This year’s spring RDA plenary meeting was supposed to take place in Australia, but due to the global COVID-19 crisis the meeting has been cancelled, but promptly rescheduled as a virtual event.
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The PID Interest Group organises a session as part of the RDA virtual plenary on Thursday 9 April
The latest OECD report identifies four core factors that enable digital transformation of research: (1) use of digital scientific collaboration and productivity tools; (2) development and management of digital access to data and code; (3) use of advanced, computing oriented, digital tools; and (4) digital identity in online environments and communication of scientific work.
The second draft of the EOSC PID Policy document is now up on Zenodo.
DataCite has just launched a new API that powers the PID Graph, the graph formed by scholarly resources described by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and the connections between them. The API is powered by GraphQL, a widely adopted Open Source technology that enables queries of this graph, addressing use cases of our community in ways that were not possible before.
Datacite is pleased to announce the launch of the new persistent identifier (PID) services registry available at https://pidservices.org, a new service to find services built upon different PIDs from core technology providers and those who integrate from across a variety of disciplinary areas.
The project FREYA has just launched the video: "FREYA - The Power of PIDs".
Currently, the PID Forum is managed and financed by the FREYA project. Since the project is ending in November of this year, a new host is needed.
The FREYA project wants the global research community to know about the benefits of persistent identifiers, and the way in which linking persistent identifiers (PIDs), or creating a PID Graph, can make researchers’ lives easier. In this competition we want to know how the FREYA ambassadors, will utilise or could benefit from the PID Graph.
Results from a collaboration between RDA Europe, FAIRsFAIR, OpenAIRE, FREYA and EOSC-hub have just been published in Patterns in an article entitled Recommendations for Services in a FAIR Data Ecosystem.
The PID graph can link PIDs together via relations in their metadata to enable the discovery of connections at least two “hops” away. In this online demonstration, we will present several use cases that FREYA has identified throughout the project. Taking these use cases as examples, we will show how Jupyter notebooks can be used to query the DataCite GraphQL service and gather information through the PID Graph.
CoronaWhy (https://www.coronawhy.org) is a globally distributed, volunteer-powered research organisation, trying to assist the medical community’s ability to answer key questions related to COVID-19. In this webinar, you will learn more about the CoronaWhy community, collaborative intelligence and usage of Linked Data for the building integration layers between datasets produced by human experts and existing machine learning algorithms.
On the 27th of July 2020, EOSC-hub and FREYA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a view to collaborate and join activities for the long run.
FREYA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 FREYA Ambassador Competition. Due to the high calibre of entries this year, we decided to award the prize to two winners, Claudia Alén Amaro of Instruct-ERIC and Luc Boruta of Thunken.
ORCID, SURF, DANS and FREYA invite you to celebrate Open Access Week with a PIDs quiz.
The "PID Jupyter Notebooks showcase" presents a collection of Jupyter notebooks developed within the FREYA project.
Organised as part of the upcoming EOSC-hub, FREYA, SSHOC joint event Realising the European Open Science Cloud, the EOSC Projects EXPO is the first virtual exhibition to showcase EOSC initiatives and projects, and is expected to generate significant knowledge exchange, synergies, and networking.
The future of the PID Forum is assured as NISO has been selected and agreed to taking over the operating of pidforum.org after the end of the FREYA project.
A new version of DataCite Commons is now available.
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