euroCRIS Membership Meeting
25-27 May 2011 - Bologna, Italy
Membership Meetings
The aim of the biannual membership meetings is to involve the members actively in the euroCRIS actions and projects. The membership meetings are organised each time in another country and have also mutual promotional value, both from euroCRIS and the national and regional CRIS Communities.The meetings are structured as follows:
(a) a euroCRIS overview session: in this session the Board and the Task Groups report from their meetings and on recent progress and plans. In this way all participants get a full survey of all ongoing activities and of the action plan for the next six months.
(b) a "local" session, in which experts from the organising country report on their CRIS and on recent progress and innovations.
(c) the euroCRIS "Jostein Hauge"session, named after the founding father of euroCRIS, in which euroCRIS members report on recent innovations and implementations.
(d) a special topic with position papers and/or invited lectures and discussions.
Mostly the day before the membership meeting a CERIF tutorial is given for the local community and for euroCRIS members who did not yet have the opportunity to attend this tutorial.
Meetings in 2011
- The next membership meeting will be held in Bologna, Italy on Thursday the 26th and Friday the 27th of May and hosted by the Italian university consortium CINECA. With Nicola Bertazzoni and his team we are ready to go again for an appealing meeting! Programming is ongoing. Information and registration form are available on the event website. Registration will be open up to and including the 18th of May. euroCRIS members are kindly invited to send titles of presentations for the Jostein Hauge session to the Secretary before the 1st of May.
- On the day preceding the membership meeting – Wednesday the 25th of May - euroCRIS and the Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository (VOA3R, http://voa3r.eu) will organize a joint workshop. Discussed will be questions about CERIF, how VOA3R is implementing CERIF and future joint activities, e.g. Semantics/RDF for CERIF etc. After the workshop a CERIF tutorial will be given, also as preparation for the euroCRIS membership meeting starting the day after.
- The membership meeting in the autumn of 2011 will be held in Lille, France (Charles de Gaulle University of Lille 3) on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2011. The French Association of Electronic Information industry (GFII) has declared to be interested. The meeting is supported by the university, the regional centre of the French research organization for applied computer science INRIA as well as the regional department of the French national research centre CNRS. Another potential partner for the meeting is the Ministry of Research and Higher Education.
