Presentation slides from a short talk given by Michael Day of UKOLN at the JISC RIM2 Programme Kick-off Meeting, London, 3 March 2011

1. RIM Programme Support
(UKOLN)
Michael Day
Research and Development Team
UKOLN, University of Bath
RIM2 Kickoff Meeting, London, 3 March 2011
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2. RIM Programme Support (1)
• Main focus on technical aspects, e.g. metadata alignment
– 2010:
• Data harmonisation workshops
• Research Information Management in the UK: CERIF and
metadata alignment (Rosemary Russell and Nikki Rogers)
– Forthcoming:
• Brief Introduction to CERIF (Rosemary Russell)
• Organisational identifiers study
• Technical synthesis of RIM1 projects
– Technical guidelines … requirements?
– Discussion on the RIM strand wiki
• What technical themes will be needed?
– More information at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/rim/
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3. RIM Programme Support (2)
• RIM1 Technical Synthesis – preliminary analysis:
– Survey across HEIs (Imperial College project) revealed:
• Fragmentation, lack of maturity, lack of homogeneity
• Care needed if linked with performance management
– Pilot implementations within smaller groups demonstrated the value of CERIF to
unify RIM data requirements
• Integrating RIM with an institution's existing business processes (BRIM), e.g.
on bidding and output repository
• Mapping different institutional systems to CERIF-XML (CRISPool)
• Integrate a wider range of data types (Enquire)
– Broadly positive results …
– Some other points:
• Need to think about broader range of research ‘outputs’ (UCL/BL project)
• How to embed RIM principles in researcher workflows (UC/BL project)
• Roles of internal and external drivers (Imperial College project, Enquire)
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