CERIF(XML) as the base for a future European Research Information Infratstructure.
A report by a working group of the European Parliament concluded in April 2014:
The recoomendations made in the report, could be graphically summarised in the following model of a future European Research Information Infrastructure:
The same model could be applied to realise a national Research Information Infrastructure in a given country:
Last but not least, the role of CRIS and CERIF as the base for a local Research Information Infrastructure in a given institution is expressed in the image below: