Managing Data Intensive Science –the role of Research Information Systems in realising the digital agenda

Call for Papers

The CRIS 2014 conference will address recent trends in the management, availability, quality and use of Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) in the context of e-Science bringing together researchers, managers of research-performing or funding institutions, evaluators, librarians, ICT experts andpolicy makers.

CRIS Systems do increasingly lie at the core of the information management infrastructure for all organisations involved with research: where it is performed, funded, assessed. The growing emphasis on enhancing transparency of research, maximising the impact and knowledge transfer, improving dissemination of research results –covering publications, but also datasets and software –requires joint efforts for the achievement of a common vision on the research lifecycle, for the development of integrated information systems as well as for efficient policies that support e-Science infrastructure.

The euroCRIS community has long been engaged in enhancing access to European Research Information. At the 12th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems we invite the interested audience to discuss how linking information systems can help to tackle fragmentation on the national, international and subject level and contribute to the enhancement of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.

The conference will take place in the historic city of Rome under the patronage of the Italian National Research Council.

Conference topics include but are not limited to:
– Research information management in andacross institutions
– Output and performance: Trends in research assessment, rankings and bench-marking
– The accelerating worldwide uptake of CRIS Systems by various stakeholders
– Enabling computational science with research information
– Current trends in Open Access and Open Data Management
– Dataset description and metadata
– Linked Open Data for research information
– Semantic approaches and data mining in the interpretation of research information
– Interoperability: Reuse of research information from existing resources
– Research information in academic social networks and Virtual Research Environments
– Tools and solutions for the mobile international researcher
– Publish or perish: Self-assessment tools