Welcome Thanks to the sponsors of the

Welcome!

Thanks to the sponsors of the meeting

• An international not-for-profit organisation of experts in research information and research information systems. • 200 members from 43 countries, mainly Europe. • MISSION: To advance Interoperability in the Research Community through CERIF • Main activity: development of the CERIF metadatamodel and promotion of its application • Other function: international platform for exchange of research information knowledge and expertise. • Bi-annual (academic) Conferences, annual Seminars and Membership Meetings (twice a year)

Membership Autralia – Canada – China – Iran – Israel – Malaysia – Nigeria – Pakistan – South Korea - USA Current membership is 194: 128 institutional, 42 personal and 24 affiliate (Coming from 43 countries, mainly Europe)

Strategic Partners EUNIS

CERIF • CERIF: (Common Euopean Research Information Format): an international standard (meta)datamodel for storage and interoperability of research information. • Official EU Recommendation to Member States. • Strong points of CERIF: • Broad coverage: includes all aspects of RI (projects, persons, organisations, funding, publications, datasets, patents, products, bibliometrics, impact indicators, equipment, etc…). • Fine-grained structure and flexible architecture, allowing: • In- and output of virtually any (meta)dataformat existing in the Research Information Domain • The expression (“translation”) of virtually any formalised use case in CERIF. • The ingestion of an unlimited number of controlled vocabularies (taxonomies, thesauri, . . . ) – “semantic layer”. CERIF = comprehensive “legobox” of research information metadata.

Strategic Membership Meeting • Merging of a euro. CRIS members meeting and a euro. CRIS Seminar. • Occasion for the Strategic Partners and euro. CRIS to get to know each other and share ideas on a strategic issue in the research information ecosystem. • To initiate concrete cases of cooperation between euro. CRIS and the Strategic Partners.