Presentació de Ricard de la Vega, coordinador de Càlcul i Aplicacions al CSUC, a l'euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting 2023.

1. The Research Portal of Catalonia:
Growing more (information) & more
(services)
Ricard de la Vega, Sandra Reoyo & Laia Garcia
EuroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting 2023 (Pamplona)

2. Index
• About CSUC & Open Science
• Catalan Research Portal
– More information
– More services
– Future steps

3. Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC)
Consortium entities:
Asociated entities:

4. Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC)

5. Catalan Open Research Area
https://cora.csuc.cat
c c
https://portalrecerca.csuc.cat
https://dataverse.csuc.cat

6. Index
• About CSUC & Open Science
• Catalan Research Portal
– More information
– More services
– Future Steps

7. Catalan Research Portal (PRC)
• What?​
– Gather in one place all the scientific
production of the Catalan research system
• How?
– Taking advantage of what already existed
– Making that the improvements in the PRC
impact to improvements in the information
systems of the institutions (sources)
– Using standards, like CERIF, and following
international best practices

8. Information
The universities
The firstresearch center
More research centers with CRIS (or similar)
The rest of research centers with an
initial external upload

10. Operation
• Representatives of each institution
– Annual meeting
– Distribution list
– Internal workspace (Confluence)
– Support tool (Jira Service Management)
• Periodic data uploads
– Every two months according to a calendar
– The data goes through a validation process
– Review is done in a PRE-production environment ​
• Work plan
– Goals for the year and quality plan

11. AGREGATION & DEBUGING
…
…
Repositories CRIS: Grec, Drac, Sigma, Universitas XXI, iMarina, DSpace-CRIS, PURE
Other information systems: Database,excel
DATA SOURCES
COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
(APIs)
open acess links (Unpaywall)
Altmetrics (Altmetrics)
Book covers (Google Books)
Statistics
Citations (Scopus,WoS,Google Scholar)
QUALITY ACTIONS
VALIDATION
SUBMIT

12. 91.824 improved records (at source)

13. AGREGATION & DEBUGING
…
…
Repositories CRIS: Grec, Drac, Sigma, Universitas XXI, iMarina, DSpace-CRIS, PURE
Other information systems: Database,excel
DATA SOURCES
COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
(APIs)
open acess links (Unpaywall)
Altmetrics (Altmetrics)
Book covers (Google Books)
Statistics
Citations (Scopus,WoS,Google Scholar)
QUALITY ACTIONS
OPEN DATA
VALIDATION
SUBMIT
OTHER INFORMATION SYSTEMS (EX.AQU)

14. Open Data Portal of the Catalan Goverment
• Each upload is synchronized
with the Open Data Portal
• Reuse of information
– AQU
– ...
https://governobert.gencat.cat

15. Index
• About CSUC & Open Science
• Catalan Research Portal
–More information
– More services
– Future Steps

16. Datasets
https://dataverse.csuc.cat

17. FAIR Research Data Repository
https://dataverse.csuc.cat
• Allows the publication of
research datasets in FAIR mode
following EOSC guidelines
• Data management and access
control, preservation, file
format transformation, data
curation services...
• From 2021 with Dataverse
software

18. Index
• About CSUC & Open Science
• Catalan Research Portal
–More information
–More services
– Future Steps

19. Open Access Indicator

20. Search for expertise
• A systematic review process
has made it possible to correct
and improve the classification
and descriptor selection
algorithms of researchers in
Catalonia based on the PRC
publications.​

21. Search for expertise
• A systematic review process has
made it possible to correct and
improve the classification and
descriptor selection algorithms of
researchers in Catalonia based on
the PRC publications.​
• The current expertise search
application adequately classifies
and describes 15.000 PRC
researchers.

22. Bibliometric Indicators

23. Index
• About CSUC & Open Science
• Catalan Research Portal
–More information
–More services
–Future Steps

24. Update the technological architecture
• An objective is to update the
technological architecture of the
portal to be able to continue growing
with an efficient performance that
current technologies can provide, to
increase interoperability with other
systems and to facilitate the integration
of new functionalities implemented (like
the mapof experts)​

25. Thanks!
Ricard de la Vega
ricard.delavega@csuc.cat
@rdelavega
Sandra Reoyo
sandra.reoyo@csuc.cat
Laia Garcia
laia.garcia@csuc.cat