Meeting SUB MPDL FIZ December 2007

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Meeting SUB-MPDL-FIZ, 4th of December, Göttingen, 11:15-15:45

Participants: Stefan Farrenkopf (SUB), Heike Neuroth (SUB), Stefanie Rühle (SUB), Malte Dreyer (MPDL), Andreas Gros (MPDL), Ulla Tschida (MPDL), Frank Schwichtenberg (FIZ)

What follows, is no detailed protocol, but rather subjective trip report:

Update Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM)
http://www.kim-forum.org/index.htm

Contact MPDL: Andreas Gros

Status: Application for next funding period includes MPDL as partner organisation. Possible activities MPDL:
 * SKOS - knowledge organization systems (might be outcome of current AG Interoperable Metadata)
 * Publishing of Technology Watch report
 * Technical infrastructure for expert database

Activities will start October 2008

Requirements DFG:
 * improved integration of institutions in A and CH (in progress)
 * development of sustainable business models for consolidation of KIM outcome/expertise (in progress)

Current work at KIM:
 * certification of MD application profiles
 * currently test certification of collection description profiles (vascoda)
 * certification => tool for validation of external metadata (e.g. useful for document delivery services) currently in progress by SUB => automatic mapping tool?
 * escidoc validation service will be checked for possible usage (validation checker for vascoda)

Update Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH)
http://www.dariah.eu/

Status: Application approved, but with reduced funding. Therefore the project will focus on 2 demonstrator applications:
 * migrate Arena (= database for archaeological findings) into new infrastructure
 * develop Fedora-based demonstrator in grid-context

Activities for MPDL still unclear.

Focus: "Gridification of Fedora", with some focus on needs of text grid (=> first contact between Frank and Andi to check the preliminary topics, see next meeting, preliminary agenda)


 * Heike Neuroth will start 01.01.2008 50% for MPDL in Berlin (Focus DARIAH, eHumanities)

Update Dublin Core Conference 2008 (DC2008)
http://dc2008.de/

Status: Call for paper released => FIZ, MPDL, SUB, please submit!

Proposals needed for workshops (during conference week) and seminars (on Friday). First ideas:
 * follow up from first eSciDoc community seminar, scheduled for April
 * semantic web (weikum et al)

Next Meeting
Karlsruhe, 10th of march, 11:00 (alternatively: München)

see Preliminary agenda