1: PUBLIC.
- 1.1: Home.
- 1.2: News.
- 1.3: About euroCRIS.
  - 1.3.1: Organisation.
  - 1.3.2: Charter.
  - 1.3.3: Brochure.
  - 1.3.4: Partners.
- 1.4: Events.
  - 1.4.1: Conferences.
    - 1.4.1.1: CRIS 2008.
  - 1.4.2: Seminars.
  - 1.4.3: Membership meetings.
  - 1.4.4: Courses.
- 1.5: Join euroCRIS.
- 1.6: Contact us.
- 1.7: Disclaimer and Terms of use.
2: CERIF.
- 2.1: Introduction.
- 2.2: Tutorial.
- 2.3: CERIF Releases.
  - 2.3.1: CERIF 2004.
  - 2.3.2: CERIF 2006.
  - 2.3.3: CERIF 2008.
3: MEMBERS.
- 3.1: Members area.

CRIS course

Making research information management work for you. Introductory course into Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) and the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF).

Locations

A location of your choosing
At our Brussels office
At our UK location

Fees

Expenses for one or two presenters.
Honorarium pay to euroCRIS.

Target audience

Research managers and administrators
University officers
Funding agency staff

Agenda

09.30-10.45 - Session 1: Introduction and background

11.00-12.30 - Session 2: Information requirements

12.30-13.30 - Lunch

13.30-15.00 - Session 3: Research Information (CRIS)

15.15-16.30 - Session 4: CRISs in practice

16.30-16.45 - Summary and next step; summary and conclusions

Session 1

- General introductions: People and Programme. Do you know what it is your organization knows? Who are the people and with what skills and experience, engaging in the projects, with what property (i.e. financial resources, funding, equipment), in which organizational places (i.e. facilities), publishing and producing results (i.e. publications and patents), and providing what services?
- What is research information? What is research information management? What are CRISs (Current Research Information Systems)? How does this integrate with all other daily management tasks, i.e. communicating and reporting with different constituencies?
- Building or re-engineering an institutional R&D knowledge base. Properly managing project and proposal management, expertise (i.e. partners, funding agency reviewers, consultancy) databases, research unit management, funding opportunity databases, IPR management (i.e. patents, technology transfer) and content management systems (i.e. public relation websites and FOS: Free Online Scholarship/pre-print archives).
- Storing background knowledge, developing new knowledge, and incorporating external knowledge (i.e. benchmarking) for future re-use.

Session 2

The kind of questions one might ask and how current CRISs struggle to answer them. The need for CERIF (Common European Research Information Format). Creating a database of 'good practices'.

Session 3

What is CERIF: The CERIF data model in a 'nutshell'. Introduction to basic concepts such as data, information and knowledge; metadata; enumerated lists; thesauri, taxonomies, domain ontologies and binary relations. Creating a research management taxonomy.

Session 4

Some current CERIF-CRISs and experience of use. Extensions to CERIF for additional CRIS purposes. How to be involved in the development of CERIF?

Presenter: Keith Jeffery