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The #iReceptorPlus consortium -- which our team is part of -- has now started an online seminar series on "Theory and Applications of Immune Repertoires". This week's seminar (Thu, 2020-11-26, 16:00-17:30 CET) will feature talks from Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam (KI 🇸🇪 ) and Vanessa Mhanna (Sorbonne U 🇫🇷 ).

See
https://www.ireceptor-plus.com/news-and-events/seminars for more details and registration.

The 5th AIRR Community meeting will take place Tue, 2020-12-08 to Thu, 2020-12-10 from 16:00 to 20:00 CET as virtual meeting. It will include Working Group presentations, scientific sessions, interactive poster sessions and software tool demonstrations.

Registration is open now under: https://whova.com/web/acmv_202012/

All #AIRRCommunity membership levels are eligible for a 50% discount.

#airrc

27 consortia and cross-cutting initiatives have now published their declaration on joint infrastructure development for the #NFDI ( National Research Data Infrastructure, i.e. the German contribution to #EOSC) :

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3895208

(text is in :de:)

#openscience

The #AIRRCommunity has released v1.3 of their data schema for Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire sequencing data:

https://docs.airr-community.org/en/v1.3.0/standards/news.html

This is a big step ahead to facilitate #FAIR sharing of this data, as the current release now includes:

* a proper schema for study metadata
* an API for repositories (OpenAPI v2)
* support for ontologies

#AIRR #Immunology

A new (reverse) acronym to learn for data repositories: TRUST
(Transparency, Responsibiliy, User focus, Sustainability, Technology)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7

As I see it, this basically summarizes the criteria of #CoreTrustSeal for data repositories into a nice catch phrase. The criteria are not as well defined as for #FAIR, potentially because that's already part of CTS.

#OpenScience #TRUST

#cOAlitionS publishes new requirements for publishers regarding price transparency. Non-compliant publishers will not be eligible for OA funds after mid-2022.

https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-announces-price-transparency-requirements/

#OpenAccess #PlanS

PLoS is running a survey on the pleasures and pains of sharing scientific data. Still running until next week:

https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/05/what-are-your-priorities-for-data-sharing/

#OpenData

The #EuropeanCommission has awarded a contract to F1000 Research to provide a free (of charge) #OpenAccess platform for #Horizon2020 and #HorizonEurope funded research. Plan launch in 2021:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/european-commission-awards-contract-setting-open-access-publishing-platform-2020-mar-20_en

#OpenScience

EOSC Secretariat published a 12-pager information booklet on EOSC:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3716192

They are still not stating how they are going to build it, but at least they know want they want to have in the end 😀

#EOSC #OpenScience

Interesting proposal by @nicebread303@twitter.com
on combining Open Data and Open Source licenses:

https://www.nicebread.de/a-non-viral-copyleft-sharealike-license-for-open-research-data

I have some doubts however, whether the schema would be to complex to be applicable in a larger scale.

#OpenData #OpenSource

It's already some weeks ago that the #EuropeanCommision published its #EuropeanDataStrategy. Strong focus on #PSI and data from industry, research infrastructures like #EOSC are merely a side note. Nevertheless, the same challenges as for scientific data remain, so -- Lo and behold! -- Page 12 actually identifies the #FAIR principles as a generic strategy:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/european-data-strategy

Open Science Bar Camp is about to start, session list here:

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/oscibar2020

#oscibar #openscience

Better late than never: Germany is joining the European 1+Million Genomes Initiative:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/germany-joins-1million-genomes-initiative

Great talk about Secure Health Data Infrastructures by @msuhr . Abstract and slides can be found under https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/open_research_secure_health_data/

I'm at @fosdem this weekend, currently in the session on Open Research Tools. Three great talks so far, all analyzing the same deficiencies: training of scientists, sustainability of software, best practices in development.
Interestingly, no one presented the obvious solution so far: Research Software Engineers! 😉

We should work on our outreach!

#fosdemresearch #RSE @de_rse