This is the XML Schema for CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) 1.5 release, developed by the euroCRIS CERIF Task Group. For more information about CERIF and euroCRIS see http://www.eurocris.org/ . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ ). The root element: it allows any mixture of cerif entity instances, in any order. Value in the original language Human-translated value Machine-translated value Male Female Unknown A participant is an abstraction over an association to either an internal person (managed directly by the data-provider), an external person (not managed by the data-provider, but included for completeness sake), an external organisation (not managed by the data-provider, but included for completeness sake) or a group author name. It is possible to supply the exact name used at the time of the participation. The Impact Review type encapsulates properties from an impact review of non-written output The root element: it allows any mixture of cerif entity instances, in any order.