The monitoring tool is originally designed for use by research funding organisations, in particular the project management agencies of German federal research. It was developed and trialled for applied research in the fields of agriculture, nutrition, environment and sustainability. It is expected to be easily transferable to other subject areas. We are currently in dialogues for the pilot phase for the introduction of the tool.
Due to the open source licence, the development can be customised, further developed and reused. This means that research institutions, transfer centres, innovation management and evaluation teams can also benefit from the development. With a few adaptations, the entire tool can also be used in these application contexts. Sub-areas of the tool can also be utilised. For example, the tool could be used to document impact potential without a planning perspective. Parts of the SynSICRIS data model can also be transferred to a DSpace-CRIS or other research information systems at research institutions.
Our German and English-speaking partner, The Library Code GmbH, is available for installation, maintenance, operation and, if required, hosting (https://www.the-library-code.de).
Further development and adoptions can be done by the DSpace-CRIS 7 developers, 4Science S.p.A., which did the complete programming for SynSICRIS (https://www.4science.com/).
Training courses and an accompanied introduction are provided by the SynSICRIS team at the University of Kassel (https://synsicris.de).
The demo version of the SynSICRIS monitoring tool is online at least until 31th October 2024. It can be tested with access data and support.
The contact person for all those interested in using the tool is Birge Wolf (birge.wolf@uni-kassel or https://www.linkedin.com/in/birge-wolf-a02251120/)
The code is archived in GitHub and publicly accessible
Frontend: https://github.com/Synsicris/dspace-angular
Backend: https://github.com/Synsicris/DSpace
