“And the winner is…” ORAP – An open master data service for scientific awards and prizes – concepts, structures and its application using the example of a university-wide CRIS

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Prizes, awards and honours are essential parts of the scientific reputation system and evidence of scientific expertise and success. They are integral components of rankings like the Shanghai Ranking and subject to science studies, research reporting and institutional research information management. In its current release, CERIF considers prizes and awards with a specific entity (cfPrize). Notwithstanding, there is a lack of systematic data and data standards for prizes and prize awardings on the international and national levels which might hamper the systematic integration of such information in Current Research Information Systems – CRIS. In Germany, the Commission for Research information in Germany that is in charge of maintaining the KDSF standard (formerly known as Kerndatensatz Forschung), the German research information standard and blueprint for research information systems, recently published a new and freely accessible data service: the Open Registry for Awards and Prizes (ORAP) provides curated lists of prizes and awards along with relevant metadata. In this paper, we describe the background and key aspects of this new master data service. Next, we present the current data model for information about prizes and prize awardings at the University of Münster, discuss design rationales and decisions as well as the planned integration of ORAP data in the local CRIS. The paper concludes with a summary of findings and an outlook.

Speakers from the University of Münster

Herwig, Sebastian

Administrative Division 6.4: Research Information Management