Cris95 in Europe

Current Research Information Systems in Europe: A Step Further

Conference Proceedings
Milan, Italy, May 11-13, 1995

Contents

• Preface
  Fulvio Naldi

• CRISs: Emerging into the light?
  Keith G. Jeffery

• A European research project database at a national level
  A. Regout, E Spruyt, M van der Graaf

• The SIGLE Model
  Irmgard Lankenau

• End users of Research Information Systems: requirements, success factors and evaluation of a theoretical concept
  Josef Herget, Marc Rittberger

• CORDIS: the community research and development information
  Mario Bellardinelli

• The ideal CRIS for a technology transfer user
  Marco Troglia

• The Schengen Treaty and Italy - Some problems in transnational data flow
  Mario G. Losano

• "Habeas data" in the 1988 Brazilian constitution
  Marcela Varejao

• The new Spanish data protection act
  Maria Belén, Cardona Rubert

• Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) as an information tool for the social scientific community
  Annemarie Nase

• Information needs for agricultural research managers and policy makers
  Ennio Galante, Cesare Sala

• Sustainable Current Research Information
  Madeleine Campbell

• The importance of CRIS for an interface between the University and enterprises in the region of Vienna
  Martin Stierle, Hermann Eggbauer

• Give me the real thing! On multimedia documentation facilities in CRIS
  Jostein H. Hauge, Ove Ruben Olsen

• Q2 : A tool providing uniform access to European "R&D Project" databases
  I. Maghiros, Antonis Ramfos

• Automatic distribution of current research information - Providing an easy way for CRIS users to keep up-to-date
  Walter Niedemayer

• Past, present and future of Hungarian CRIS
  Peter Horvath

• MatTechNet - The new European East-West RTD Network
  Kaj R. Lilius, Michael M Gasik

• CEECIS: a network for communication and information exchange in Central/Eastern European Countries
  Z. Strezova

• CRIS in Bulgaria: state of the art, problems and concepts for future development
  lvan Vizirev, Albena Vutzova, Nikolai Mateev

• Global Exchange of research information
  Constance K. McLindon

• Regional conditions of creation and use of database as consequences of accelerated building of man-based distributed system
  Stanislaw Paszczyñski, Miroslaw Hajder

• "ifo Giessen" - the research finding information system of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
  Ulrich Dürr

• The Czech database on current agricultural research projects
  Helena Slezakova

• CRIS: An important element in the policy of the German federal ministry of education, science, research and technology to support social science research
  Werner Salz

Preface

The Current Research Information Systems (CRISS) have been accepted as a unique tool for the distribution of up-to-date S&T information which integrates the traditional ways of communication (journals, books, conferences, reports, etc.). Even if the Current Research Information Systems have an old tradition, a lot of the existing CRISs have not reached the expected level of utilisation and efficiency. The lack of interest from potential users is likely to be a consequence on how data are collected and distributed. The collection and provision of data on research activity is an important documentation effort but too often it remains a "cultural exercise", insufficient for fostering industrial and commercial exploitation of the results of the public funded research and for improving connections between research institutes and industries.

This conference aims to define "a step further" in the following themes that involve both organisational and technical aspects:

- the limited usage of CRIS and the lack of interest from potential users
- emerging idea of pan-European data exchange on research and scientific collaboration
- consequences of the application of the new information technologies and networking

The conference programme includes 25 papers, submitted by authors from 16 different countries, and a demo/poster session 'm which the participants will present their current activities, databases and software applications.

We are very grateful to the Directorate General XIII of the European Commission for the financial support and to the other sponsors who contributed to the organisation of the conference. Many thanks to the members of the Programme Committee who have defined the themes of the conference and selected the contributions and the invited speakers. Special thanks to the CNR staff coordinated by Mrs. Biancamaria Carulli who took care of the practicalities of the conference organisation and of the preparation of the proceedings.