Third Management Meeting
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(For general information see Workshops Berlin, October 2013)
Contents
Date and venue
11th of October (Friday) 2013, Berlin, Germany.
JKI, Room TBA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Don Kirkup | RBGK | DK |
| Eva Kralt | Naturalis | EK |
| Anton Güntsch | FUB-BGBM | AG |
| Gregor Hagedorn | MfN | GH |
| Daniel Mietchen | MfN | DM |
| Jeremy Miller | Naturalis | JM |
| Stephanie Morales | Sigma | SM |
| Alan Paton | RBGK | AP |
| Lyubomir Penev | Pensoft | LP |
| Soraya Sierra | Naturalis | SS |
| Camille Torrenti | Sigma | CT |
| Jan van Tol | Naturalis | JvT |
Agenda
- 08.45 - 09:00 Welcome of participants (including coffee and tea)
- 09:00 - 09:10 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
