Here is a link to a post about Freedom of Information and IP protection on our sister blog:
http://cerif4datasets.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/confidentiality-and-open-access/
We have been considering which of the output types not often traditionally stored in Research Organisation core systems might be priorities for ‘CERIF’ying’
Based on the RCUK Research Outcomes list my initial suggestions to add to books, journals and publications are below.
Note these are just my initial thoughts and the team may decided on different priorities.
Impact - Research Organisations will need to work out internally how to deal with impact info for both REF and RCUK without giving out confidential info inappropriately and ensuring staff know data will be re-used (if we do plan to re-use info generically)
Key findings
Conference
Artwork
Exhibition
Performance
Dataset – this is being worked on by our sister project CERIF for Datasets http://cerif4datasets.wordpress.com/
Artefact
Logic – All except artwork and artefact (which could be de-prioritised) needed for reporting to REF/HEBCIS or other statutory returns as well as RCUK outcomes reporting.
Audio Recording
Composition
Creative – other
Software
Website
Prototype
Lecture – also required for HEBCIS
All of the following are Esteem which is also required for REF:
Appointment to Editorial Board
Membership of Panel/Group
Other Award/Appointment
Degree/Other Honour
Research Prize
Medal
Honorary Degree
Fellowship of Learned Society
In all of this Research Organisations’s need internally to plan how to deal with various issues e.g. confidentiality but we can take that aside and we can discuss the internal communications ourselves.
As part of the EuroCRIS 2012 conference in Prague, taking place in June, the IRIOS-2 project has had a poster accepted and submitted.
below is the poster that will be at the conference.
Today we have handouts of the IRIOS2 project poster available at our University of Glasgow Researh Staff Conference.
The speakers include representatives from the Scottish Funding Council, Wellcome Trust, and NERC.
We have a stand where we are disseminating information about this project along with other JISC projects as well as providing advice about data management and library support services.
The programme is available here for reference:
The IRIOS-2 project held its first quarterly project meeting (after the kick-off) at the University of Glasgow on 29th February 2012. The meeting was a joint consortium meeting with the C4D project. We posed on the steps outside at lunchtime for a group photo.
L to R: Kevin Ginty, Ryan Henderson, Anna Clements, Katie Nurowski, Scott Brander, Valerie McCutcheon, Martin Finlayson, David McElroy
A post regarding impact and research methodology that may be of interest – see our Engage project blog: http://researchclusters.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/some-interesting-points-from-our-team-discussion-today/
In particular I am interested to hear from IRIOS2 colleagues if research methodology ‘classification’ might be available with data supplied by RCUK, and from the research organisations as to whether this would be of use to them. Not necessarily for the current project – just in general.
At our recent steering group meeting we discussed the information available from Research Council Systems in relation to awards they have made to Research Organisations. It was suggested we might be able to make use of the classification that is used to sub-divide the activity into types and sub-types for example:
Parallel Computing
Literary & Cultural Theory
Remote Sensing & Earth Obs
We have already used the Research Council classifications for another JISC funded project ‘Engage’ which is running under the Business Intelligence programme. You may be interested in the post on the blog. The version of the classification we used is available there for download:
http://researchclusters.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/choosing-a-research-classification-scheme/
Feel free to comment here on the IRIOS2 blog or on the Engage blog as the two projects will share any information received.
The two projects IRIOS-2 and CiA provided progress updates at the JISC hosted RIM3 Programme meeting. See below for a link to the IRIOS-2 presentation given by Simon Kerridge and Kevin Ginty. There were also presentations from RMAS, OSSWatch and JISC InfoKit.
Overall, the event was excellent and the projects have agreed a number of joint initiatives, including working with RMAS and potentially CASRAI.
Keep following the blog for updates on the projects progress.
Presentation: IRIOS-2 Overview
JISC have enhanced their Research Information Management infokit with the first wave of synthesis work from this year’s JISC projects. The infokit has been produced by Steve Bailey and Stuart Bolton from JISC infoNet.
View the ‘case studies’ section online to read about the ongoing project work within the University of Sunderland, University of Glasgow and University of St. Andrews.
Click here to view the infokit
Please contact jiscinfonet@northumbria.ac.uk with any feedback.
Posted on behalf of JISC Advance
I am sure like us many HEI’s are busy finalising HEBCIS returns for 2010-11.
I am optimistic that initatives like IRIOS will facilitate such returns in future as we drive to record and utlise more infomation about ‘non-standard’ research outputs such as public lectures, exhibitions and performance arts.
