Posts Tagged ‘CRIS’

JISC RIM CERIF Workshop Report

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN (together with the JISC RIM and RCSI Programmes) organised a workshop in Bristol on 27-28 June 2012 on Research Information Management (RIM) and CERIF. The Innovation Support Centre has just published a blog posting on this event. Further details are available from the ISC blog.

Adoption of CERIF in UK HEIs

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study by Rosemary Russell of UKOLN has just been published and is available in both PDF and Word formats. This study documents the extent of adoption and engagement with CERIF in UK Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in late 2011/early 2012. CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format provides a standardised way of managing and exchanging information about research. 51 institutions in the UK are using CERIF Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), indicating a 30.7% adoption of CERIF. However despite the widespread use of CERIF as an underlying standard, many institutions are not engaging with CERIF directly.

The CERIFy Data Surgery

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

The CERIFy Project has produced a report on the recent CERIFy Data Surgery held for project partners in Bath. Details about site visits, the resulting user requirements, project perspectives and the CERIF Standard as well as the business case for CERIF, are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.