The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Interest Group Controlled Vocabularies for Repository Assets where the AIMS Team is participating in will hold its first Webinar on July 7, 2014. For all of you interested in the field of standardization of research information, the Webinar will be open to COAR members, as well as members of AIMS.

David Baker (CASRAI Executive Director) will give a presentation "CASRAI: a non-profit initiative to harmonize research information and facilitate interoperability". The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) is a not-for-profit standards development organization. It provides a forum and the mechanisms required to standardize the data that researchers, their institutions and their funders must produce, store, exchange and process throughout the life-cycle of research activity. We envision research teams maintaining a single authoritative file on their activities and being able to quickly produce any documents needed by funders and institutions from this single source file.

The key benefits CASRAI wants to realize for the research community are:

• Save time for researchers (applying & reporting)
• Improve access to quality data for institutions and funders
• Simplify the measurement of research impacts on society

Following the Webinar participants are invited to learn, share expertise and discuss these issues among others

• the cooperation between CASRAI and EuroCRIS initiatives
• where repositories fit into the research information ecosystem
• what are opportunities for the collaboration of COAR and CASRAI regarding identifier schemes, controlled vocabularies to improve interoperability

Date: Monday, July 07, 2014, 02:00pm (UTC)

Duration: 1h

Time (depending on your timezone): 10:00am (EDT), 03:00pm (BST), 04:00pm (CEST), 10:00pm (CST)

You might want to calculate your time zone here.

The meeting will be held via a web conference tool. Details will be announced timely before the meeting. If you want to participate, contact us at [email protected]