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Lille The 2011 autumn meeting was held on the 2 nd and 3 rd of November at the University of Lille 3. This was again a very successful event, both from a scientific and business/social networking point of view. Over the two days, 40 euroCRIS members from 14 countries and representatives from various French institutions had a fruitful exchange of views. Following the overview session given by the Board, the French session and the euroCRIS (Jostein Hauge) session summarized recent and forthcoming developments in CRIS and CERIF implementations. The topic session “Transfer of Research into Education” resulted in an interesting discussion,

led by the host Joachim Schöpfel, on teaching CRIS systems to his Information Science students at University of Lille and on potential CERIF application to the teaching environment and scholarly activities beyond research. Presentations, as well as the list of participants and programme can be downloaded from the euroCRIS members meeting page. A report is available on the SONEX Workgroup blog http://sonexworkgroup.blogspot.com/

The 2nd Workshop on CRIS and Institutional Repositories in May in Rome was held again at the main office of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome on the 23 rd and 24 th of May. The purpose of this workshop was to maintain and stimulate the community interested in both CRIS and repositories, and their metadata, with a view to joint research activity. The presentations and discussion results are available on the

events website

http://www.irpps.cnr.it/en/events/2nd-workshop-on-cris-cerif-and-institutional-repositories-integrating-research-information-crisoar . The meeting resulted in a firm agreement on the need to coordinate the developments in CRIS and OAR for the benefit of the wider research community. This was laid down in th e “Rome Declaration on CRIS and OAR”, which was published by both euroCRIS and OpenAIRE. Work with the OpenAIRE community is leading towards their adoption of CERIF for OpenAIRE+ and links with the CRIS-IR Task Group.

The relationship with strategic partners has been re-established and fortified. Formal strategic partnerships with CASRAI were initiated to converge to a common vocabulary and with the VIVO team whose CRIS (based on semantic web/LOD technology) is used widely in the USA. There has been much more interest in CERIF and CRIS throughout Europe – and indeed more widely.

More information on the euroCRIS activities in 2011 may be obtained from issues 42 through 49 of our series of Newsflashes http://www.eurocris.org/Index.php?page=newsflash&t=1 , which are also increasingly used by the members for bringing their news.

Following a first exchange of views in 2010, euroCRIS (CERIF TG) and VOA3R http://voa3r.eu/ delegates met in Bologna on the 25 th of May. Aim of this joint meeting was to discuss the status of implementation of CERIF inside VOA3R and linked data / semantic web and CERIF in the context of VOA3R. Further discussions took place in a second meeting on the 28 th and 29 th of July at Alcalá de Henares.

euroCRIS and the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI)

We, representing the communities concerned with CRIS and OAR, hereby declare:

 That high quality research information is critically important to research institutions, research funders, policymakers and society at large;

 That information on publicly-funded research should be available, shareable and integrated seamlessly; therefore we commit:

 To develop, support and promote an architecture (including data model and services) suitable to pursue these principles;

 Jointly to adopt, develop and promote applicable open standards;

 To advocate these principles among all stakeholders.