Western Balkans

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

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News archive - Event Announcement: Current Research Information Systems

On November 2, the euroCRIS members meeting held a special session on RTD Information Systems in the Western Balkan countries (co-organised by the Information Office of the Steering Platform) and called again on the community in the Western Balkan countries to contribute actively to the conference "Get the Good CRIS Going: Ensuring Quality of Service for the User in the ERA" which will be held June 5-7, 2008 in Maribor, Slovenia.

Topics:

Quality: Data management and quality assurance

Defining the scope of a CRIS (institutional, national, international; discipline-specific vs. interdisciplinary); organizing data collection and sharing (involving end users and external systems; centralized, federated and distributed approaches); establishing criteria and mechanisms for quality assurance; ensuring interoperability (ownership of data and privacy issues; authority and reliability of data; data fusion; standardization; heterogeneity of structure and semantics; data exchange and linkage between individual systems).

Success Stories: Learning from each other

Best practice examples and success criteria for CRISs uses (as evaluation and management tools; for dissemination and information services; for profile-building of researchers, organizations or regions; influencing funding and research programmes); thinking e-Infrastructures from the CRIS point of view (relation to other information systems and services); service-oriented view on CRISs allowing re-use of information and functions (describing and detecting CRISs and their services; re-usable services for e.g. data collection, quality assurance, data fusion and information extraction; adding value by combining services and systems; CRISs and the Semantic Web / Web 2.0).

Sustainability: Research information systems as a strategic commitment

Getting institutional commitment; embedding CRISs in an institution‘s strategy; relating CRISs to institutional processes and systems; cost-effectiveness of CRISs; ensuring timeliness of data in the future; cooperation as a way to sustainability; change management and end-user involvement.

Further information is available at the conference platform
http://www.uni-kassel.de/wiss_tr/CRIS2008/