JISC

The project aims to develop a proof of concept demonstrator based on the Universities for the North East Information System (UNIS) platform for a CERIF compliant “grants on the web” system for Research Council (RC) funded projects. UNIS is a collaborative project management system which has been developed over 15 years, funded by the 6 partner organisations (Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Teesside and Sunderland, and the Open University in the North). The 3 HEI partners will then validate this grant data and subsequently attempt to link research output (publications) data to these projects.
RCUK are currently migrating to a shared service centre (SSC) for the grant management process, and the RCUK Information Management Group has also supported the CERIF standard. This proposal will accelerate the shared usage of CERIF by the Research Councils and Research Organisations (ROs) alike by providing access to information on RC funded projects in CERIF format and linking grants to publications to provide added value.