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Reflections from Tokyo: KMi’s CORE at the COAR 2025 Annual Meeting
Tuesday 20 May 2025
The COAR Annual Conference 2025 in Tokyo (12–14 May) was a key event for repository experts and open science advocates. Prof Petr Knoth represented CORE in discussions on AI, machine access, and repository infrastructure. On Day 1, Prof Knoth joined a panel exploring AI bots’ impact on repositories, stressing the need for clear standards and...
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Advancing Open Science with CORE: Insights from the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025
Monday 28 Apr 2025
KMi’s Prof Petr Knoth, participated as one of four Open Science panellists at the recent CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025. The panel addressed significant challenges in Open Science, including interoperability issues, underfunding of Green Open Access, lack of recognition for infrastructure contributions, and misaligned incentives. Prof Knoth highlighted the critical role of infrastructure like CORE in...
Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI Webinar
Monday 28 Apr 2025
The UKRI-funded project Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI (SAGE-RAI) organised a webinar on April 24th. The webinar offered participants the chance to participate in discussions on how AI can be responsibly used in education, addressing challenges of misinformation, copyright, and bias. Participants also had the opportunity to compare the experience of using...
Stanford releases the 2025 AI Index, with a little help from KMi
Wednesday 9 Apr 2025
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI published its 2025 AI Index report this week, providing a comprehensive look at the global state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The report, now in its eighth edition, tracks and visualises data on technical performance, economic impact, education, policy, and responsible AI to offer an empirical foundation for understanding the...
KMi’s contributions to Open Repositories 2025: Advancing Open Access and Research Innovation
Friday 4 Apr 2025
CORE will be contributing seven accepted submissions to the 20th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2025), taking place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 15–18 June 2025. These presentations highlight ongoing efforts to enhance open access, improve research discoverability, and address key challenges in the open repositories community. From managing machine access in the era of...
Last week the Shifting Power team, represented by Senior Research Fellow in KMi, Dr. Tracie Farrell, spoke at the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). First established in 1946, the CSW is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to promote gender equality and the rights of women globally. The commission has spent the...
CORE Successfully Completes the USRN Discovery Pilot Project, Enhancing Repository Discoverability in the United StatesA significant milestone has been reached: CORE’s pilot project with the USRN has concluded, delivering impressive outcomes, our pilot project with the United States Repository Network (USRN), a collaborative initiative between CORE, SPARC, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and AntLeaf. This pilot, which commenced in 2023, focused on assessing and increasing the discoverability and...
