[Rdap] Announcement: CASRAI to Become a DuraSpace Project

[Carol Minton Morris]

April 3, 2018

Contact: David Baker <dbaker at casrai.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/2uILK7h

*CASRAI to Become a DuraSpace Project*

*The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information
(CASRAI) improves the flow of information within and between research
stakeholders by developing and maintaining standard information agreements
among various stakeholders in the research enterprise.*

The DuraSpace organization and CASRAI are pleased to announce that CASRAI
is now a project of DuraSpace. Together they will work to enable CASRAI in
becoming a sustainable, community-driven project; on continuing to develop
new community-based standards; and on expanding the CASRAI community beyond
the over 50 organizations currently engaged with the project.

The CASRAI community has developed the CASRAI standard dictionary of
research administration information to facilitate controlled information
exchanges between stakeholders enabling collaborative teams to work across
academic research, clinical, and applied domains.

The dictionary is shared infrastructure meant to serve as a key component
of the national and international interoperability strategies of research
organizations. It represents the integrated outputs (and ongoing
maintenance) of an international network of subject matter experts from
stakeholder organizations. The dictionary is intended as a canonical
collection of common terms and their descriptors as well as basic
structural groupings.

For more information about CASRAI, please visit: casrai.org

Speaking for a long-time member of the CASRAI community, Dr Simon Kerridge,
Director of Research Services at the University of Kent and CASRAI Chair
said, “I strongly support CASRAI’s alliance with DuraSpace.  It ensures the
sustainability of the CASRAI effort, and it signals the growing maturity of
this exciting collaborative enterprise. But most important, the connection
with DuraSpace will drive innovation that research offices, libraries, and
other campus services concerned with knowledge and research information
management can offer their communities."

*Connecting CASRAI with the DuraSpace Community*

Recognizing the complementarities and synergies within the international
open ecosystem the addition of the CASRAI project marks a broadening of the
DuraSpace mandate in two key ways. First, we are adding ‘open systems’ and
‘open standards’ to our current focus on ‘open source’ - a layered open
stack we will be calling OS3 or “OS-cubed”. Second, we are adding a
Research Management Information (RMI) dimension to our scholarly
communications and open access program  areas and we are excited to have
the CASRAI project spearhead our new Research Management Information (RMI)
efforts.

By taking advantage of DuraSpace support services that include executive
leadership, technical leadership, community outreach, communications,
business development, and administration,(
http://duraspace.org/whatwedoprojects) projects minimize administrative
costs while connecting with well-established open source development
communities. CASRAI and DuraSpace began efforts towards establishing CASRAI
as a formal project in January 2018.


-- 
Carol Minton Morris
Communications and Marketing Director
DuraSpace
duraspace.org
607 592-3135
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