An advanced version of the programme for the May 13-15 Spring 2025 euroCRIS membership meeting in Leuven is available on the event website. This programme is not yet final and will be completed as the last presentation titles are received, but it already provides a snapshot of the structure, the speakers and the topics of this meeting.
The first edition of the Journées d’étude de l’Abes will be held May 22-23, 2025 at the University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry. The preliminary event programme for Thu May 22nd includes an "international perspective" euroCRIS talk. This overview on research information tools and workflows will be delivered by Board member Joachim Schöpfel.
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.
The fourth Expert Finder Systems International Forum will be held Sep 16-18, 2025 in Cleveland, Ohio under the theme "Charting the Research Information Universe". A call for proposals has recently been launched welcoming contributions to the event until Fri Apr 4th Mon May 5th.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
The final meeting of the FAIR-IMPACT and FAIRCORE4EOSC projects will be held Feb 20-21, 2025 at Madurodam in The Hague. The event will be co-located with the 19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25) in Amsterdam. A preliminary programme for this FAIRfest is already available.