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Call-in Information

Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York), 4pm Central European Time

To join the online meeting:

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Attendees

(star)  Indicating note-taker

  1. Dragan Ivanovic (star)
  2. Georgy Litvinov 
  3. Brian Lowe 
  4. Ivan Mrsulja 
  5. Sai Pavan K 
  6. Kshitij Sinha
  7. Michel Héon 

Agenda

Notes 

CRIS 2024 - https://cris2024.eurocris.org/

Dragan announced that a paper about new features introduced in the VIVO platform in the last two years had been accepted for presenting at CRIS 2024. The extended abstract and presentation will be available on the conference website. The conference will take place in Vienna in May 2024. 

PIDfest - https://www.pidfest.org/

Dragan announced that a paper about usage of persistent identifiers in VIVO has been accepted for the PIDfest conference. The conference will take place in Prague in June 2024.

ORCID funding program - https://info.orcid.org/global-participation-program/global-participation-fund/

Dragan discussed the team's plans to utilize the persistent identifiers in the VIVO platform and their interest in participating in the ORCID fund program. The call should be announced in the first week of April, the deadline for application probably will be at the end of May. 

FAIR-Impact - https://fair-impact.eu/support-offer-1-assessment-and-improvement-research-software

There are also small grants within the FAIR-impact project which can be used for alignment of the VIVO software class with best practices. 

Open and merged PRs

A couple of new PRs have been created in the previous week, while five of them have been merged.  

A schedule change for future meetings (for North America participants)

Starting from the next meeting (April 2nd), the meeting will be again at 10am Eastern Time. 

Draft notes in Google Docs

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