Curriculum Vitae

After graduating in Electronic and Microprocessor Engineering, Alan has specialised in Information Technology with over 9 years experience in developing information management systems. Alan has been with Cartermill International for over 7 years, working on a variety of projects including shared cost R&D initiatives, IT consulting and Cartermill's publishing business. Most recently Alan has focussed on delivering IT systems for the collection, processing, storage, and delivery of Cartermill's portfolio of business directory publications.

Since the beginning of January, Alan has moved to Brussels to assume the position of Technical Development Manager with Cartermill's team providing services to the CEC's CORDIS project.

The future of CRIS as a publishing initiative.

Parallel session B.1 and Demonstration
(Parallel Session C)

Traditionally CRISs have been developed and used in isolation. Emergent technologies such as the world wide web offer the opportunity for CRISs to evolve to become a platform for global co-operation, technology transfer and dissemination of research and development information. Cartermill International views the development of a community of users as the key to realising the potential that collaborative CRISs could bring to both researchers, academia and industry alike.

As a first step to achieving this goal, Cartermill International has developed an interactive electronic data collection system built on Internet and WWW standards which allows researchers to supply and update R&D information directly into a core data repository. The drivers behind this initiative include:

• the establishment of a one-stop data provision point for researchers.
• increased efficiency for both researchers and Cartermill International in terms of both time and money.
• improved quality, consistency and currency of data holdings.
• provide the basis for developing an electronic publishing strategy.

To ensure the long term viability of this project, it is essential to address the needs of the individual researchers and research community at large. Cartermill envisages the next developmental stage of the initiative will be to identify and analyse the requirements for a research management information system. The paper to be presented will detail developments to date and discuss the avenues available to take the project forward to constructing a global research user community.

Cartermill also intend to demonstrate the Internet-based Research Development Information data collection system (RDI) at the Cybercafé.