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Cobertura de los Sistemas de Información de Investigación Actuales en WoS, Scopus y Dimensions
No full textExtended abstract to be presented at the CRIS2022 conference in Dubrovnik.-- Event programme available at https://cris2022.srce.hr/#section-programPresentation delivered remotely. Recording available at https://youtu.be/bFYw96xxXLo[ES] El creciente interés en potenciar la gestión de la información científica y visibilizar la actividad académica y científica de diversos actores han promovido la investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías que soporten los sistemas de información de investigación actuales (Current Research Information Systems-CRIS). Esta investigación tiene el propósito de analizar la cobertura y solapamiento de las bases de datos Web of Science (WoS), Scopus y Dimensions sobre la producción científica sobre los CRIS, mediante la comparación de los resultados que cada una ofrece en indicadores bibliométricos asociados a las variables DOCUMENTOS, REVISTAS y AUTORES. De un total de 1610 documentos recuperados, 51 están solapados en dos bases de datos (3%), 29 concuerdan en las tres bases de datos (2%) y 1530 constituyen documentos únicos (95%). Dimensions brinda el mayor número de resultados (1564 registros), le sigue Scopus con 108 registros y por último la WoS con 47.[EN] In recent years, academic publications related to the Current Research Information System in the Web of Science and Scopus multidisciplinary databases have increased. Other bibliographic data sources such as Dimensions have appeared. The objective of this study is to analyze the thematic coverage of the Current Research Information System in the Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions databases during the period 2000-2020 for a holistic view of the behavior and visibility of the scientific literature in this domain. A search strategy has been designed and datasets exported from these sources are available in Zenodo. For the analysis, dimensions were defined with their variables and bibliometric indicators and the data was processed in the biblioshiny and VOSviewer tools. The Dimensions database provides broad coverage of the topic, which can be seen in the high number of records, sources and total citations retrieved. Scopus has a greater diversity of types of retrieved documents. In the analyzed indicators, it shares with the WoS a high degree of overlap in the other sources. The selectivity offered by Scopus and WoS consolidate it as sources for the recovery of literature related to CRIS. However, these three databases could be complemented with other sources, such as the euroCRIS repository, to retrieve information and obtain a holistic view of behavior, sources and authorship in the CRIS domain
Challenges in managing semantic annotations in harvested research objects in a national CRIS context
No full textExtended abstract to be presented at the CRIS2022 conference in Dubrovnik.-- Event programme available at https://cris2022.srce.hr/#section-program22 slides.-- Presentation delivered within the session "Open Science implementation [I]"Harvested metadata on research objects can include links between the primary domain objects such as organizational identifiers associated with dataset, persons identified with ORCIDs linked to publications and publications connected through ISSNs to publishing channels. This kind of linkage is the bread-and-butter of the CRIS systems and usually comprehensively maintained. When it comes to the more subjective description of a domain object, such as keywords, themes, or subject headings, the issues related to data management and modeling become prominent with challenges such as flexibility of free text keywords as opposed to authoritative, but rigid classification systems. Many CRIS objects also already contain an extensive description of the content, just meant for human consumption, in the form of an abstract or similar summary text. With the help of automated data mining and annotation tools, these textual representations can be processed into structured data. This paper presents the processing pipelines implemented as part of the research.fi portal for automatic linking of different research inputs based on automatically extracted ontology concepts and discusses the implications of utilizing them as part of the research.fi platform. But more than simply discussing the annotation of research objects and the creation of word clusters for representation of the semantic content of research objects, we also discuss challenges related to maintaining the automatically produced metadata, as the utilized ontologies evolve, annotation algorithms develop, connections between research objects and mined word clusters change over time
Sustainability of research libraries: lots of (technical) work to do
No full text41 slides.-- Opening talk at the XIX REBIUN WS (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Oct 6-7, 2022)Full event programme available at https://www.rebiun.org/workshops/xix-workshop-las-palmas/programa-completo[ES] Una consulta en cualquier motor de búsqueda arroja numerosas referencias a la probable extinción de las bibliotecas en el curso de las décadas venideras. Es sabido igualmente que a la hora de discutir por el reparto del espacio físico en centros de investigación, las bibliotecas afrontan grandes dificultades para defender la necesidad de contar con un espacio propio en detrimento de por ejemplo un laboratorio de investigación más. Sin embargo, los servicios proporcionados por las bibliotecas de investigación siguen siendo tan necesarios como siempre, quizá aún más en una época de digitalización masiva. Hay muchas áreas del trabajo científico actual en las que los investigadores requieren el apoyo constante de especialistas en gestión de la información. La ponencia examina el carácter fundamental de la contribución de las bibliotecas en algunos de estos ámbitos – implantación de la ciencia abierta, identificadores persistentes y sistemas CRIS – y hace énfasis en la necesidad de modernizar la imagen que tanto los usuarios como el gran público tienen de las bibliotecas como colecciones de libros físicos.[EN] A basic search in any internet browser yields plenty of references to the likely disappearance of libraries in the forthcoming decades. It's also well-known that when discussing the physical space distribution in research institutes, libraries face an uphill struggle to secure their own spaces over (yet another) research lab. However, services provided by research libraries remain as necessary as they ever were, perhaps even more in an age of massive digitisation. There are plenty of current research areas where researchers need a permanent support from experts in research information management. The presentation looks into the key contribution provided by libraries in several areas – Open Science implementation, persistent identifiers and CRIS system management– and emphasises the need to modernise the perception that both library users and the general public have as collections of physical materials
Towards a better representation of research objects in interdisciplinary research
No full textExtended abstract to be presented at the CRIS2022 conference in Dubrovnik.-- Event programme available at https://cris2022.srce.hr/#section-programThe Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material” (MoA) is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Germany's Excellence Strategy from 2019 to 2025 (https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/). Our research organization spans 40 disciplines investigating active material from several angles in interdisciplinary project setups. These include the natural sciences, humanities, medicine, design disciplines, informatics, and external industry partners. It’s easy to see that architects have other output needs than surgeons, art historians, or computer scientists. A robot arm for surgery requires different metadata than an exhibition about bio-inspired materials or 3D models of wooden structures. It is also important to cover research software output next to research data publications.Embracing more diverse research output aligns with the current development of research results recognition, see for example Katerbow et al (2018), Jay et al (2021), European Commission (2021), and DORA resources (https://sfdora.org/resource-library/). We are aware of active development (at CERIF and KDSF) regarding the inclusion of extended metadata to reflect the diversity of today’s research output. In our contribution, we present MoA CRIS, an improved setup tailored towards interdisciplinary projects with an extended metadata schema. We are looking forward to comparing our system and metadata schema with new developments
IRINS: Implementing a Research Information Management System in Indian Higher Education Institutions
No full textExtended abstract to be presented at the CRIS2022 conference in Dubrovnik.-- Event programme available at https://cris2022.srce.hr/#section-programResearch information management systems (RIM) play a crucial role in research reporting, showcasing and decision making. Scholarly communication activities are scattered in various locations within and outside the organisation. It is very much essential to collect all the research artifacts such as faculty who do research, projects, publications, patents and research metrics, etc. According to the All India Survey of Higher Education 2019-2020(AISHE 2020), the Indian higher education system comprises 1043 universities, 42,343 colleges. it is a challenging task for the funding agencies, policymakers to identify the potential organisations and individuals for various multidisciplinary research. To address the current challenges, the Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) initiated a research information management system called “Indian Research Information Network System(IRINS)” in the year 2017. IRINS has been implemented as a national level research information management system under National Mission on Education through ICT. IRINS supports the academic and R&D organisations in India to aggregate all the research related information and showcases the research progress of the faculty members, department, and organization to the scholarly community. IRINS provided to all the higher education and R&D organisation “software as service”. One of the key components of a research information management system is integration with internal and external systems. IRINS has integrated with an internal data sources such as institutional repositories for interchange the publication metadata. Also, integrated with external sources such as ORCID, Google Scholar, Scopus ID, BASE, Altmetrics, Scite for publications and other metrics
Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness
No full textPresentation by A. Nikiforova (23 slides) and paper (9 pages) contributed to 14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems (KMIS2022) held Oct 24-26 in Valletta, Malta.-- Winner of Best Paper Award at the KMIS2022 conference.Full-text conference paper offered under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licenceDigitization in the research domain refers to the increasing integration and analysis of research information in the process of research data management. However, it is not clear whether it is used and, more importantly, whether the data are of sufficient quality, and value and knowledge could be extracted from them. FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) represent a promising asset to achieve this. Since their publication, they have rapidly proliferated and have become part of (inter-)national research funding programs. A special feature of the FAIR principles is the emphasis on the legibility, readability, and understandability of data. At the same time, they pose a prerequisite for data for their reliability, trustworthiness, and quality. In this sense, the importance of applying FAIR principles to research information and respective systems such as Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), which is an underrepresented subject for research, is the subject of the paper. Supporting the call for the need for a ”one-stop-shop and register-once-use-many approach”, we argue that CRIS is a key component of the research infrastructure landscape, directly targeted and enabled by operational application and the promotion of FAIR principles. We hypothesize that the improvement of FAIRness is a bidirectional process, where CRIS promotes FAIRness of data and infrastructures, and FAIR principles push further improvements to the underlying CRIS
Combining VIVO and Google Scholar data as sources for CERIF Linked Data: A case in the agricultural domain
No full textDelivered at the CRIS2014 Conference in Rome; published in Procedia Computer Science 33 (Jul 2014).Contains conference paper (6 pages) and presentation (16 slides)The needs of global science have fostered open access to the results and contextual information of research organizations at an international scale. This requires the use of standards or shared data models to exchange information preserving its semantics when transferred between systems. In that direction, standards as CERIF or projects as VIVO were developed to exchange or expose the scientific knowledge. Also, there are other sources of scientific information in the Web that are useful to complement institutional repositories and CRISes. The heterogeneity of data models behind each source in turn raises the need for mappings between them to ease interchange and aggregate information. In this paper, we present a tool that integrates three sources of research information and enables their aggregating and export into both VIVO and CERIF models. We present a case study in agriculture using OpenAGRIS, a bibliographic database linked to Web sources with more than 7 million records. Concretely, we describe the methods to combine Google Scholar data for the scholarly content indexed in OpenAGRIS and aggregating new information provided by the first one, using our tool. Finally the information is stored in a VIVO instance and then translated into CERIF using a conversion process mapping both data models. The case demonstrates the possibilities of mapping tools to aggregate and translate CRIS information
Integrating CERIF entities in a multidisciplinary e-infrastructure for environmental research data
No full textDelivered at the CRIS2014 Conference in Rome; published in Procedia Computer Science 33 (Jul 2014).Contains conference paper (8 pages) and presentation (21 slides).The paper proposes different solutions to integrate CERIF in the environmental dataset domain, based on the quality of semantic
mapping as well as on the characteristics of the CERIF data model. A two-way crosswalk is described resulting in the identification of a core of corresponding metadata and a proposal of extensions of the CERIF model. Extensions of ISO concepts are also described to provide contextual research information in the domain of environmental research data. Finally, the crosswalk has been implemented in the GI-cat discovery broker framework. Successful tests demonstrated the possibility for CERIF information to be integrated in ISO compliant infrastructures and for INSPIRE information to be captured in CERIF
SICA2: a Regional Integrated CRIS for Andalusian Universities and Research Institutes
No full textoai:dspacecris.eurocris.org:11366/16325 slides.-- Presentation delivered at the Spanish National Session, Section I: "Development of CRIS Systems and their integration with OA Repositories in Spain"SICA is a centralized CRIS covering universities and research centres in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Since 2001 SICA provides CV services to a huge researcher community, also answering the demands of policy managers, institutional supervisors, productive sector agents and the society at large. The presentation introduces the upgraded SICA2 platform, which includes new social network and repository features for its user community