Research Information Infrastructure in Ukraine: first steps towards building a national CRIS

Achievable steps toward building a National Health Information infrastructure in the United States.

Consensus is growing that a health care information and communication infrastructure is one key to fixing the crisis in the United States in health care quality, cost, and access. The National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) is an initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services receiving bipartisan support. There are many possible courses toward its objective. Decision makers...

Towards a Swiss National Research Infrastructure

In this position paper, we describe the current status and plans for a Swiss National Research Infrastructure. Swiss academic and research institutions are very autonomous. While being loosely coupled, they do not rely on any centralized management entities. A coordinated national research infrastructure can only be established by federating the local resources of the individual institutions. W...

First Steps Towards Automatic Building ofAnatomical

MusicAustralia: towards a national music information infrastructure

MusicAustralia is a national music discovery service, developed by the National Library of Australia and ScreenSound Australia, National Film and Sound Archive. The service aims to provide seamless access to music and music information resources, in multiple formats, from custodians across all cultural sectors. This paper describes the development of the service, including its architecture, and...

KonneXSALT: First Steps Towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure

Dissemination, an important phase of scientific research, can be seen as a communication process between scientists. They expose and support their findings, while discussing claims stated in related scientific publications. However, due to the increasing number of publications, finding a starting point for such a discussion represents a real challenge. At same time, browsing can also be difficu...