Preliminary “research” (OK Google) has lead me to euroCRIS (Current Research Information Systems) – http://www.eurocris.org/public/home/; I learned from the JISC site that one of the aims of the Readiness for REF project is to study the CERIF metadata model to see how it could deal with REF data requirements.
Initially the big G took me to an archived page at http://cordis.europa.eu/cerif/ which provided a little background and pointed me at euroCRIS. I’m still busy reviewing the information on CERIF 2008 there though some of it appears to be restricted to euroCRIS members only. Which I suspect we are not. Institutional membership costs just 250 Euros – is it worth becoming a member in the context of the Bibliosight project?
http://www.eurocris.org/public/join-eurocris/types-of-membership/
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