This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.
For action
Ongoing The Data and Interoperability Platforms have identified uptake of Bioschemas by Core Data Resources (CDR) as one of the key activities in the 2019-2023 ELIXIR Programme.
The ELIXIR-hosted Biohackathon, scheduled to take place from 12-16 November in Paris, includes the topic of "Adding Bioschemas markup to data repositories and developing tools to find, consume and use it" that caters to this specific tasks. We encourage the participation of CDR developers to get a head-start on this CDR-Bioschemas activity. Travel grants are available from the Bioschemas Staff Exchange and Travel Grants programme.
Interested parties please contact Sira Sarntivijai (sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org) directly for Biohackathon registration, as public registration is now closed. Some spaces have been internally reserved for this identified mission-driven implementation.
For information
Greece has become an ELIXIR member. The ECA was signed by Prof. Kostas Fotakis, Alternate Minister of Research and Innovation, during the European Conference for Computational Biology (ECCB), hosted in Athens. More information can be found in the ELIXIR news release.
The Heads of Nodes Committee met yesterday. The 2019-23 Programme and 2019 Work Plan were discussed and agreed upon by the HoN. In addition, the HoN discussed the ELIXIR grant portfolio, how ELIXIR wants to engage in grants and our plans for submitting a proposal to the upcoming INFRADEV-3 call. Thank you to those who joined us in sunny Athens! The additional HoN TC has been scheduled for Wed, 10 October from 13:00 - 16:00 UK time / 14:00 - 17:00 CEST. The intention is to to discuss the ELIXIR proposal to the INFRADEV-3 call. The document is available on Google Drive.
The 2019 SAB face-to-face meeting will take place from 6-7 February 2019. The ELIXIR Hub will contact various Nodes in preparation for Node reviews. The ELIXIR International Strategy was presented at the International Conference for Research Infrastructures (ICRI), held from 12-14 September 2018 in Vienna.
Key dates and meetings
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 12-13 November 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary event
- 11 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Heads of Nodes meeting
- 12 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium