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DRIS development concept

Status: position paper of DRIS/BP TG euroCRIS,
initiated by Sergey Parinov in January 2012
Editors: Sergey Parinov, Barbara Ebert, Keith Jeffery,
Last release date: 2012.01.31

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 3
DRIS development diagram........................................................................................ 4
Summary table of DRIS development tasks...............................................................4
DRIS development stages.......................................................................................... 5
1. Basic DRIS........................................................................................................... 5
Proposed initial tasks:.......................................................................................... 5
2. DRIS as a federation of CRIS related information objects....................................6
2.1. Proposed initial tasks:................................................................................... 6
2.2. DRIS Extensions:........................................................................................... 6
3. DRIS as an Information Hub................................................................................ 7
Proposed initial tasks:.......................................................................................... 7
3.1. Information Hub instances: a list of URLs or a database...............................8
3.2. Information Hub input/output protocols........................................................8
3.3. Conversion utility.......................................................................................... 8
3.5. Information Hub content visualization: Pan European research portal..........9
4. DRIS + SLOR....................................................................................................... 9
Proposed initial tasks:.......................................................................................... 9
4.1. An idea of semantic linking tool..................................................................10
4.2. Semantic vocabularies................................................................................10
4.3. Proposed SLOR design................................................................................. 10
4.4. SLOR benefits.............................................................................................. 11
5. Extended DRIS as platform of research DIS and research e-infrastructure.......11
Proposed initial tasks:........................................................................................ 12
Summary table of expected benefits from extended DRIS.......................................12

Introduction
We are starting DRIS (Directory of Research Information Systems) development
from a collection of descriptions for already implemented CRIS. Then we open a
registration of CRIS artifacts connected with DRIS records of parent CRIS. To register
the "content" type artifacts we will use CERIF list of entities (Projects, Persons,
Organizations, Funding, Outputs {products, patents, and publications}, Events,
Facilities, Equipment, Services, etc.). The second type of the CRIS artifacts is
"software". In cooperation with Architecture TG we will make a list of classes of this
type of artifacts. As a result CRIS community will have a catalogue of information
about existed CRIS with details about its content and used software. The catalogue
can be updated and expanded in decentralized mode.
Next we extend the content type of CRIS artifact specification by adding fields for
harvesting gateway's parameters (URL, protocol and available formats). Stored at
DRIS harvesting gateways data will be rearranged as an information hub subsystem,
which is open for input (any organization can register content artifacts and their
harvesting gateway parameters) and for output (any user or a software robot can
take free at DRIS the gateways' parameters to harvest open metadata from their
source CRIS). DRIS information hub will provide a CERIF-XML interoperation
mechanism and allows a multiple reuse of standardized metadata outside DRIS.
As a human navigation and searching interface to the DRIS information hub we can
visualize integrated metadata as a Pan European research portal. This development
from the basic DRIS to the Pan European research portal with optimistic view can
take about 2-3 years.
And we have very perspective lines for the further DRIS development.
When we have at DRIS some artifacts collections (content and software types) we
can provide for euroCRIS members or wider for international CRIS community a
tool to use the artifacts and operate with them in some innovative forms. E.g. all
available artifacts can be using as a building kit for expressing ideas, for designing
logical/structural models and making proposals of new CRIS content and services.
Thus proposals with assigned intellectual rights of its authors can be publicly
exposed for implementing by some developer's organization or as a CRIS
community project on a base of have existed artifacts.
Technically thus logical/structural modeling that used the DRIS artifacts can be
supported by a tool for semantic linking of selected artifacts. Where the semantic is
carrying a sense and explanations about an author's idea, but the linkages express
a scope and a structure of involved artifacts. Since DRIS is based on a federation
principle (data can be changed by only its owner or authorized person), the linkages
data should be stored outside the linking objects. To support semantic linkages
between DRIS artifacts we should create a special system. Initially we called it SLOR
(Semantic Linkages Open Repository). However such tool can be implemented
differently, e.g. it can exist as a subsystem of a CRIS.
Members of CRIS community can express their creativity ideas by linking
semantically DRIS artifact. Created linkages are stored at SLOR. DRIS information
system makes a request to SLOR when a user opens some DRIS object for viewing.
DRIS gets back from SLOR the data about existed linkages for the displayed object
and can visualize all ingoing/outgoing linkages at the object's web page.

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If we have both: (1) DRIS information hub as a virtually integrated source of
research content, and (2) a tool to express ideas about reuse and development of
the content and software artifacts belonged of some CRIS, we can establish a virtual
research environment where all free available for harvesting content's metadata will
be visualized like research Data and Information Space (DIS) and all proposed tools
and services can be connected with DIS objects using some research einfrastructure. By this way we get a reincarnation of the mentioned above Pan
European research portal, but in a more useful form as a virtual research
environment.
The proposed DRIS development concept can be presented as following steps:
(1) Basic DRIS -> (2) DRIS+CRIS artifacts -> (3) DRIS information hub (Pan
European research portal) -> (4) DRIS+SLOR -> (5) Research DIS -> (6) Research
e-Infrastructure -> (7) Virtual Research Environment

DRIS development diagram

Basic DRIS

CRIS artifacts database

DRIS + CRIS artifacts

DRIS information hub+

Sem. Linkages Open

Rep.,

Pan European portal

DRIS+SLOR

Research DIS+
e-Infrastructure

Summary table of DRIS development tasks

DRIS
development
stages
1. Basic DRIS
Visualization of
already
implemented CRIS
2. DRIS as a
federation of CRIS
related information
objects

Proposed initial tasks / for discussion with TG

members
(1) To discuss necessary fields to register CRIS at the basic DRIS,
see the current input form http://www.eurocris.org/DRIS_Form.php
(2) To determine what end-user interfaces should has the DRIS
database (to edit records, to search and display records)
(3) To discuss euroCRIS and/or CRIS community strategic goals
related with DRIS and how to make DRIS useful
(4) To have a list of possible CRIS artifacts types/classes (in
cooperation with CERIF TG and Architecture TG). Initially

proposed version of the CRIS artifacts types/classes is

listed below and is published at the forum.

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Registration of CRIS
components
(artifacts) for
professional
multiple re-use

3. DRIS as an
Information Hub
Involvement of the
"content" type
artifacts into
professional re-use
4. Extended DRIS +
SLOR
Involvement of all
types artifacts into
professional re-use

5. Extended DRIS as
platform for Pan
European research
DIS and research einfrastructure.
Creation of a Virtual
Research
Environment

(5) To define a set of fields for CRIS artifacts description.

Matching a format and a structure of this set with CERIF entities
(cfResProduct?). Adding to the set some special fields to specify
harvesting/usage parameters of the artifact. What kind of usage
can exist for "software" type artifacts and how it should be
specified at the input form?
(6) To decide on practical implementation of the CRIS artifacts
database (at euroCRIS web site or outside) and on forms of its
integration with DRIS database and web interfaces.
(7) To set rules for users of DRIS+CRIS artifacts system. If thus
extended DRIS is a federation of information objects, how can
not owners connect artifacts with DRIS records?
(8) A discussion of the DRIS IH's CERIF-XML interoperation
mechanism, main features and added value
(9) Technical and information architecture of the DRIS IH and its
main utilities
(10) Information Hub's input/output protocols (enhanced OAIPMH, RSS, etc.)
(11) Visualization of the DRIS IH content as Pan European
research portal
(12) A new model to operate with CRIS artifacts: connecting
them by semantic linkages. Can it make DRIS more useful and
create added values for the CRIS community?
(13) What semantic vocabularies will be needed to express
possible classes of relationships between information objects,
including DRIS records, CRIS artifacts and related objects of
external information systems? What kinds of relationships make
sense to express and visualize?
(14) Rational models of semantic linking instruments design
and practical implementation: as a SLOR or as a CRIS.
(15) Extended DRIS as a platform for modeling and designing
new CRIS artifacts. A virtual environment for professional
interactions among members of CRIS community, including tools
for expressing ideas, for designing logical/structural models and
making proposals of new resources and services.
(16) A model of Pan European research DIS as a combination of
(1) the content from the CERIF integrated research metadata
provided by DRIS Information Hub and (2) the tools/services
connected with DIS content and provided by decentralized
developers.
(17) A model of research e-infrastructure as a mechanism to
connect designed tools and services with the DIS content.
(18) To open a richness of CERIF data within DIS for external
information systems (indexing systems, linking systems, ect.).
E.g. using Schema.org approach and so on.

DRIS development stages

1. Basic DRIS
Basic DRIS main functions are: (1) to register descriptions of already implemented
CRIS at DRIS database and (2) to visualize this data as a catalogue at euroCRIS web
site.

Proposed initial tasks:

1. To discuss necessary fields to register CRIS at the basic DRIS, see the current
input form - http://www.eurocris.org/DRIS_Form.php
2. To determine what end-user interfaces should has the DRIS database (to edit
records, to search and display records)
3. To discuss euroCRIS and/or CRIS community strategic goals related with DRIS
and how to make DRIS more useful

2. DRIS as a federation of CRIS related information objects

As the first step to more useful DRIS we propose to build a registration of CRIS
components (artifacts) as separate information objects. A CRIS artifact is a part of a
CRIS content or software that can be reused in some form by CRIS community
members. Registering CRIS artifacts at DRIS means that the artifacts are involving
into professional circulation and reuse under certain terms.

2.1. Proposed initial tasks:

4. To have a list of possible CRIS artifacts types/classes (in cooperation with
CERIF TG and Architecture TG). Initially proposed version of the CRIS artifacts
types/classes is listed below and is published at the forum.
5. To define a set of fields for CRIS artifacts description. Matching a format and a
structure of this set with CERIF entities (cfResProduct?). Adding to the set
some special fields to specify harvesting/usage parameters of the artifact.
What kind of usage can exist for "software" type artifacts and how it should
be specified at the input form?
6. To decide on practical implementation of the CRIS artifacts database (at
euroCRIS web site or outside) and on forms of its integration with DRIS
database and web interfaces.
7. To set up rules for users of DRIS + CRIS artifacts system. If thus extended
DRIS is a federation of information objects, how can not owners connect
artifacts with DRIS records?

2.2. DRIS Extensions:

2.2.1. The artifacts types:
a "content" type by a list of CERIF entities
o Projects
o Persons (researchers)
o Organisations (Institutes, Departments...)
o Publications
o Other types of materials

o Products
o Patents
o Events
o Other types of activity
o Facilities (e.g. large laser laboratory)
o Equipment (e.g. x-ray spectrometer)
a "software" type by typical modules of CRIS
o Navigation
o Searching
o Visualization
o DIS (data and information space)
o Personalization
o Filtration
o Selection
o Harvesting
o Monitoring, tracing of DIS changes
o Scientometrics
o etc.

2.2.2. CERIF ResultProduct entity as a model and a template to specify CRIS

artifacts.
A table of proposed main fields with data as an example
cfResultProduct_Classifica
tion
cfResultProductName
cfResultProductDescriptio
n
(general description)
cfResultProductKeywords
cfResultProduct_ResultPro
duct
OAI-PMH harvesting
gateway URL
OAI-PMH Description of
output data (supported
formats, language, etc.)
OAI-PMH Usage terms
RSS harvesting gateway
URL
RSS Description of output
data (supported formats,
etc.)
RSS Usage terms

content | person
Personal profiles of CEMI RAS staf
A collection of staf's personal profiles of Central Economics
and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences.
The profiles include some linkages, e.g. with people's
publications. The collection can be harvested by RSS and/or
OAI-PMH protocols in DC or CERIF formats.
personale profiles, CEMI RAS, social science
Socionet CRIS
http://cemi.socionet.ru/oai/ecoorg_org1/oai.cgi?
verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=cerif&set=person_ekonomi
ka_rus_doahtw
Formats: cerif, oai_dc and some other. Number of records =
106 (on 2012.01.26). All personal data in Russian. Persons'
names are also in English.
Any usages of this collection have to include a link to the
source collection.
http://socionet.ru/cgi/xml/collection.cgi?
h=repec:rus:doahtw&rss=srss1.0
Formats: socionet. Number of records = 106 (on 2012.01.26).
All personal data in Russian. Persons' names are also in
English.
Any usages have to provide a link to the source collection.

2.2.3. CERIF entities to connect artifacts with description of parent CRIS at DRIS and
other related objects:
cfResultProduct_Funding
cfResultProduct_ResultProduct
cfResProduct_Service

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cfResProduct_Equipment
cfResProduct_Facility
cfResultProduct_Medium
cfResultProduct_Measurement
cfResultProduct_Indicator

2.2.4. Examples
A form to register all types of CRIS artifacts (it needs a login at eurocris.socionet.ru)
http://eurocris.socionet.ru/DRIS-CERIF/Lists/CRIS%20artifacts
%20collection/NewForm.aspx?
A view of registered artifact (public access) http://eurocris.socionet.ru/DRIS-CERIF/Lists/CRIS%20artifacts
%20collection/DispForm.aspx?ID=1

3. DRIS as an Information Hub

We have within a CRIS artifact specification the fields for harvesting gateway's
parameters (URL, protocol and available formats). Stored at DRIS harvesting
gateways data can be rearranged as an Information Hub (IH) subsystem. IH is open
for input (any organization can register content artifacts and their harvesting
gateway parameters) and for output (any user or a software agent can take free at
DRIS the gateways' parameters to harvest open metadata from the source CRIS).
DRIS information hub will provide a CERIF-XML interoperation mechanism and allows
a multiple reuse of standardized metadata outside DRIS.

Proposed initial tasks:

8. A discussion of the DRIS IH's CERIF-XML interoperation mechanism, main
features and added value
9. Technical and information architecture of the DRIS IH and its main utilities
10.Information Hub's input/output protocols (enhanced OAI-PMH, RSS, etc.)
11.Visualization of the DRIS IH content as Pan European research portal

3.1. Information Hub instances: a list of URLs or a database

The simplest version of the IH can exist just as a list of URLs filtered from extended
DRIS with harvesting parameters. But thus IH can not guarantee a proper work of
CERIF-XML interoperation mechanism. So the further DRIS development demands a
more complicated IH design.
IH should keep integrated content in a database. A software that operates as IH
input utility takes in automated mode all available metadata according the list of
URLs mentioned above as the simplest IH. The collected metadata can be improved
on a "fly" to match the CERIF data model and can be stored in some database. The
IH database 100% CERIF compatible content should be regularly synchronized
(everyday) with the content of the source CRIS artifacts. Another software that
operates as HI output should allow a retrieving of the content by some query
language. Full IH content should be visualized as e.g. Pan European research portal.

3.2. Information Hub input/output protocols

The input/output protocols should allow a retrieving of collected metadata according
two main structures: (1) organizational hierarchy, and (2) scientific hierarchy.
(1) community (retrieve all metadata belonged to some community or a group of
organizations)
-> organization (retrieve metadata belonged to some organization)
-> section (data type) (retrieve all metadata belonged to some data
type, e.g. all persons)
-> collection (retrieve all metadata belonged to some collection)
-> object (retrieve a metadata belonged to some object)
(2) scientific discipline
-> scientific theme (line)
-> section (data type)
-> collection
-> object
If we use the popular OAI-PMH and/or RSS protocols "as is", we are not able to make
retrieving according listed hierarchical structures.
The TG should propose a way to enhance existed popular protocols or should design
a special protocol for input/output operations with DRIS IH.

3.3. Conversion utility

Some organizations can have CRIS artifacts with storage models that are not CERIFcompatible. However, such organizations can use a conversion utility to change
(e.g. on a "fly") their CRIS artifacts' format to CERIF. The conversion utility can work
on the side of organization (it can work behind the harvesting URL), as well, as on
the side of DRIS IH (a harvesting metadata from the organization will be processed
first by the conversion utility at IH input). So within IH this metadata appears as a
pure CERIF with respect to queries, responses and information exchange.

3.5. Information Hub content visualization: Pan European research portal

Initially DRIS is required to improve visibility of already implemented CRIS, but when
DRIS IH is integrating metadata of many CRIS, it can also work as a form the
technical underpinning for the operation of the research information portal. The
DRIS IH is designed for communication with software agents (gateways and
harvesters), but thus Pan European research portal can provide a human navigation
and search interface to the integrated metadata.

4. DRIS + SLOR
SLOR (Semantic Linkages Open Repository) as a tool to create semantic linkages
between information objects belonged to DRIS (CRIS descriptions, artifacts) and also
to external information systems (web pages of person and organization profiles,
articles of the Best Practice catalogue and other materials on the web).

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If we have at DRIS some artifacts collections (content and software types) we can
provide for euroCRIS members or wider for international CRIS community a tool
to use the artifacts and operate with them in some innovative forms. E.g. all
available artifacts can be using as a building kit for expressing ideas, for designing
logical/structural models and making proposals of new CRIS content and services.
Thus proposals with assigned intellectual rights of its authors can be publicly
exposed for implementing by some developer's organization or as a CRIS
community project on a base of have existed artifacts.
Technically thus logical/structural modeling that used the DRIS artifacts can be
supported by a tool for semantic linking of selected artifacts. Where the semantic is
carrying a sense and explanations about an author's idea, but the linkages express
a scope and a structure of involved artifacts. Since DRIS is based on a federation
principle (data can be changed by only its owner or authorized person), the linkages
data should be stored outside the linking objects. To support semantic linkages
between DRIS artifacts we have to create a special system. It is the first initial
release called SLOR (Semantic Linkages Open Repository).
Members of CRIS community can express their creativity ideas by linking
semantically DRIS artifact. Created linkages are stored at SLOR. DRIS information
system makes a request to SLOR when a user opens some DRIS object for viewing.
DRIS gets back from SLOR the data about existed linkages for the displayed object
and can visualize all ingoing/outgoing linkages at the object's web page.

Proposed initial tasks:

12.A new model to operate with CRIS artifacts: connecting them by semantic
linkages. How it can make DRIS more useful and create added values for the
CRIS community?
13.What semantic vocabularies will be needed to express possible classes of
relationships between information objects, including DRIS records, CRIS
artifacts and related objects of external information systems? What kinds of
relationships make sense to express and visualize?
14.Rational models of semantic linking instruments design and practical
implementation: as a SLOR or as a CRIS.
15.Extended DRIS as a platform for modeling and designing new CRIS artifacts.
A virtual environment for professional interactions among members of CRIS
community, including tools for expressing ideas, for designing
logical/structural models and making proposals of new resources and
services.
Below we provide some SLOR technical details, but as a more general system than
semantic linking of DRIS information objects, including CRIS artifacts. It is described
as a tool to create and manage semantic linkages between any information objects
of research DIS, where DRIS objects is just a subset with specific semantic
vocabularies.

4.1. An idea of semantic linking tool

We can design a tool for researchers to express their opinions about existed
relationships between DIS objects in visual and computer-readable forms. It can be
realized as a specific open repository, which will allow any researcher to create

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semantic linkages caring by semantic a relationship data between DIS objects, to
store, manage and accumulate semantic linkages, to provide navigation and
searching tools over a set of accumulated linkages. This repository should have
some API, e.g. to provide data about linkages on request to external CRIS for
visualization of a network of linkages composed of articles and other information
objects belong to this CRIS. And the repository of course should have advanced
interoperability features to exchange linkages data with other repositories and CRIS.

4.2. Semantic vocabularies

In designing this open repository there is a challenge with providing complete and
proper linkages' semantic for covering all types of relationships that scientists,
including CRIS community, can wish to express for linking objects of research DIS. A
background for creation necessary semantics vocabularies includes: a semantic
section of CERIF (Common European Research Information Format),
recommendations of W3 - SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), SWAN
(Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine), SPAR (Semantic Publishing and
Referencing Ontologies) and especially its parts CiTO (Citation Typing Ontology) and
DoCo (Document Components Ontology).
As the initial release we propose following types of scientific relationships and
associated semantic vocabularies (source of semantics are in brackets):

Inference (CiTO): obtain background from, updates, used as evidence,

confirms, qualifies

Impact/usage (CiTO): contains assertion from, uses data from, uses method
from, corrects, refutes

Hierarchical and associative (SKOS, SWAN): broader, narrower, related,

alternative to

Components of scientific composition (DoCo): duplicate, revised, etc.

There are also other types of relationships, like "professional opinions", "personalorganizational relationships" and so on.

4.3. Proposed SLOR design

Semantic Linkages Open Repository (SLOR) is a tool to expand current research DIS
by a new type of objects: "linkage". The "linkage" data type is designed to carry out
the subjective opinions of scientists about the relationship that exists between any
pairs of DIS objects, including "person", "organization", "project", "research result",
"event", "artifact" and some others. Rendered scientific relationships include: (1)
relationships between the various research and development (R&D) outputs like
inference, usage, impact, comparison, etc; (2) relationships between elements of
the set {scientists, organizations}; (3) relationships between R&D outputs on the
one hand and elements of the set {scientists, organization} on the other.
The "linkage" data type is based on CERIF Link entity specification. It allows for the
specification of a source and a target objects by their IDs. Thus, all linkages are
oriented from a source object to a target one. A pair of objects IDs is complemented
by semantic value, which characterizes a type of relationship between objects.
Possible semantic values are organized as a set of semantic vocabularies according
types of scientific relationships.

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For practical using in SLOR we extended the initial CERIF Link entity model by
adding:

have

the linkage's ID, since the linkage exists as a research DIS object and has to
unique ID;
a field for comments;
the creator of the linkage.

SLOR openness means: a) it is free to use, i.e. any scientist can use it to create
semantic linkages between any available objects of research DIS (proposals are
moderated); b) all semantic linkages in SLOR are open for harvesting and external
using by other research information systems; c) openness of multiple semantic
vocabularies for replenishing and development (proposals are moderated); d) DIS
data types, which objects can be linked in SLOR can be expanded.
SLOR functionality includes a personal zone, a public portal for navigation and
searching over accumulated linkages, and some other services (information hub,
monitoring of linkages' changes, sending notifications, building scientometrics,
etc.).
For better SLOR navigation and searching the IDs of source and target objects are
supplemented in the repository by name/title and data type of the objects. To get
this information in an automated mode from the DIS we assume that source/target
objects metadata are available through RSS or OAI-PMH protocols and have CERIF,
ReDIF or some other popular formats.
Any external CRIS can in an automated mode check presence in SLOR of linkages
for own information objects. If positive, the linkages' data can be harvested from
SLOR to the CRIS using API. So external CRIS can visualize a network of linkages
composed of articles and other information objects belong to this CRIS.

4.4. SLOR benefits

With SLOR researchers have a new tool and new professional dimension for
scientific creativity as well. Additionally to traditional way of scientific work now
they can express new scientific knowledge about relationships between separate
research results by building multilayer networks of semantic linkages.
Scientists can create now their research publications in a style of semantic
networks. E.g. by linking separate research objects, "units of thought" or other
types of research outputs, which can belong to different authors. As a result, SLOR
improves a scientific circulation mechanism and research outputs (nodes of
semantic networks) can be easily reused by the research community.
SLOR notifies scientists about linking/using their research outputs, as well about
changes in research objects that they linked with own outputs. It improves research
communication and increase efficiency of research work at large.
SLOR provides new scientometrics based on qualitative data about scientific
relationships, like impact, usage and others. It can help with research assessment
and evaluation and it improves the professional signaling system of the scientific
community.

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5. Extended DRIS as platform of research DIS and research einfrastructure.

If we have both: (1) DRIS information hub as a virtually integrated source of
research content, and (2) a tool to express ideas about reuse and development of
the content and software artifacts belonged of some CRIS, we can establish a virtual
research environment where all free available for harvesting content's metadata will
be visualized like research Data and Information Space (DIS) and all proposed tools
and services can be connected with DIS objects using some research einfrastructure. By this way we get a reincarnation of the mentioned above Pan
European research portal, but in a more useful form as a virtual research
environment.

Proposed initial tasks:

16.A model of Pan European research DIS as a combination of (1) the content
from the CERIF integrated research metadata provided by DRIS Information
Hub and (2) the tools/services connected with DIS content and provided by
decentralized developers.
17.A model of research e-infrastructure as a mechanism to connect designed
tools and services with the DIS content.
18.To open a richness of CERIF data within DIS for external information systems
(indexing systems, linking systems, ect.). E.g. using Schema.org approach
and so on.

Summary table of expected benefits from extended DRIS

DRIS
development
stages / Products
1. Basic DRIS
2. DRIS as a
federation of CRIS
related information
objects.
Product 2: Extended
DRIS + CRIS
artifacts

Expected Benefits / for discussion with TG members

A visualization of already implemented CRIS
A registration of CRIS components (artifacts) for
professional multiple re-use
A disclosure of technical details about content and
software for CRIS registered at DRIS.
A searching and establishing of rules and models of
professional re-use for CRIS artifacts in behalf of euroCRIS
members and CRIS community at large.

3. DRIS as an
Information Hub

Involvement of the "content" type artifacts into

professional re-use

Product 3: DRIS IH

Practical implementation and running of CERIF-XML

interoperation mechanism
Creation of input/output protocols for CERIF-XML
interoperation mechanism. Adjustment of OAI-PMH and

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RSS for CERIF-XML interoperation.
Running of Pan European research portal
4. Extended DRIS +
SLOR
Product 4:
DRIS+SLOR

5. Extended DRIS as
platform for Pan
European research
DIS and research einfrastructure.

Involvement of all types artifacts into professional re-use

Extended DRIS as a platform for modeling and designing
new CRIS artifacts. A virtual environment for professional
interactions among members of CRIS community,
including tools for expressing ideas, for designing
logical/structural models and making proposals of new
resources and services.
Creation of a Virtual Research Environment