1.2.0 (June 2023)

1. The Medium CERIF entity is brought into the profile to represent locations of files. It is never used as a top-level entity, so it does not have its own OAI-PMH set. (#59)
2. The COAR Resource Types controlled vocabulary is upgraded to Version 3.1. (#99 and #143)
3. The COAR Access Types controlled vocabulary is upgraded to Version 1.0. (#86)
4. Support for generic Person Identifier:s is added. (#91)
5. Some constraints in structured Person Identifiers:s were expanded. (#146 and #154)
6. Support for structured OrgUnit Identifiers:s is added. (#64)
7. The meaning of date fields in Patent:s is clarified. (#88)
8. ZDB-ID is added among structured identifiers for Publication:s (#66)
9. GrantDOI is added as a structured identifier for Funding.
10. Unmanaged entities are allowed without an Internal Identifier attribute. (#56)
11. The xml:lang attributes are no longer required. (#61)
12. DataCite Metadata Kernel Dates are supported in the Product (#84) and Medium (#150) entities with a common DatesStructure__Group.
13. The use of SPDX License URIs is recommended. (#134)
14. The rules for constructing the OAI identifiers have been relaxed (#126, #85)
15. Examples were added, documentation has been improved. (#65, #83, #88, #97)
16. Other minor extensions and cleanup.

The document and the other artefacts have been assigned DOI 10.5281/zenodo.8050936

1.1.1 (December 2018) Small extensions and documentation improvements

1. Digital Author Identifier (DAI) is added as a person identifier type. (#49)
2. Multiple person identifiers of the same kind are allowed: where ambiguous or uncertain information is available, it should be listed in <AlternativeXXX> elements (where XXX is the identifier type). (#48)
3. Multiple parents of an OrgUnit are allowed so that e.g. interdisciplinary research centres can be represented faithfully. (#45)
4. The xmlns:cfprocess declaration was removed where it was not needed. (#43)
5. The upstream development of CERIF XML introduced changes in the includes/cerif-commons.xsd schema component.
6. Cached Schematron schemas are now being taken from a more authoritative source.
7. The documentation was improved regarding the precision of date/datetime fields (#47), regular expression constraints in the XML Schema (#50) and the DisplayName feature (#52).
8. The official location of the XML Schema files is now at https://www.openaire.eu/schema/cris/1.1/ (#51)

The document and the other artefacts have been assigned doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2316420

1.1.0 (June 2018): using the updated CERIF XML technology

The OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers 1.1 specify the CERIF XML format and its use in the OAI-PMH protocol to support aggregation of different types of research information from Current Research Information Systems in the OpenAIRE.eu infrastructure.

The document and the other artefacts have been assigned doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1298650