Overview

PTCRISync Overview

PTCRIS (Portuguese Current Research Information System) is a program, officially initiated in May 2014, which aims to ensure the creation and sustained development of a national integrated information ecosystem, to support research management according to the best international standards and practices. One of PTCRIS' goals is to reduce the burden of research output management, by adopting an "input once, re-use often" principle.

PTCRISync is a synchronization framework developed in this context, that relies on ORCID - a community-based service that aims to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers (an ORCID iD) and a method of linking research outputs to these identifiers, based on data collected from external sources - as a central hub for information exchange between the various national systems (including CV management systems such as DeGóis, open access repositories such as RCAAP or SARI, and local CRIS systems) and international systems (WoK, Scopus, Datacite, etc), that shall enable researchers (or managers) to register once a given research output at one of the interconnected national systems, and automatically propagate that output to the remaining ones, thus ensuring global consistency of the stored information.

What it needs

• Access to the ORCID Member Api
• The ability to convert research productions from/to the the ORCID schema (currently 2.0rc2)
• A persistent local notion of "synchronized production", for productions that are to be kept up-to-date
• The ability to present notifications to the users to indicate newly found productions
• A fine control on the assignment of external unique identifiers (at least one id, no overlapping ids)

What it can do

• Keep the selected local works up-to-date in the user's ORCID profile (export works)
• Notify the user of new unique works found in the ORCID profile (import works)
• Notify the user of new external identifiers for know works found in the ORCID profile (import updates)

What it cannot do

• It cannot modify ORCID works created by the user or other sources
• Directly modify local works (follows a notification paradigm)
• Synchronize works without valid external identifiers
• Synchronize productions othar than works (yet)