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.
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.
The presentations delivered at the Autumn 2024 euroCRIS meeting held last week at the INRAE in Paris are already available in the euroCRIS repository and have been linked from the event website.
As presented at the closing presentation ("An update from the Board") at the Autumn 2024 euroCRIS membership meeting at INRAE in Paris yesterday, two current euroCRIS Board members will step down at the end of this year. As a consequence, candidacies for the new Board 2025/2026 are being sought among euroCRIS members. In order to submit your application, please email eurocris [at] eurocris.org before EOB on Fri Dec 6th.
A form is available for the online voting process to choose the eleven members for the Advisory Board for OpenAlex. With a few names from the research information management community featured among the 50+ candidates for the Board, euroCRIS members (and the wider RIM community) are encouraged to take part in the voting process.
On Nov 18th, 2024 the special issue of Procedia Computer Science was published containing the proceedings for the CRIS2024 conference held at TU Wien last May. 33 papers have been published in these CRIS2024 proceedings, which for the first time in euroCRIS history are divided into sections.
The final programme for the Nov 26-28 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting in Paris is already available on the event website. As usual in these Autumn SMMs, the programme includes a national session, a strategic parner session and numerous contributions from euroCRIS members. This year's Autumn meeting programme will also see the launch of the AI4CRIS WG.
The camera-ready papers for the CRIS2024 conference proceedings have now entered the production stage. The first notifications for authors to complete the Rights & Access form that will allow them to select the licence for their published CRIS2024 conference papers were sent out to authors as of Nov 9th, 2024. The advice from euroCRIS is for all authors to select a CC BY 4.0 licence for their papers on that Rights & Access form.
The 20th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2025) will be held June 15-18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The theme for the conference is "Twenty Years of Progress, a Future of Possibilities". An OR2025 CfP is already available online, please check the link for the themes and submission categories for this conference. The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2024.
The following call for tenders for the "Implementation of a Research Information Management System (CRIS) to Reinforce the Administrative Management Workflows at Public Universities [in Peru]" was published (in Spanish language) on Sep 20th by the Unit 118 of the Peruvian Ministry of Education. The call for tenders is open until 31 Oct 2024.