[InetBib] Call for Papers: CRIS 2008, June 5-7th, 2008 in Maribor, Slovenia

[Max Stempfhuber <max.stempfhuber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

auf folgenden Call for Papers, der am 3. Dezember 2007 endet, darf ich Sie 
hinweisen:

Get the Good CRIS Going:
Ensuring Quality of Service for the User in the ERA

9th international Conference on
Current Research Information Systems

June 5-7th, 2008 in Maribor, Slovenia

Quality and reliability are key factors for achieving the European Research Area 
(ERA). To establish an environment where researchers, technology and knowledge 
freely circulate and where national and regional research activities, programmes 
and policies are coordinated at the European level, trust in the enabling 
information and technology is crucial. By ensuring completeness, consistency and 
reliability of information and by providing dedicated services to different 
groups of stakeholders, current research information systems (CRIS) play an 
important role in the ERA e-Infrastructure.

CRIS 2008 focuses on how quality, reliability and trust can be established at 
different levels of research information systems, and how they contribute to the 
overall quality of service from a user’s point of view. The conference is aimed 
at promoting scientific discussion on CRIS-related aspects and information 
exchange on best practice examples. CRIS 2008 continues the tradition of 
encouraging the sharing of experiences among developers, producers and users of 
research information systems. CRIS 2008 seeks also to foster discussion on novel 
approaches and ideas on international dialogue, pan-European cooperation, and 
the transfer and use of information related to CRIS.

Conference Topics
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Quality: Data management and quality assurance
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Defining the scope of a CRIS (institutional, national, international; 
discipline-specific vs. interdisciplinary); organizing data collection and 
sharing (involving end users and external systems; centralized, federated and 
distributed approaches); establishing criteria and mechanisms for quality 
assurance; ensuring interoperability (ownership of data and privacy issues; 
authority and reliability of data; data fusion; standardization; heterogeneity 
of structure and semantics; data exchange and linkage between individual systems).

Success Stories: Learning from each other
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Best practice examples and success criteria for CRISs uses (as evaluation and 
management tools; for dissemination and information services; for 
profile-building of researchers, organizations or regions; influencing funding 
and research programmes); thinking e-Infrastructures from the CRIS point of view 
(relation to other information systems and services); service-oriented view on 
CRISs allowing re-use of information and functions (describing and detecting 
CRISs and their services; re-usable services for e.g. data collection, quality 
assurance, data fusion and information extraction; adding value by combining 
services and systems; CRISs and the Semantic Web / Web 2.0).

Sustainability: Research information systems as a strategic commitment
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Getting institutional commitment; embedding CRISs in an institution's strategy; 
relating CRISs to institutional processes and systems; cost-effectiveness of 
CRISs; ensuring timeliness of data in the future; cooperation as a way to 
sustainability; change management and end-user involvement.

Eingereicht werden können Abstracts zu Vorträgen, Workshops und 
Posterpräsentationen.

Der Link zur Website der Konferenz findet sich auf der euroCRIS Homepage 
(http://www.eurocris.org) oder direkt unter 
http://www.uni-kassel.de/wiss_tr/CRIS2008

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Max Stempfhuber
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Dr. Maximilian Stempfhuber
Stellvertretender Abteilungsleiter GESIS-IZ
Bereichsleiter Forschung & Entwicklung

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