Excellent workshop today with presentations on CERIF mappings from
CRISPool, IRIOS, RCUK, R4R, CERIFy
Presentations will be posted shortly.
Main focus of discussions/debate :
- IDs – including issue of whether UUIDs should be used or not; multiple IDs describing the same entity
- Classification schemes in use … many overlaps and interesting ideas for scheme naming conventions referencing the ‘owner’ of the classification
- splitting of date into year, month and day components as some publications only have a publication year
Keith Jeffery and Brigitte Joerg from euroCRIS gave expert advice on best practice options and an preview of some of the new stuff in v2.0 of CERIF .. including improvements in handling external IDs e.g. HESA IDs and a new structure to the CERIF-XML to reduce fragmentation … Thomas Vestdam presented on the latter.
Much to ponder and we will continue discussions on the euroCRIS CERIF-TG forum [open to all members of euroCRIS] posting main outcomes to this blog.
A massive thanks to Sunderland for hosting the event … with many attendees both physically and virtually present it went very smoothly indeed 🙂
CERIF in Action 