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The 2011 Strategic Seminar (12-13 September) took the topic ‘CERIF-CRIS and Repositories’. After more than 10 years of access to output of research time had come to review the current architecture and to analyse advantages and disadvantages. This was a lively, exciting and particularly relevant seminar set against a backdrop of increased evaluation of research and the need to manage effectively publication metadata in the wider research information context including organizations, people, funding, research infrastructures etc. With commercial publishers, commercial CRIS suppliers, repository software developers, CRIS software developers, researchers and research managers the community representation was appropriate. The consensus output was to integrate existing systems using CERIF as the common denominator Strategic partners involved in this seminar were ALLEA, CASRAI, CODATA, ESF and JISC. On the seminar page you will find the presentations http://www.eurocris.org/Uploads/Web%20pages/seminars/Seminar_2011/ and report .

In deep distress the Board of euroCRIS had to announce the untimely death of Maximilian Stempfhuber, who passed away on the 25 th of April 2011 at the age of 44. Max has been involved with euroCRIS for many years as active member and latterly as a Board member responsible first for Workshops and then Architecture. His intellect, capacity for work, good ideas, cultured style and especially his humour will remain in the mind of all of us. As well as his scholarly output, we have tangible memories in the many photographs he took of euroCRIS events.

Board The Board welcomed two new members: David Baker (CASRAI), who succeeds Maximilian Stempfhuber as Architecture TG leader and Miguel-Angel Sicilia (University

of Alcalá de Henares) who will lead the newly established Linked Open Data TG. During the membership meeting dinner in Bologna on the 26 th of May we bade farewell to Wolfgang Adamczak, who worked for conferences during almost 10 years. On behalf of euroCRIS Keith Jeffery presented him with an inscribed beer tankard. The Secretary, Harrie Lalieu, attended on the 29 th of August Wolfgang’s official farewell on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Kassel.

Task Groups As usual, the Task Groups formed the ‘engine room’ of euroCRIS activity in 2011 and their leaders have positions on the Board.

The CERIF Task Group (leader Brigitte Jörg, deputy Jan Dvořák) has been been very active and has met 5 times in Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Bologna (with VOA3R), Alcalá de Henares (with VOA3R), Bratislava and Strasbourg. The intensive discussions and work over the past year culminated in a major new release, CERIF 1.3, incorporating a substantial update with respect to entity elaboration and extension in the data model. Much effort was put into research infrastructures, but also geographic aspects, indicators and measurements. The Semantic Layer in particular has been improved. Cooperation was started with VOA3R (Linked Open Data) and CASRAI (Vocabularies).

The Best Practice / DRIS Task Group (leader Sergey Parinov, deputy Barbara Ebert) has been working on a registration form for the Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS) and formulated several modalities for the dissemination of Best Practices. Visions under discussion on future exploitation following implementation and update of DRIS (with the website team) relate to the development of DRIS into a Data and Information Space (DIS) or Virtual Research Environment.