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CRIS2026 Conference to be hosted by the University of the Azores

A lovely video prepared by euroCRIS members the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has underpinned the announcement at the end of the Leuven membership meeting that the CRIS2026 Conference will be held in May 19-22, 2026 at the Campus Ponta Delgada of the University of the Azores in the island of São Miguel. A summary of the venues for the forthcoming euroCRIS events is included in the "updates from the Board" presentation delivered by euroCRIS President Jan Dvořák.

euroCRIS paper on European University Alliances at EUNIS 2025

The paper "Common Research Information Management from a European University Alliance Perspective" coauthored by four euroCRIS Board members (Pablo de Castro, Jan Dvořák, Ognjen Orel and Joachim Schöpfel) will be part of the programme for the EUNIS Annual Congress 2025 to be held at the Ulster University in Belfast on June 4-6, 2025. The paper explores the research activity conducted by these transnational networks of European universities and the role that interoperable research information management systems can play in enhancing this work.

2nd online AI4CRIS WG meeting

Approximately 30 attendees were present at the Apr 24th second online meeting of the euroCRIS Working Group on Artificial Intelligence for Research Information Systems (AI4CRIS). The meeting was coordinated by euroCRIS Board member António Lopes and included two presentations on AI-mediated duplicate record detection (by Joachim Dornbusch, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and on the integration of AI into CRIS systems more generally (by Joachim Schöpfel, Université de Lille and euroCRIS Board member). The next WG activity will be a round table on Day II (Thu May 15th) of the Spring 2025 euroCRIS membership meeting in Leuven.

Advanced programme available for the May 2025 membership meeting in Leuven

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.

euroCRIS talk at the 2025 Journées d’étude de l’Abes in Montpellier

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.

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 May 5th

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.

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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