This plug-in was demonstrated at the CiA workshop in London on 19th November.
See http://www.symplectic.co.uk/news-events/2012/12/04/CiA-ROS-export/
for more info and a video demonstration.
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Cross-sector workshop, London, 11th December
Attended cross-sector workshop on research information – organised by Snowball project and hosted by Wellcome Trust in London.
Key outcome is that attendees want to see integrated systems across the sector …so enter data once and reuse.
CERIF and Cerif in Action mentioned and particularly the approach involving institutions, funders and suppliers ..a successful and effective partnership.
Barriers identified included the need to engage academic leaders and urge them to lobby funders and government to provide support to some basic practical infrastructure improvements … such funding the adoption of ORCID across the UK.
ROS User Forum
Attended ROS user forum in Swindon on Friday 30th November.
Introduction – Mari Williams, BBSRC, Corporate Policy and Strategy
• Why is ROS needed :
o ROS, eVal, GtR needed to support argument for continued investment in Research in next Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) .. was due 2013
o RCs subject to performance management by BIS
o Provide evidence for parliamentary questions (PQs)
o Lots of presentations and consultations to make case for research – need metrics
Aspirations
– RCUK continue to collaborate with HEFCE on alignment with REF
– Harmonise standards
Breakout sessions on Functionality and Communications
Priorities for Functionality
– Reporting – HEIs want to get data back out and see where data is in workflow
– integration with existing systems 2 way; bulk upload all data; how prevent individuals entering data also
– standards and harmonization including lists instead of free-text
– validation by HEIs ; sign-off .. similar to Je-S
Priorities for Communication and Guidance
– why collecting .. roadmap/vision [tie-in to other data requirements eg HESA, REF, HEBCI]
– simplicity of quantity of data ie descope
– speaking with one voice [all ROS & RCs]
– simple clear messages
– actual examples of good practice
– proper data specification
– demarcation of responsibility … legal eg when leave or move; PI and CoI and how varies from institution to institution
– does it replace final report; length of time to report over [RCs almost agreed about these]
Gateway to Research
- Using data collected from ROS (and eVal/ResearchFish and historical final reports)
- Publications data and Impact and Key Findings
- GtR project working to harmonise data collected via different routes
Important for CiA schema to be extended to include this core set of data – particularly Impact and Key Findings
Open Access
[I had to leave to catch a train … delays due to floods …]
Understand from Gerry Lawson and Simon Kerridge that RIOXX project due to circulate draft application profile for funder metadata – OA compliance – for Repositories before Christmas; initially DC but also looking at CERIF. RIOXX aiming to comply with OpenAire also but not confirmed yet.
Would be good to get agreement internationally …
Research Information meets Research Data!
Presented at the DCC Roadshow in Dundee on ‘Research data meets research information: the IRIOS, C4D, CIA and CRISPool projects’
ROS includes data sets as an output so would be good to add this to CiA … so crossover with C4D work.
See details of workshop and presentations at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-northeast-scotland
CERIF in Action 