The project aims to increase engagement of the UK HE and commercial sectors with the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) and Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) to a critical mass, and to support an emerging community of practice in Research Information Management (RIM). It will evaluate, test and demonstrate CERIF with four pilot UK HE institutions and one international commercial organisation (Thomson Reuters), which do not have working CRIS systems based on the CERIF data format, in a practical, 'end-to-end' process of people-centred organisational modelling, requirements elicitation, data analysis, data mapping, data exchange, and software demonstration, together with a programme of training, support, evaluation and dissemination. Thomson Reuters will ‘CERIFy’ their cutting-edge commercial service InCites: to enable two-way, interoperable, CERIF-compliant data exchange with the project's CRIS instances; to add value to validated institution-specific data; and to provide a valuable new view on current institutional research outputs.

CERIFy

The project aims to increase engagement of the UK HE and commercial sectors with the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) and Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) to a critical mass, and to support an emerging community of practice in Research Information Management (RIM). It will evaluate, test and demonstrate CERIF with four pilot UK HE institutions and one international commercial organisation (Thomson Reuters), which do not have working CRIS systems based on the CERIF data format, in a practical, 'end-to-end' process of people-centred organisational modelling, requirements elicitation, data analysis, data mapping, data exchange, and software demonstration, together with a programme of training, support, evaluation and dissemination. Thomson Reuters will ‘CERIFy’ their cutting-edge commercial service InCites: to enable two- way, interoperable, CERIF-compliant data exchange with the project's CRIS instances; to add value to validated institution-specific data; and to provide a valuable new view on current institutional research outputs.

Project Staff

Project Manager:

Mahendra Mahey, Project Manager, UKOLN, Phone +44 1225 384594, Fax +44 1225 386838, m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk

Project Team:

Michael Day, Research Manager, UKOLN, Phone +44 1225 383923, Fax +44 1225 386838, m.day@ukoln.ac.uk

Niamh Brennan, Assistant Librarian, Trinity College Dublin, Phone +353 1 896 1646, niamh.brennan@tcd.ie

Talat Chaudhri, Research Officer, UKOLN, Phone +44 1225 385105, Fax +44 1225 386838, t.chaudhri@ukoln.ac.uk

Mahendra Mahey, Research Officer, UKOLN, Phone +44 1225 384594, Fax +44 1225 386838, m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk

Rosemary Russell, Research Officer, UKOLN, Phone +44 1483 560342, r.russell@ukoln.ac.uk

Stephanie Taylor, Research Officer, UKOLN, Phone +44 7966 341396, s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk

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Summary
Start date
1 February 2011
End date
31 July 2011
Project website
Lead institutions

UKOLN, University of Bath

Partner institutions

UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

Trinity College Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/

Thomson Reuters http://thomsonreuters.com/

Aberystwyth University http://www.aber.ac.uk/

University of Bath http://www.bath.ac.uk/

University of Huddersfield http://www.hud.ac.uk/

Queen’s University Belfast http://www.qub.ac.uk/
Committees
  • JISC Support of Research committee