Emerging trends for international collaboration in the CRIS domain
16th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2024)
Vienna, Austria
May 15-17, 2024
About the Conference
CRIS 2024 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the RIS Synergy Project and with friendly support of TU Wien and the University of Vienna.
CRIS 2024 is the sixteenth edition in a biennial series of conferences devoted to improving the availability of and access to research information systems across Europe. The target audience includes managers of research-performing and/or funding institutions, evaluators, librarians, ICT experts, as well as policy makers. euroCRIS is a non-profit professional association of CRIS experts and custodian of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF).
The euroCRIS ECR support scheme is being introduced for this CRIS2024 conference – please check if you may be eligible.
CRIS2024 photographs
Photographer: Sviatlana Bubnevich
Venue
TU Wien
The TU Wien is Austria’s largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences. More than 4,000 scientists are researching “technology for people” in five main research areas at eight faculties. The content of the studies offered is derived from the excellent research. More than 26,000 students in 62 degree programmes benefit from this. As a driver of innovation, TU Wien strengthens Vienna as a business location, facilitates cooperation and contributes to the prosperity of society.
At TU Wien, we have been conducting research, teaching and learning under the motto ‘Technology for people’ for over 200 years. TU Wien has evolved into an open academic institution where discussions can happen, opinions can be voiced and arguments will be heard. Although everyone may have different individual philosophies and approaches to life, the staff, management personnel and students at TU Wien all promote open-mindedness and tolerance.
The main venue of the CRIS 2024 conference will be the Kuppelsaal, a domed hall in the TU main building; additionally, there are further conference rooms for parallel sessions and workshops.
Getting to Vienna
Arriving by plane
Vienna International Airport is about 20 km away from the city centre and the host institution (TU Wien). Arrival and departure are very easy with all forms of transport, including regular bus and rail connections to Vienna main station or Wien Mitte.
The Wien Mitte Station is one of the most important transport hubs in the city. Subway and express train lines intersect here – including the S7, CAT or busses to the airport. The check-in counters for many airlines and the terminal of the airport express train City Airport Train CAT make Wien Mitte a central hub and point of departure for travellers. Travelling to TU Wien from the airport is easy: take the train (S7, CAT or bus) to Wien Mitte, then the subway U4 for two stops (Karlsplatz).
Arriving by train
Vienna Main station (Hauptbahnhof) is a hub for local and long-distance traffic, and also the largest night-train hub within the EU. From Vienna Main Station, TU Wien is within a 10 minutes subway ride (line U1). It is also perfectly connected to the city’s transport network (subway, rapid transit railway, trams and bus lines).
Arriving by bus
The international Eurolines long-distance bus routes connect all of Europe to Vienna. Full details on timetables, online bookings etc. can be found at www.eurolines.com. The long-distance bus company Flixbus offers bus routes throughout Europe. More information at www.flixbus.com.
There are two major bus terminals in Vienna:
Arriving by car
Austria has a well-developed road network, but note that tolls are compulsory on all motorways and expressways in Austria. A vignette is also needed to use Vienna’s city motorways. Parking fees in the short-stay parking zone apply to the entire Vienna metropolitan area. The short-stay parking zone operates in all districts from Monday to Friday, from 9.00 am to 10.00 pm, for a maximum stay of two hours. For longer periods cars can be parked in one of Vienna’s Park & Ride garages.
Public transportation
Tickets for using Vienna’s public transport system can be conveniently purchased around the clock. There are different ticket types and ways to purchase them.
Online tickets: The Wiener Linien online ticket shop can be accessed via mobile app or online at https://shop.wienmobil.at/en/products.
Ticket vending machines and shops: All underground stations have ticket vending machines and tickets can also be purchased at numerous Tabaktrafik (tobacconist) shops that are usually just around the corner. All of the following (and more) can be purchased at a ticket vending machine or shop:
- Single and 2-trip tickets, regular or reduced fare
- Strip tickets for four single trips
- 24, 48 and 72-hour Vienna passes
- 8-day tickets
Visa Requirements
Citizens of EU member states, European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland do not need a visa for entering the Republic of Austria. Nationals of other countries might require a visa in order to enter the Schengen Area or the Austrian territory. Nationals of those states for which the visa requirement has been lifted by means of an EU regulation are entitled to visa-free entry to Austria for a maximum of 90 days.
For more information, visit the website of the Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs.
Accommodation & Booking
There are various hotels within walking distance of the venue.
The organisers of the conference have preselected some hotels with best rates for conference participants. These rooms will be allocated to participants free of any processing fee until 12 April 2024. If you would like to stay longer, please feel free to contact us (congress@univie.ac.at).
Cancellation policies are at the discretion of each hotel. At most hotels, cancelling free of charge is possible until 14 days before your arrival.
Cancellations have to be communicated via e-mail: congress@univie.ac.at.
Important Information for booking a hotel
- Payment is only possible via credit card
Call for Proposals
Theme: Emerging trends for international collaboration in the CRIS domain
Deadline for submissions: Feb 29th, 2024
The general theme of the conference is Emerging trends for international collaboration in the CRIS domain. Other topics of the conference include the following:
- The significance of CRISs for the promotion and realisation of FAIR and Open Science
- Best practices in system interoperability and research information exchange at a regional or a national level
- Research Information infrastructures on a regional, national and/or international level
- The possible role and integration of CRIS as supporting information resources for research data infrastructures such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
- The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research information management
- The use and implementation of standards in CRIS: identifiers, formats, semantics, vocabularies
- Use cases in the application of CERIF
- The use of CRIS in the field of research data management
- Semantic approaches, data mining and profiling in the interpretation of research information
- The (worldwide) uptake of CRIS Systems by various stakeholders
- Enabling and supporting research cooperation through CRIS
- Value, impact and outcomes of universities
- The role of CRIS in support of Plan S and transforming scholarly communications
- The role of CRIS in support of the responsible use of research metrics: analytics and quantitative measurement in research information systems
- Output and performance: trends in research assessment, rankings and benchmarking
Conference Contributions: Types and Structure
We invite the CRIS community and all other interested parties to submit their findings and experiences as contributions of different kinds. This includes full or short research papers, review papers and articles describing case studies, experiences or proposals of novel pieces of technology, processes or models. The submission system of the conference will allow participants to classify the contribution in a number of types that will be reviewed according to that nature.
Conference contributions will be organized in three tracks:
I. Open communication, sharing, reuse and profiling of research
Contributions on best practices, technologies and case studies concerning the promotion and facilitation of research information exchange and the creation of research information infrastructures on various levels, be it institutional, national or international. Special attention may be given to the role of CRIS and CRIS-based e-infrastructures in creating an international and multifunctional “FAIR” research information layer, underpinning among other things research data infrastructures like the EOSC. Related to this, the role of standards in optimising research communication and exchange.
II. Measuring research, its quality and impact
Contributions on best practices, case studies, operational solutions and future trends in benchmarking, evaluation and assessment of research and research impact; including policy directions, technology developments and emerging standards. This also includes the need for and approaches towards quality and reliability of research information to support the responsible use of research metrics by all stakeholders.
III. Advances in research information technology
Contributions on advanced information and communication technologies to improve research information quality, availability and exchange, including database, process and workflow, user interface or Cloud-based technologies. With special attention to CERIF and CRIS-related technologies and developments.
Any other topic not fitting in the tracks but falling in the scope and topics of the conference will equally be considered as part of a general track.
In order to present a paper at the conference, the first step is to send in a 2-page extended abstract for the contribution. Based on these abstracts, the Programme Committee will assess the suitability of the papers for the event.
Please submit your extended abstract to the following easyChair account: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cris2024#
Guidelines for writing extended abstracts
An extended abstract is not simply a long abstract. An extended abstract should contain some references, comparisons to related previous work, cases, descriptions and findings and other details expected in a full paper but not in an abstract. The typical length of the extended abstract is 2-5 pages. The abstract should be readable and understandable, and it is key to highlight the main contributions that make the work presented useful to the audience of CRIS researchers and/or practitioners.
The program committee will consider among other these aspects in reviewing the extended abstract:
- Are there any major technical flaws in the abstract?
- Is the language appropriate for a scholarly or technical audience?
- Is the work a significant advance over previous work/cases/experiences in the area, by the same authors or others?
- Does the extended abstract offer an interesting perspective on a problem or describe experiences that might be useful to others?
- Is the abstract well presented and understandable?
Best Paper Award
In Memory of the late Max Stempfhuber euroCRIS offers an award to the best paper in the conference.
The timeline for submitting and selecting contributions is:
- 29 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024– Extended abstract submission - 15 Mar 2024
29 Feb 2024– Acceptance/Rejection Announcement - 30 Apr 2024 – Updated extended abstract (incorporating feedback from reviewers)
- 15 Jun 2014 – Full paper camera-ready submission
- As it was the case for previous CRIS Conferences, the extended abstracts for all accepted papers will be published in the euroCRIS repository shortly before the conference.On top of this, a selection of papers will be published as post-proceedings with an international publisher indexed in the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Dimensions. The required documents for this process are already available for download below:
The CRIS2024 Conference also welcomes proposals for posters, tutorials and workshops related to any of the topics for the conference. System providers are also invited to submit their contributions for a specific Exhibitions and Business Session. More details on the calls for these separate activities are given below.
Call for posters
Posters on the conference themes above may be submitted as regular contributions via easyChair. When adding the info on the authors and title and abstract for the poster, please specify that this is a poster contribution. The same submission deadlines specified above for conference papers also apply to poster submissions.
Authors of submissions not deemed to be sufficiently solid for a conference paper and/or presentation during the peer-review process may also be invited to submit their contribution as a poster instead.
Call for tutorials
Tutorials are expected to be sessions of a duration ranging from 1 to 3 hours in which the instructor exposes a topic or presents the use of a system. Tutorial proposals need to include:
- Title
- Instructors and their qualifications
- Topics to be covered
- Prerequisites for attendants
- Tutorial setting required (need for computers, Internet connection, other materials)
Tutorials are expected to serve the audience in improving or acquiring knowledge or skills or demonstrating and gaining hands-on or practical experience with technologies and tools.
Proposals for tutorials should be sent to eurocris@eurocris.org before Feb 29th, 2024
Call for workshops
Workshops are expected to be sessions organised the day before or in parallel to main conference activities. They should be focused on a specific topic. Workshops proposals need to include:
- Title
- Workshop chair(s)
- Technical/scientific committee members
- Topics to be covered
- Justification of the importance of the topics
Workshops will be included in the conference programme, but the peer-review process and selection of papers is the responsibility of their promoters.
Proposals for workshops should be sent to eurocris@eurocris.org before Feb 29th, 2024
The general theme of the conference is Emerging trends for international collaboration in the CRIS domain. Other topics of the conference include the following:
- The significance of CRISs for the promotion and realisation of FAIR and Open Science
- Best practices in system interoperability and research information exchange at a regional or a national level
- Research Information infrastructures on a regional, national and/or international level
- The possible role and integration of CRIS as supporting information resources for research data infrastructures such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
- The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research information management
- The use and implementation of standards in CRIS: identifiers, formats, semantics, vocabularies
- Use cases in the application of CERIF
- The use of CRIS in the field of research data management
- Semantic approaches, data mining and profiling in the interpretation of research information
- The (worldwide) uptake of CRIS Systems by various stakeholders
- Enabling and supporting research cooperation through CRIS
- Value, impact and outcomes of universities
- The role of CRIS in support of Plan S and transforming scholarly communications
- The role of CRIS in support of the responsible use of research metrics: analytics and quantitative measurement in research information systems
- Output and performance: trends in research assessment, rankings and benchmarking
Conference Contributions: Types and Structure
We invite the CRIS community and all other interested parties to submit their findings and experiences as contributions of different kinds. This includes full or short research papers, review papers and articles describing case studies, experiences or proposals of novel pieces of technology, processes or models. The submission system of the conference will allow participants to classify the contribution in a number of types that will be reviewed according to that nature.
Conference contributions will be organized in three tracks:
I. Open communication, sharing, reuse and profiling of research
Contributions on best practices, technologies and case studies concerning the promotion and facilitation of research information exchange and the creation of research information infrastructures on various levels, be it institutional, national or international. Special attention may be given to the role of CRIS and CRIS-based e-infrastructures in creating an international and multifunctional “FAIR” research information layer, underpinning among other things research data infrastructures like the EOSC. Related to this, the role of standards in optimising research communication and exchange.
II. Measuring research, its quality and impact
Contributions on best practices, case studies, operational solutions and future trends in benchmarking, evaluation and assessment of research and research impact; including policy directions, technology developments and emerging standards. This also includes the need for and approaches towards quality and reliability of research information to support the responsible use of research metrics by all stakeholders.
III. Advances in research information technology
Contributions on advanced information and communication technologies to improve research information quality, availability and exchange, including database, process and workflow, user interface or Cloud-based technologies. With special attention to CERIF and CRIS-related technologies and developments.
Any other topic not fitting in the tracks but falling in the scope and topics of the conference will equally be considered as part of a general track.
In order to present a paper at the conference, the first step is to send in a 2-page extended abstract for the contribution. Based on these abstracts, the Programme Committee will assess the suitability of the papers for the event.
Please submit your extended abstract to the following easyChair account: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cris2024#
Guidelines for writing extended abstracts
An extended abstract is not simply a long abstract. An extended abstract should contain some references, comparisons to related previous work, cases, descriptions and findings and other details expected in a full paper but not in an abstract. The typical length of the extended abstract is 2-5 pages. The abstract should be readable and understandable, and it is key to highlight the main contributions that make the work presented useful to the audience of CRIS researchers and/or practitioners.
The program committee will consider among other these aspects in reviewing the extended abstract:
- Are there any major technical flaws in the abstract?
- Is the language appropriate for a scholarly or technical audience?
- Is the work a significant advance over previous work/cases/experiences in the area, by the same authors or others?
- Does the extended abstract offer an interesting perspective on a problem or describe experiences that might be useful to others?
- Is the abstract well presented and understandable?
Best Paper Award
In Memory of the late Max Stempfhuber euroCRIS offers an award to the best paper in the conference.
The timeline for submitting and selecting contributions is:
- 29 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024– Extended abstract submission - 15 Mar 2024
29 Feb 2024– Acceptance/Rejection Announcement - 30 Apr 2024 – Updated extended abstract (incorporating feedback from reviewers)
- 15 Jun 2014 – Full paper camera-ready submission
- As it was the case for previous CRIS Conferences, the extended abstracts for all accepted papers will be published in the euroCRIS repository shortly before the conference.On top of this, a selection of papers will be published as post-proceedings with an international publisher indexed in the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Dimensions. The required documents for this process are already available for download below:
The CRIS2024 Conference also welcomes proposals for posters, tutorials and workshops related to any of the topics for the conference. System providers are also invited to submit their contributions for a specific Exhibitions and Business Session. More details on the calls for these separate activities are given below.
Call for posters
Posters on the conference themes above may be submitted as regular contributions via easyChair. When adding the info on the authors and title and abstract for the poster, please specify that this is a poster contribution. The same submission deadlines specified above for conference papers also apply to poster submissions.
Authors of submissions not deemed to be sufficiently solid for a conference paper and/or presentation during the peer-review process may also be invited to submit their contribution as a poster instead.
Call for tutorials
Tutorials are expected to be sessions of a duration ranging from 1 to 3 hours in which the instructor exposes a topic or presents the use of a system. Tutorial proposals need to include:
- Title
- Instructors and their qualifications
- Topics to be covered
- Prerequisites for attendants
- Tutorial setting required (need for computers, Internet connection, other materials)
Tutorials are expected to serve the audience in improving or acquiring knowledge or skills or demonstrating and gaining hands-on or practical experience with technologies and tools.
Proposals for tutorials should be sent to eurocris@eurocris.org before Feb 29th, 2024
Call for workshops
Workshops are expected to be sessions organised the day before or in parallel to main conference activities. They should be focused on a specific topic. Workshops proposals need to include:
- Title
- Workshop chair(s)
- Technical/scientific committee members
- Topics to be covered
- Justification of the importance of the topics
Workshops will be included in the conference programme, but the peer-review process and selection of papers is the responsibility of their promoters.
Proposals for workshops should be sent to eurocris@eurocris.org before Feb 29th, 2024
CRIS2024 conference programme
Social Events
May 14th, 18:00: Welcome Reception
The welcome reception will take place on the premises of TU Wien, at TUtheSky on the evening prior to the official start of the conference.
Participants can enjoy drinks and appetisers while networking with the other conference participants.
→ Find TUtheSky on Google Maps.
May 15th, 18:00: Guided City Tour – Walks in Vienna
A guided city walking tour will take participants through the historic city centre of Vienna. These walks are led by professional guides.
Vienna’s compact city centre and its many pedestrian streets make it a paradise for walkers.
Themes for a tour are:
- K+K Court Suppliers
- On the Trail of Coffee
- Unknown First District
All these tours are within walking distance of the conference venue.
If you want to join one of the tours, please register when signing up for the conference.
May 16th, 19:00: Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will take place at a typical Viennese winery Heurigen Schübel-Auer. (Find the Heurigen on Google Maps)
Transportation to the conference dinner will be provided:
18:00 Departure Tram
Meeting point: Karlsplatz
Keynote Speakers
Stefan Hanslik
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Head of Unit Technical Science
Born 1972 in Vienna, Ph.D. in Biology/Genetics. He is Austrian Delegate in various committees in the EU: Programme Committee Research Infrastructures, Governing Board of the JU EuroHPC, Programme Committee Euratom (‘Fission’ configuration), Council of ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility),member in the EOSC Steering Board and the ESFRI-EOSC Taskforce, National Point of Reference on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information, Programme Committee –ERIC. He is Expert in the Strategic Configuration of the Horizon Europe Programme Committee and NCP of the Joint Research Center JRC. He is Chair of the European e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG).
Natalia Manola
CEO at OpenAIRE AMKE
Natalia Manola is the CEO of OpenAIRE, a pan European e-Infrastructure supporting scholarly communication and open science Europe since 2009. She is also a research associate in “Athena” Research and Innovation Center and in the University of Athens, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, and a co-founder in , an Athena RC spinoff on AI driven policy and business consulting. She holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has several years of employment as a Software Engineer and Architect employed in the Bioinformatics commercial sector. She has expertise in Open Science policies and implementation, having served in the EOSC Executive Board (2018-20, chairing the Working Group on Skills and Training) and in the Open Science Policy Platform (2016-18), an EC High Level Advisory Group to provide advice about the development and implementation of open science policy in Europe. Her research interests include the topics of e-Infrastructures development and management, scientific data management, data curation and validation, text and data mining and research analytics. Natalia has also served in the EC Future Emerging Technology (FET) Advisory Group (2013-2017).
Jens Schneider
Rector at TU Wien
Jens Schneider (*1969) is Rector at TU Wien since October 2023. He studied civil engineering at TU Darmstadt where he gained first experience as a research assistant before moving into industry. The glass construction expert returned to academia in 2007 and worked as a lecturer and professor at various universities in Germany (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HfT) Stuttgart, University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt a. M., TU Darmstadt). Schneider became a professor at TU Darmstadt in 2009. In 2011, he founded his own engineering office. In 2020, Jens Schneider became Vice President for Transfer and Internationalization at TU Darmstadt where he coordinated the European University Alliance Unite!. At TU Wien, Rector Schneiders international experience and global network contribute significantly to the development of the European University Alliance EULiST – Linking Society, Science and Technology.
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