This two-day invitation-only event will be held in Bath over 19-20 May as part of the CERIFy Project and will facilitate discussion of data, CERIF mappings and general networking for all project partners. Although this event is only open to the CERIFy Project partners, the discussions and workshop outputs from this data surgery will be made publicly available after the event. Please check the CERIFy Project Web site for further information. These outputs will be announced through this channel as well as the project Web site.
The CERIFy Project is funded by JISC from February to July 2011 to investigate how the CERIF Standard (Common European Research Information Format) for Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) could be used more widely within the sector in order to manage research data, to increase such engagement to a critical mass, and to support an emerging community of practice in Research Information Management (RIM).
CERIFy is working with four pilot UK HE institutions and one international commercial organisation (Thomson Reuters), which do not as yet have working CRIS systems based on the CERIF data format. The project will evaluate, test and demonstrate CERIF in a practical, ‘end-to-end’ process of people-centred organisational modelling, requirements elicitation, data analysis, data mapping, data exchange, and software demonstration, together with a programme of training, support, evaluation and dissemination.