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The Research Portal of Catalonia: an aggregator of research outputs with CERIF and DSpace-CRIS at its core

Sun, 24/01/2021 - 22:44 -- euroCRIS Secret...

                                                                                                               

«Competition seems to prevail over cooperation»

                                                                                                               

The blurred boundaries between Research Information Management (RIM) and Research Management and Administration (RMA)

Mon, 11/01/2021 - 17:03 -- euroCRIS Secret...

     The stated mission of euroCRIS as a non-profit organisation is to promote cooperation within and share knowledge among the research information management (RIM) community and to promote interoperability of research information through CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format.

A big loss for the euroCRIS Board

Sun, 11/10/2020 - 17:59 -- euroCRIS Secret...

Following her appointment as the University of Sheffield Interim Library Director and University Librarian, Anna Clements stepped down from the euroCRIS Board as of August 30th. The sheer volume and complexity of her tasks at her institution in these difficult times made it impossible for her to commit to keep providing the valuable input to the euroCRIS team that she has delivered for many years. euroCRIS’s loss is Uni Sheffield’s win.

Persistent identifiers for research instruments and facilities?

Thu, 25/06/2020 - 06:10 -- euroCRIS Secret...
The virtual 2020 VIVO annual conference last week offered an opportunity to catch up with the PIDINST project via a presentation of the initiative by Markus Stocker from the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB, Technical Information Library) in Hannover. The slides and recording for the presentation are not yet available online but will soon be – an earlier version (2017) was deposited in Zenodo.

Insights from the euroCRIS Board: CERIF and the KDSF

Mon, 11/05/2020 - 20:44 -- euroCRIS Secret...
Interesting discussions often take place within the euroCRIS Board mailing list on relevant topics related to the CERIF format and to Current Research Information Systems (CRIS). As this is a closed list for euroCRIS Board members only, these conversations remain internal in nine out of every ten cases. Having a blog however offers us an opportunity to occasionally share some of the highlights of a specific exchange of opinions among experts in these matters.

PIDapalooza 2020: a review

Tue, 05/05/2020 - 12:36 -- euroCRIS Secret...