At the last RDA VP 18, we submitted a poster about Community building and working with you – our customers, partners and new potential clients. In this blog post, I will summarise the main points which we tried to present through the poster, namely history of subscriptions and its effect on launching more community building activities, as well as the benefits and challenges of having such a big community of active users and the resulting need of balancing the needs of the various partners working with our tool. The poster is now accessible through the following link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5770246

Some of you might be already aware, that over the Christmas break we have been notified by Rory O'Connor from the Erasmus University Rotterdam as part of a security sweep of the application about vulnerability in the tool. In this brief blog post, we explain what the issue was, that we fixed very quickly and l want to re-assure all that none of our users’ data has been at risk here.  

With the turn of the new year the end of the FAIRsFAIR project comes into sight. In this blog post, what we’d like to highlight to readers is the ACME-FAIR guide