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The case for interoperability in CRIS solutions euroCRIS membership meeting Bologna May 26-27 2011 Susanna Mornati, CILEA
The case for interoperability in CRIS solutions
euroCRIS membership meeting
Bologna May 26-27 2011
Susanna Mornati, CILEA
Mission & Members
CILEA is an inter-university not-for-profit consortium, based in Italy and founded in 1974 to: promote innovation coordinate initiatives develop services
in information and communication technologies (ICT)
12 members (Italian Ministry of HE and Research and 11 universities)
Main dimensions
• Over 27M € annual revenue (red: financial contribution from the Ministry, green: revenues from activities)
• Over 120 employees (high degree of specialization)
• Headquarters in Milan (Segrate) and offices in Rome. 40
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Main activities (by revenue)ICT
services for Higher Educatioo
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ICT services
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E-learning
ICT services for the
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Cilea Digital Library
LibrariesAutomation
Cultural Heritage
HPC
NetworkSystems
mgm
ServerFarmStorageMainframe
CILEA’s role in CRIS
• Some years ago CILEA started to partner with Italian universities and research centres that needed a CRIS to control and enhance their performance:
• 2003 repositories (DSpace)• 2004 research activities management• 2006 business intelligence
• 2008 complete platform for Current Research Information Systems: SURplus was born
SURplus architecture
Input from legacysystems:1. merge peopleand organizations
External Partners
SuppliersCustomers
Telephonedirectory
ResearchersFaculties
Students& courses
Input from legacysystems:2. merge financial data
External Funding
SuppliesPurchases
Contracts
Accountability
Input from legacysystems:3. merge data on research activities
External Projects
Seminars & events
Deptsinfo
InternalFunding
procedures
Input from legacysystems:4. merge data(+full-text) on publications
Digitalcollections
E-Publishingsystems
DeptsPublicationsdirectoriesLegacy
lists
Input from externalsystems:merge datafrom any sources!
Sherpa/Romeo Ministry
Databases(publications,projects,…)
Bibliographicmetadata
(CrossRef,PubMed,ArXiv,
RePEc, …)
Future:Linked data,
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Bibliometricdata (Scopus,
WoS, …)
OUTPUT to internal & external systems
OUTPUT to publish data for visibility & prestige
How we do it
RELATIONAL DATABASES
XML/HTML SOAP REST JSON OAI-PMH SWORD ATOM/RSS …..
Technologies
SURplus architecture
Data Aggregation
Dissemination & Impact
Visibility
first two results out of 424,000
Data Reports
Impact Factor
Statistics and data analysis
Average number of publications per researcher by disciplinary area
Statistics and data analysis
Average IF per researcher by quintile
Quintile: the portion of a frequency distribution containing one fifth of the total sample.
Diagrams and Dashboards
OLAP CUBES
online analytical processing for multi-dimensional analytical queries
Why interoperability?
Interoperability among components and external systems goes beyond system integration
It preserves independence in choosing how to build one’s own CRIS infrastructure
It preserves previous investments in technologies and organizational efforts
Conclusions
There is a need to share your data among systems and reuse them
There is a need to disseminate your research output
Open standards and protocols enhance your chances for interoperability, so: go beyond integration, go open!
