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euroCRIS'' is an international not-for-profit association founded in 2002 in order to bring together experts on research information management and research information management systems (
CRIS). The euroCRIS Office is located in Nijmegen (Netherlands).
euroCRIS maintains th
CERIFstandard (for ''Common European Research Information Format'') to enable CRIS system interoperability. CERIF is endorsed by the European Commission
and is developed and maintained by the CERIF Task Group of euroCRIS.
The mission of euroCRIS is to foster cooperation and knowledge-sharing across the worldwide research information community and to promote interoperability of research information through the CERIF standard. Additional areas of activity also include – among others – the uptake of CRIS systems by various stakeholders, research information infrastructures on an institutional, regional, national and international level, best practices in system interoperability and the use and implementation of standards in CRIS such as identifiers, formats, semantics, (controlled) vocabularies, etc.
A key instrument for the community-driven information exchange are th
international eventsregularly organised by euroCRIS. These include the biennial CRIS Conferences and the biannual Membership Meetings. The outputs arising from all these events are systematically archived in th
euroCRIS open access repositorybased on a DSpace-CRIS software platform. The most recent euroCRIS event after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic was th
CRIS2022 Conferenceheld May 12-14, 2022 in Dubrovnik (Croatia).
The euroCRIS DRIS
One of the main areas of activity of euroCRIS involves maintaining the Directory of Research Information Systems
DRIS. The DRIS is an international directory of CRIS systems currently displaying (as of June 2022) close to 1,200 entries. The vast majority of DRIS records describe institutional CRISs, but there is also a good number of instances for regional and national CRISs, disciplinary and research funder CRISs. Details for new DRIS entries are usually provided by institutions or CRIS vendors, so the DRIS remains work in progress at this stage: while it already provides a comprehensive snapshot of the available CRIS infrastructure worldwide, it is far from being complete yet.
See also
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Current research information system A current research information system (CRIS) is a database or other information system to store, manage and exchange contextual metadata for the research activity funded by a research funder or conducted at a research-performing organisation (or agg ...
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