by Giovanni M. Dall'Olio, Jacopo Marino, Michael Schubert, Kevin L. Keys, Melanie I. Stefan, Colin S. Gillespie, Pierre Poulain, Khader Shameer, Robert Sugar, Brandon M. Invergo, Lars J. Jensen, Jaume Bertranpetit, Hafid Laayouni

A paper outlining challenges & potential solutions in contribution tracking and research assessment, with a focus on systematics and diversity studies. See also editorial in same issue and a blog post by one of the authors:

We have just launched a new, expanded version of the IRISC website:

http://irisc-workshop.org

New content includes expanded workshop schedule and a close-to-final speaker lineup.

It is time for this Special Interest Group to wake from a slumber of the last several months and get active again. The occasion? Along with our collaborators at CSC in Finland, we (GEN2PHEN) are now well underway with organizing a follow-up of the IRBW2009 workshop. This event, also in a workshop format, is titled Identity in Research Infrastructure and Scientific Communication:

http://www.gen2phen.org/event/irisc2011-workshop-identity-research-sep-1...

We are really excited about this event, especially with the speakers we have lined up already (and several others who have express an interest in coming but not confirmed):

• Martin Fenner, Hanover Medical School / ORCID Board of Directors
• Hal Warren, APA / OpenID Society / Open Identity Exchange

Provisional agenda and workshop description are available on the main website: http://irisc-workshop.org

Twitter users and other social networkers will also find the Lanyrd social conference directory useful: http://lanyrd.com/2011/irisc/

In coming weeks and months we will be posting updates on this event, as the programme, speakers and other details get firmed up. In the meantime, registration is open.