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Version 2.0 of the German KDSF standard released

Wed, 19/03/2025 - 11:42 -- euroCRIS Secret...
Sabrina Petersohn, DZHW

Besides the launch of the live FIS Landkarte portal reported a couple of weeks ago, the Commission for Research Information in Germany (KFiD) has also released version 2.0 of the KDSF standard for research information in Germany. The new KDSF standard shifts the focus from a reporting standard to a basic data and metadata model for research information systems: it contains a model of research information entities and specifies how these are defined, linked and processed for further use such as for example in the KDSF reference queries which contain suggestions for KDSF-compatible information queries. In addition to the comprehensive basic data model, KDSF modules provide sets of selected entities and metadata to support a step-by-step application the standard.

INRAE Newsletter piece on SMM2024

Tue, 11/03/2025 - 11:32 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The end-of-2024 internal newsletter produced by the Scientific and Technical Information (IST) Team at the INRAE includes a (French-language) summary of the Autumn 2024 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting (SMM2024) held in Paris last Nov. The piece was written by euroCRIS Board member Joachim Schöpfel and joins other summaries of the event such as the one written by Andreas Czerniak on behalf of the PID Network Germany project.

PID Monitor in pre-release version

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:26 -- euroCRIS Secret...

Following Andreas Czerniak's presentation "PID landscape in Germany: an insight into the project's surveys" at the Autumn 2024 membership meeting in Paris last Nov, the PID Monitor portal has advanced from a beta to a pre-release version. This PID-Network Germany project output aims to track the progress in the adoption of different kinds of persistent identifiers in Germany and beyond. Besides tracking among others PIDs for authors, organisations, projects, instruments and research data, the PID Monitor also includes a section devoted to Open Access publication services and research information systems which monitors the growth of CRIS entries in the DRIS.

New DRIS entries in Feb 2025

Mon, 03/03/2025 - 10:53 -- euroCRIS Secret...

February 2025 has seen eight new entries for institutional and regional CRIS added to the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS). Four new institutional systems in Switzerland, Colombia, Mexico and Portugal were added, plus four new entries for CRIS systems in Spain, three institutional and a regional CRIS. This brings the early March DRIS coverage to 1,460 CRIS systems worldwide.

Last CRISCROS WG meeting under RIS Synergy project lead

Fri, 28/02/2025 - 19:41 -- euroCRIS Secret...

Feb 20th, 2025 saw the final CRISCROS WG meeting under coordination by the now finished RIS Synergy project in Austria. The session included a summary of this collaboration initiative across national and regional research portals during its first two years. A CRISCROS report has been produced and made openly available from the euroCRIS repository. Another project output is the English-language CRISCROS screencast showcasing the national/regional portals for five CRISCROS WG members (a previous German-language screencast was produced back in 2022).

German CRIS map portal goes live

Tue, 25/02/2025 - 01:00 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The KFiD FIS Landkarte project that was presented at the euroCRIS meeting in Paris last Nov has now released its live portal (German-only at present). The FIS Landkarte project aims to maintain an up-to-date snapshot of the institutional CRIS infrastructure in Germany. At the time of writing, the snapshot contains 115 entries plus a map and a wide range of stats on the systems.

New euroCRIS Board appointed for the term 2025/26

Thu, 02/01/2025 - 22:46 -- euroCRIS Secret...

As announced at the Autumn 2024 membership meeting in Paris last Nov, a new euroCRIS Board for the term 2025-2026 has taken office with the start of the New Year. Four new euroCRIS members – Aurelia Andrés at FECYT in Spain, António Luís Lopes at ISCTE-IUL in Portugal, Joonas Nikkanen at CSC in Finland and Ognjen Orel at SRCE in Croatia – have joined the Board replacing the three former Board members who stepped down as of 31 Dec 2024 (Anna Guillaumet at SIGMA in Spain, Hanna-Mari Puuska at CSC in Finland and Sebastian Herwig at the University of Münster in Germany). The new Board returns thus to the 9+3 configuration (nine Board members plus a President, Secretary and Treasurer) it has traditionally had.