That’s a wrap on #ELIXIR25 in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷!
Great days of collaboration, connection & inspiration.
The @BioData_pt / ELIXIR-PT team was glad to strengthen ties and explore new opportunities.
Next stop: Lyon 2026 🇫🇷 — proud to be part of this community!
📸 courtesy of Julia Koblitz (CC BY 4.0)
Breaking news, the RO-Crate Specification 1.2 is finalized and released!
Web-version: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2
Archived-version https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13751027
Here is the changelog https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/specification/1.2/appendix/changelog
RO-Crate is a community effort to establish a lightweight approach to packaging research data with their metadata. It is based on schema.org annotations in JSON-LD, and aims to make best-practice in formal metadata description accessible and practical for use in a wider variety of situations, from an individual researcher working with a folder of data, to large data-intensive computational research environments.
🌍 At #ELIXIR25 AHM in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷, Ana Teresa Freitas joined the plenary “Global collaborations”, sharing insights on the ELIXIR International Staff Exchange Programme and Portugal’s role in building global Life Science research networks.