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. Links to further information are in blue. Contact nicola.kay@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 New
ELIXIR has an ongoing piece of work concerned with the challenges arising from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which becomes applicable on May 25th this year.
Please review this email that was sent out by Regina Becker from the Luxembourg Node that has some important next steps for all Nodes.
Registry Working Group.
Following discussions with the Platform ExCos over the past few weeks, Nodes are invited to nominate participants to join a new ELIXIR Working Group focussed on Registries. Members of the group are expected to directly manage one of the many Registries that the Nodes own or have a key interest in the field.
The group is expected to cover: Mapping the Registry landscape across ELIXIR and more widely; Designing a process whereby key Registries can be selected and linked to other efforts such as EOSC, and more broadly building a strategy for how these key, cross-Platform assets, are managed and developed.
Responses with names of nominees, by March 16th, and any questions should be made to: Jerry Lanfear ELIXIR CTO
As notified in the HoN TC, the HoN are asked to review and agree one document through Written Procedure:
ELIXIRHON/2018/9 - Implementation Study project plans for review and agreement
Please consider if you have:
No further comments and can agree with the proposed plans;
Minor comments (please specify what these are), which you would like to see addressed but can agree with the proposed plan;
Major reservations, which means that you cannot agree with the proposed plan in its current form.
Please provide your feedback and comments on the document to Susanna Repo by 15 March 2018.
For action Ongoing
Please send us an overview of your Node activities in 2017 for the ELIXIR Annual Report 2018. You can add your content directly to this Google doc, where you will also find short guidelines and the relevant content from the 2016 Annual Report. The deadline is 9 March 2018.
For information
Thank you to those who took part in the ELIXIR HoNs TC today. Minutes from the call will be made available in due course.
As advised in today's teleconference, the ELIXIR HoN meeting, to be held in conjunction with the ECCB conference in Athens in September, will be held on Thursday 13 September (the day after the main conference sessions).
Also, the ELIXIR HoNs TC planned for 7 December will now instead be held as a face to face meeting in Brussels on 12 December 2018, following on from an ELIXIR 5th Anniversary event to be held in Brussels on 11 December.
Please save these dates in your diary. The updated list of events can be found below.
Key dates and meetings
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Core Data Resource selection - Consensus Ranking meeting
- 9 May 2018 | Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Heads of Nodes meeting @ ELIXIR All Hands
- 6-7 June 2018, Berlin, Germany
Heads of Nodes meeting @ ECCB 2018
- 13 September 2018, Athens, Greece.
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