What is a CRIS?
A Current Research Information System (CRIS) - also called Research Information Management System (RIMS) – is a database (or other information system) to store and manage data about research conducted at an institution at any given time.
The scope is to provide researchers, managers and administrators, funders and decision makers, with a solid knowledge of the research activities, their outputs and results to inform institutional strategies.
CRIS systems are very useful to evaluate and find new funding opportunities, avoid duplication of activities, analyze trends, reference to full text or multimedia scholarly publications, locate new contacts and identify new markets for products of research.
The typical outputs of a CRIS are: researcher CV, management information, reports to funders, research bibliography and commercial output reports.
...
...
first free open-source extension of |
|
...
DSpace for the Research Data and Information Management ever developed. |
|
...
Differently from other (commercial) |
|
...
CRIS/RIMS  , DSpace-CRIS has the institutional repository |
|
...
as its core component, providing high visibility on the web to all the collected information and objects. |
|
...
DSpace-CRIS broadens DSpace functionality and expands its data model while |
|
...
remaining aligned with its code base. DSpace-CRIS is built/maintained by 4Science. DSpace-CRIS adopts/is compliant with |
|
...
...
...
...
, which allows you to collect and manage research data and information typical of a CRIS system, to define entities and attributes with their reciprocal links. |
|
...
If you would just want to enhance the management of authors, provide name variants and IDs such as the ORCiD, exploit the varied ecosystem of persistent identifiers, link researchers to projects, awards, etc., DSpace-CRIS flexible data model can support this without aggravating the management burden of a normal institutional repository, while giving a great added value. Besides, it has useful features such as the collaboration network graph, aggregated (by researcher, by department) bibliometrics and statistics with graphic reporting, CVs and bibliographies, integration with ORCiD API v.3 and much more, you can explore them vie the menu items here on the left. Its flexibility allows to configure different data models and metadata schemas, providing the community with new and creative uses of DSpace, such as DSpace-GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) for the Cultural Heritage. What is a CRIS/RIMS? A Current Research Information System (CRIS) - also called Research Information Management System (RIMS) – stores and manages data about research conducted at an institution. Its scope is to provide researchers, managers and administrators, funders and decision makers, with a solid knowledge of the research activities, their outputs and results to inform institutional strategies. CRIS systems are also useful to evaluate research performance, expose results to find new funding opportunities, avoid duplication of activities, analyze trends, reference to full-text or multimedia scholarly publications, locate new contacts and identify new markets for products of research, disseminate research to support open knowledge. |
|
| Section |
|---|
| Column |
|---|
| width | 60%| Info |
|---|
| This DSpace-CRIS wiki space has been provided by Duraspace LYRASIS for the purpose of exposing the documentation in a useful, collaborative way to provoke discussion among DSpace and DSpace-CRIS users. At this current stage, Duraspace LYRASIS is not directly involved in the stewardship or support of the DSpace-CRIS software. Hopefully in the long term, the The DSpace-CRIS wiki space will help helps ensure more cross-pollination between the projects, and potentially help other DSpace committers and users learn more about e.g. what features of DSpace-CRIS might be adopted in native DSpace, such as the "entities". An eventual goal is to permit DSpace users to optionally make use of the DSpace-CRIS functionality as an “add-on”, so that there is no longer a need to fork the DSpace code. |
The DSpace-CRIS’ Vision: Publications are an important component of the research lifecycle: they create links between scholars and they support research administrators in the measurement and decision making processes. However there are many other equally other equally important entities in the research ecosystem that need descriptions description, reciprocal links and tracking, such as projects, grants, patents, organization units, researcher researcher profiles (people), etc. Integrating and contextualizing all these entities along with publications, creates great value for each of those entities in terms of visibility, discovery and the understanding of the complexity of the research domain. Nowadays, the most common definition for such integration is “Current Research Information System” (CRIS)
DSpace-CRIS enables the ingestion, storage, display and management of data and metadata and fulltext of for all the above mentioned abovementioned research entities. This module produces a smooth integration between native DSpace items (publications) and other CRIS entities. All entities can then be linked to each other using autocomplete/lookup functions in the submission/edit phase and/or the inter-navigation in visualizations.
History and maintenance: Two Three DSpace Committers, Andrea Bollini (4Science) and , Luigi Andrea Pascarelli (4Science) and Giuseppe Digilio (4Science), are also actively involved in the development and maintenance of DSpace-CRIS . It was (originally developed at Cilea/Cineca as a project funded by the Hong Kong University, then the team moved to 4Science, committed to continue working on it. It is hoped that the features implemented in DSpace-CRIS might eventually qualify as contributions to the enrichment and evolution of DSpace. ). Besides their committment, a larger community is growing around DSpace-CRIS as a means to represent the research domain, see DSpace-CRIS Users. Support options: see DSpace Support for free support, DSpace Service Providers for professional support.
| Info |
|---|
If and whenever needed, any | | Info |
|---|
| Any DSpace-CRIS installation can be easily turned (back) into a basic DSpace installation without the with no need to change or convert any data. The additional information used by DSpace-CRIS are is kept in separate tables, and the integration with the standard DSpace features is provided by the DSpace authority framework. |
|
|---|
| Column |
|---|
|
| Tip |
|---|
| title | Stable versionDOWNLOAD |
|---|
|  Latest
stable version of release DSpace-CRIS :57 2023. 7.0 released on 8th Aug 201702.03: REST | Angular
Current maintenance branches DSpace-CRIS 7: REST | REST Contract | Angular Development branches DSpace-CRIS 7: REST | REST Contract | Angular The code is maintained by its original developers and other contributors in the 4Science repository, free to use for everyone. Feel free to submit your Pull Request to start collaborating with the DSpace-CRIS / GLAM community. Demo installations are available here: https://dspacecris7.4science.cloud (DSpace-CRIS 7) https:// A RC release for DSpace-CRIS 6.1 is available here: DSpace-CRIS 6.1 RC it is recommended to use the latest code in the maintenance branch as it includes bug fixes and improvements. Since July 2016 the code is maintained by the original developers in the 4Science repository A demo installation running the latest code from the maintenance branch is provided by 4Science here: https://dspace-cris.4science.itcloud/A test drive installation running the latest RC is provided by 4Science here: http://test.dspace-cris.4science.it
For version 5 and 6 it is recommended to use the latest code in the live maintenance branch as it includes ongoing bug fixes and improvements. Version 5 is more stable and also richer (thanks to the numerous contributions of institutions using it, all contributions are being ported directly to version 7). DSpace-CRIS 6.x | DSpace-CRIS 5.x |
Navigate space |
|
...