Action items
- Excelerate Work Packages Co-Chairs to provide revised text/deliverables, and their WP innovation statements if not already provided, by Dec 17th at the latest.
For information
ELIXIR Website
Thank you again for your feedback on thenew ELIXIR Website (http://www.elixir-europe.org)This week the website has 'gone live', with further updates including the development of the intranet to follow over the next few months. Please do continue to let us know your thoughts.
Update from ELIXIR SAB meeting and ELIXIR excelerate proposal
The ELIXIR SAB met at Hinxton earlier this week, with a number of Heads of Nodes in attendance.SAB feedback on ELIXIRs Infradev 3 proposal ELIXIR 'Excelerate' has already been made available, with a general report on ELIXIR activities and reports on the ELIXIR Nodes presented for review expected to follow shortly.Work Packages are now asked to provide revised text/deliverables and their WP innovation statements, if not already provided, by Dec 17th at the latest, before the proposal is reviewed in full at a meeting between SNM and the ELIXIR Hub on December 18th.The agenda, documents and slides from the meeting can be found here on google drive:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4WQQq4hwmbQZXVrTy1iUWJGc2c&usp…
First ELIXIR Collaboration Agreements for approval by Written Procedure
The first Collaboration Agreements with the Finnish, Swiss and Swedish Nodes have been sent to the ELIXIR Board for approval by written procedure, with the ELIXIR Board members asked to provide their votes in writing by no later than 12 February 2015.A second batch of agreements will be sent to the Board at a later date. If you have not done so already, it would be helpful if the template could be filled in with the name of institutes involved, an explanation of the Node's legal structure and the name of the signatory. The relevant parts of the ELIXIR Collaboration Agreement which require updating are indicated by brackets or highlighted. The agreement should then be sent through to ELIXIR Legal Adviser, Vera Herkommer (mailto:vera.herkommer@embl.de?subject=ELIXIR%20Collaboration%20Agreement) who will check it and advise on any potential issues, before the Collaboration Agreement is ready for Board approval and finally its signing.Any Observers which are expecting to sign the ECA in the near future and would like to have the ELIXIR Collaboration Agreement template for consideration by your legal teams, please do let us know and we will be in touch.
NIH identifiers workshop, 14 January 2015
ELIXIR is holding a Research Object Identifier (ROI) Workshop co-organised with the NIH at London Heathrow Airport on 14 January 2015. The workshop agenda is available (https://docs.google.com/a/ebi.ac.uk/document/d/1UGtl8622_zXdZjKndhKBwhi…) and will include talks by experts to demonstrate current best practises and a breakout session to identify challenging areas and proposals for shared implementation. The workshop aims to systematically map the State of the Art and agree on strategies for data / research object identifiers and develop a white paper for community and expert consultation. The Heads of Nodes will be asked to comment and contribute on the white paper before publication later in 2015.
NIH Frameworks for Community-based Standards Efforts Workshop Report Released
The report generated as a result of the NIH BD2K workshop "Frameworks for Community-based Standards Efforts", held last year has been released.The workshop aimed at gaining a clearer understanding of the community-based data and metadata standards efforts, in particular, and how NIH might best relate to them. In this report the authors, who are the lead organizers and co-chairs, elaborate on the findings and indicate future directions.In conjunction with related efforts already under way at NIH, including the development of a Data Discovery Index Consortium (bioCADDIE: http://biocaddie.org), the final document will assist the NIH Office of the Associate Director (ADDS) to help move forward the NIH BD2K vision on how data, metadata and other digital research products can interact and work with each other.Users, software developers and publishers are invited to review the report and post comments by January 20, 2015.The link to the report is: http://www.communitybasedstandards.org
ELIXIR literature and branded merchandise
Just a reminder that the ELIXIR Hub carries a stock of ELIXIR literature and branded merchandise available to ELIXIR Nodes, please do let us if you would like materials sending out to you for distribution within your Nodes and at your local events.Requests should be sent to: nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org (mailto:nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org?subject=Request%20for%20ELIXIR%20li…)
Reminder of Key Meetings/Dates
5th TC for INFRADEV-3 (7 Jan 15, 13:00 - 15:00 UK time)
HoN teleconference (4 Feb 15, 13:00-16:00 UK time)
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum event, Wageningen, Netherlands (18-19 Mar 15)
ELIXIR Nodes workshop, Hinxton (30 - 31 Mar 15)