March 2025

Version 2.0 of the German KDSF standard released

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.

CfP for the EFS Forum 2025 open until Apr 4th

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.

INRAE Newsletter piece on SMM2024

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

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

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.

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