Toward CERIF-ScienTI cooperation and interoperability

Abstract

The more acknowledged the role of knowledge as wealth creation factor, the more urgent becomes making S&T information compatible, useful, integrated and accessible to all innovation players. In this paper we discusstwo projects that bring some answers to this issue: the Iberian-Latin-American ScienTI and the European CERIF models. ScienTI was established during the last five years as a network of S&T information, currently involving eleven countries from Latin America and Portugal. CERIF has been developed and proposed to European research information system since its first version CERIF2000. In this study we conclude that there is a favorable scenario to promote interoperability between existent CERIF and ScienTI CRIS.