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It was a pleasure to work with STM on this project - please do read our report, and look out for Phill Jones at next week's Innovation & Integrity Days if you have any questions or comments!

Just a week to go till the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) autumn symposium on November 26. Phill Jones is moderating Session 1b) What editors need to know about promises and dangers of AI and the new wave of digital tools - with speakers Kim Eggleton, Hylke Koers, and Adam Day. For more information and to register see: https://lnkd.in/es6hVGBT

AI can be seen both an opportunity for research productivity and a threat to research integrity. Our latest open research report "Feasibility of technical solutions for the detection of falsified images in research" discusses the risks posed by altered, duplicated and faked images and explores potential technical solutions. Focusing initially immunochemistry blots and microscopy images, our Phill Jones describes how digital signatures, metadata registries, and decentralised infrastructure could be used to certify images and other types of data. The question then becomes: how create the standards, organisational structures and community buy-in necessary to make it a success? Why not join the conversation during STM week in London in December. Follow the links in STMs post below to find out more. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/ew6fiUJ3 or find it on our website.

Just a week to go till #chsconf24 - our Alice Meadows will be there for what will, as always, be a great conference. With Todd Carpenter, Lettie Y. Conrad, and Emily B. Gore she'll be speaking on The Scholarly Kitchen panel "If the sky's the limit are you ready on the ground?" a discussion on how libraries can understand and address policy decisions. Hope you can join them - November 14, 2.40-3.20pm in Grand Ballroom 3, Gaillard Center.

This year's Karger Publishers Vesalius award finalists have just been announced - congratulations to Clear Skies, Knowledge Gate Group, Prof. Valmed? - validated medical information GmbH, Prophy, and Signals. “I've been a Vesalius awards judge since its launch five years ago,” states Phill Jones. “This year, in particular, things have gone from strength to strength, with more fantastic applicants than ever. I believe the partnerships that Karger has developed, drawn from both the publishing sector and entrepreneurial communities, enable it to offer extraordinary value and mentorship to the startups that enter. It is a key reason for Vesalius' success.” https://lnkd.in/e5Rir9NK

This Friday (October 25) sees the official launch of the National Persistent Identifier Strategy and Roadmap for Ireland - Impact, Openness, Interoperability: Recommendations and a Roadmap for an Irish National PID Strategy. To celebrate, the National Open Research Forum is hosting an open webinar from 10.00-10.45am IST/9.00-9.45am UTC. MoreBrains' Josh Brown will be talking about our work with NORF on this project, including the 15 recommendations we developed in consultation with the Irish research community, and some immediate next steps. Everyone is welcome to join and no registration is needed; the link can be found in this announcement. The report and recommendations will be openly available on the NORF website following the launch. Enjoy! https://lnkd.in/edWw9f7Q

Our Alice Meadows will be joining Ed Pentz, Jason Williams, and panel chair Chirag Jay Patel to discuss open data sharing and #DEI as part of Editage's #OAWeek celebrations. October 24 at 9am ET - registration is free! https://lnkd.in/eWEB-ANQ

ICYMI, earlier this week our Alice Meadows shared her thoughts on PLOS's recently announced research and design project to support recognition for all contributions to open science by developing a knowledge stack and accompanying business model.

This should be a really valuable discussion - the importance of project metadata is increasingly recognised, and this group will have lots of interesting thoughts!

Our work with the National Open Research Forum to help develop a #PersistentIdentifier strategy and roadmap for Ireland is now complete. The full report publishes later this month but, in the meantime, you can read about how we engaged with the Irish research community for the project in this post by Alice Meadows in The Scholarly Kitchen. https://lnkd.in/ethRmEEe