Since October, Joeri Both has been serving as Chair of OpenAIRE's Executive Board. Stepping into the role shortly after the Open Science Fair in September, he began his mandate at a moment that highlighted both the strength of the OpenAIRE community and the growing global momentum behind Open Science.A few months into his chairmanship, we spoke with Joeri about his first experiences in the role and how OpenAIRE continues to build on the foundations laid under the leadership of the Board's previo...

The first update of the latest dataset released in December (v.10.0.0), version 10.0.1 includes updated Crossref publications to include contents until December 2024 and updated Datacite contents until December 2024. An update was also added which incrementally added newer records from Crossref and Datacite resulting in ~13K more datasets (0.02%) and ~950K more publications (0.5%).You can access the latest dataset at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14582029 (there labelled as v9.0.0). If you...

The Project: SciLake is an EU-funded research project that provides innovative and customizable services for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its main objective is to deliver technologies that facilitate the integration of domain knowledge and open Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) to simplify the development of valuable services tailored to specific domains. The project involves 13 partners from 9 countries, including experts in scholarly communication and domain experts from four scien...

This November, the SciLake team held a plenary meeting in Barcelona to discuss the progress and future plans of the project. About SciLake: SciLake is a project funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe program. Its goal is to change how scientific knowledge is accessed and used. The project focuses on combining domain knowledge with open Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and creating useful added-value services for specific research areas. By doing this, SciLake aims to overcome the challe...