Second Management Committee meeting
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(For general information see Workshops Berlin, May 2013)
Contents
Date and venue
24th of May (Friday) 2013, Berlin, Germany.
JKI, Room B103 (right side building, 1 floor, near corner of L-shaped building).
The meeting took place at the JKI biological research center
- Julius Kühn Institute
Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
Königin-Luise-Str. 19
14195 Berlin, Germany
Hotels
Seminaris Campus hotel - 550 m
Ravenna hotel - 1,8 km
Best Western Plus Hotel Steglitz International - 2,2 km
Participants
| Name | Organisation | Short name |
|---|---|---|
| Donat Agosti | Plazi | DA |
| Laurence Bénichou | MNHN | LB |
| Jordan Bisserkov | Pensoft | JB |
| Terry Catapano | Plazi | TC |
| Anton Guentsch | FU-BGBM | WB |
| Sabrina Eckert | FU-BGBM | SE |
| Willi Egloff | Plazi | WE |
| Teodor Georgiev | Pensoft | TG |
| Quentin Groom | NBGB | QG |
| Gregor Hagedorn | Plazi | GH |
| Jana Hoffman | MfN | JH |
| Thomas Janßen | HU | TJ |
| Don Kirkup | RBGK | DK |
| Eva Kralt | Naturalis | EK |
| Jeremy Miller | Naturalis | JM |
| Stephanie Morales | SIGMA | SM |
| Alan Paton | RBGK | AP |
| Lyubomir Penev | Pensoft | LP |
| Soraya Sierra | Naturalis | SS |
| Jan van Tol | Naturalis | JvT |
| Camille Torrenti | SIGMA | CT |
| Patricia Kelbert (maybe) | FU-BGBM | PK |
Agenda
- 08.45 - 09:00 Welcome of participants (including coffee and tea)
- 09:00 - 09:05 Introduction & announcements - Soraya Sierra, Naturalis
- 09.10 - 10.30 Review of workshop on stakeholder requirements - Don Kirkup, RBGK
- 10.30 - 10.45 Tea/coffee break
- 10.45 - 12.00 cont. Review of workshop on stakeholder requirements - Don Kirkup, RBGK
- 12.00 - 12.15 Review of workshop on measuring and constraining the costs of delivering services - Soraya Sierra, Naturalis
- 12.15 - 12.30 Review of workshop on coordination & routes for cooperation across organizations, projects & e-infrastructures - Gregor Hagedorn, JKI/Plazi
- 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break
- 13.30 - 13.50 How to better disseminate the results and activities of our project? Example of social networks - Camille Torrenti, SIGMA
- 13.50 - 14.10 Exploitation plans, business models & discussion of sustainability: what's next? - Camille Torrenti, SIGMA
- 14.10 - 14.25 Update on "Semantic integration of biodiversity literature", Task 3.3 lead by the MfN - Jana Hoffman, MfN
- 14.25 - 14.40 Progress on pilot 1: Interoperability model between PLAZI and the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy based on transformations between XML-repositories and CDM-stores - Anton Guentsch, FUB-BGBM
- 14.40 - 15.15 Progress on pilot 2: Interoperability model between taxon treatments from both legacy and prospective literature from three organismic domains (fungi, plants and animals) - various speakers (see table below)
| Speaker | Organisation(s) involved in the pilots | Taxa |
|---|---|---|
| Lyubomir Penev | Pensoft | Chilopoda |
| Don Kirkup | RBGK | Mistletoes (families Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) |
| Donat Agosti | Plazi | Ants |
| Jeremy Miller | Naturalis | Spiders |
| Quentin Groom | FUB-BGBM & NBGB | Chenopodium (Goosefoots) |
| Eva Kralt | Naturalis | Fungi - Russulaceae |
| Sylvia Mota de Oliveira | Naturalis | Bryophyta - Calymperaceae |
- 15.15 - 15.25 Progress on pilot 3: Common query/response model for automated registration of higher plants (International Plant Names Index, IPNI), fungi (Index Fungorum, MycoBank) and animals (ZooBank) - Lyubomir Penev, Pensoft
- 15.25 - 15.30 Progress on pilot 4: Revision of a tool (CharaParser) that generates identification keys by reusing morphological characters from published species descriptions - Donat Agosti, Plazi
- 15:30 - 15:45 Tea/Coffee break
- 15.45 - 16.30 Progress & status of deliverables / personnel hired or to be hired / announcements concerning these deliverables (period May - October 2013) (c. 4 min each speaker)
Soraya Sierra - Naturalis
- Best Practices Guide on editorial policies(due May)
- 3rd & 4th Management reports (due May and August)
- Periodic report and financial statements(Year 1) (due 31st of October at the latest)
Donat Agosti - Plazi
- Concept paper for involvement of individual experts, commercial vendors, and citizen scientists (due May)
- Report on ongoing biodiversity related projects, current e-infrastructures and standards (due June)
- Report on the state and quality of biosystematics documents and survey reports (due August)
- Draft strategy for increased cooperation (due September)
Willi Egloff - Plazi
- Drafts policy on Open Access for data and information (1) (due August)
Quentin Groom - NBGB
- Proof of concept reports on the use of e-tools (due August)
Don Kirkup - RBGK
- Report on user feedback (due August)
Lyubomir Penev - Pensoft
- Electronic newsletter 3 (due August)
Camille Torrenti - SIGMA
- Report on dissemination, communication and public awareness (1) (due August)
- Report on diversity and strengths of existing business plans and discussion of sustainability (2) (due August)
Anton Guentsch - BGBM
- Progress on T4.1 and deliverable "Report on strategies for improved cooperation and interoperability between infrastructures"
- 16.30 - 16.50 Update on milestones (period May - October 2013), including preparations, progress, logistics, challenges, a.o.
Don Kirkup - RBGK
- Meetings with clients/users - benefits (due June)
- Follow-up (small) meetings on selected topics with the relevant stakeholders (due September)
- Workshop on user engagement and benefits (due October)
- Meeting to evaluate business models currently in use by partners and relevant non-partners (due October)
Camille Torrenti - SIGMA
- First report on articles and contributions to events (due August)
Donat Agosti - Plazi
- Workshop on how to promote the development & adoption of common mark-up standards & interoperability (due October)
Soraya Sierra - Naturalis
- Mid-term review (logistics, preparation) (due September)
- 16.50 - 17.00 Conclusions - all participants
- 17.15 End of meeting
