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Every addition to the site, newest first: pages, news, datasets, map entries and features. Last updated 2026-10-01. Maintainers' notes on how each release was built are in the release notes.

2026-10-01

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IETcc-CSIC profile: quantities, angles and spectral ranges typeset as mathematics

First institution profile with typeset symbols; the database now accepts LaTeX in its text fields.

IETcc-CSIC

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Training section: courses, schools, tutorials and workshops offered by the network

New navbar entry. Lists training items and the existing schools; members can announce courses through the event form.

Training

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Upcoming events highlighted; a 'new' mark on News for two weeks after each post

Listing items dated today or later get a burgundy box like the home-page announcement band. The News link in the navbar shows a pulsing dot for 14 days after the latest post.

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What's new page, release notes and a 'last updated' stamp in the footer

The site now keeps a public log of additions and a maintainers' release history, both generated from data files at build time.

What's new · Release notes

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RISEnergy 5th transnational access call: free access to CNR-INO's optical laboratory

Call deadline 18 November 2026. The CNR-IMA1 facility page lists spectrometers from 0.18 to 55 µm and an emissivity furnace up to 1200 K.

News item · CNR-INO profile · b9f6111

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IETcc-CSIC database of reflectance and emissivity of 236 urban materials listed under data resources

Version 2 (2026) on DIGITAL.CSIC, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Data resources · b9f6111

2026-09-29

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Site-wide content audit: 45 corrections to citations, standards, institution facts, events and policy pages

Three wrong DOIs, a misattributed good-practice guide, EKHI descriptions brought in line with the real database, ISO 19618 and ASTM E408/C835 scopes, CCT-S1 added, ECTP 2023 dates, series periodicities, privacy page rewritten.

Standards & protocols · Cite EKHI · 709c8f9

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Mathematics typeset with MathJax across the site

Measurement-principles page rewritten with Planck's law, the four emissivity definitions and their integrals, Kirchhoff's law, Hagen–Rubens and Wien's law.

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Home-page figure: measured tungsten spectrum from EKHI replaces the illustrative curve

Normal spectral emissivity of tungsten ribbon at 1600 K, de Vos (1954), 28 measured points served by EKHI, with full citation.

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2026-09-25

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University name written as EHU throughout

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About page: site-at-a-glance infographic generated from site data

About · ae66aa3

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Research map: LNE, JRC Karlsruhe, BAM, IETcc-CSIC, UNT and THWS added (46 institutions)

Research map · 2c733ca

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IR-EMPOWER 2026 programme, speakers, committee, round table and award pages; talk BibTeX

IR-EMPOWER 2026 · 78ae938

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Research networks (TAMARYS, PaRaMetriC) and schools & courses pages

Schools & courses · TAMARYS · 358ea98

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Research map drawn on an OpenFreeMap basemap; iCal feed generated from the calendar data file

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2026-06-25

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News: Mireia Sainz-Menchón defends her doctoral thesis (Cum Laude, International Mention)

News item · 3213c07

2026-06-11

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Privacy-friendly analytics (GoatCounter) and privacy page

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Verified bibliography with 2026 entries, one page per publication, IR-EMPOWER section with the 2024 archive

Publications · IR-EMPOWER 2024 · 9012dbc

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emissivity.org version 3 published as a standalone Quarto site on Netlify

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