Mikael Karstensen Elbæk

OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers: Supporting Interoperability of Open Research Information through Established Standards☆

OpenAIRE is the European infrastructure enabling researchers to comply with the European Union requirements for Open Access to research results. OpenAIRE collects metadata from data sources across Europe and beyond and defines interoperability guidelines to assist providers in exposing their information in a way that is compatible with OpenAIRE. This contribution focuses on a specific type of data source, CRIS systems, and the respective OpenAIRE guidelines, based on CERIF XML. A range of issues, spanning different aspects of information representation and exchange, needed to be addressed by the guidelines in order to define a complete solution for interoperability.

Emerging standards for enhanced publications and repository technology: survey on technology

This book consists of two main parts: New Technologies and Communities, and Interoperability. The New Technologies and Communities part contains the following three chapters: one on the Grid, i.e. network, computing community, one on long-term preservation (LTP) strategies and projects, and one on the European CRIS community (Computer Research Information Systems). CRIS-systems are based in research institutions and national administrations, and should evolve into a European-wide e-infrastructure. Of course, there are differences between the repository (publications) and CRIS (research information) communities, but just like Grid computing and LTP, the CRIS community is a related, pan-European community, which deserves a place alongside the other chapters in this publication. The other part of the book, Interoperability, deals with the new standards, formats and evolutions in the repository world and beyond, all related to the dissemination and interoperability of Enhanced Publications. Forthcoming D-NET developments will need to be interoperable with many of these emerging standards because they are being used to disseminate Enhanced Publications. Every chapter of this part describes an emerging standard, a relevant community or platform, and follows a three-tiered approach: theory, case studies and opportunities for DRIVER. The introduction and theoretical framework explains and defines the technology or community in a DRIVER II context, which is followed by case studies and projects that have implemented these standards or technologies, in order to evaluate the relevance and quality for DRIVER. The last part of every chapter always contains the outcomes for DRIVER II, and serves as input for the technical team for the development of D-NET.

OpenAIRE Guidelines: supporting interoperability for Literature Repositories, Data Archives and CRIS

OpenAIRE – Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe – is moving from a publication infrastructure to a more comprehensive infrastructure that covers all types of scientific output. To put this into practice an integrated suite of guidelines were developed with specific requirements supporting the goal of OpenAIRE and the European Commission. This poster outlines the OpenAIRE Guidelines, highlighting the set of guidelines for Literature Repository Managers, for Data Archive Managers and for CRIS Managers.

Personometrics: mapping and visualizing communication patterns in r&d projects

People such as R&D engineers rely on communication with their colleagues to acquire information, get trusted opinion, and as impetus for creative discourse. This study investigates the prospects of using bibliometric citation techniques for mapping and visualizing data about the oral communication patterns of a group of R&D engineers. Representatives of the R&D engineers find the resulting maps – we term them personometric maps – rich in information about who knows what and potentially useful as tools for finding people with specific competences. Maps of old projects are seen as particularly useful because old projects are important entry points in searches for information and the maps retain information indicative of peoples competences, information that is otherwise not readily available. Face-to-face communications and communications via phone, email, and other systems are more ephemeral than scholarly citations, and (semi-)automated means of data collection are critical to practical application of personometric analyses.