CV submissions: Cost-Effective Data Flows for Institutions and Funders INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SCIENCE BUSINESS

DR. THORSTEN HOELLRIGL,

HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY, CRIS

Vision •  Cost-effective communication of CV data

•  Bridging different portals and initiatives

•  Reducing effort for: –  Gaining domain knowledge –  Data input –  Research information management –  Support

Advantages for Researchers •  Collect once, use many times

•  Seamless process for submitting to different funders –  No worries about information required by the respective

funder –  No worries about the concrete format required by the

respective funder –  No worries about the different systems/websites

•  No use for researcher to leave local system

•  Significant decrease in time and effort

Advantages for Funders •  Improved data quality

•  Reduction in support effort

•  Reduction in educating users

•  Reduced technical issues –  less traffic –  no performance issues near deadlines

•  Benefit from best practices from other initiatives

•  CV portal can focus on additional services

Building blocks for a seamless cross-institutional workflow •  Systems to collect and exchange required

information –  Research Institution –  Funder / Publisher –  Third parties (e.g. content providers)

•  Dictionaries for understanding the information

•  Technical format and protocols for communication

•  Bottom line: –  Technology is ready –  Many, many, many initiatives going on, but… –  Use cases are fragmented / not yet strong enough

CASRAI CV •  Common, extensible model and format for

expressing CV in different systems

•  Portable, exchangeable CV variants (Student CV, Abridged CV, Non-Academic CV)

+ Flexibility

+ Business-case driven

+ Focused

+ National variations