Upcoming Events


Past Events



Nov 16, 2020 to Nov 19, 2020 , location: Online

FREYA, EOSC-Hub and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. Join our final event to learn more about the work FREYA has done in the past three years to build the infrastructure for persistent identifiers in the context of the EOSC.



Nov 09, 2020 to Nov 13, 2020 , location: online

VP16 will include all of the main elements of a typical in-person plenary event (breakout sessions, plenary sessions, poster event, networking events, etc.), but scheduled over an entire week to accommodate multiple time zones.



Sep 30, 2020 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM , location: online

DataCite recently launched DataCite Commons, a new discovery service which allows you to conduct simple searches across different types of PIDs giving a comprehensive overview of the connections between entities. DataCite Commons has been released as a minimum viable product and will be developed in the future. This webinar will present the new service and provide the background to it, including the user driven requirements gathering and give an opportunity for feedback on how much it meets your needs and what else you would like it to do.



Aug 27, 2020 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM , location: Online

FREYA is organizing an online demonstration of how to use Jupyter notebooks to query the PID Graph. We will present different use cases and show how the PID Graph and specifically the DataCite GraphQL interface can be used to gather information.



Aug 25, 2020 , location: online

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different fields (including, but not limited to, Digital Libraries, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Scholarly Communication, and Bibliometrics) in order to explore innovative solutions and ideas for the production and consumption of Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs).



Aug 05, 2020 , location: Online

The FREYA project is organising an online workshop on the uses, opportunities and challenges of persistent identifiers (PIDs) across research disciplines, with a particular focus on projects active in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and other European initiatives.



Jul 08, 2020 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM , location: online

This webinar is an opportunity to hear about FREYA’s newly launched PID Services Registry, www.pidservices.org, and provide feedback to help shape the service as it develops.



May 28, 2020 03:30 PM to May 29, 2020 04:30 PM , location: online

This webinar will showcase the latest developments from the EC-funded FREYA project, including the PID Graph which provides a method to discover the relationships between different researchers and their organisations and find out the full impact of research outputs. It will also describe upcoming developments planned in the final year of the project such as a Common DOI Search



May 26, 2020 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM , location: online

This webinar will provide an overview of the recently launched DataCite's GraphQL API, which drives the PID Graph, the graph of scholarly resources described by persistent identifiers and the connections between them.



May 18, 2020 to May 20, 2020 , location: online

The EOSC-hub Week 2020 will bring together key players in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). FREYA will attend the event.



Apr 27, 2020 10:00 AM to 12:45 PM , location: online

The goal of the event is to discuss and validate the Landscape Report’s first draft with the experts from Governance Board, Executive Board as well as EOSC5b projects, clusters, ESFRI research infrastructures, and the other EOSC EB Working Groups. FREYA will participate to this event.



Apr 09, 2020 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM , location: Online

NARCIS is the Dutch national portal for scientific information. In this webinar our partner DANS will present the NARCIS PID graph that has been developed as part of the FREYA project.



Apr 06, 2020 to Apr 10, 2020 , location: online

The RDA Plenary will take place online as a virtual event, from March 18th to April 10th.



Feb 27, 2020 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM , location: webinar

The Persistent Identifiers (PID) Graph provides a great example of the potential of persistent identifiers. It provides a way to connect and understand the relationships between different entities involved in the research process including researchers, research organisations, publications and datasets.



Feb 26, 2020 01:00 PM to Feb 28, 2020 01:00 PM , location: The Hague (NL)

DANS has taken the initiative to bring trainers in projects related to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) together to work on the future of training activities in EOSC.



Jan 29, 2020 to Jan 30, 2020 , location: Lisbon, Portugal

FREYA will be present at PIDapalooza 2020 with several sessions



Dec 04, 2019 , location: London, UK

Come join us understand where software sits in research and how it relates to papers and datasets.



Nov 26, 2019 to Nov 29, 2019 , location: Budapest, Hungary

EOSC Symposium 2019



Nov 06, 2019 to Nov 19, 2019 , location: Porto, Portugal

STFC and BL will be presenting their work on provenance and the PID graph.



Oct 28, 2019 to Oct 31, 2019 , location: Rome, Italy

Vasily Bunakov from STFC will give a presentation on Metadata integration with labeled-property graphs, and the role of PIDs during the MTSR conference.



Oct 21, 2019 02:00 PM to 06:00 PM , location: Helsinki, Finland

From 23rd to 25th October 2019 the 14th RDA Plenary meeting will take place in Helsinki, Finland. FREYA will be present and will engage with the PID community.



Oct 16, 2019 to Oct 17, 2019 , location: Edinburgh

Christine Ferguson (EMBL-EBI) will give a presentation on "The FREYA project: collaborating to link people, papers and data to new things" on October 17th.



Jun 25, 2019 to Jun 27, 2019 , location: Manchester, UK

Frances Madden (British Library) will give a lightning talk about FREYA to introduce it to the Carpentries community during the CarpentryConnect.



Jun 10, 2019 to Jun 13, 2019 , location: Hamburg, Germany

FREYA will be presenting at the Open Repositories 2019



May 09, 2019 03:30 PM to 05:00 PM , location: Online

The FREYA project is holding a midway webinar to showcase our work of the past 18 months and give an outlook for the future.



May 06, 2019 to May 07, 2019 , location: Portland, Oregon

California Digital Library (CDL) and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are organizing a PIDs workshop in the USA this spring to bring together international PID experts and leaders of PID systems in scholarly communications.



Apr 10, 2019 to Apr 12, 2019 , location:

FREYA will be present at the session on Services to support FAIR data during the EOSC-hub Week in Prague.



Apr 07, 2019 to Apr 08, 2019 , location: Cambridge

Join us at the 12th International Biocuration Conference where Christine Ferguson (EBI) will give a poster presentation about FREYA.



Apr 02, 2019 to Apr 04, 2019 , location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

From 2-4 April 2019 the 13th RDA plenary meeting will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. FREYA will be present to engage with the PID community and discuss the project's progress and outcomes.



Jan 31, 2019 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM , location: Online

Want to get your head around data citation? Look no further! Join Crossref and DataCite for a free webinar to delve into the details of data citation.



Jan 23, 2019 to Jan 24, 2019 , location: Dublin

Open identifiers deserve their own festival.



Nov 21, 2018 to Nov 22, 2018 , location: Vienna, Austria

On 21 and 22 November the second "Stakeholder Forum" of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will take place in Vienna.



Nov 12, 2018 to Nov 13, 2018 , location: London

The FREYA project in collaboration with JISC are coordinating a two day international strategy workshop on persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research.



Oct 09, 2018 , location: Lisbon

In an interactive session titled "Persistent Identifiers in use: Exchanging ideas about new developments in the field of PID services" FREYA team members will present work that has been done on PIDs and collect feedback from the community.



Jun 14, 2018 to Jun 16, 2018 , location: Umeå, Sweden

Presentations about "CRIS and persistent identifiers: how do they work together?" and "Principles and Pragmatics of “as open as possible”: persistent identifiers as the interface between research information commons and closed systems"



Jun 07, 2018 03:30 PM to 05:00 PM , location: Edinburgh

Workshop about persistent identifiers given at the ORBIT Project Community Forum



Apr 17, 2018 05:00 PM to 11:59 PM , location: Brussels

Presentation about the FREYA project and new developments in core research infrastructures (identifiers for people, funding and organisations).



Mar 21, 2018 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM , location: Berlin, Germany

FREYA, EOSC-hub, and OpenAIRE-Advance jointly hold a Birds-of-a-Feather session during the 11th RDA plenary: "EOSC-related European Projects getting Global: Engaging with the RDA"