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CERIF is a European Union Recommendation to Member States (i.e. a standard). CERIF91 (1987-1990) was quite like the later Dublin Core (late 1990s) but was tested and found to be inadequate. CERIF2000 (1997-1999) used full enhanced entity-relationship (EER) modelling with Base entities related by Linking entities with role and temporal interval (i.e. decorated first-order logic). In this way it preserves referential and functional integrity. In 2002 the European Council requested euroCRIS to maintain, develop and promote CERIF. There are commercial CERIF systems, two of which were bought by Elsevier and Thomson-Reuters to include CERIF in their products.
Projects Using CERIF
ENVRIplus a Horizon 2020 project bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures, projects and networks together with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures across Europe
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