Following previous successful seminars covering: CRISs (Current Research Information Systems); Open Access to Research Information; the Research Information System and the Research Process in a GRIDs Environment; the Relationship between Innovation and CRISs; CRIS and the e-infrastructure and CRIS at the Centre of the Research Business, euroCRIS identified for this 2009 seminar the need for a focus on Recording Research. The resulting
conclusions are as follows:
1. recording research is critically important: research is expensive and the outputs should be (a) recorded (b) openly available for use;
2. to achieve this research funding and research performing organizations need a CRIS (Current Research Information System);
3. the recording in the CRIS should be in a form that allows interoperation and homogeneous access over heterogeneous sources: CERIF is the current EU recommendation to member states for this purpose;
4. the threshold barrier to (meta)data collection has to be overcome by (a) using incremental steps with re-use of already collected data (b) intelligent user interfaces to assist input;
5. increasingly the move to evaluating research at national level drives the need for a CERIFCRIS to reduce the effort needed to produce the required information;
6. with a CERIF-CRIS it is also possible for a research organization (funder or performer) to utilise the management information for strategic decision-making.