Presented by Yannis Ioannidis - Workshop on CRIS and OAR, Rome 10-11 May, 2010

1. WORKSHOP ON CRIS, CERIF AND INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES, Rome, 10-11/5/2010
Interoperability Challenges
and Approaches

2. OpenAIRE - factsheet
Open Access Infrastructure for Research in
Europe
Programme: FP7 – Research Infrastructures
Starting date: December 1, 2009
Duration: 36 months
Budget: 4.1 Million
38 partners covering all European member-
states
– To be reached at www.openaire.eu
OpenAIRE Project Overview2

3. Partners
OpenAIRE Project Overview3
University of Athens (coordinator)
University of Goettingen Library (scientific
coordinator)
CNR-ISTI (technical coordinator)
University of Bielefeld
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
CERN
SURF
ICM – University of Warsaw
University of Minho
University of Gent Library
eIFL
Technical University Denmark
Scientific Communities
Health (Life Sciences)
– EMBL-EBI
Environment
– World Data Center for Climate
– Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Information & Communication Science
– Cognitive Interaction Technology
(CITEC)
Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
– Data Archiving and Networked
Services (DANS)
Liaison Offices

4. Liaison Offices
OpenAIRE Project Overview4
Region 1 North
(DTU)
Denmark
(Danish Technical
University)
Finland
(University of Helsinki)
Sweden
(National Library of
Sweden)
Region 2 South
(UMINHO)
Cyprus
(Universtity of Cyprus)
Greece
(National
Documentation Center)
Italy
(CASPAR)
Malta
(Malta Council for
Science & Technology)
Portugal
(University of Minho)
Spain
(Spanish Foundation for
Science & Technology)
Region 3 East
(eIFL)
Bulgaria
(Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences)
Czech Republic
(Technical University of
Ostrava)
Estonia
(University of Tartu)
Hungary (HUNOR)
Latvia
(University of Latvia)
Lithuania
(Kaunas Technical
University)
Poland
(ICM – University of
Warsaw)
Romania
(Kosson)
Slovakia
(university Library of
Bratislava)
Slovenia
(University of Ljubljana)
Region 4 West
(UGENT)
France
(Couperin)
Germany
(University of Kostanz)
Ireland
(Trinity College)
Netherlands
(Utrecht University)
UK
(SHERPA)
Austria
(University of Wien)
Belgium
(Universtiy of Gent)
Norway
(University of Tromsoe)

5. European Helpdesk
Promote FP7-pilot and ERC OA guidelines
National Open Access Liaison Offices (27 countries)
Provide OA “toolkits” for
– Researchers
– Institutions
Setup 24/7 portal for deposit, search of OA publications
Liaison with
– Other European OA initiatives
– Publishers
– CRIS systems
OpenAIRE Project Overview5

6. Supporting repository e-
Infrastructure
OpenAIRE portal built on D-NET
Access to scientific publications
– Search, browse
– Visualization tools
Deposition of articles
– Setup repository for “homeless” pubs (INVENIO)
– Harvest OA publications from existing repositories
Provide monitoring tools for
– Document/depositing statistics
– Usage statistics from repository infrastructure
Interoperation with other infrastructures
OpenAIRE Project Overview6

7. OpenAIRE in a nutshell
OpenAIRE overall
overview:
functionalities
and domains
served
OpenAIRE Project Overview7

8. Research data management
Explore the requirements, practices, incentives,
workflows, data models, and technologies to deposit,
access, and otherwise manipulate research datasets
Produce feasibility studies to show researchers the
benefit for depositing
Work with four (4) scientific communities
– Health (Life Sciences)
– Environment
– Information & Communication Science
– Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
OpenAIRE Project Overview8

9. CRIS vs. IR
CRIS
Management research context
– research input/output relations
– stakeholders, environments
Bibliographic metadata, authors
Enumerated lists, controlled
vocabularies, ontologies
Managed by institution research
administration
Interoperability w/ other admin
systems “well understood”
IR
Management of research content
– research output
– scientific results, creators
Bibliographic metadata, authors
Full-text indexing, persistent ids for
content (URN, UDI, …), content
statistics, usage rights
Managed by institution libraries
Interoperability w/ other research
infrastructures “active area of
work”
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10. CERIF Data Model
OpenAIRE: Interoperability Challenges and Approaches10

11. CRIS and IR
Overlapping data, stakeholders, org units
involved
Danger of duplication effort
First integration efforts [DRIVER-II Technology
Watch Report]
– TCD portals in Ireland
– Narcis in the Netherlands
– DDF-MXD format in Danemark
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12. OpenAIRE Interoperability
Publications – Projects – Primary Data
Treated as independent w/ distinct
– Origins, Life cycles, Target groups
OpenAIRE: create relations among them
Life in separate systems, cohesive semantics
in OpenAIRE
Relations through mappings
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13. OpenAIRE Data Model 0.1
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Authors
Projects
manifestations
participants
publishedArticles
authorships
Authorships
fundedBy
Data Sources
Files
Manifestations
responsibleFor
files
location
authoredBy
Organizations
Articles

14. OpenAIRE Controlled Vocs
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NationalitiesAuthors
Countries
Organization
s
LicenseKindsArticles
Languages
DataSource
Typologies
DataSources
FP7Subjects
Projects
_FP7subjects
Projects
nationality license_kind
language
country_of_origin typology

15. OpenAIRE Interoperability
Common data model (CERIF-inspired, CERIF
subset)
CRIS-related data ingested by European
Participant Portal ++ (& orgs’ CRISs)
IR-related data harvested from individual reps
based on the DRIVER infrastructure
Primary data under investigation
Enhancement of D-Net software [DRIVER]
Specs in “by the end of May”
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