research information management

Research Information Management

Michael DayResearch and Development Team Leader

UKOLN, University of Bath

JISC RIM programme Kick-off meeting, Leeds, 6 May 2010

A centre of expertise in digital information management

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UKOLN is supported by:

JISC RIM programme Kick-off meeting, Leeds, 6 May 2010

Agenda

• UKOLN introduction• Data exchange for RIM

– Context– Harmonisation– Data models


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– Data models

• Programme support activities

UKOLN introduction

• A centre of expertise in digital information management– Core funding from JISC and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)

– JISC Innovation Centre– Range of additional project-based activities– Based at the University of Bath

• Some areas of interest:


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• Some areas of interest:– Metadata standards development

• DCMI, metadata application profiles, registries, SKOS, etc.– Repositories

• Role in wider infrastructures, preservation roles– Digital preservation and curation

• Research data management, Digital Curation Centre

RIM data exchange - Contexts

• HEIs– Institutional level - convergence of several activities, e.g.:

• Responses to research evaluation processes (REF)• Research grant management, business planning (research support offices)

• Institutional repositories - as one of several potential providers of data on research outputs


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data on research outputs– Research staff

• Staff Web pages, grant preparation, reporting

• Funding body requirements– HEFCE (REF), research councils, other funding bodies, HESA

• National infrastructures– Examples in Belgium (FRIS), Denmark (PURE), Norway (Frida), the

Netherlands (METIS, linked to DAREnet repositories via NARCIS)

RIM data exchange - Harmonisation

• A wide range of potential sources of data:– Bibliographic, e.g.:

• Institutional publications databases (typically developed to support research evaluation)

• Institutional repositories (source of metadata and/or full-text)

• Web of Science, Scopus, publishers databases


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• Web of Science, Scopus, publishers databases– Other, e.g.:

• Administation: HR, Student administration, finance, research support

• eResearch, VREs, etc.– Impact?

• No single consistent approach– Challenges for the harmonisation of data

RIM data exchange – Data models

• Standard data exchange model– Exchange format would facilitate data exchange between institutions, funding bodies (and potentially support a future national RIM infrastructure)

– EXRI-UK report (December 2009) recommended exploring the potential of CERIF 2008 as a data exchange format


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– Several projects (DoTAC, Readiness4REF, St Andrews and Aberdeen projects) have attempted to map their own data models to CERIF

– Detailed questions about harmonisation of data structures, vocabularies and syntax remain

• Potential alternative approaches:– Linked Data (RDF), OAI-ORE (e.g. UCLA project on seismology data)

UKOLN RIM Support Activity

• RIM Web pages: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/rim/• Series of briefing documents:

– Data exchange requirements• Institutional drivers• Funding bodies• UK infrastructure needs


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• UK infrastructure needs– RIM Data exchange standards

• CERIF• Linked Data

• Workshop series (e.g. to explore details of data harmonisation)• Case studies:

– Data exchange scenarios• Support e-mail list (or helpdesk)

Other UKOLN activities

• Knowledge Exchange CRIS-OAR interoperability project– Collaboration between funding bodies in UK, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands

• Organisational identifiers scoping study


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• Organisational identifiers scoping study– Planning currently underway– Draft scheduled for August 2010

Thank You!

Michael DayResearch and Development Team LeaderUKOLN, University of BathE-mail: [email protected]: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/rim/


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Acknowledgements

• UKOLN is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK higher and further education funding councils, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), as well as by project funding from the JISC, the European Union, and other sources. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath, where it is


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receives support from the University of Bath, where it is based.

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