KMi researchers have secured £106,078 from UKRI’s Metascience Unit to explore how large language models can streamline grant peer review without diluting fairness. The 12-month project, led by Prof Petr Knoth and Dr Francesco Osborne in partnership with Sheffield and Salford universities, will test four AI roles: triaging low-quality proposals, acting as a third reviewer,…
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…
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…
Last week saw CORE founder Professor Petr Knoth at UNESCO in Paris for the 2025 Software Heritage Symposium and summit. Professor Knoth was presenting the work undertaken in the first year of the SoFAIR project, a two-year multinational CHIST-ERA project. The Open University is working in conjunction with multiple partners including INRIA, Brno University of…
