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Copyright Shutterstock. Used under licence (shutterstock_63632392) The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN includes provision of support for the JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Programme. In consultation with JISC and the UK RIM community UKOLN produces a range of reports and documentation, including supporting materials for JISC calls for proposals, CERIF introductory resources, project syntheses and CERIF-CRIS ‘landscape’ studies. Meetings and workshops have taken place e.g. following on from the EXRI-UK report, UKOLN organised a series of workshops in 2010 on CERIF and metadata alignment across UK organisations; in 2012 two workshops have been held, one in conjunction with euroCRIS.

UKOLN is a member of the RIM Group of experts organised by JISC and presents regular reports to meetings. At an international level UKOLN participates in euroCRIS, the standards body responsible for CERIF and has worked with euroCRIS to organise task group meetings in Bath in February 2012.

UKOLN and JISC infoNet provide programme support for all of the JISC projects funded as part of the JISC’s Research Information Management activity. Projects have been funded in three phases, with a fourth currently getting underway (JISC Grant Funding 16/11). JISC infoNet primarily focuses on the business requirements for RIM, UKOLN on CERIF and data harmonisation needs. UKOLN produces briefing documents on CERIF, data harmonisation, RIM ‘state of the art’ and other matters of interest to the sector. It also helps foster collaboration through meetings and workshops. Other advice is also available to the sector, for example from UCISA, the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) and from JISC services like the Repositories Support Project.

The next euroCRIS Membership Meeting will be held in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012
On 16-17 July 2012, a CERIF task group meeting was held in Edinburgh, organised by Brigitte Jörg from the CERIF Support Project
As described in a recent blog post a RIM workshop was held in Bristol on 27-28 June 2012, organised by UKOLN ISC and JISC.
On 9-10 February 2012 a CERIF tutorial and data surgery were held, followed by euroCRIS task group meetings. These were jointly organised by UKOLN ISC, JISC and euroCRIS.

The following resources are relevant to those with an interest in Research Information Management:

Recent reports and documentation produced by the Innovation Support Centre:

Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study, March 2012 (PDF)
Current UK initiatives using CERIF – Supporting document for the JISC RIM3 Call, July 2011 (PDF)
Introduction to CERIF (PDF)
JISC Research Information Management Programme: phase 1 technical synthesis, May 2011 (PDF)
Technical Foundations: Research Information Management

JISC RIM Programme-related resources and projects:

JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Programme
JISC Grant Funding 16/11: JISC Digital infrastructure programme
Exchanging Research Related Information (EXRI) report
JISC infoNet pages on Research Information Management
CERIF in Action
IRIOS-2
UKRISS (UK Research Information Shared Service) project
DESCRIBE project
C4D (CERIF for Datasets)
RMAS (Research Management and Adminstration System)

Research Councils UK (RCUK) CERIF initiatives: