PubMan Institutional activities

Gathering ideas and requirements for extending the PubMan solution with the tracking of institutional activities.

Any development might be related to the CERIF model (Common European Research Information Format) developed by euroCRIS

Assets of interest for MPIs

- work in progress, no definite requirement list! - 

• Persons related to an organisational unit over time (cf Cone Service)
• Sub-organisations related to an organisational unit over time (cf Cone Service)
• Cooperations with other organisations
• Staff members (using local LDAPs?)
• Guests
• Teaching/Lecture activities
• Workshops, conferences organized by MPI
• Calls (Berufungen)
• Honors, Awards
• Editorial activities (e.g. member of editorial board)
• Memberships
• Fundings
• Third-party projects
• Press material

Interested institutes

• MPI Nijmegen
• MPI Kognitions-und Neurowissenschaften
• MPI ICE
• NIMS (see comments)

euroCRIS

Cited from Homepage http://www.eurocris.org/public/home/--Ulla 11:59, 29 January 2010 (UTC):

• euroCRIS is a not-for-profit association and aims to be the internationally recognised point of reference for all matters relating to Current Research Information Systems (CRIS).
• euroCRIS is dedicated to improvement of research information availability. The association is custodian of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF), an international standard for interoperation of CRIS, which is an EU recommendation to the member states. euroCRIS stimulates the implementation of CERIF-compliant CRIS. Ultimate aim is to implement all relevant CRIS (related) systems progressively on a GRIDs platform in order to gain maximum advantage for European research at all levels. In the realisation of this mission euroCRIS capitalises on international developments in science and science policy, particularly with reference to the European Research Area (ERA) and the evolving needs of stakeholders.

CERIF - About

Cited from Homepage http://www.eurocris.org/cerif/introduction/--Ulla 11:59, 29 January 2010 (UTC):

• CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) was developed with the support of the EC (European Commission) in two major phases: 1987-1990 and 1997-1999.
• It is a standard; technically it is an EU (European Union) Recommendation to member states.
• The information is used by
  • researchers (to find partners, to track competitors, to form collaborations);
  • research managers (to assess performance and research outputs and to find reviewers for research proposals);
  • research strategists (to decide on priorities and resourcing compared with other countries);
  • publication editors (to find reviewers and potential authors);
  • intermediaries / brokers (to find research products and ideas that can be carried forward with knowledge/ technology transfer to wealth creation);
  • the media (to communicate the results of R&D in a socio-economic context) and the general public (for interest).

• Essential features are:
  • it has the concept of objects or entities with attributes such as project, person, organisational unit;
  • it supports n:m relationships between them (and recursively on any of them) using 'linking relations' thus providing rich semantics including roles and time;
  • it is fully internationalised in language and character set;
  • it is extensible without prejudicing the core datamodel thus providing guaranteed interoperability at least at the core level but not precluding even richer intercommunication. It is designed for use both for data exchange (data file transfer) and for heterogeneous distributed query / result environments.

• Last release: CERIF 2008 1.1.

CERIF-Model

The information below is summarized and copied from Tutorial by Brigitte Joerg (May 2009), see Full Tutorial

Hints:

CERIF Core Entities

Project

• ID
• URI
• Acronym
• StartDate
• EndDate
• Title
• Abstract
• Keywords

Person

• ID
• URI
• Sex
• FirstNames
• OtherNames
• FamilyNames
• NameVariants
• ResearchInterest
• Keywords

OrganisationUnit

• ID
• URI
• Acronym
• Name
• CurrencyCode
• Turnover
• ResearchActivity
• Keywords

CERIF Result Entities

ResultPublication

• ID
• URI
• Title
• Subtitle
• Abstract
• Bibl.Note
• PublicationDate
• TotalPages
• StartPage
• EndPage
• Keywords

ResultPatent

• ID
• URI
• PatentNumber
• Title
• CountryCode
• RegistrationDate
• ApprovalDate
• Description
• Keywords

ResultProduct

• ID
• URI
• InternationalID

CERIF 2ndLevel Entitites

Complete overview:

Facility

• ID
• URI
• Name
• Description
• Keywords

FundingProgramme

• ID
• URI
• Name
• CurrencyCode
• Budget
• StartDate
• EndDate
• Description
• Keywords

Event

• ID
• URI
• Name
• FeeOrFree
• StartDate
• EndDate
• CityTown
• CountryCode
• Description
• Keywords

Service

• ID
• URI
• Name
• Description
• Keywords

ElectronicAdress

PostalAdress

Country

Currency

Language

Event

Metrics

Citation

CV

Prize

Qualification

ExpertiseAndSkills

Equipment

CERIF Link Entities

See Full Tutorial p 34

Semantic Features associated with Link Entities

See Full Tutorial p 37

CERIF Semantics (Publication Types)

A broad range of publication types are supported:

See Full Tutorial p 85

Publication Management

Max-Planck-Institut

Internet Chat Exchange

National Institute for Materials Science Japan

Coordinated Universal Time

Current Research Information Systems

Identifier

Uniform Resource Identifier