In order to exploit ETD for researc

In order to exploit ETD for research evaluation, ETD infrastructures, repositories and CRIS must connect and exchange data. Needed are compliant metadata and formats,not data silos with specific features. Interoperability problems are partly caused by non acceptance of a standard by the community (Peponakis 2013). All solutions should therefore prefer accepted and already implemented standards, wheneverpossible. The well documented Novi Sad project can serve as a model, withthe implementation of CERIF and the mapping of different formats and data to the CERIF specifications. CERIF appears to be the best choice for flexibility and interoperability. Yet, the format must be extended to integrate rich and complex metadataon ETD, in particular on the semantic layer enabling classifications of entities (types of theses, roles of persons…) and relations between entities (person/organization…).