CASRAI-UK: Using the CASRAI Approach to Develop Standards for Communicating and Sharing Research Information in the UK

David Baker; Anna Clements; Catherine Grout; Simon Kerridge; Valerie McCutcheon; Helen Newnham

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.03.041

CASRAI-UK: Using the CASRAI Approach to Develop Standards for Communicating and Sharing Research Information in the UK

David Baker, Anna Clements, Catherine Grout, Simon Kerridge, Valerie McCutcheon, Helen Newnham

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This paper explains how the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) might be used to share research information in an open and sustainably governed approach, led by research organisations. CASRAI is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to reducing administrative burden and improving outcomes and impact reporting through good stewardship of information requirements by research organisations (universities, colleges, teaching hospitals and other research centres). The objective is to improve the flow of information within and between research stakeholders. The approach sees the ‘user-led’ development and maintenance of standard information agreements. These agreements include (a) specifications defining what data elements (entities) are needed for various key business processes in the research lifecycle and (b) definitions for all the terms appearing in these specifications. The open and standardised definitions are curated and maintained in an open online dictionary that can then be used by system providers and others to exchange information in a standard, agreed format e.g.by using CERIF-XML as the transfer mechanism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	100-103
Number of pages	4
Journal	Procedia Computer Science
Volume	106
Early online date	21 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.03.041
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	International Conference on Current Research Information Systems: Communicating and Measuring Research Responsibly: Profiling, Metrics, Impact, Interoperability - Duration: 9 Jun 2016 → 11 Jun 2016 Conference number: 13th

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Special Issue: 13th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems, CRIS2016, Communicating and Measuring Research Responsibly: Profiling, Metrics, Impact, Interoperability

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standards
interoperability
definitions
administration
dictionaries

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