University Research Tools Scientific Production Life Cycle Management

Bologna, 27th May 2011

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Scientific Production Life Cycle

Sigma Scientific Output Management (CRIS)

SIGMA, who we are …

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SIGMA Gestión Universitaria is a non profit consortium founded in 1996 by some Spanish public universities in order to find solutions to their needs of managing business processes.

The company focuses in developing and supporting VEGA Student information system and ARGOS Research management system.

More than 120 people within the company, 40 granted internship students.

SIGMA Gestión Universitaria

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• SIGMA is now focused on tier 1 public universities in Spain (8 of 47, 17%)

• SIGMA’s Student Information System is used by over 19% of total spanish public universities students

• Spanish market is completed by 22 private institutions (100k students) and 2 e-learning, public UNED (150k) and private UOC (40k)

Our communitySigma System

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• 4 SIGMA universities are involved in the so called ARGOS Research Information System project

• Information about more than 24.000 researchers through the years and more than 10.000 researchers currently

• Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea – Basque Country University is now implementing the Promotion Portal

Our community

Owners Customers

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Our communityResearch Area

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SIGMA, who we are …

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Spanish General State Administration

Regional Policies & Plans

ANEP

Autonomous Communities (Regions)

Work Program PN

AQU …

Strategic Actions

Institutions data flow

JTIs

ERA NETS

OPIs Research Public Entities (CSIC, CIEMAT, …) + Technical Scientific Installations + Other Research Entities

UniversityDepartments + Management Research Units + Other Administrative Services

PRODUCTION

PROMOTION

MANAGEMENT

University research policy

Research programs and topics

Calls and proposal

managementContract and agreement

management Research project

(Research production)

Knowledge transfer(spin-off)

Results communication and promotion

Results

Society

Business system

Researchers

Demand

Researchers

Management research units

University

Departments

University Research Life-Cycle

ARGOS Research Management SystemProject 2010-2012

ProductionPromotionManagement

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Distributed management

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Introduction

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Researchers

Librarian

Validation

3

Publication

Consult2

Output consultants

Adding

Consulting

GPC

PPC

Attach

Repositories

Publication

Attach/Publish

Import/export CV4

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1

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Linked

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Centralized management

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Communicate

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ResearchersResearch Units

Librarian

Validation

4

Publication

Consult

3

Output consultants

Adding

Consulting

GPC

PPC

Attach

Repositories

Publication

Attach/Publish

Import/export CV

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5

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Introduction

2

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University's Report

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Administrator

Creation

Period Report

2

1

PPC

Publication

Institutional WEB

DepartmentsResearch UnitsResearch Groups

ReviewValidate

University Statistics

Publication4

3

4

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Common European Research Information Format

Import/export CV

In Spain the Curriculum Vitae Normalized to exchange CVs information is a big step forward (by FECyT)

Actual needs in a global world:Impact/evaluationRepositoriesNew Area Europe funds Europe Projects.

CollaborationMobility

Is CERIF the solution for the new needs?

Actual situation

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Sigma Scientific Output Management (CRIS)

SIGMA, who we are …

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Scientific production management

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Researcher’s Public Consult

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University's Report

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CriterionExtraction period

Extraction type

Members criterion

Researchers extraction

Activity criterion

Types of activity

Privacy configuration

Visibility configuration

Technology Platform

JDBC & JDO

JavaServer Faces & Pages

Java Servlet

XML

Highly open source based development and deployment platform• J2EE 5 certified application server compliant• 3-tier and high performance proven open architecture• Financial and HR systems connecting interfaces

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