Scope

“The rising strategic importance of Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) and Institutional Repositories (IRs) for higher education and research institutions relates to the need to foster research and innovation and to provide a faster and broader technology transfer to industry and society.” (http://www.eunis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cris-report-ED.pdf)

“... the researcher discovers that there is a large benefit (automated CV, bibliography, project participation list, institutional web page generation, part-completion of research proposals etc.) for a relatively small input effort since most input is automated or only required once and used many times”. (http://www.eurocris.org/why-does-one-need-cris)

In order to integrate IRs with CRIS,  we need more accurate information which would result in to provide metrics, reports, develop integrations and services. The only way that allows to relate different objects in the information space is using identifiers, as recognized by the scientific community. According to the conclusions of the COAR Working Group of Next Generation Repositories and the new OpenAIRE Guidelines (version 4), the use of identifiers, with common guidelines, are mandatory on the new generation of repositories.   

Each identified entity (Author, Project, Publication, ...) is managed and identifiable by an unique identifier. We consider Entity concept as an extension to DSpaceObject.

After some meetings with Tim Donohue and Andrea Bollini, and considering that this concept already exists within DSpace-CRIS, it was possible to identify two scenarios:


It is expected that the work of this group will be completed within a ten-to-twelve week timespan.


Objectives

In order to achieve these objectives, the working group should carefully consider the following:

Deliverables

Members

4Science

Atmire

The Library Code GmbH

Duraspace

RCAAP

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