What is needed now is to "close the last mile" and make the connections needed between our disparate systems.

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Thomas Vestdam (PhD)
Head of Product Technology
Elsevier (Aalborg, Denmark)
T.Vestdam@elsevier.com
Solving Problems with
Information Exchange - Best
Practices

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So what is the “best practice”?
• We are all aware of the grand promises
• but, the sad truth is that there is no agreed upon “best practice”
for exchange of “research information”
• CASRAI is just the initial level of agreement
• So, how are we to realise all of this…
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Funder
Applications
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Librarian
LTP
Open Access
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Librarian
LTP
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CV
Feedback
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Librarian
LTP
Open Access
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Applications
CV
Feedback
Publisher
Citations
Metrics
Research Administrator
Metrics
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CCCV
BioSketch
REF2014 Mods’DC
Scopus XML
WoS XML
Pure CV
Finance SystemsHR Systems
Assessment Systems
Web-Service/API/OAI
CVsPubMed XML
ORCID
DataCite
CERIF XML’’
Pure XML
Pure XML
BFI
DOI
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Online Sources
CERIF XML’
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Pure XML
SciVal XML
SHERPA RoMEO
DNFD
BFI
OpenAire
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Eprints XML
DSpace
Equella XML
Fedora
Mods
Repositories

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CASRAI
Goverance
ORCID
CERIF
DC
VIVO
C#
VIVO
CERIF
MODS
REST API
SWORD
Software Implementation and Developers
Modeling and Exchange Experts
Business and Policies (subject matter experts)

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Terminology,
Profiles and
Objects
Terminology,
Profiles and
Objects
Model(s)Model(s)
Data Formats
and Exchange
Protocols
Data Formats
and Exchange
Protocols
Software Implementation and Developers
Modeling and Exchange Experts
Business and Policies (subject matter experts)

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Terminology,
Profiles and
Objects
Terminology,
Profiles and
Objects
Model(s)Model(s)
Data Formats
and Exchange
Protocols
Data Formats
and Exchange
Protocols
Software Implementation and Developers
Modeling and
Exchange Experts
Business and Policies
(subject matter experts)

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“Conclusion”
• Reuse, don’t reinvent
• The Technology is ready
• The Individual building blocks are (almost) ready
• Practice separation of concerns - so forget about things that will
essentially just utilise the basic building blocks
• networking
• profiling
• discoverability
• metrics
• the new black (“data sets”, …)
• Focus is on finalising building blocks (e.g. CERIF) and writing up the
assembly manuals (e.g. CASRAI)
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