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.
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
I have been having various conversations re one point of access for research information.
Chris Moulsley, Head of Joint Information Services Unit, EPSRC/ESRC sent us the following information in relation to potential linkage with initiatives such as IRIOS2.
In December 2011, BIS published the Innovation & Research Strategy; the strategy specifically mentioned:
The UK’s universities are increasingly collaborating with each other and with external organisations to develop and commercialise knowledge, last year securing over £3 billion from external sources. Going further, we intend to maximise the impact of our research base on economic growth and have committed an additional £495 million to capital projects in support of this aim since January 2011. Additionally the Research Councils will develop a web based ‘Gateway to Research’ which will allow ready access to Research Council funded research information and related data
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Research Councils will develop a web based publicly searchable ‘Gateway to Research’ |
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The BIS Allocation letters received by the Research Councils in December 2010 stated:
Over the next five years, RCUK will work with partners to ensure that there will be a single public point of access to search and analyse information on:
To deliver this vision we will work with partners and research/innovative intensive SMEs.
To enable this to happen the following principles will apply:
RCUK will use community and common standards wherever possible and work with the wider community to develop common standards where required. This will include work on unique identifiers e.g. name of investigators, name of institution, grant references. All relevant systems will be developed to be interoperable: e.g. the funders’ systems will talk to institutions’ systems.
– Information will only need to be entered once in one system to be accessible to all
– Information will be quality assured to agreed standards before entering into a system
– Information will continue to be accessible on a long-term basis (i.e. historical data will be retained)
– Information to be relevant and accessible to a wide range of users, in particular research/innovative intensive SMEs to support innovation and growth
My initial thoughts on this are that for Research Council funded activity presumably the Research Outcomes System will be the starting point. What about other funders or unfunded research that might be of interest to stakeholders such as potential collaborators or the public? There are initiatives such as Research Fish http://www.researchfish.com/demo/register?firstTime=1 that aim to provide for generic research activity reporting regardless of funder. I’m not advocating this particular system just noting it might be of interest for the discussions on aggregation of research outcomes.
For any system external to our organisation we want to upload once (from data already keyed into local systems) rather than key direct to the external system – though of course if we get to a stage where there is one UK (or wider) repository for information about research outputs and everyone buys in we might key there first then re-use from there – perhaps a longer term possibility.
Lots to discuss with CASRAI, and how we can best capitalise on the work there. We have a meeting organised to discuss this at the Bath event. The overlap between this, and the RMAS project is considerable.
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
Enagaging with CIA in a joint event, CERIF mappings for various JISC funded projects.
Time for IRIOS-2 to take centre stage with a joint venture between Simon Kerridge and Kevin Ginty.
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
The Repositories Support Project Embedding Guide and Toolkit has been published by the Repositories Support Project and will help institutions to get the best value from their institutional repositories through integration with other university systems, particularly research management systems.
It is aimed at repository staff but will be of interest to other groups such as academic librarians and research management staff.
Over the past few years, there have been a number of JISC funded projects and other institutional initiatives which have focused on the embedding of research repositories into organisational systems, policies and workflows. The results have been documented in websites, blogs, conference presentations etc but they have not been synthesised into a coherent whole. This guide aims to do just that.
Visit the RSP Embedding Guide here
The bulk of this message is reproduced from an e-notification from the Repositories Support Project
the poster for the IRIOS-2 project has now been completed.
Lizzie Dipple from Symplectic has just informed us that the BRUCE project final report (available soon) will have some CERIF issues listed that the project dealt with, which would probably be useful for others new to CERIF to learn from
