ISSN IC will participate in the meeting of French academic libraries to be held online on 20 May 2021. Nathalie Cornic, Head of the metadata and technical coordination of the ISSN Network, will provide an update about the participation of the ISSN Network in CIDEMIS, the Dematerialized CIrcuit of ISSN Requests that manages ISSN assignment and modification requests. A presentation of the latest projects involving the ISSN International Centre is also on the agenda.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will chair the 2021 ISO TC46 Annual Meeting that will take place remotely due to the pandemic. Several working groups will convene to make progress on developing standards regarding information and documentation. All subcommittees will hold plenaries and vote resolutions to define their workplan for the year to come.

Gaëlle Béquet, ISSN IC Director, will co-lead the European Open Science Cloud PID Task Force that will monitor and provide community feedback on the implementation of the PID policy and Architecture. The EOSC initiative will offer researchers a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data across borders and scientific disciplines by federating existing data infrastructures.