and then translated into CERIF using a conversion process mapping both data models. The case demonstrates the possibilities of mapping tools to aggregate and translate CRIS information.
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    Metadata traceability and reuse in research projects
    (euroCRIS, 2025-05-14)
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    In research projects, the use of Data Management Plans (DMPs) is becoming increasingly common. These documents describe the data used and generated throughout a project, aligning with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs) are structured, standardized, and encoded versions of DMPs that allow systems to automatically interpret, validate, and process them. This enables automation, dynamic updates, and seamless integration with other research tools, enhancing efficiency, reproducibility, and transparency. One of the most established standards for developing maDMPs is the RDA-DMP Common Standard, promoted by the Research Data Alliance (RDA). To support the creation and validation of maDMPs according to this standard, tools like the Python library madmpy offer a programmatic interface that enables their seamless integration into data workflows and research applications.