cris and darenet integrated into narcis: access to research information in the netherlands

1Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

CRIS and DAREnet integrated into NARCIS: access to research information in the Netherlands

Elly Dijk

KNAW Research Information

EuroCRIS membership meeting

Vienna, 1-2 November 2007


Outline

• Dutch Research Database - NOD

• DAREnet

• NARCIS

• Academic Information Domain

• DAI and PI

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Dutch Research Database - NOD

Publicly available online database with information on scientific research, researchers and research institutes

The national Current Research Information System (CRIS)

Covers all scientific disciplines


Mission of DARE programme

Better access to the results of publicly funded research in the Netherlands

By development of institutional repositories


DARE Programme

Approved: 14 June 2002

Name: DARE [Digital Academic REpositories]

Period: 1 Jan. 2003 – 31 Dec. 2006

Budget: € 5.9 M

Standards: OAI-PMH 2.0; Dublin Core

Partners: All the universities, KNAW, NWO,

KB and SURF


DAREnet

Launched January 2004: 17,000 full text publications of 13 universities, KNAW, NWO

Special actions and milestones:Cream of Science - May 2005

Promise of Science – September 2006

One HunDAREd Thousand project – December 2006


DAREnet -> KNAW

From 1 January 2007

Because:DAREnet and NARCIS both harvest academic

repositoriesIntegration of CRIS and repositories by

integrating DAREnet and NARCIS


NARCIS

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System

• DARE project september 2004 - september 2005 of the Academy in collaboration with NWO

• It is a scientific portal giving access to: Research Information: research programmes, research institutes,

researchers Dutch repositories: full text publications News from scientific organisations Extra feature: RSS feed


Research data in NARCIS

DANS: research data (humanities and social sciences)

DANS = Data Archiving and Networked Services

November 2007

Linking CRIS information, publications and datasets-> Academic Information Domain


Academic Information Domain

Source: Knowledge Exchange

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NARCIS as a first step to a Dutch AID

• Structured research information from the NOD

• Information from academic OAI repositories

• Information from DANS datasets

but:

• No relation between objects in the different systems

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AID on a national scale:The Netherlands as an example

Research information NOD

Research publications E-depot (National Library)

Research data DANS

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Identifiers: key roles in linking the information

oDigital Author Identifiers

oPersistent (object) Identifiers (of publications and research data)

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Digital Author Identifier (DAI)

• Dataset, publication and research description may all have the name of the creator or project- leader in common

• Author names are not consistent in different information systems

• Also within one specific information systems many author name variations

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Implementing DAI in The Netherlands

• Co-operation of all Dutch universities, KNAW and NWO

• Creating a thesaurus of author names with corresponding DAI within the OCLC-PICA system

• Matching DAI and author names in all three research related information systems (NOD; DANS; DAREnet/ E-depot)

• DAI available spring 2008

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Result of DAI implementation

Relationships between research descriptions and research results (datasets and publications) become visible, but:

Sustainablility not yet guaranteed!

For instance: objects may shift from one repository into another or even may disappear

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Persistent Identifier (PI)

• Assigning PI’s to objects in repositories and datasets

• PI-systems chosen: URN:NBN system of the CDNL and CENL, further developed by the German National Library

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URN:NBN system

URN: Uniform Resource NameNBN: National Bibliography Number(responsibility: National Library)

nl: domain “Netherlands”

Example:urn:nbn:nl-dare:a01287

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The result?

NARCIS will enable searching full-text academic publications and any underlying research data in their context (research programme, institute, field of expertise)!

cris and darenet integrated into narcis: access to research information in the netherlands

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