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Faires, wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung, nicht zuletzt durch die Priorisierungsagenda der BUA-Einrichtungen zur Umsetzung des Open-Science-Leitbilds und das Positionspapier zu Open Research der Berliner Landesinitiative. Doch welche Alternativen zu etablierten, oft kommerziellen Publikationswegen gibt es eigentlich, und wie funktionieren sie?
\nIn diesem einst\u00fcndigen Lunch Meeting stellen wir Ihnen ausgew\u00e4hlte Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales Publizieren vor, von fachspezifischen Verlagen wie SciPost oder Open Library of Humanities bis hin zu neuen Publishing-Tools wie Octopus. Ein Praxisbericht von Forschenden erg\u00e4nzt die Vorstellung der Publishing-Tools. Dar\u00fcber hinaus geben wir Einblick in die Angebote von Berlin Universities Publishing. Im Anschluss bleibt ausreichend Zeit f\u00fcr Fragen und Diskussion.
\nDas Meeting findet im Rahmen der internationalen Open Access Week statt und richtet sich an alle Forschenden, die mehr \u00fcber faire und offene Publikationsm\u00f6glichkeiten erfahren m\u00f6chten. Das Thema der diesj\u00e4hrigen Open Access Week lautet \"The Cost of Knowledge\": Entsprechend nehmen wir das Motto zum Anlass, um Alternativen zu kommerziell ausgerichteten Publikationsm\u00f6glichkeiten vorzustellen.
\nOffen und fair Publizieren: Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales, nicht-kommerzielles Publizieren\n-Wann: Montag, 19.10.2026, 13:00-14:00 Uhr\n-Wo: Online\n-Registrierung: Anmeldung per Webex\n
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Was lange w\u00e4hrt, wird endlich gut \u2013 oder so hei\u00dft es.
Mit dem Start des Wintersemesters geht das WiNoDa Knowledge Lab noch einmal richtig in die Vollen: BYOD data clinic am 6. und 9. Oktober 2026, Finale des WiNoDa Hackathon am 14./15. Oktober 2026, WiNoDa Konferenz am 21. Oktober 2026 \u2013 und auch unsere Selbstlernkurse wollen wir noch einmal \"richtig\" gl\u00e4nzen lassen.
Deshalb laden wir alle Interessierten ein, teilzunehmen an unserer WiNoDa Data Expedition: F\u00fcnf Wochen begleitetes Selbststudium rund um Forschungsdaten, Sammlungen und digitale Methoden \u2013 nat\u00fcrlich kostenfrei auf https://moodle.winoda.de/!
Wenn Ihr Euren Lernplan lieber selbst gestalten m\u00f6chtet, aber den Austausch mit anderen nicht missen wollt\u2013 dann ist die WiNoDa Data Expedition genau richtig! Ihr k\u00f6nnt Euch mit den Kursentwicklern austauschen, Eure Fragen stellen und gemeinsam \u00fcberlegen, wie sich das Gelernte konkret anwenden l\u00e4sst. Und Ihr trefft Menschen wieder, denen Ihr vielleicht schon bei einem Webinar oder Workshop begegnet seid\u2013 jetzt habt Ihr endlich Zeit, Euch n\u00e4her kennenzulernen.
\nWir starten alle gemeinsam am
\nDirekt danach beginnt Eure
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) unsere Kurse absolvieren wollt, bleibt Eurer Entscheidung \u00fcberlassen. F\u00fcr jeden absolvierten Kurs erhaltet Ihr einen Badge und ein Zertifikat.Zum Abschluss treffen wir uns noch einmal alle gemeinsam am
\nAlle unsere Selbstlernkurse sind auf englisch. Die Fertigstellung eines jeden Kurses wird mit einem Zertifikat bescheinigt.
\nDie Registrierung bleibt w\u00e4hrend der gesamten Data Expedition ge\u00f6ffnet \u2013 Nachz\u00fcgler sind jederzeit willkommen!
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- RRP - Reusability and its relevance (Basic, ca. 40 minutes)
- RRP - Reusing object-related research data (Basic, ca. 1.5 hours)
- RDM - Core concepts of data quality in research data management (Intermediate, ca. 1,5 hours)
- RDM - Data Governance. Strategies for quality improvement in collection data (Intermediate, ca. 2 hours)
- Regulatory Frameworks for Data Acquisition in Fieldwork (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
- ATR 1 - Introduction: Basic concepts, terminology and workflow of Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) (Basic, ca. 2 hours)
- ATR 2 - Deep Dive: Preprocessing and software selection (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
- ATR 3 \u2013 Deep Dive: Transcription and semantic enrichment (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
- ATR 4 - Deep Dive: Model Training and Publishing (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
Weitere Kurse sind noch in der Entwicklung und werden zu Moodle hinzugef\u00fcgt, sobald sie fertig sind.
Unsere monatliche Rubrik zu aktuellen Veranstaltungen rund um Open Research.
\nAnmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die \u00d6ffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind f\u00fcr Angeh\u00f6rige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin. Wir erg\u00e4nzen diese Liste gerne (Info bitte via Mail ans OROB).\n\n
Wie gehen Einrichtungen des Kulturerbes mit den Zeugnissen der Vergangenheit um? Nutzen sie diese, um bestimmte Sichtweisen historischer Entwicklungen zu st\u00fctzen, oder \u00fcberlassen sie die Bewertung den Nutzenden und erm\u00f6glichen vor allem den Zugang zu den Quellen? W\u00e4hrend Museen mit kuratierten Ausstellungen h\u00e4ufig st\u00e4rker interpretierend arbeiten, verstehen sich Archive und Bibliotheken traditionell eher als Einrichtungen, die sich auf den Zugang zu ihren Best\u00e4nden konzentrieren. Diese Rollenverteilung ger\u00e4t jedoch unter Druck, wenn es um ein schwieriges Erbe \u2013 etwa rassistische oder antisemitische Zeugnisse \u2013 geht: Archive werden kritisiert, wenn sie scheinbar ungefilterten Zugang gew\u00e4hren, w\u00e4hrend zugleich geschichtspolitische Eingriffe in Kulturerbeeinrichtungen kontrovers diskutiert werden.
\n2026 findet die dritte Ausgabe des gro\u00dfen OER-Fachtags von ORCA.nrw statt. Freuen Sie sich \u00fcber den Tag hinweg auf eine spannende Keynote, Projektvorstellungen, Workshops und viel Austausch & Vernetzung!
\nIm Vortrag wird, ankn\u00fcpfend an das Blockchain-Projekt f\u00fcr digitale Zeugnisse, die EUDI-Wallet thematisiert. Die Historie der Entwicklung dieser digitalen Brieftasche auf EU-Ebene wird vorgestellt und die Funktionen und M\u00f6glichkeiten sowie Detailinformationen zur Sicherheit werden erl\u00e4utert. Der aktuelle Stand der Entwicklung wird betrachtet und in Form einer Demo wird die Nutzung an einem konkreten Beispiel veranschaulicht. Nach einem Blick auf zuk\u00fcnftige Entwicklungen im Bereich \"Digitaler Identit\u00e4ten\", wie z. B. Post-Quanten-Verschl\u00fcsselung oder Alternative Biometrische Identifikationsverfahren (AuBi) schlie\u00dft der Abend mit Raum f\u00fcr Diskussionen \u00fcber die Technologie und deren Nutzung.
\nDer Einsatz von KI Technologien erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zentrale Bereiche politischer Steuerung, von der \u00f6ffentlichen Verwaltung und der Umweltpolitik bis hin zu Grenzregimen und wirtschaftlicher Regulierung. Dabei ver\u00e4ndern sie nicht nur Verfahren; es verschieben sich Machtkonstellationen, Verantwortung und politische Handlungsspielr\u00e4ume. Das Symposium mit \u00f6ffentlicher Paneldiskussion diskutiert KI als systemische Herausforderung f\u00fcr Demokratie und Rechtsstaat. Die Veranstaltung bietet kurze Einf\u00fchrungen in verschiedene Schwerpunkte unserer Forschung und erm\u00f6glicht eine kollaborative Plattform zur Diskussion der systemischen Kosten algorithmischer Governance f\u00fcr demokratische Strukturen. Dies schafft einen offenen Raum f\u00fcr Austausch mit politischen Entscheidungstr\u00e4ger*innen, Vertreter*innen von NGOs, Forschenden sowie allen, die an der Zukunft einer digitalen Gesellschaft interessiert sind.
\nDas Digitale ist ein gro\u00dfes Versprechen: Physische R\u00e4ume und pers\u00f6nliche Speichermedien scheinen ganz \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig zu werden, die Cloud soll ortsunabh\u00e4ngigen, schnellen Zugriff und unbegrenzten Speicherplatz erm\u00f6glichen. Aber was kostet das, welche L\u00f6sungen sind sicher und umweltvertr\u00e4glich?\u00a0Gemeinsam mit bestandserhaltenden Einrichtungen und Vertreter:innen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung wollen wir das Versprechen des Digitalen \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen und konstruktive Vorschl\u00e4ge zur longue dur\u00e9e des digitalen Erbes entwickeln. Es sprechen u.v. a.: Frank Scholze (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford) und Petra Gehring (Rat f\u00fcr Informationsinfrastrukturen).
\nDas Open Science Forum Mitteldeutschland 2026 bringt am 5. Oktober Interessierte zu einem offenen Austausch \u00fcber Open Science als Gestaltungsaufgabe zusammen. Wir widmen uns der Frage, welche Rolle wissenschaftsunterst\u00fctzende Einrichtungen spielen, wenn es um neue Ans\u00e4tze in der Forschungsbewertung, nachhaltige Infrastrukturen und digitale Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t im Spannungsfeld geopolitischer Entwicklungen geht.
\nIn Archiven, Bibliotheken und anderen Ged\u00e4chtniseinrichtungen lagern bundesweit gef\u00e4hrdete Originale, die Meinungsvielfalt, Rechtsordnungen, historische Entwicklungen und politisches Handeln dokumentieren. Der Erhalt dieser \u00dcberlieferungen ist Grundvoraussetzung f\u00fcr eine quellen- und faktenbasierte Forschung, eine historische Aufarbeitung sowie die Sichtbarmachung gesellschaftlicher Mehrstimmigkeit und Diskurse. Originalerhalt ist grundlegender Bestandteil der Informationssicherung und ein wichtiger Beitrag zu einer lebendigen, urteilsf\u00e4higen und wehrhaften Demokratie \u2013 insbesondere angesichts der zunehmenden Bedrohung durch hybride Desinformation und andere demokratiegef\u00e4hrdende Entwicklungen.
\nDie FDM-Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI ist eine Online-Beratung f\u00fcr Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende aus Forschungs- und Sammlungsinstitutionen zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen NFDI-Konsortien NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Objects und Text+ stehen f\u00fcr Ihre Fragen zu allen Themen rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement bereit. Bei Bedarf k\u00f6nnen Einzelgespr\u00e4che in Breakoutr\u00e4umen vertieft werden.
\nIncreasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year's theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge\u2014particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests. Last year's theme of \"Who owns our knowledge?\" reflected on the reality of commercial ownership of knowledge. This year's theme will reckon with the costs of that reality and avenues for reclaiming control of these systems meant to serve the public interest.
\nIn diesem Workshop lernen die Teilnehmenden datenschutzkonforme KI-Anwendungen und Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten kennen, die neue Wege f\u00fcr die Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten erm\u00f6glichen und zur Verbesserung von Datenqualit\u00e4t, Metadatenverf\u00fcgbarkeit und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit beitragen. Mithilfe konkreter Anwendungsf\u00e4lle aus der Forschung werden die rechtssicheren Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten der KI im Datenlebenzyklus vorgestellt.
\nFaires, wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung, nicht zuletzt durch die Priorisierungsagenda der BUA-Einrichtungen zur Umsetzung des Open-Science-Leitbilds und das Positionspapier zu Open Research der Berliner Landesinitiative. Doch welche Alternativen zu etablierten, oft kommerziellen Publikationswegen gibt es eigentlich, und wie funktionieren sie? In diesem einst\u00fcndigen Lunch Meeting stellen wir Ihnen ausgew\u00e4hlte Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales Publizieren vor.
\nDer Workshop f\u00fchrt in die Grundfunktionen von OpenRefine ein und zeigt an konkreten Anwendungsf\u00e4llen, wie Forschende tabellarische Datens\u00e4tze bereinigen, strukturieren und anreichern k\u00f6nnen. Dabei werden auch geskriptete Bearbeitungsschritte sowie der Import und Export verschiedener Datenformate (CSV, XML, JSON) behandelt. OpenRefine erm\u00f6glicht nicht nur einen schnellen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber gro\u00dfe Datens\u00e4tze, sondern hilft vor allem bei heterogenen und historisch gewachsenen Datens\u00e4tze, die oft inkonsistente Metadaten aufweisen.
\nDer Workshop gibt einen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber ELN-Konzepte, zeigt relevante Forschungsdatenmanagement-Aspekte auf und bietet eine praktische Einf\u00fchrung.
\nDer Aktionstag \"Forschungsdaten@BUA\" l\u00e4dt erstmals Forschende der Berlin University Alliance herzlich ein, \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten ins Gespr\u00e4ch zu kommen, sich auszutauschen und zu vernetzen. Ziel ist es, Best Practices sichtbar zu machen, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und den Dialog \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten \u00fcber die vier BUA-H\u00e4user hinweg auszubauen.
\nIm Rahmen dieses Hands-on-Workshops werden Konzepte zum effizienten, reproduzierbaren und nachvollziehbaren Arbeiten mit Forschungsdaten vermittelt. Ziel ist es, die Teilnehmenden mit verschiedenen Werkzeugen vertraut zu machen und das Bewusstsein f\u00fcr Computational Thinking, Automatisierung sowie die Optimierung eigener Arbeitsprozesse zu sch\u00e4rfen.
\nIm Forschungsalltag stehen Forschende regelm\u00e4\u00dfig vor urheberrechtlichen Fragen: Welche Inhalte darf ich in meiner Arbeit verwenden? Unter welchen Bedingungen kann ich Daten und Materialien offen teilen? Wie gehe ich mit KI-Tools und deren Trainingsdaten rechtssicher um? Dieser Workshop bietet praxisnahe Orientierung f\u00fcr den sicheren Umgang mit gesch\u00fctzten Inhalten und Lizenzen in der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.
\nIn our three-part workshop series, we explore the relationship between the technical aspects, practical applications and critical reflection of the use of AI in research data management. Participants will learn about various AI tools and use cases for research data management, test, and develop criteria for the meaningful and responsible use of AI in their own work.
\nweiter zu November 2026 [in K\u00fcrze]
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I'm starting a large biosecurity research program that I'll write about here soon that combines human subjects research, AI development and engineering, and policy. I've never had any formal training or experience in biotechnology policy, but after spending some time at last weekend's Global Challenges Project biosecurity meeting and meeting with NSCEB this week I'm starting to really try to connect the technical work we're doing here with what could be tangible policy recommendations and action. After all, we can publish all the whitepapers and journal articles we want, but if it never has a real-world impact and doesn't move the needle on biosecurity and AI safety policy, you'd be correct to question the value of doing the research in the first place. Thankfully, I have really stellar partners in our National Security Data and Policy Institute who are close collaborators with me and my colleagues here in SDS on this project. More soon, I promise.
There was a story in Politico this week reporting that OpenAI endorsed a set of bills in response to AI biothreats. All of them came out of the recommendations from last year's final report from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB). They were written in part to fix a data problem: biological data sits in incompatible formats across dozens of repositories, and getting it into shape for AI training takes months of work per project.
Here are the three bills in question:
SCALE Biology would create a biometrology program at NIST, authorized at $55M in FY2026 rising to $85M by FY2030, covering measurement standards for engineering biology and biomanufacturing. Biorisk, biosafety, and biosecurity standards are item (E) in a 9-item list of program activities.
(c) Activities.\u2014In carrying out the biometrology laboratory program, the Director shall carry out the following:
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(E) The development of technical standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes that can inform and address biorisk, biosafety, and biosecurity concerns.
The AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act gives NIST two years to define what \"AI-ready\" means for a biological dataset (See also: NSF 26-512) and to set minimum requirements for federally funded research that generates biological data, instructing that those requirements not exceed the resources grantees actually have.
(ii) REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFINITION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-READY.\u2014
(I) IN GENERAL.\u2014In facilitating the establishment of the definition of the term \"artificial intelligence-ready\" under clause (i)(I), the Director shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure such definition, when applied to a biological dataset, requires such dataset be generated and formatted in a manner that\u2014
(aa) enables the effective use of the dataset for training artificial intelligence models; and
(bb) supports advancements in research relating to artificial intelligence and biotechnology.
The Web of Biological Data Act has DOE competitively award a national lab the job of building a single entry point to federal biological data.
(2) CONTENTS.\u2014The Web shall\u2014
(A) serve as a single point of entry for researchers to access different sources of biological data, especially those funded by the Federal Government, by directly hosting data or providing access to existing databases;
(B) have metrics and metadata to indicate data quality, including usability, interoperability, and completeness; and
(C) include tiered levels of cybersecurity safeguards and access controls to protect different types of biological data assets hosted in or connected to the Web.
Richard Johnson, who runs national security risk mitigation at OpenAI, said that data and standards are prerequisites for measuring how model capability bears on biosecurity.
We need to be worried both about the safety and the risk side, but we also need to be looking at the opportunities for getting the tools into the hands of the defenders.
A single well-documented entry point to federal biological data helps everyone, including the foreign actors Anthropic caught using its models for pathogen work this year.
The Web of Biological Data bill requires tiered cybersecurity safeguards and access controls scaled to data sensitivity, an independent assessment of those controls every two years, and an advisory board with at least one biosecurity expert. It doesn't say how a dataset gets assigned to a tier.
Caitlin Frazer, executive director of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (a congressionally established body that is also supporting the bills) also provided commentary for the article.
High-quality, AI-ready biological data must be treated like a strategic national resource.
It absolutely must be. I couldn't agree more.
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\nA French version of this post is available on the ABES blog. Many thanks to Carlos Riquelme for assistance with English translation.
\nABES stands for Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement sup\u00e9rieur (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education and Research)1 and was created in 1994 as a public body. Its initial goal was to create a national union catalogue for all university libraries in France, based on shared cataloguing, known as Sudoc (Syst\u00e8me Universitaire de Documentation). A particular emphasis was then placed on managing PhD theses, as ABES became in charge of the legal deposit of all doctoral dissertations defended in France with a nationwide statutory mandate; not only are they present in the Sudoc, but they are described in a rich metadata model (TEF, details in French on the ABES website) using software developed in-house by ABES and made available through a dedicated portal: theses.fr.
\nThe tracking and identification of French PhD theses started in 1985 by assigning an identifier called NNT (Num\u00e9ro National de Th\u00e8se). The NNT combines 3 parts of 4 characters: the first is the year, the second is a code for the institution that grants the diploma and the last sequence is attributed by the organisation on a unique basis, mostly incrementally.
\n![\"Diagram](\"https://ror.org/img/blog/abes/abes-01.png\"/)
Structure of the French Num\u00e9ro National de Th\u00e8se.
\nA URI for each French thesis can be built using the prefix theses.fr/ and adding the NNT; highlighting ABES' early concern about promoting identifiers and Open Science. The URI for this thesis is https://theses.fr/2026SORUL032.
As has been the case across many other countries, a national strategy for open science and the adoption of persistent identifiers has been put in place in France. The French ministry for higher education and research in its effort to promote PIDs entrusted ABES with a project to assign Crossref Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all French doctoral dissertations, with two major goals:
\nEnhance digital preservation by relying on a robust, well-established international identifier schema such as the DOI
\nBuild on and benefit from Crossref infrastructure and presence in the ecosystem.
\nThe project was kicked off in 2025 with an ABES team with Carlos Riquelme as Product Owner. The Crossref metadata schema (now at version 5.5) is not as tailored for detailed description of theses as the TEF format that includes subject indexing and peculiar relationships such as jury [dissertation committee] members. And Crossref only accepts the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me as PIDs: ORCID for individuals and ROR for organisations, which are not natively present in the thesis metadata because theses are described using ABES' own reference database, called IdRef. Derived from the authority file of our good old Sudoc, IdRef underpins several bibliographic databases, including theses.fr, but also library catalogs in French-speaking countries in Europe (University of Li\u00e8ge in Belgium; Swiss networks RERO, Renouvaud, and SLSP) and publishers (Cairn, OpenEdition). IdRef is used as a source of trusted data for individual contributors, organisations, and key concepts.
\nHow did ORCID and ROR IDs make their way into IdRef data? No magic \u2013 it is the result of the combined effort of a distributed network of 3,000+ catalogers feeding into the databases (Sudoc, theses.fr, and so on), and a centralized coordination by ABES.
\nRegarding ORCID, the longstanding relationship started with a Memorandum of Understanding in 2016. Alongside co-leading the French ORCID consortium together with Couperin, ABES focused on the gigantic data dump provided yearly by ORCID, aiming to scrutinize French adoption of the most prominent PIDs for individual contributors, and matching ORCIDs to IdRef IDs based on algorithm analyzing co-authorship. In September 2026, almost 195,000 IdRef records carry an ORCID as an external identifier \u2013 and this is 18% more than the previous year. Toggling from an IdRef record to an ORCID is seamless: a micro API designed as https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2orcid/[idref] gives an instant result, as in the example below:
![\"Markup](\"https://ror.org/img/blog/abes/abes-02.png\"/)
IdRef markup with an ORCID ID. https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2orcid/150117671
\nIt is exactly the same process to jump from an IdRef to a ROR ID, this time using the micro API https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2ror/[idref], as in the example below:
![\"Markup](\"https://ror.org/img/blog/abes/abes-03.png\"/)
IdRef markup with a ROR ID. https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2ror/033702462
\nMaintaining the matching between IdRef and ROR is dead easy for this use case, as there are only 220 research organisations involved. Some of them change, as the French higher education and research landscape has been rather dynamic those past 15 years, with constant mergers and legal status changes. Fortunately ABES relies on local librarians to track those changes. Again, for all IdRef records (including labs and other facilities) the matching with ROR is the result of aggregate efforts of our invaluable network of librarians on top of the centralized action that ran modestly during 2021-2024 (more details in French on the ABES blog). The matching for organisations associated with PhD theses, due to the small volume, has involved a good bit of manual work, allowing human eyes to do careful checking.
\nAs always, a huge thank you to ROR curation team, and especially Adam Buttrick, for all the help along the way!
\nIt's worth pointing out that, although ROR and ORCID are \"recommended\" by Crossref, at ABES we decided to go the extra mile and make ROR IDs part of our mandatory metadata when registering DOIs. As a result, ROR IDs are now included, and ORCIDs whenever available, in every DOI deposit for a PhD thesis in France.
\nAlmost 180,000 Crossref DOIs have been registered for back-year PhD theses in April 2026, and this does explain the sudden appearance of ABES at the top of the list of organisations registering ROR in Crossref metadata. But DOI registration is now an ongoing process for French PhD theses, and we expect around 10-13,000 to be added each year. We're going up, up, up \u2013 it's our moment! \ud83d\ude09
\nHaving ORCID and ROR IDs in French PhD theses' metadata spread over the world thanks to Crossref's robust infrastructure should enhance French research's visibility: today, 33,000+ ORCID profiles have been updated with the PhD thesis as a Work, due to researchers' accepted delegation to Crossref. The whole process shows the pivotal role of national PIDs such as IdRef to connect local knowledge and international science, in line with the seminal white paper by Morebrain: It's \"ORCID and\u2026\" , not \"ORCID or\u2026\".
\nThere are 3 candidates in ROR searching for \"ABES\", the two other located in India and Pakistan. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e
\nIm Netzwerk Recht und Open Research m\u00f6chten wir Austausch und Vernetzung zu konkreten rechtlichen Fragen bef\u00f6rdern und gemeinsam eine rechtspolitische Interessenvertretung f\u00fcr die offene Forschung initiieren. Zum ersten Online-Treffen am 3.11. mit dem Referenten Dr. Dr. Grischka Petri laden wir alle Interessierten herzlich ein! Die Anmeldung ist nun ge\u00f6ffnet.
\n\nAllgemeine Informationen zum Netzwerk Recht und Open Research (gef\u00f6rdert durch das BMFTR 2026-2028) finden sich auf der Website vom open-access.network. Dort gibt es auch die M\u00f6glichkeit, sich auf den Email-Verteiler einzutragen.\n
Beim ersten Treffen des Netzwerks m\u00f6chten wir einen Raum \u00f6ffnen, um allgemein \u00fcber praktische und strategische Rechtsfragen rund um offene Forschung, Open Access und wissenschaftliches Publizieren zu sprechen und in den Austausch zu kommen.
\nAls Referenten f\u00fcr einen Input konnten wir Grischka Petri gewinnen. Er ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am FIZ Karlsruhe und aktiv im Tagesgesch\u00e4ft beim Legal Helpdesk von NFDI4Culture beteiligt. Auch durch seine doppelte Ausbildung als Jurist und Kunsthistoriker sind ihm die Potentiale und Herausforderungen des interdisziplin\u00e4ren Dialogs bei rechtlichen Fragen gut bekannt. Grischka Petri forscht sowohl kulturwissenschaftlich wie auch rechtspraktisch zum Urheberrecht und anderen Rechtsgebieten.
\nNach dem Input von Grischka Petri wird es Gelegenheit zu Austausch und zur Besprechung der n\u00e4chsten m\u00f6glichen Schritte im Netzwerk geben.
\nVor der Veranstaltung senden wir Ihnen den Link zum Videokonferenz-Tool sowie zu einer kurzen Online-Umfrage. Mit der Umfrage wollen wir uns Vorab ein Bild \u00fcber Ihre Bedarfe und Ideen machen.
\nWir m\u00f6chten den interdisziplin\u00e4ren Dialog zwischen Forschung, Recht und Infrastruktur-Einrichtungen bef\u00f6rdern. Eingeladen sind alle, die zu Recht und Open Research forschen, praktisch arbeiten und/oder sich rechtspolitisch in diesem Bereich einbringen wollen, darunter Forschende, Jurist*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen von Infrastruktur-Einrichtungen. Juristische Vorkenntnisse sind hilfreich, aber nicht zwingend erforderlich \u2013 die Veranstaltung richtet sich explizit auch an juristische Lai*innen.
\nZiel des Netzwerks ist es, Potentiale und Synergien an der Schnittstelle von Recht und Open Research auszusch\u00f6pfen. Daf\u00fcr sind zwei inhaltliche Schwerpunkte ma\u00dfgeblich:
\nAuf der Informationsseite zum Netzwerk Recht und Open Research schreiben wir:
\n\nIm Netzwerk sollen sich die hiesigen Legal Helpdesks, Beratungs- und Rechtsinformationsstellen sowie Rechts\u00e4mter und Justiziariate von Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen mit einschl\u00e4gigen juristischen Initiativen, Forschungsprojekten und interessierten Einzelpersonen verbinden.\u00a0Elementar ist dabei der\u00a0interdisziplin\u00e4re Gedanke\u00a0zwischen Open-Access-Community, Recht, Wissenschaft und Kultur. Unserer Auffassung nach ist insbesondere die Br\u00fccke zwischen juristischen und praktischen Akteur*innen entscheidend, damit beide Seiten die jeweils andere besser verstehen, sich intern weiterentwickeln und Open Research gemeinsam rechtssicher voranbringen k\u00f6nnen.
Wir freuen uns, Sie am 3. November online begr\u00fc\u00dfen zu d\u00fcrfen! F\u00fcr R\u00fcckfragen stehen wir gerne per Mail zur Verf\u00fcgung.
\nMit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen
\nLorenz Weinberg und Georg Fischer, Open Research Office Berlin
\n
Becoming a DataCite member organization is not a single milestone; it is a journey shaped by different challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned. In the DataCite Member Stories blog series, we share their experiences as they work to connect research, improve discovery, and support open science using DataCite infrastructure.
\n\n\n\nIn this post, we feature the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) from Germany, which shares its DataCite journey, the impact of adopting DataCite DOIs, and what it means to be part of the global DataCite community.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch software has become a fundamental output of the modern scientific process. Across disciplines, software is used to collect, process, analyze, and simulate data, often underpinning the findings reported in scholarly publications. In many cases, the software itself represents a significant research contribution, embodying novel methods and domain expertise. Historically, research software has been difficult to discover, cite, and track, limiting its visibility, reuse, and recognition.
\n\n\n\nRecognizing the need for global coordination to shape the future of research software in the age of generative Artificial Intelligence, the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) convened the inaugural edition of the International Research Software Conference (IRSC), which took place on 7-8 September 2026 in Sheffield, United Kingdom. IRSC brought together leaders and decision-makers across the research software ecosystem. Discussions covered topics including research software sustainability and funding, software publishing and citation, community building, skills and training, FAIR practices, software quality, and the role of persistent identifiers in recognizing research software. A presentation by Maria Levchenko, DataCite Community Specialist, \"Leveraging DataCite DOIs for Software Citation and Reuse\", highlighted how registering PIDs such as DOIs, together with rich, standardized metadata, can help track software use and assign credit to those who develop and maintain it.\u00a0
\n\n\n\nDataCite supports DOI registration for research software with a dedicated Software resource type in the DataCite Metadata Schema, alongside more than 30 other types of research outputs, resources, and activities. The DataCite Metadata Schema accommodates software-specific use cases, for example, accurately identifying software versions and dependencies with a dedicated relationType property. Connection metadata in DataCite enables links between software and the broader network of research outputs, including publications and datasets, computational notebooks, workflows, and models, using the relatedIdentifier property, that supports SoftWare Hash IDentifiers (SWHIDs) from Software Heritage as a relatedIdentifierType. Since the first DataCite DOI for software was registered in 2011, over one million software DOIs have been registered by DataCite members, placing software among the ten most frequently registered resource types in the DataCite registry.\u00a0
\n\n\n\nDataCite supports a wide range of institutional use cases for software, with examples from the nanoHUB and OpenKIM presented at the DataCite Open Hours on 23 September 2026. In this blog post, DataCite member organization Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf shares its experience of being a part of the DataCite community and using DataCite services to establish software as a first-class research output.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) drives forward cutting-edge research in the fields of matter, energy, and health. It supports researchers in ensuring their work is reproducible and follows FAIR principles \u2013 in particular through RODARE, an institutional repository for research software and data.\u00a0
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n![\"RODARE](\"https://datacite.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png\")
RODARE is a central component of the HZDR's open science strategy, ensuring discoverability and reuse of research results. The HZDR team responsible for RODARE is engaged in ensuring the smooth publication of digital research results. The team also facilitates connections between the HZDR community and regional, European, and global initiatives. Additionally, the team provides support to software developers and researchers in gaining visibility and recognition.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen RODARE was founded in 2017, the HZDR used the open-source software Invenio, developed by CERN, a DataCite Registered Service Provider. The platform natively supports the registration of DataCite DOIs, allowing RODARE to use a well-established standard from the start. The use of DOIs in RODARE gives HZDR full control over metadata, enables seamless harvesting by external platforms, and supports connections with internal research information systems. In practice, RODARE automatically generates and registers DataCite DOIs via an API upon code publication. For research software, RODARE supports DOI versioning to ensure precise reproducibility, with a Canonical (Concept) DOI representing all versions. Rich metadata links the code directly to underlying datasets, publications, and external infrastructures such as GitLab. A good example of such rich, connected metadata in practice is the record for \"Multiphase Code Repository by HZDR for OpenFOAM Foundation Software\" (https://doi.org/10.14278/rodare.4741), which tracks software versions, records ORCID iDs for authors, and establishes cross-references to related publications and software.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n![\"Slide](\"https://datacite.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-1-1024x571.png\")
RODARE metadata is enhanced through cross-references with the HZDR research information system and metadata catalogs such as SciCat, incorporating extended domain-specific information. This process also validates identifiers for individual researchers, projects, and experimental contexts, ensuring a high level of data accuracy. Automated workflows further simplify the publication of software. The HERMES project uses continuous integration to transfer releases via APIs, supported by tools such as SoftwareCaRD for metadata curation. Finally, HZDR recommends that developers register the software published in RODARE within the Helmholtz Research Software Directory, which should enhance its quality as well as its visibility and recognition within the community.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt HZDR, RODARE supports the publication of software as an independent, citable research output through archival and DOI registration. It provides software developers with long-overdue recognition, enables precise version tracking for reproducibility, and delivers verifiable impact metrics for reporting to funding bodies. For HZDR, DataCite membership allows them to access a reliable technical foundation that forms the backbone of RODARE and is a central component of HZDR's FAIR data strategy. DataCite offers stable infrastructure, a well-documented REST API, an established metadata schema, and other complementary services. The DataCite API is used to track software citations, supporting the development of methods to measure software performance and quality, such as the Helmholtz Quality Indicator. As schema mapping can often present a challenge, the ongoing development of the DataCite Metadata Schema by the Metadata Working Group increasingly takes software-specific requirements into account. For HZDR researchers, a DataCite DOI serves as an established mark of quality and long-term discoverability, while the DataCite ORCID Auto-Update feature helps seamlessly link software contributions to the authors' ORCID records. DataCite's strong community and established best practices provide valuable resources that HZDR can rely on for future developments, for example, when restructuring the repository landscape or updating institutional policies.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a research culture that recognizes and adopts software citations takes time. HZDR views automation as a key component of this change: tools such as HERMES or Invenio's GitHub integration significantly lower the barriers to software publication, while curation tools like SoftwareCaRD improve metadata quality. HZDR plans to expand the use of HERMES and deepen the linking of software, data and publications through metadata connections. HZDR sees great potential in creating an interconnected ecosystem of persistent identifiers to gain a much clearer picture of software and data reuse. Its advice for organizations embarking on a similar journey is to undertake small-scale pilot projects, prioritize metadata curation at an early stage, and integrate the repository with internal research information systems.
\n\n\n\nEvery organization has a unique journey in building more open, connected, and discoverable research ecosystems. Join a global community of research organizations working together to improve the visibility, tracking impact, and reuse of all research outputs. Get in touch with the DataCite team to identify the right path to support your institution.
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\nBut people often take the multiplication principle here, \"store lots of copies\", while ignoring that Jefferson also calls for such \"multiplication of copies\" to be unfenced: in the \"public eye and use\"! Jefferson here calls for preserved copies to be visible and usable. In a sense: open.
\nI have an inkling that another scholar of OA (Peter Suber?) already made this point, and I apologise if so, but I am currently in hospital with a life-threatening infection and my memory is shot. Please do let me know if you know and I will credit that person.
\nIn any case, this steers me to ask whether dark archives can be justified. Yes, we can computationally check checksums and run as many automated tests as we like, but the only way truly to know whether an item remains usable is by actually letting someone use it. If such archives were open and light, it would also give much greater confidence about the preservation status of scholarly materials. At present, we must rely on catalogues that declare ingest, but with no external way of verifying that the archive has what it says it has.
\nTrad publishers already majorly dislike the decentralisation of repositories, preprint servers, and other mechanisms that divert attention, authority, and metrics away from their central \"version of record\". Adding archives would be more fun.
\nSo then, what's the difference between a preservation archive and a repository? I'd say: storage standards, content verification, self-healing, and certification. Then, even though open to the public eye and use, such material is stored in triplicate distributed form and does well on CRL's TRAC. Of course, Jefferson wrote of physical, not digital, preservation. Different worlds between then and now. Open to the \"public eye\" would have meant something else, to him. I suspect \"digital open, 2026\" means something categorically different to \"physical open, 1792\".
\nI also highlighted, above, the compromised moral position from which Jefferson writes. He's right on preservation, awful in his actions in life; \"owning\" other human beings. Are there better, earlier expressions of this principle? This one also has US appeal, though.
\nVaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on September 17, 2026.
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\nThe resolutions are available on the dedicated section of our website, which also lists the members of the Board and offers further information about our governance.
\nWe also managed to squeeze in watching a World Cup game over dinner.
\nThe board voted unanimously to approve the agenda for the July 2026 meeting. The board then voted to approve the consent agenda, which includes a package of routine board business items.
\nThe board voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the March 2026 board meeting.
\nThe board discussed and approved a Board Policy to define how to handle instances in which Crossref Board members wish to apply for open Crossref staff positions. The proposed policy applies Crossref's Conflict of Interest Policy. Board members will be required to step down from the Board if they are applying for a position on the Senior Management or Executive Teams.
\nThe audit committee presented the 2025 audited financial statements for review and approval. Crossref received a clean opinion and is in a healthy financial position. The board unanimously approved the statements, which are now available on the finance page of our website
\nEd Pentz, Ginny Hendricks, and Lucy Ofiesh presented organisational updates. This includes updates on our midyear financial performance, progress on goals for the year, and a review of member participation and statistics on the metadata records and relationships captured in our State of Research Nexus report.
\nWe also provided an update on progress towards establishing a second legal entity, an AISBL in Belgium.
\nEach July, the board reviews the risk register and risk mitigation plans prepared by the Senior Management Team.
\nThe executive team presented a proposal to allocate $4.9 million from the cash reserves generated through several years of surpluses to hire additional staff for three years to join the permanent team in redesigning the Crossref system (CS). The overall approach is to shrink Crossref's monolithic code base by gradually rewriting individual modules, with the ultimate goal of delivering more flexible tools and services and strengthening the long-term reliability of the Crossref system. The board discussed the proposal. Following an active discussion on the approach to the redesign and the responsible use of surplus funds, the board approved the use of up to $1.6 million per year for three years.
\nFor more information on the redesign project, please see our recent blog post, Investing $4.9 million of our surplus in rebuilding the Crossref system.
\nWe brought in a consultant to help lead the board in a discussion of our long-range strategic position. The board discussed the challenges and opportunities facing scholarly communication, Crossref's current position in the community, and the role we might play in the future as the needs of our community evolve. This discussion will inform an update to our strategic agenda and the preparation of an impact plan.
\nPeriodically, the board conducts a review of the governing structure. These reviews coincide with our biannual POSI self-assessments.
\nThis year's review was taken in two parts: the consideration of augmenting our governance structure by adding an Advisory Board, and reviewing how we allocate seats on the board. We discussed both of these at length and, while not yet making any changes, the board recognized the need to continue to review this periodically.
\nThe board discussed the ongoing work of the project known as Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability (RCFS). This multi-year effort, which began in 2023, aims to make our fees more accessible, equitable, and simpler to understand and operate.
\nPhase 1 of RCFS focused primarily on lowering membership fees for the least resourced members and simplifying underused, complex content registration fees. In January 2026, we rolled out a new, lower membership fee, removed little-used discounts that contributed to fee complexity, extended our GEM program to include zero-fee membership and content registration for 18 additional countries, and introduced a two-year fee waiver on back-year grants.
\nPhase 2 of RCFS focused on lowering and further simplifying content registration fees. At the July meeting, the board reviewed and discussed a proposal to (1) reduce content registration fees from $1.00 to $0.95 and from $0.25 to $0.20, while leaving $0.06 record types unchanged, and (2) remove all fees for \"back-year\" records, effective January 1, 2027.
\nWhile this change will have a material financial impact, projected at approximately -760,000 USD lost revenue in 2027, Crossref is in a strong financial position and growing steadily through new members and new record growth.
\nThe board discussed the proposal in detail and voted to approve.
\nMore information on the proposal can be found in our recent blog post, Fee update: lowering and removing DOI registration fees in January 2027
\nWe close each meeting with any other business a board member wants to raise. We summarised the decisions and actions from the meeting. The board then went into Executive Session to discuss any closed issues.
\nThere being no other business, the meeting was adjourned.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.64000/a46mm-0nb97","guid":"https://doi.org/10.64000/a46mm-0nb97","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1789603200,"rid":"kh73p-zgs84","summary":"We're providing a summary of the board's July 2026 meeting. The July board meeting is our only in-person meeting. The board gathers for two days of strategic thinking and long-range planning, as well as conducting annual board business.","tags":["Board","Board Summary","Crossref","Governance","Meetings"],"title":"July 2026 board meeting summary","updated_at":1789665905,"url":"https://www.crossref.org/blog/july-2026-board-meeting-summary/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Eden","given":"Terence"}],"content_html":"Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog - I've asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
\n\n\n\nAn ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media\u2013print and electronic.
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\n\nShut up.
\n\nOK. It turns out that lots of people cite my blog in academic papers - so I wanted to make it slightly easier for scholars of the future to use metadata to trace my vast influence on Human civilisation.
\n\nI filled in a form on the British Library website. Didn't cost me a penny. Was pretty quick!
\n\nI can stick a bit of text at the bottom of each page with the ISSN - but that doesn't make it easily discoverable by automated tools. How can I make an ISSN machine readable? There are a few ways.
\n\nThere are a limited list of official <meta> names. These are extensible, and Google Scholar recommends citation_issn. Which is as simple as adding the following to your page's <head>:
<meta name=\"citation_issn\" content=\"1234-5678\">\nThere alternatives though.
\n\nIn recent years, Schema.org has become the dominant form for representing metadata on the web. There are two ways you can implement it:
\n\nJSON Linked Data involves adding a scrap of JavaScript to your HTML, like this:
\n\n<script type=\"application/ld+json\">\n{\n \"@context\": \"https://schema.org\",\n \"@type\": \"Blog\",\n \"issn\": \"1234-5678\"\n}\n</script>\nIf you don't want to add a separate script, you can add the data inline using...
\n\nThe microdata specification uses the exact same data as Schema.org - but allows you to add the data directly into the web page like this:
\n\n<body itemscope itemtype=\"https://schema.org/Blog\">\n ...\n ISSN <span itemprop=\"issn\">1234-5678</span>\nThat's probably the easiest way to do it.
\n\nThe ISSN registry allows you to look up any ISSN with a simple URL. Mine is at https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2753-1570.
\n\nSo, this is what I've ended up doing - cramming everything in all at once.
\n\n<head>\n ...\n <meta name=\"citation_issn\" content=\"1234-5678\">\n</head>\n<body itemscope itemtype=\"https://schema.org/Blog\">\n ...\n ISSN <a href=\"https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1234-5678\"><span itemprop=\"issn\">1234-5678</span></a>\nWhat am I missing? Can someone smarter than I tell me that there's an easier / better / more interoperable way to do this?
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/mkddx-k0m59","guid":"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=40341","image":"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-07-at-10-21-40-Application-for-an-ISSN-terence-eden-shkspr-mobi-Shkspr-mobi-Mail.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1631836800,"rid":"n6pzc-9ds63","summary":"Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog - I've asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media\u2013print and electronic. Why?","tags":["/etc/","HTML5","Metadata","Schema.org"],"title":"How to add ISSN metadata to a web page","updated_at":1789631952,"url":"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/how-to-add-issn-metadata-to-a-web-page/","version":"v1"}}],"items":[{"authors":[{"affiliation":[{"name":"Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Open Research Office Berlin"}],"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Duine","given":"Maaike","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3412-7192"}],"blog":{"authors":null,"community_id":"52aefd81-f405-4349-b080-754395a5d8b2","created":1694476800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":null,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/oaberlin","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/52aefd81-f405-4349-b080-754395a5d8b2/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin/feed/atom/","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin","issn":null,"language":"deu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"oaberlin","status":"active","subfield":"1802","title":"Open Research Blog Berlin","updated":1789648456,"use_api":true},"blog_name":"Open Research Blog Berlin","blog_slug":"oaberlin","content_html":"Faires, wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung, nicht zuletzt durch die Priorisierungsagenda der BUA-Einrichtungen zur Umsetzung des Open-Science-Leitbilds und das Positionspapier zu Open Research der Berliner Landesinitiative. Doch welche Alternativen zu etablierten, oft kommerziellen Publikationswegen gibt es eigentlich, und wie funktionieren sie?
\nIn diesem einst\u00fcndigen Lunch Meeting stellen wir Ihnen ausgew\u00e4hlte Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales Publizieren vor, von fachspezifischen Verlagen wie SciPost oder Open Library of Humanities bis hin zu neuen Publishing-Tools wie Octopus. Ein Praxisbericht von Forschenden erg\u00e4nzt die Vorstellung der Publishing-Tools. Dar\u00fcber hinaus geben wir Einblick in die Angebote von Berlin Universities Publishing. Im Anschluss bleibt ausreichend Zeit f\u00fcr Fragen und Diskussion.
\nDas Meeting findet im Rahmen der internationalen Open Access Week statt und richtet sich an alle Forschenden, die mehr \u00fcber faire und offene Publikationsm\u00f6glichkeiten erfahren m\u00f6chten. Das Thema der diesj\u00e4hrigen Open Access Week lautet \"The Cost of Knowledge\": Entsprechend nehmen wir das Motto zum Anlass, um Alternativen zu kommerziell ausgerichteten Publikationsm\u00f6glichkeiten vorzustellen.
\nOffen und fair Publizieren: Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales, nicht-kommerzielles Publizieren\n-Wann: Montag, 19.10.2026, 13:00-14:00 Uhr\n-Wo: Online\n-Registrierung: Anmeldung per Webex\n
Organisiert von:
\n","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/xcjqw-q0t82","guid":"https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin/?p=4343","language":"de","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1789603200,"rid":"99595-v5p57","summary":"Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales, nicht-kommerzielles Publizieren Faires, wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung, nicht zuletzt durch die Priorisierungsagenda der BUA-Einrichtungen zur Umsetzung des Open-Science-Leitbilds und das Positionspapier zu Open Research der Berliner Landesinitiative.","tags":["Allgemein","Aktuelles","Berlin","Bibliotheken","Open Access"],"title":"Online Lunch Meeting: Offen und fair Publizieren","updated_at":1789716613,"url":"https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin/2026/09/17/online-lunch-meeting-offen-und-fair-publizieren/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"affiliation":[{"id":"https://ror.org/041qv0h25","name":"Deutsches Arch\u00e4ologisches Institut, Zentrale"}],"contributor_roles":[],"family":"von Schr\u00f6der","given":"Asta","url":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5852-771X"}],"blog":{"authors":null,"community_id":"d21c5e78-88bc-432c-a20b-4e8a8ead1693","created":1752796800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"Wissenslabor f\u00fcr naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen und objektzentrierte Daten","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/winoda","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/d21c5e78-88bc-432c-a20b-4e8a8ead1693/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://winoda.de/feed/atom/","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://winoda.de","issn":null,"language":"deu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"winoda","status":"active","subfield":"1209","title":"WiNoDa Knowledge Lab","updated":1789654043,"use_api":false},"blog_name":"WiNoDa Knowledge Lab","blog_slug":"winoda","content_html":"\n
Was lange w\u00e4hrt, wird endlich gut \u2013 oder so hei\u00dft es.
Mit dem Start des Wintersemesters geht das WiNoDa Knowledge Lab noch einmal richtig in die Vollen: BYOD data clinic am 6. und 9. Oktober 2026, Finale des WiNoDa Hackathon am 14./15. Oktober 2026, WiNoDa Konferenz am 21. Oktober 2026 \u2013 und auch unsere Selbstlernkurse wollen wir noch einmal \"richtig\" gl\u00e4nzen lassen.
Deshalb laden wir alle Interessierten ein, teilzunehmen an unserer WiNoDa Data Expedition: F\u00fcnf Wochen begleitetes Selbststudium rund um Forschungsdaten, Sammlungen und digitale Methoden \u2013 nat\u00fcrlich kostenfrei auf https://moodle.winoda.de/!
Wenn Ihr Euren Lernplan lieber selbst gestalten m\u00f6chtet, aber den Austausch mit anderen nicht missen wollt\u2013 dann ist die WiNoDa Data Expedition genau richtig! Ihr k\u00f6nnt Euch mit den Kursentwicklern austauschen, Eure Fragen stellen und gemeinsam \u00fcberlegen, wie sich das Gelernte konkret anwenden l\u00e4sst. Und Ihr trefft Menschen wieder, denen Ihr vielleicht schon bei einem Webinar oder Workshop begegnet seid\u2013 jetzt habt Ihr endlich Zeit, Euch n\u00e4her kennenzulernen.
\nWir starten alle gemeinsam am
\nDirekt danach beginnt Eure
\n) unsere Kurse absolvieren wollt, bleibt Eurer Entscheidung \u00fcberlassen. F\u00fcr jeden absolvierten Kurs erhaltet Ihr einen Badge und ein Zertifikat.Zum Abschluss treffen wir uns noch einmal alle gemeinsam am
\nAlle unsere Selbstlernkurse sind auf englisch. Die Fertigstellung eines jeden Kurses wird mit einem Zertifikat bescheinigt.
\nDie Registrierung bleibt w\u00e4hrend der gesamten Data Expedition ge\u00f6ffnet \u2013 Nachz\u00fcgler sind jederzeit willkommen!
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- RRP - Reusability and its relevance (Basic, ca. 40 minutes)
- RRP - Reusing object-related research data (Basic, ca. 1.5 hours)
- RDM - Core concepts of data quality in research data management (Intermediate, ca. 1,5 hours)
- RDM - Data Governance. Strategies for quality improvement in collection data (Intermediate, ca. 2 hours)
- Regulatory Frameworks for Data Acquisition in Fieldwork (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
- ATR 1 - Introduction: Basic concepts, terminology and workflow of Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) (Basic, ca. 2 hours)
- ATR 2 - Deep Dive: Preprocessing and software selection (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
- ATR 3 \u2013 Deep Dive: Transcription and semantic enrichment (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
- ATR 4 - Deep Dive: Model Training and Publishing (Basic, ca. 1 hour)
Weitere Kurse sind noch in der Entwicklung und werden zu Moodle hinzugef\u00fcgt, sobald sie fertig sind.
Unsere monatliche Rubrik zu aktuellen Veranstaltungen rund um Open Research.
\nAnmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die \u00d6ffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind f\u00fcr Angeh\u00f6rige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin. Wir erg\u00e4nzen diese Liste gerne (Info bitte via Mail ans OROB).\n\n
Wie gehen Einrichtungen des Kulturerbes mit den Zeugnissen der Vergangenheit um? Nutzen sie diese, um bestimmte Sichtweisen historischer Entwicklungen zu st\u00fctzen, oder \u00fcberlassen sie die Bewertung den Nutzenden und erm\u00f6glichen vor allem den Zugang zu den Quellen? W\u00e4hrend Museen mit kuratierten Ausstellungen h\u00e4ufig st\u00e4rker interpretierend arbeiten, verstehen sich Archive und Bibliotheken traditionell eher als Einrichtungen, die sich auf den Zugang zu ihren Best\u00e4nden konzentrieren. Diese Rollenverteilung ger\u00e4t jedoch unter Druck, wenn es um ein schwieriges Erbe \u2013 etwa rassistische oder antisemitische Zeugnisse \u2013 geht: Archive werden kritisiert, wenn sie scheinbar ungefilterten Zugang gew\u00e4hren, w\u00e4hrend zugleich geschichtspolitische Eingriffe in Kulturerbeeinrichtungen kontrovers diskutiert werden.
\n2026 findet die dritte Ausgabe des gro\u00dfen OER-Fachtags von ORCA.nrw statt. Freuen Sie sich \u00fcber den Tag hinweg auf eine spannende Keynote, Projektvorstellungen, Workshops und viel Austausch & Vernetzung!
\nIm Vortrag wird, ankn\u00fcpfend an das Blockchain-Projekt f\u00fcr digitale Zeugnisse, die EUDI-Wallet thematisiert. Die Historie der Entwicklung dieser digitalen Brieftasche auf EU-Ebene wird vorgestellt und die Funktionen und M\u00f6glichkeiten sowie Detailinformationen zur Sicherheit werden erl\u00e4utert. Der aktuelle Stand der Entwicklung wird betrachtet und in Form einer Demo wird die Nutzung an einem konkreten Beispiel veranschaulicht. Nach einem Blick auf zuk\u00fcnftige Entwicklungen im Bereich \"Digitaler Identit\u00e4ten\", wie z. B. Post-Quanten-Verschl\u00fcsselung oder Alternative Biometrische Identifikationsverfahren (AuBi) schlie\u00dft der Abend mit Raum f\u00fcr Diskussionen \u00fcber die Technologie und deren Nutzung.
\nDer Einsatz von KI Technologien erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zentrale Bereiche politischer Steuerung, von der \u00f6ffentlichen Verwaltung und der Umweltpolitik bis hin zu Grenzregimen und wirtschaftlicher Regulierung. Dabei ver\u00e4ndern sie nicht nur Verfahren; es verschieben sich Machtkonstellationen, Verantwortung und politische Handlungsspielr\u00e4ume. Das Symposium mit \u00f6ffentlicher Paneldiskussion diskutiert KI als systemische Herausforderung f\u00fcr Demokratie und Rechtsstaat. Die Veranstaltung bietet kurze Einf\u00fchrungen in verschiedene Schwerpunkte unserer Forschung und erm\u00f6glicht eine kollaborative Plattform zur Diskussion der systemischen Kosten algorithmischer Governance f\u00fcr demokratische Strukturen. Dies schafft einen offenen Raum f\u00fcr Austausch mit politischen Entscheidungstr\u00e4ger*innen, Vertreter*innen von NGOs, Forschenden sowie allen, die an der Zukunft einer digitalen Gesellschaft interessiert sind.
\nDas Digitale ist ein gro\u00dfes Versprechen: Physische R\u00e4ume und pers\u00f6nliche Speichermedien scheinen ganz \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig zu werden, die Cloud soll ortsunabh\u00e4ngigen, schnellen Zugriff und unbegrenzten Speicherplatz erm\u00f6glichen. Aber was kostet das, welche L\u00f6sungen sind sicher und umweltvertr\u00e4glich?\u00a0Gemeinsam mit bestandserhaltenden Einrichtungen und Vertreter:innen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung wollen wir das Versprechen des Digitalen \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen und konstruktive Vorschl\u00e4ge zur longue dur\u00e9e des digitalen Erbes entwickeln. Es sprechen u.v. a.: Frank Scholze (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford) und Petra Gehring (Rat f\u00fcr Informationsinfrastrukturen).
\nDas Open Science Forum Mitteldeutschland 2026 bringt am 5. Oktober Interessierte zu einem offenen Austausch \u00fcber Open Science als Gestaltungsaufgabe zusammen. Wir widmen uns der Frage, welche Rolle wissenschaftsunterst\u00fctzende Einrichtungen spielen, wenn es um neue Ans\u00e4tze in der Forschungsbewertung, nachhaltige Infrastrukturen und digitale Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t im Spannungsfeld geopolitischer Entwicklungen geht.
\nIn Archiven, Bibliotheken und anderen Ged\u00e4chtniseinrichtungen lagern bundesweit gef\u00e4hrdete Originale, die Meinungsvielfalt, Rechtsordnungen, historische Entwicklungen und politisches Handeln dokumentieren. Der Erhalt dieser \u00dcberlieferungen ist Grundvoraussetzung f\u00fcr eine quellen- und faktenbasierte Forschung, eine historische Aufarbeitung sowie die Sichtbarmachung gesellschaftlicher Mehrstimmigkeit und Diskurse. Originalerhalt ist grundlegender Bestandteil der Informationssicherung und ein wichtiger Beitrag zu einer lebendigen, urteilsf\u00e4higen und wehrhaften Demokratie \u2013 insbesondere angesichts der zunehmenden Bedrohung durch hybride Desinformation und andere demokratiegef\u00e4hrdende Entwicklungen.
\nDie FDM-Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI ist eine Online-Beratung f\u00fcr Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende aus Forschungs- und Sammlungsinstitutionen zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen NFDI-Konsortien NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Objects und Text+ stehen f\u00fcr Ihre Fragen zu allen Themen rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement bereit. Bei Bedarf k\u00f6nnen Einzelgespr\u00e4che in Breakoutr\u00e4umen vertieft werden.
\nIncreasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year's theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge\u2014particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests. Last year's theme of \"Who owns our knowledge?\" reflected on the reality of commercial ownership of knowledge. This year's theme will reckon with the costs of that reality and avenues for reclaiming control of these systems meant to serve the public interest.
\nIn diesem Workshop lernen die Teilnehmenden datenschutzkonforme KI-Anwendungen und Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten kennen, die neue Wege f\u00fcr die Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten erm\u00f6glichen und zur Verbesserung von Datenqualit\u00e4t, Metadatenverf\u00fcgbarkeit und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit beitragen. Mithilfe konkreter Anwendungsf\u00e4lle aus der Forschung werden die rechtssicheren Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten der KI im Datenlebenzyklus vorgestellt.
\nFaires, wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung, nicht zuletzt durch die Priorisierungsagenda der BUA-Einrichtungen zur Umsetzung des Open-Science-Leitbilds und das Positionspapier zu Open Research der Berliner Landesinitiative. Doch welche Alternativen zu etablierten, oft kommerziellen Publikationswegen gibt es eigentlich, und wie funktionieren sie? In diesem einst\u00fcndigen Lunch Meeting stellen wir Ihnen ausgew\u00e4hlte Orte und Tools f\u00fcr digitales Publizieren vor.
\nDer Workshop f\u00fchrt in die Grundfunktionen von OpenRefine ein und zeigt an konkreten Anwendungsf\u00e4llen, wie Forschende tabellarische Datens\u00e4tze bereinigen, strukturieren und anreichern k\u00f6nnen. Dabei werden auch geskriptete Bearbeitungsschritte sowie der Import und Export verschiedener Datenformate (CSV, XML, JSON) behandelt. OpenRefine erm\u00f6glicht nicht nur einen schnellen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber gro\u00dfe Datens\u00e4tze, sondern hilft vor allem bei heterogenen und historisch gewachsenen Datens\u00e4tze, die oft inkonsistente Metadaten aufweisen.
\nDer Workshop gibt einen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber ELN-Konzepte, zeigt relevante Forschungsdatenmanagement-Aspekte auf und bietet eine praktische Einf\u00fchrung.
\nDer Aktionstag \"Forschungsdaten@BUA\" l\u00e4dt erstmals Forschende der Berlin University Alliance herzlich ein, \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten ins Gespr\u00e4ch zu kommen, sich auszutauschen und zu vernetzen. Ziel ist es, Best Practices sichtbar zu machen, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und den Dialog \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten \u00fcber die vier BUA-H\u00e4user hinweg auszubauen.
\nIm Rahmen dieses Hands-on-Workshops werden Konzepte zum effizienten, reproduzierbaren und nachvollziehbaren Arbeiten mit Forschungsdaten vermittelt. Ziel ist es, die Teilnehmenden mit verschiedenen Werkzeugen vertraut zu machen und das Bewusstsein f\u00fcr Computational Thinking, Automatisierung sowie die Optimierung eigener Arbeitsprozesse zu sch\u00e4rfen.
\nIm Forschungsalltag stehen Forschende regelm\u00e4\u00dfig vor urheberrechtlichen Fragen: Welche Inhalte darf ich in meiner Arbeit verwenden? Unter welchen Bedingungen kann ich Daten und Materialien offen teilen? Wie gehe ich mit KI-Tools und deren Trainingsdaten rechtssicher um? Dieser Workshop bietet praxisnahe Orientierung f\u00fcr den sicheren Umgang mit gesch\u00fctzten Inhalten und Lizenzen in der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.
\nIn our three-part workshop series, we explore the relationship between the technical aspects, practical applications and critical reflection of the use of AI in research data management. Participants will learn about various AI tools and use cases for research data management, test, and develop criteria for the meaningful and responsible use of AI in their own work.
\nweiter zu November 2026 [in K\u00fcrze]
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pzvzm-f9w08","guid":"https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin/?p=4297","language":"de","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1788220800,"rid":"208kg-aed59","summary":"Unsere monatliche Rubrik zu aktuellen Veranstaltungen rund um Open Research. Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen.","tags":["Veranstaltungshinweise"],"title":"Veranstaltungshinweise Oktober 2026","updated_at":1789716611,"url":"https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin/2026/09/01/veranstaltungshinweise-oktober-2026/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"affiliation":[{"id":"https://ror.org/0153tk833","name":"University of Virginia"}],"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Turner","given":"Stephen","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9140-9028"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Stephen Turner"}],"community_id":"382941a7-2ffa-41df-8bbb-5f772188517f","created":1780876800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A practicing data scientist's take on AI, genomics, biosecurity, and the ways AI is reshaping how science gets done. Weekly updates from the field. Occasional notes on programming.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/stephenturner","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/382941a7-2ffa-41df-8bbb-5f772188517f/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blog.stephenturner.us/feed","filter":null,"generator":"Substack","home_page_url":"https://blog.stephenturner.us","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"stephenturner","status":"active","subfield":"1311","title":"Paired Ends","updated":1789660630,"use_api":true},"blog_name":"Paired Ends","blog_slug":"stephenturner","content_html":"I'm starting a large biosecurity research program that I'll write about here soon that combines human subjects research, AI development and engineering, and policy. I've never had any formal training or experience in biotechnology policy, but after spending some time at last weekend's Global Challenges Project biosecurity meeting and meeting with NSCEB this week I'm starting to really try to connect the technical work we're doing here with what could be tangible policy recommendations and action. After all, we can publish all the whitepapers and journal articles we want, but if it never has a real-world impact and doesn't move the needle on biosecurity and AI safety policy, you'd be correct to question the value of doing the research in the first place. Thankfully, I have really stellar partners in our National Security Data and Policy Institute who are close collaborators with me and my colleagues here in SDS on this project. More soon, I promise.
There was a story in Politico this week reporting that OpenAI endorsed a set of bills in response to AI biothreats. All of them came out of the recommendations from last year's final report from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB). They were written in part to fix a data problem: biological data sits in incompatible formats across dozens of repositories, and getting it into shape for AI training takes months of work per project.
Here are the three bills in question:
SCALE Biology would create a biometrology program at NIST, authorized at $55M in FY2026 rising to $85M by FY2030, covering measurement standards for engineering biology and biomanufacturing. Biorisk, biosafety, and biosecurity standards are item (E) in a 9-item list of program activities.
(c) Activities.\u2014In carrying out the biometrology laboratory program, the Director shall carry out the following:
[\u2026]
(E) The development of technical standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes that can inform and address biorisk, biosafety, and biosecurity concerns.
The AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act gives NIST two years to define what \"AI-ready\" means for a biological dataset (See also: NSF 26-512) and to set minimum requirements for federally funded research that generates biological data, instructing that those requirements not exceed the resources grantees actually have.
(ii) REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFINITION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-READY.\u2014
(I) IN GENERAL.\u2014In facilitating the establishment of the definition of the term \"artificial intelligence-ready\" under clause (i)(I), the Director shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure such definition, when applied to a biological dataset, requires such dataset be generated and formatted in a manner that\u2014
(aa) enables the effective use of the dataset for training artificial intelligence models; and
(bb) supports advancements in research relating to artificial intelligence and biotechnology.
The Web of Biological Data Act has DOE competitively award a national lab the job of building a single entry point to federal biological data.
(2) CONTENTS.\u2014The Web shall\u2014
(A) serve as a single point of entry for researchers to access different sources of biological data, especially those funded by the Federal Government, by directly hosting data or providing access to existing databases;
(B) have metrics and metadata to indicate data quality, including usability, interoperability, and completeness; and
(C) include tiered levels of cybersecurity safeguards and access controls to protect different types of biological data assets hosted in or connected to the Web.
Richard Johnson, who runs national security risk mitigation at OpenAI, said that data and standards are prerequisites for measuring how model capability bears on biosecurity.
We need to be worried both about the safety and the risk side, but we also need to be looking at the opportunities for getting the tools into the hands of the defenders.
A single well-documented entry point to federal biological data helps everyone, including the foreign actors Anthropic caught using its models for pathogen work this year.
The Web of Biological Data bill requires tiered cybersecurity safeguards and access controls scaled to data sensitivity, an independent assessment of those controls every two years, and an advisory board with at least one biosecurity expert. It doesn't say how a dataset gets assigned to a tier.
Caitlin Frazer, executive director of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (a congressionally established body that is also supporting the bills) also provided commentary for the article.
High-quality, AI-ready biological data must be treated like a strategic national resource.
It absolutely must be. I couldn't agree more.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/2a585-hwx09","guid":"216168232","image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pP50!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0915558e-5ffb-4e52-8352-513c9d7ec745_1200x630.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1789603200,"rid":"e4hqy-xsh46","summary":"Standardizing federal biological data to maintain US competitiveness in AI and biotechnology","tags":["Biosecurity","AI"],"title":"Three biological data bills, with OpenAI support","updated_at":1789716610,"url":"https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/biodata-bills-nsceb","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"affiliation":[{"id":"https://ror.org/027xymc69","name":"Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Sup\u00e9rieur"}],"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Melzac","given":"Carole","url":"https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1446-079X"},{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Riquelme","given":"Carlos"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"ROR Team"}],"community_id":"c709442a-2058-4f0b-9c81-5199efd7b9e0","created":1780876800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations.","doi":null,"favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/c709442a-2058-4f0b-9c81-5199efd7b9e0/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://ror.org/feed.xml","filter":null,"generator":"Hugo","home_page_url":"https://ror.org/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":null,"relative_url":null,"secure":null,"slug":"ror","status":"active","subfield":"1710","title":"Research Organization Registry (ROR)","updated":1789658423,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"Research Organization Registry (ROR)","blog_slug":"ror","content_html":"\nFrance's Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education and Research (ABES) explains how and why thousands of French dissertations are so well-described in Crossref DOI metadata with ROR IDs and more.
\nA French version of this post is available on the ABES blog. Many thanks to Carlos Riquelme for assistance with English translation.
\nABES stands for Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement sup\u00e9rieur (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education and Research)1 and was created in 1994 as a public body. Its initial goal was to create a national union catalogue for all university libraries in France, based on shared cataloguing, known as Sudoc (Syst\u00e8me Universitaire de Documentation). A particular emphasis was then placed on managing PhD theses, as ABES became in charge of the legal deposit of all doctoral dissertations defended in France with a nationwide statutory mandate; not only are they present in the Sudoc, but they are described in a rich metadata model (TEF, details in French on the ABES website) using software developed in-house by ABES and made available through a dedicated portal: theses.fr.
\nThe tracking and identification of French PhD theses started in 1985 by assigning an identifier called NNT (Num\u00e9ro National de Th\u00e8se). The NNT combines 3 parts of 4 characters: the first is the year, the second is a code for the institution that grants the diploma and the last sequence is attributed by the organisation on a unique basis, mostly incrementally.
\nStructure of the French Num\u00e9ro National de Th\u00e8se.
\nA URI for each French thesis can be built using the prefix theses.fr/ and adding the NNT; highlighting ABES' early concern about promoting identifiers and Open Science. The URI for this thesis is https://theses.fr/2026SORUL032.
As has been the case across many other countries, a national strategy for open science and the adoption of persistent identifiers has been put in place in France. The French ministry for higher education and research in its effort to promote PIDs entrusted ABES with a project to assign Crossref Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all French doctoral dissertations, with two major goals:
\nEnhance digital preservation by relying on a robust, well-established international identifier schema such as the DOI
\nBuild on and benefit from Crossref infrastructure and presence in the ecosystem.
\nThe project was kicked off in 2025 with an ABES team with Carlos Riquelme as Product Owner. The Crossref metadata schema (now at version 5.5) is not as tailored for detailed description of theses as the TEF format that includes subject indexing and peculiar relationships such as jury [dissertation committee] members. And Crossref only accepts the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me as PIDs: ORCID for individuals and ROR for organisations, which are not natively present in the thesis metadata because theses are described using ABES' own reference database, called IdRef. Derived from the authority file of our good old Sudoc, IdRef underpins several bibliographic databases, including theses.fr, but also library catalogs in French-speaking countries in Europe (University of Li\u00e8ge in Belgium; Swiss networks RERO, Renouvaud, and SLSP) and publishers (Cairn, OpenEdition). IdRef is used as a source of trusted data for individual contributors, organisations, and key concepts.
\nHow did ORCID and ROR IDs make their way into IdRef data? No magic \u2013 it is the result of the combined effort of a distributed network of 3,000+ catalogers feeding into the databases (Sudoc, theses.fr, and so on), and a centralized coordination by ABES.
\nRegarding ORCID, the longstanding relationship started with a Memorandum of Understanding in 2016. Alongside co-leading the French ORCID consortium together with Couperin, ABES focused on the gigantic data dump provided yearly by ORCID, aiming to scrutinize French adoption of the most prominent PIDs for individual contributors, and matching ORCIDs to IdRef IDs based on algorithm analyzing co-authorship. In September 2026, almost 195,000 IdRef records carry an ORCID as an external identifier \u2013 and this is 18% more than the previous year. Toggling from an IdRef record to an ORCID is seamless: a micro API designed as https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2orcid/[idref] gives an instant result, as in the example below:
IdRef markup with an ORCID ID. https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2orcid/150117671
\nIt is exactly the same process to jump from an IdRef to a ROR ID, this time using the micro API https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2ror/[idref], as in the example below:
IdRef markup with a ROR ID. https://www.idref.fr/services/idref2ror/033702462
\nMaintaining the matching between IdRef and ROR is dead easy for this use case, as there are only 220 research organisations involved. Some of them change, as the French higher education and research landscape has been rather dynamic those past 15 years, with constant mergers and legal status changes. Fortunately ABES relies on local librarians to track those changes. Again, for all IdRef records (including labs and other facilities) the matching with ROR is the result of aggregate efforts of our invaluable network of librarians on top of the centralized action that ran modestly during 2021-2024 (more details in French on the ABES blog). The matching for organisations associated with PhD theses, due to the small volume, has involved a good bit of manual work, allowing human eyes to do careful checking.
\nAs always, a huge thank you to ROR curation team, and especially Adam Buttrick, for all the help along the way!
\nIt's worth pointing out that, although ROR and ORCID are \"recommended\" by Crossref, at ABES we decided to go the extra mile and make ROR IDs part of our mandatory metadata when registering DOIs. As a result, ROR IDs are now included, and ORCIDs whenever available, in every DOI deposit for a PhD thesis in France.
\nAlmost 180,000 Crossref DOIs have been registered for back-year PhD theses in April 2026, and this does explain the sudden appearance of ABES at the top of the list of organisations registering ROR in Crossref metadata. But DOI registration is now an ongoing process for French PhD theses, and we expect around 10-13,000 to be added each year. We're going up, up, up \u2013 it's our moment! \ud83d\ude09
\nHaving ORCID and ROR IDs in French PhD theses' metadata spread over the world thanks to Crossref's robust infrastructure should enhance French research's visibility: today, 33,000+ ORCID profiles have been updated with the PhD thesis as a Work, due to researchers' accepted delegation to Crossref. The whole process shows the pivotal role of national PIDs such as IdRef to connect local knowledge and international science, in line with the seminal white paper by Morebrain: It's \"ORCID and\u2026\" , not \"ORCID or\u2026\".
\nThere are 3 candidates in ROR searching for \"ABES\", the two other located in India and Pakistan. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e
\nIm Netzwerk Recht und Open Research m\u00f6chten wir Austausch und Vernetzung zu konkreten rechtlichen Fragen bef\u00f6rdern und gemeinsam eine rechtspolitische Interessenvertretung f\u00fcr die offene Forschung initiieren. Zum ersten Online-Treffen am 3.11. mit dem Referenten Dr. Dr. Grischka Petri laden wir alle Interessierten herzlich ein! Die Anmeldung ist nun ge\u00f6ffnet.
\n\nAllgemeine Informationen zum Netzwerk Recht und Open Research (gef\u00f6rdert durch das BMFTR 2026-2028) finden sich auf der Website vom open-access.network. Dort gibt es auch die M\u00f6glichkeit, sich auf den Email-Verteiler einzutragen.\n
Beim ersten Treffen des Netzwerks m\u00f6chten wir einen Raum \u00f6ffnen, um allgemein \u00fcber praktische und strategische Rechtsfragen rund um offene Forschung, Open Access und wissenschaftliches Publizieren zu sprechen und in den Austausch zu kommen.
\nAls Referenten f\u00fcr einen Input konnten wir Grischka Petri gewinnen. Er ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am FIZ Karlsruhe und aktiv im Tagesgesch\u00e4ft beim Legal Helpdesk von NFDI4Culture beteiligt. Auch durch seine doppelte Ausbildung als Jurist und Kunsthistoriker sind ihm die Potentiale und Herausforderungen des interdisziplin\u00e4ren Dialogs bei rechtlichen Fragen gut bekannt. Grischka Petri forscht sowohl kulturwissenschaftlich wie auch rechtspraktisch zum Urheberrecht und anderen Rechtsgebieten.
\nNach dem Input von Grischka Petri wird es Gelegenheit zu Austausch und zur Besprechung der n\u00e4chsten m\u00f6glichen Schritte im Netzwerk geben.
\nVor der Veranstaltung senden wir Ihnen den Link zum Videokonferenz-Tool sowie zu einer kurzen Online-Umfrage. Mit der Umfrage wollen wir uns Vorab ein Bild \u00fcber Ihre Bedarfe und Ideen machen.
\nWir m\u00f6chten den interdisziplin\u00e4ren Dialog zwischen Forschung, Recht und Infrastruktur-Einrichtungen bef\u00f6rdern. Eingeladen sind alle, die zu Recht und Open Research forschen, praktisch arbeiten und/oder sich rechtspolitisch in diesem Bereich einbringen wollen, darunter Forschende, Jurist*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen von Infrastruktur-Einrichtungen. Juristische Vorkenntnisse sind hilfreich, aber nicht zwingend erforderlich \u2013 die Veranstaltung richtet sich explizit auch an juristische Lai*innen.
\nZiel des Netzwerks ist es, Potentiale und Synergien an der Schnittstelle von Recht und Open Research auszusch\u00f6pfen. Daf\u00fcr sind zwei inhaltliche Schwerpunkte ma\u00dfgeblich:
\nAuf der Informationsseite zum Netzwerk Recht und Open Research schreiben wir:
\n\nIm Netzwerk sollen sich die hiesigen Legal Helpdesks, Beratungs- und Rechtsinformationsstellen sowie Rechts\u00e4mter und Justiziariate von Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen mit einschl\u00e4gigen juristischen Initiativen, Forschungsprojekten und interessierten Einzelpersonen verbinden.\u00a0Elementar ist dabei der\u00a0interdisziplin\u00e4re Gedanke\u00a0zwischen Open-Access-Community, Recht, Wissenschaft und Kultur. Unserer Auffassung nach ist insbesondere die Br\u00fccke zwischen juristischen und praktischen Akteur*innen entscheidend, damit beide Seiten die jeweils andere besser verstehen, sich intern weiterentwickeln und Open Research gemeinsam rechtssicher voranbringen k\u00f6nnen.
Wir freuen uns, Sie am 3. November online begr\u00fc\u00dfen zu d\u00fcrfen! F\u00fcr R\u00fcckfragen stehen wir gerne per Mail zur Verf\u00fcgung.
\nMit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen
\nLorenz Weinberg und Georg Fischer, Open Research Office Berlin
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Becoming a DataCite member organization is not a single milestone; it is a journey shaped by different challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned. In the DataCite Member Stories blog series, we share their experiences as they work to connect research, improve discovery, and support open science using DataCite infrastructure.
\n\n\n\nIn this post, we feature the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) from Germany, which shares its DataCite journey, the impact of adopting DataCite DOIs, and what it means to be part of the global DataCite community.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch software has become a fundamental output of the modern scientific process. Across disciplines, software is used to collect, process, analyze, and simulate data, often underpinning the findings reported in scholarly publications. In many cases, the software itself represents a significant research contribution, embodying novel methods and domain expertise. Historically, research software has been difficult to discover, cite, and track, limiting its visibility, reuse, and recognition.
\n\n\n\nRecognizing the need for global coordination to shape the future of research software in the age of generative Artificial Intelligence, the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) convened the inaugural edition of the International Research Software Conference (IRSC), which took place on 7-8 September 2026 in Sheffield, United Kingdom. IRSC brought together leaders and decision-makers across the research software ecosystem. Discussions covered topics including research software sustainability and funding, software publishing and citation, community building, skills and training, FAIR practices, software quality, and the role of persistent identifiers in recognizing research software. A presentation by Maria Levchenko, DataCite Community Specialist, \"Leveraging DataCite DOIs for Software Citation and Reuse\", highlighted how registering PIDs such as DOIs, together with rich, standardized metadata, can help track software use and assign credit to those who develop and maintain it.\u00a0
\n\n\n\nDataCite supports DOI registration for research software with a dedicated Software resource type in the DataCite Metadata Schema, alongside more than 30 other types of research outputs, resources, and activities. The DataCite Metadata Schema accommodates software-specific use cases, for example, accurately identifying software versions and dependencies with a dedicated relationType property. Connection metadata in DataCite enables links between software and the broader network of research outputs, including publications and datasets, computational notebooks, workflows, and models, using the relatedIdentifier property, that supports SoftWare Hash IDentifiers (SWHIDs) from Software Heritage as a relatedIdentifierType. Since the first DataCite DOI for software was registered in 2011, over one million software DOIs have been registered by DataCite members, placing software among the ten most frequently registered resource types in the DataCite registry.\u00a0
\n\n\n\nDataCite supports a wide range of institutional use cases for software, with examples from the nanoHUB and OpenKIM presented at the DataCite Open Hours on 23 September 2026. In this blog post, DataCite member organization Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf shares its experience of being a part of the DataCite community and using DataCite services to establish software as a first-class research output.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) drives forward cutting-edge research in the fields of matter, energy, and health. It supports researchers in ensuring their work is reproducible and follows FAIR principles \u2013 in particular through RODARE, an institutional repository for research software and data.\u00a0
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRODARE is a central component of the HZDR's open science strategy, ensuring discoverability and reuse of research results. The HZDR team responsible for RODARE is engaged in ensuring the smooth publication of digital research results. The team also facilitates connections between the HZDR community and regional, European, and global initiatives. Additionally, the team provides support to software developers and researchers in gaining visibility and recognition.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen RODARE was founded in 2017, the HZDR used the open-source software Invenio, developed by CERN, a DataCite Registered Service Provider. The platform natively supports the registration of DataCite DOIs, allowing RODARE to use a well-established standard from the start. The use of DOIs in RODARE gives HZDR full control over metadata, enables seamless harvesting by external platforms, and supports connections with internal research information systems. In practice, RODARE automatically generates and registers DataCite DOIs via an API upon code publication. For research software, RODARE supports DOI versioning to ensure precise reproducibility, with a Canonical (Concept) DOI representing all versions. Rich metadata links the code directly to underlying datasets, publications, and external infrastructures such as GitLab. A good example of such rich, connected metadata in practice is the record for \"Multiphase Code Repository by HZDR for OpenFOAM Foundation Software\" (https://doi.org/10.14278/rodare.4741), which tracks software versions, records ORCID iDs for authors, and establishes cross-references to related publications and software.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRODARE metadata is enhanced through cross-references with the HZDR research information system and metadata catalogs such as SciCat, incorporating extended domain-specific information. This process also validates identifiers for individual researchers, projects, and experimental contexts, ensuring a high level of data accuracy. Automated workflows further simplify the publication of software. The HERMES project uses continuous integration to transfer releases via APIs, supported by tools such as SoftwareCaRD for metadata curation. Finally, HZDR recommends that developers register the software published in RODARE within the Helmholtz Research Software Directory, which should enhance its quality as well as its visibility and recognition within the community.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt HZDR, RODARE supports the publication of software as an independent, citable research output through archival and DOI registration. It provides software developers with long-overdue recognition, enables precise version tracking for reproducibility, and delivers verifiable impact metrics for reporting to funding bodies. For HZDR, DataCite membership allows them to access a reliable technical foundation that forms the backbone of RODARE and is a central component of HZDR's FAIR data strategy. DataCite offers stable infrastructure, a well-documented REST API, an established metadata schema, and other complementary services. The DataCite API is used to track software citations, supporting the development of methods to measure software performance and quality, such as the Helmholtz Quality Indicator. As schema mapping can often present a challenge, the ongoing development of the DataCite Metadata Schema by the Metadata Working Group increasingly takes software-specific requirements into account. For HZDR researchers, a DataCite DOI serves as an established mark of quality and long-term discoverability, while the DataCite ORCID Auto-Update feature helps seamlessly link software contributions to the authors' ORCID records. DataCite's strong community and established best practices provide valuable resources that HZDR can rely on for future developments, for example, when restructuring the repository landscape or updating institutional policies.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a research culture that recognizes and adopts software citations takes time. HZDR views automation as a key component of this change: tools such as HERMES or Invenio's GitHub integration significantly lower the barriers to software publication, while curation tools like SoftwareCaRD improve metadata quality. HZDR plans to expand the use of HERMES and deepen the linking of software, data and publications through metadata connections. HZDR sees great potential in creating an interconnected ecosystem of persistent identifiers to gain a much clearer picture of software and data reuse. Its advice for organizations embarking on a similar journey is to undertake small-scale pilot projects, prioritize metadata curation at an early stage, and integrate the repository with internal research information systems.
\n\n\n\nEvery organization has a unique journey in building more open, connected, and discoverable research ecosystems. Join a global community of research organizations working together to improve the visibility, tracking impact, and reuse of all research outputs. Get in touch with the DataCite team to identify the right path to support your institution.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5438/5tcr-q032","guid":"https://datacite.org/?p=15739","image":"https://datacite.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Datacite_Social_Media_Blog_post_banner_HZDR_1.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1789516800,"rid":"p2sc6-8xz09","summary":"Becoming a DataCite member organization is not a single milestone; it is a journey shaped by different challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned. In the DataCite Member Stories blog series, we share their experiences as they work to connect research, improve discovery, and support open science using DataCite infrastructure.","tags":["Member Story","Members","Metadata"],"title":"Recognizing Research Software: DataCite Journey of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf","updated_at":1789714646,"url":"https://datacite.org/blog/recognizing-research-software-datacite-journey-of-the-helmholtz-zentrum-dresden-rossendorf/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"affiliation":[{"name":"Birkbeck, University of London, English and Humanities"}],"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Eve","given":"Martin Paul","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5589-8511"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Martin Paul Eve","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5589-8511"}],"community_id":"9224b0d7-fc03-497c-9c6f-85c9fd1e72da","created":1690329600,"current_feed_url":null,"description":null,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.59348/eve","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/9224b0d7-fc03-497c-9c6f-85c9fd1e72da/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://eve.gd/feed_all.xml","filter":null,"generator":"Jekyll","home_page_url":"https://eve.gd","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59348","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"eve","status":"active","subfield":"1208","title":"Martin Paul Eve","updated":1789599600,"use_api":true},"blog_name":"Martin Paul Eve","blog_slug":"eve","content_html":"I think often on this, on preservation, from Thomas Jefferson (slave owner) in 1791: \"let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use\". It's a well-known, perhaps overused quotation. Jefferson goes on to speak of a solution for preservation that is \"a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident\". It's our basic principle, nominally enshrined in LOCKSS: Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe.
\nBut people often take the multiplication principle here, \"store lots of copies\", while ignoring that Jefferson also calls for such \"multiplication of copies\" to be unfenced: in the \"public eye and use\"! Jefferson here calls for preserved copies to be visible and usable. In a sense: open.
\nI have an inkling that another scholar of OA (Peter Suber?) already made this point, and I apologise if so, but I am currently in hospital with a life-threatening infection and my memory is shot. Please do let me know if you know and I will credit that person.
\nIn any case, this steers me to ask whether dark archives can be justified. Yes, we can computationally check checksums and run as many automated tests as we like, but the only way truly to know whether an item remains usable is by actually letting someone use it. If such archives were open and light, it would also give much greater confidence about the preservation status of scholarly materials. At present, we must rely on catalogues that declare ingest, but with no external way of verifying that the archive has what it says it has.
\nTrad publishers already majorly dislike the decentralisation of repositories, preprint servers, and other mechanisms that divert attention, authority, and metrics away from their central \"version of record\". Adding archives would be more fun.
\nSo then, what's the difference between a preservation archive and a repository? I'd say: storage standards, content verification, self-healing, and certification. Then, even though open to the public eye and use, such material is stored in triplicate distributed form and does well on CRL's TRAC. Of course, Jefferson wrote of physical, not digital, preservation. Different worlds between then and now. Open to the \"public eye\" would have meant something else, to him. I suspect \"digital open, 2026\" means something categorically different to \"physical open, 1792\".
\nI also highlighted, above, the compromised moral position from which Jefferson writes. He's right on preservation, awful in his actions in life; \"owning\" other human beings. Are there better, earlier expressions of this principle? This one also has US appeal, though.
\nVaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on September 17, 2026.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59348/15c6a-j8p76","guid":"https://doi.org/10.59348/15c6a-j8p76","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1789516800,"rid":"sd2eb-b1m89","summary":"I think often on this, on preservation, from Thomas Jefferson (slave owner) in 1791: \"let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use\". It's a well-known, perhaps overused quotation.","title":"Vaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use","updated_at":1789684505,"url":"https://eve.gd/2026/09/17/vaults-and-locks-that-fence-them-from-the-public-eye-and-use/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"affiliation":[{"id":"https://ror.org/02twcfp32","name":"Crossref"}],"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Ofiesh","given":"Lucy","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5169-9796"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Crossref Staff"}],"community_id":"093ada45-3a02-4007-b8b6-be28f221e01d","created":1780876800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"Recent content in Blog on Crossref","doi":"https://doi.org/10.64000/crossref","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/093ada45-3a02-4007-b8b6-be28f221e01d/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://www.crossref.org/blog/feed.xml","filter":null,"generator":"Hugo","home_page_url":"https://www.crossref.org/blog/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.64000","relative_url":null,"secure":null,"slug":"crossref","status":"active","subfield":"1710","title":"Crossref Blog","updated":1789603200,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"Crossref Blog","blog_slug":"crossref","content_html":"We're providing a summary of the board's July 2026 meeting. The July board meeting is our only in-person meeting. The board gathers for two days of strategic thinking and long-range planning, as well as conducting annual board business. This year, we focused on allocating surplus funds we have on hand to invest in a three-year project to redesign the content system. In a related discussion, we decided to lower content registration fees starting in 2027 because we've had a demonstrated history of generating surpluses, exceeding what we need to run Crossref. We also discussed the board structure, as part of our regular review of stakeholder governance. And we conducted annual board business, such as approving the audited financial statements and reviewed our risk register and mitigation plans.
\nThe resolutions are available on the dedicated section of our website, which also lists the members of the Board and offers further information about our governance.
\nWe also managed to squeeze in watching a World Cup game over dinner.
\nThe board voted unanimously to approve the agenda for the July 2026 meeting. The board then voted to approve the consent agenda, which includes a package of routine board business items.
\nThe board voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the March 2026 board meeting.
\nThe board discussed and approved a Board Policy to define how to handle instances in which Crossref Board members wish to apply for open Crossref staff positions. The proposed policy applies Crossref's Conflict of Interest Policy. Board members will be required to step down from the Board if they are applying for a position on the Senior Management or Executive Teams.
\nThe audit committee presented the 2025 audited financial statements for review and approval. Crossref received a clean opinion and is in a healthy financial position. The board unanimously approved the statements, which are now available on the finance page of our website
\nEd Pentz, Ginny Hendricks, and Lucy Ofiesh presented organisational updates. This includes updates on our midyear financial performance, progress on goals for the year, and a review of member participation and statistics on the metadata records and relationships captured in our State of Research Nexus report.
\nWe also provided an update on progress towards establishing a second legal entity, an AISBL in Belgium.
\nEach July, the board reviews the risk register and risk mitigation plans prepared by the Senior Management Team.
\nThe executive team presented a proposal to allocate $4.9 million from the cash reserves generated through several years of surpluses to hire additional staff for three years to join the permanent team in redesigning the Crossref system (CS). The overall approach is to shrink Crossref's monolithic code base by gradually rewriting individual modules, with the ultimate goal of delivering more flexible tools and services and strengthening the long-term reliability of the Crossref system. The board discussed the proposal. Following an active discussion on the approach to the redesign and the responsible use of surplus funds, the board approved the use of up to $1.6 million per year for three years.
\nFor more information on the redesign project, please see our recent blog post, Investing $4.9 million of our surplus in rebuilding the Crossref system.
\nWe brought in a consultant to help lead the board in a discussion of our long-range strategic position. The board discussed the challenges and opportunities facing scholarly communication, Crossref's current position in the community, and the role we might play in the future as the needs of our community evolve. This discussion will inform an update to our strategic agenda and the preparation of an impact plan.
\nPeriodically, the board conducts a review of the governing structure. These reviews coincide with our biannual POSI self-assessments.
\nThis year's review was taken in two parts: the consideration of augmenting our governance structure by adding an Advisory Board, and reviewing how we allocate seats on the board. We discussed both of these at length and, while not yet making any changes, the board recognized the need to continue to review this periodically.
\nThe board discussed the ongoing work of the project known as Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability (RCFS). This multi-year effort, which began in 2023, aims to make our fees more accessible, equitable, and simpler to understand and operate.
\nPhase 1 of RCFS focused primarily on lowering membership fees for the least resourced members and simplifying underused, complex content registration fees. In January 2026, we rolled out a new, lower membership fee, removed little-used discounts that contributed to fee complexity, extended our GEM program to include zero-fee membership and content registration for 18 additional countries, and introduced a two-year fee waiver on back-year grants.
\nPhase 2 of RCFS focused on lowering and further simplifying content registration fees. At the July meeting, the board reviewed and discussed a proposal to (1) reduce content registration fees from $1.00 to $0.95 and from $0.25 to $0.20, while leaving $0.06 record types unchanged, and (2) remove all fees for \"back-year\" records, effective January 1, 2027.
\nWhile this change will have a material financial impact, projected at approximately -760,000 USD lost revenue in 2027, Crossref is in a strong financial position and growing steadily through new members and new record growth.
\nThe board discussed the proposal in detail and voted to approve.
\nMore information on the proposal can be found in our recent blog post, Fee update: lowering and removing DOI registration fees in January 2027
\nWe close each meeting with any other business a board member wants to raise. We summarised the decisions and actions from the meeting. The board then went into Executive Session to discuss any closed issues.
\nThere being no other business, the meeting was adjourned.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.64000/a46mm-0nb97","guid":"https://doi.org/10.64000/a46mm-0nb97","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1789603200,"rid":"kh73p-zgs84","summary":"We're providing a summary of the board's July 2026 meeting. The July board meeting is our only in-person meeting. The board gathers for two days of strategic thinking and long-range planning, as well as conducting annual board business.","tags":["Board","Board Summary","Crossref","Governance","Meetings"],"title":"July 2026 board meeting summary","updated_at":1789665905,"url":"https://www.crossref.org/blog/july-2026-board-meeting-summary/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Eden","given":"Terence"}],"content_html":"Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog - I've asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
\n\n\n\nAn ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media\u2013print and electronic.
\n\nShut up.
\n\nOK. It turns out that lots of people cite my blog in academic papers - so I wanted to make it slightly easier for scholars of the future to use metadata to trace my vast influence on Human civilisation.
\n\nI filled in a form on the British Library website. Didn't cost me a penny. Was pretty quick!
\n\nI can stick a bit of text at the bottom of each page with the ISSN - but that doesn't make it easily discoverable by automated tools. How can I make an ISSN machine readable? There are a few ways.
\n\nThere are a limited list of official <meta> names. These are extensible, and Google Scholar recommends citation_issn. Which is as simple as adding the following to your page's <head>:
<meta name=\"citation_issn\" content=\"1234-5678\">\nThere alternatives though.
\n\nIn recent years, Schema.org has become the dominant form for representing metadata on the web. There are two ways you can implement it:
\n\nJSON Linked Data involves adding a scrap of JavaScript to your HTML, like this:
\n\n<script type=\"application/ld+json\">\n{\n \"@context\": \"https://schema.org\",\n \"@type\": \"Blog\",\n \"issn\": \"1234-5678\"\n}\n</script>\nIf you don't want to add a separate script, you can add the data inline using...
\n\nThe microdata specification uses the exact same data as Schema.org - but allows you to add the data directly into the web page like this:
\n\n<body itemscope itemtype=\"https://schema.org/Blog\">\n ...\n ISSN <span itemprop=\"issn\">1234-5678</span>\nThat's probably the easiest way to do it.
\n\nThe ISSN registry allows you to look up any ISSN with a simple URL. Mine is at https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2753-1570.
\n\nSo, this is what I've ended up doing - cramming everything in all at once.
\n\n<head>\n ...\n <meta name=\"citation_issn\" content=\"1234-5678\">\n</head>\n<body itemscope itemtype=\"https://schema.org/Blog\">\n ...\n ISSN <a href=\"https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1234-5678\"><span itemprop=\"issn\">1234-5678</span></a>\nWhat am I missing? Can someone smarter than I tell me that there's an easier / better / more interoperable way to do this?
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/mkddx-k0m59","guid":"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=40341","image":"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-07-at-10-21-40-Application-for-an-ISSN-terence-eden-shkspr-mobi-Shkspr-mobi-Mail.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1631836800,"rid":"n6pzc-9ds63","summary":"Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog - I've asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media\u2013print and electronic. Why?","tags":["/etc/","HTML5","Metadata","Schema.org"],"title":"How to add ISSN metadata to a web page","updated_at":1789631952,"url":"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/how-to-add-issn-metadata-to-a-web-page/","version":"v1"}],"out_of":57618,"page":1,"per_page":10,"total-results":57618}