Let’s Talk Some More - Interoperability between University CRIS/IR and Researchfish – a follow up case study from the UK

Abstract

This paper describes how the pilot between Researchfish and institutional systems presented at the CRIS2016 conference, http://hdl.handle.net/11366/492, was extended over the next two years and explains key lessons in four areas: 1. How communications and business processes have helped to increase the level of interoperability of publication data from a range of different CRIS systems. 2. How the third phase of the pilot looking at the feasibility of interoperability around non-publication outputs found that there was already a great deal of scope in this area and identified a series of key lessons to increase the scale of information exchange. 3. What happened when the ability to exchange publication information was expand beyond the 6 pilot universities to all research organisations using Researchfish. 4. How the lessons gained from the project can be implemented and what the next steps might be.