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NARCIS

Integration CRIS, OA publications and Web Crawling

Marga van MeelChris Baars

euroCRIS Strategic Seminar 20 September 2005

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NARCIS National Academic Research and

Collaborations Information System

A national portal for research information partners

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Association of Universities

in the Netherlands (VSNU) and University of Nijmegen Information Centre (METIS)

DARE-project Sep2004-Sep2005

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Background

Increasing connection between activities: electronic application procedures, management research information systems, academic repositories, exchange of data between the systems Increasing cooperation between institutes involved in research information Datacollection is not an easy job and expensive: increasing need for agreements on who is collecting which data when and where.

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Purpose

Datacollection via the administrative systems Increasing accessibility, improvement of exchange, linking of data and re-use of available research information Minimalisation of administrative report burden for researchers and institutes Registering of data once-only

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Sources of information for NARCIS

DAREnet (the information from the digital academic repositories) Dutch Research Database (NOD) Public information from the universities METIS Research information from the funding organisation NWO Information from non-university institutions (by means of intelligent harvesting techniques) Press reports and news sources

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Content of NARCIS

Information on: Research institutes - profiles, addresses, projects, publication Researchers - expertise, addresses, projects publications Research activities - research projects and programmes Publications - metadata, full text Datasets - metadata News - webpages

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Techniques (open source software)

XML & XML-SOAP OAI (harvesten) Categorizer Web-crawler RSS feeds Bulk upload

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METIS Universities

Webpages Institutional Repositories

NARCIS

Web-formsResearch Council

NOD

Categorizer

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Future developments

XML – Schema English interface Datasets (new type) SOAP XML – exchange of data with METIS / Universities Unique identifiers (connecting OA - CRIS) Further development Categoriser

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