EuroCRIS Best Practices

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EuroCRIS Best Practices Solutions

• Members Helping Members Move Forward

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Rationale

• Does your institution have a practice related to
  managing or using current research information
  systems (CRIS) that has solved a challenge you
  were facing or that has proved to be especially
  effective in improving some aspect of CRIS? Or
  perhaps you have a challenge for which your
  colleagues at other institutions may have already
  found an effective solution, and you'd like to
  find that solution?
• Through our database on Best Practices and
  Solutions, EuroCRIS indexes such best practices
  and solutions and makes them accessible through
  an easy-to-use interface.
• You can contribute your best practices and
  solutions through this site, as well as access
  the practices and solutions that have been
  contributed to the service to see if one of them
  can be of help to you. This service is
  member-driven its success depends on your
  willingness to share your successes with your
  colleagues to save them time and resources.
• The more practices contributed to the service,
  the more valuable it will become So please think
  about the practices you have implemented that
  have made a difference, and take a little time to
  share these with your colleagues now.
• We also welcome your comments and suggestions to
  help us develop the service further. If you have
  questions, please contact bestpractice_at_eurocris.or
  g.

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Technology

• CERIF-compliant relational database, linked to
  CERIF-compliant EuroCRIS members database
• Web interface for users and contributors
• Software Requirements (KGJ)
• Hardware Requirements (KGJ)

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Logistics

• Timetable
• Costs
• Project Leader
• Development Team
• Computer Host

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Database Content

• Contributors will need to provide the following
  information that best describes their best
  practice / solution
• Title of the best practice or solution
• A brief description of the challenge that led to
  your practice/solution
• A brief description of the practice/solution
• A brief list of benefits of the practice/solution
  
• An estimate of the costs of implementing the
  practice/solution (including person hours)
• Your assessment of how replicable the
  practice/solution is (on a scale of 1-5)
• A list of up to five URLs where information about
  the practice/solution can be found
• Contributors will also be asked to check up to
  three topics that your practice / solution
  addresses in a grid provided for this purpose.
  Finally, additional comments about the
  practice/solution may be added, which will appear
  in the public service.

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Fields

• Best Practice / Solution Title
• Institution
• Date Submitted
• Date Approved/Authorized
• Date Updated
• Subject Terms

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Fields

• The Challenge / Problem
• The Solution
• Benefits Realized
• Cost (Money and Other Resources)
• Portability / Applicability
• URL(s)
• To remote site
• To online full-text documentation

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Fields

• Contact Person
• Title
• Office
• Tel
• Fax
• Email
• URL

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Search Facility

• Simple Search
• One text box for free-text search
• Advanced Search
• By Subject Term (controlled list)
• By Institution (controlled list, dynamic)
• By Country (controlled list, dynamic)
• All
• Time Constraint

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Subject Terms A Thru C

• Academic Information Systems
• Acceptable Use / Ethics Policies
• Administrative Systems
• Advising Systems
• Applications Development
• Budgets
• Catalog Model
• Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
• Computer Abuse
• Current Research Information System (CRIS)
• Customer Service

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Subject Terms D

• Data Administration
• Databases
• Desktop Computing Management
• Disability Access
• Distributed File System
• Distributed Support

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Subject Terms E Thru H

• E-mail Lists
• Electtronic Discussion
• Electronic Journals
• Electronic Records Management
• Electronic Resources
• Enterprise Portals
• Ethical Training
• Expert System
• Expertise Database
• Faculty Computing Support
• Faculty Technology Development
• Funding Opportunities Database
• GRIDS
• Handheld Computers

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Subject Terms I Thru M

• Information Access Management
• IT - Library Collaboration
• IT Funding
• IT Staffing
• IT Strategic Planning
• Knowledge Management
• Laptops
• Learning Strategies
• Licensing
• Metadata

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Subject Terms O Thru R

• Open Source
• Operational Planning
• Organizational Structure
• Partnerships / Collaboration
• Patents Database
• Personalized (customized) Information Delivery
• Planning
• Portals vortals
• Products Database
• Project Database
• Project Management
• Publications Database
• RDF

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Subject Terms S Thru T

• Search Engine
• Security Management
• Security Policies
• Semantic Web Staffing
• Standards
• Student IT Competencies
• Support Services
• Surveys
• Team Management
• Technology Advisory Committees
• Technology Fees
• Thesaurus / Ontology / Controlled Vocabulary
• Training

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Subject Terms U Thru Z

• Ubiquitous Computing
• Vendor Partnerships
• Viruses
• Web Administration
• Web Content Management
• Web-based Information Systems
• Wireless Technology
• XML
• Z39.50

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Comments

• This idea is borrowed HEAVILY from
  http//www.educause.edu/ep/.