Workshop (19th October 2012)

The CIA workshop at Woburn House in London on Friday 19th October was extremely well-attended with over 60 people present, showing the demand for exchanging research data between organisations. The workshop had representation from a wide variety of stakeholders, including:

• Project team
• Software partners
• Research information/systems/operations/development staff at HEIs
• Repository managers, librarians and open access managers
• Project Managers from other research information projects
• Representatives from:
  • JISC
  • RCUK & ROS
  • Funding Councils
  • ResearchFish
  • UKOLN
• … and more

Presentations

The presentations from the CIA workshop are below:

• Introduction to CIA – Scott Brander (University of St Andrews)
• Survey Results and Extended Use Cases – James Toon (University of Edinburgh)
• Future Direction of ROS – Dale Heenan (RCUK)
• CERIF and Related Projects – Brigitte Joerg (euroCRIS & UKOLN)

Workshop Feedback

The feedback from the workshop was generally very positive – anonymous favourable comments included:

• The practicality, it was about things happening not just abstract;
• The mixture of talks and work group activities;
• Setting context for wider agenda;
• Presentation and inclusion of institutions and suppliers;
• Getting updates on how CERIF is applied in the real world.  The demos were useful;
• Great view of current position of CIA & chance to shape future project direction;
• It was useful to have 2 lots of break out sessions;
• Very useful update;
• Lots of useful information;
• Chance to engage with users in a dedicated space;
• Learning a lot about the issues;
• Very informative;
• Very useful day; thanks for organising.  High quality speakers, good to see how much progress is being made and how active discussion is in this area.

A few comments were made about the length of the workshop and that it could have been longer (1 1/2 to 2 days) to account for all the areas of discussion.