VIT^L Framework and Convergence Community Discussion
On Tuesday 8 December, ICOR is hosting a webinar on VIT^L, a new framework for verifiable, reusable research, and on how it will be developed further at the Convergence conference in Montreal next June.
VIT^L comes from an Action Collaborative of the US National Academies’ Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. It provides a set of principles that research communication should have: Versioned, Interoperable, Transparent, Auditable, Attributable, AI-actionable and Linked. The aim is research that people and machines alike can check, reuse and build on. It also proposes sharing much earlier in the research process, in smaller versioned pieces such as individual datasets and figures, rather than waiting for a finished paper. Read the full announcement.
The framework will be published as a report for comment later this year. Its next stage of development will then take place at Convergence (16–18 June 2027, Montreal), a new community-led conference held straight after Metascience 2027. Convergence aims to brings together researchers, funders, research communicators, technologists and policymakers who are working to make science more open, connected and reusable.
The webinar will include:
- talks introducing the VIT^L framework
- how it connects to Convergence
- how you can comment on the framework and get involved
- open discussion
When: Tuesday 8 December 2026, 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/COpIT7nvSRGRcak7SpPjNA
Speakers will be announced soon, so register to save a place in your diary. Everyone interested in open science is welcome.