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

1. CV submissions: Cost-Effective Data Flows
for Institutions and Funders
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SCIENCE BUSINESS
DR. THORSTEN HOELLRIGL,
HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY, CRIS

2. Vision
• Cost-effective communication of CV data
• Bridging different portals and initiatives
• Reducing effort for:
– Gaining domain knowledge
– Data input
– Research information management
– Support

3. Advantages for Researchers
• Collect once, use many times
• Seamless process for submitting to different
funders
– No worries about information required by the respective
funder
– No worries about the concrete format required by the
respective funder
– No worries about the different systems/websites
• No use for researcher to leave local system
• Significant decrease in time and effort

4. Advantages for Funders
• Improved data quality
• Reduction in support effort
• Reduction in educating users
• Reduced technical issues
– less traffic
– no performance issues near deadlines
• Benefit from best practices from other initiatives
• CV portal can focus on additional services

5. Building blocks for a seamless
cross-institutional workflow
• Systems to collect and exchange required
information
– Research Institution
– Funder / Publisher
– Third parties (e.g. content providers)
• Dictionaries for understanding the information
• Technical format and protocols for communication
• Bottom line:
– Technology is ready
– Many, many, many initiatives going on, but…
– Use cases are fragmented / not yet strong enough

8. CASRAI CV
• Common, extensible model and format for
expressing CV in different systems
• Portable, exchangeable CV variants (Student CV,
Abridged CV, Non-Academic CV)
+ Flexibility
+ Business-case driven
+ Focused
+ National variations