Following a successful 90-min first online CERIF surgery held on Wed Sep 25th, the session hosts (CERIF leads at euroCRIS Jan Dvořák and Dragan Ivanović) and attendees (representatives from the PRC regional CRIS in Catalonia, the CRISalid project in France and the Universities of Bielefeld and Vienna) agreed it made sense to schedule further sessions to offer the euroCRIS membership an opportunity to discuss the way the CERIF standard is evolving. The next CERIF surgeries will be held at 2pm CET on Thu Oct 30th and Thu Dec 4th. The informal procedure for registration for anyone not having attended the fist session is the same one that was applied for the Sep 25th surgery, i.e. dropping a line to eurocris [at] eurocris.org expressing an interest to attend.
The Sep 25th surgery focused on the status and future of the CERIF refactoring project, which has been ongoing for almost five years. Discussions were held on syntax errors, file descriptions and the need for consistency. Participants explored various use cases for CERIF 2, addressing the needs of the CRISalid French university consortium and the PRC planned migration from CERIF 1 to CERIF 2. The group also discussed the development and refinement of the CERIF core model, addressing org units, groups and author information, while considering the complexities of journal identification and the potential introduction of a new identifier type. A formal summary of this first session will eventually be made available by the hosts on the euroCRIS website.