Weekly Brief, 23 September 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR joins the European Innovation Council programme

ELIXIR joined the European Innovation Council's Ecosystem Partnerships and Co-Investment Support Programme (EIC programme) with three ready-to-go services from five countries, covering consultancy, training, and compute with customised pricing for industry clients.

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RDM training annotation: strategies for improved curation in TeSS

25 September 2024 | 11:00 - 12:30 CEST

The RDM Training Network, a subgroup of the ELIXIR RDM Community, invites the research community to join this engaging webinar to contribute ideas to enhance RDM training curation best practices and share user experience challenges and suggestions.

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Recommended reads

Recording provenance of workflow runs with RO-Crate

A paper on RO-Crate

This paper presented Workflow Run RO-Crate, an extension of RO-Crate (Research Object Crate) and Schema.org to capture the provenance of the execution of computational workflows at different levels of granularity and bundle together all their associated objects. The model is supported by a diverse, open community that runs regular meetings, discussing development, maintenance and adoption aspects. Workflow Run RO-Crate is already implemented by several workflow management systems, allowing interoperable comparisons between workflow runs from heterogeneous systems. The authors describe the model, its alignment to standards such as W3C PROV, and its implementation in six workflow systems. They also illustrate the application of Workflow Run RO-Crate in two use cases of machine learning in the digital image analysis domain.

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The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review

A PathOS paper

This study systematically scopes the existing evidence of societal impact driven by Open Science and its various aspects, including Citizen Science, Open Access, Open/FAIR Data, Open Code/Software and others. Using the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews and searches conducted in Web of Science, Scopus and relevant grey literature, we identified 196 studies that contain evidence of societal impact. The majority concern Citizen Science, with some focused on Open Access. Key areas of impact found are education and awareness, climate and environment, and social engagement. The authors found no literature documenting evidence of the societal impact of Open/FAIR Data and limited evidence of societal impact in terms of policy, health, and trust in academic research. The findings demonstrate a critical need for additional evidence and suggest practical and policy implications.

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Updates from Nodes

Join VIB as a Research Data Trainer

VIB is looking for a Research Data Trainer to join the team to design, develop, and deliver training programs focused on Research Data Management (RDM) and sensitive data handling.

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ELIXIR Italy and Scientifica Venture Capital promote applied research in life sciences

In September 2024, an operational agreement was signed between the National Research Council (CNR), the leading institution of ELIXIR Italy, and Scientifica Venture Capital, an investment holding company focused on high-tech projects and start-ups. The agreement aims to accelerate technology transfer initiatives in the field of big data for life sciences.

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HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon

12-14 Feb 2025 | Nottingham, UK
Proposal submission deadline: 27 September 2024

HDR UK and ELIXIR-UK are holding a Joint Hackathon in February 2025 to bring together UK professionals in health data and life sciences to tackle shared technical challenges across the ecosystem. Submit a proposal if you have an idea that needs a little push and want to engage in intensive brainstorming, hands-on coding and true networking.

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Updates from Communities

ELIXIR Galaxy Community: Call for new co-lead

Deadline: 31 October 2024

The ELIXIR Galaxy Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Bjrn Grning and Nicola Soranzo). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

A big thank you to Frederik Coppens for his work as a co-lead and we look forward to his ongoing contribution to the Community.

For questions or nominations, please contact Mihail Anton or Katharina Heil

More information (including timeline and self-nomination details)

ELIXIR Proteomics Community: Call for new co-lead

Deadline: 31 October 2024

The ELIXIR Proteomics Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Juan Vizcaino, Juan Antonio Vizcano and Lennart Martens). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

A big thank you to Oliver Kohlbacher for his work as a co-lead in the past.

For questions or nominations, please contact Deepti Jaiswal Kundu

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ELIXIR Metabolomics Community: Call for new co-lead

Deadline: 31 October 2024

The ELIXIR Metabolomics Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Maria Klapa and Steffen Neumann). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

A big thank you to Claire O'Donovan for her work as a co-lead and we wish her all the best for her retirement.

For questions or nominations, please contact Deepti Jaiswal Kundu

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Updates from other initiatives

Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchange calls

Deadline: 5 February 2025

Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges promote innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain.

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World Data System workshop on AI data readiness

1 & 3 October 2024 | Online

The World Data System workshop will introduce the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) AI Data Readiness Checklist which encapsulates considerations for data quality, documentation, access, and preparation.

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Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars

ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 - 2 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

ELIXIR STEERS WP2 & WP3 workshop
2 - 3 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal

ELIXIR Interoperability Platform F2F meeting (hybrid) 2024
25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, UK

Job vacancies

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job

Research Data Managers, Biomedical data stewardship and FAIR data management (RE2)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Research Engineer AI Models Evaluation and Validation @ OpenEBench (RE3)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Research Engineer Securing Processing Enviroments for Analysing Sensitive Data (RE3)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Project Support Officer

University of Liverpool

Postdoc / research assistant - genome annotation of non-model species using long-read sequencing

I2SysBio-CSIC