Third Party Funded Projects

MPDL

The aim of this page is to give an overview on projects in preparation where the MPDL is involved and which are possible funded by external bodies. The idea is that everybody from the MPDL who is involved in a project can further edit and complete the information given below or add new projects. As soon as a project is granted and has started, an individual CoLab page might be created containing further information (see Category:Projects). These individual project pages should be open to the public since the information given on this page is for the MPDL user group only.

Due to ongoing changes in the status of these projects, the information on this page might be out of date from time to time.

Feedback is very welcome and can be put on the discussion page.

Cooperation project with NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science)
Project website: NIMS

Project description:

The aim of this project is a close cooperation between NIMS and the eSciDoc project. NIMS is interested in a web-based platform that allows their scholars to access and disseminate their research output. NIMS will support the further development of the eSciDoc platform and will especially focus on the implementation of customization functionalities and internationalization aspects.

Partner:

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan

MPDL deliverables:

In the context of the collaboration NIMS want to set up a specification for the NIMS Research Library System. Based on the specification we will jointly customize eSciDoc for NIMS Research Library System. They will also develop a digital rights management system and a digital access management system that apply and target both MPDL and NIMS libraries’ users.

Status:

Cooperation agreement has been officially signed on 31st March 2008.

Internal project start / end:

July 2007 - June 2011

Intended project start:

1 April 2008 - 31.03.2011

Project period:

3 years

Funding Money:

172.800,00 EUR

MPDL contact:

Malte Dreyer

Further information:
 * MPDL/NIMS press release

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

Project description:

The aim of the DARIAH project is to provide a coordinated infrastructure for supporting preservation of cultural heritage in Europe and providing access to research material from the humanities. DARIAH ensures a long-term sustainability as well as openness to other similar activities in Europe, covering the wide spectrum of research in the humanities and related fields. DARIAH will coordinate, catalyse, enhance and provide technical and editorial support to all research projects that express needs to access or produce digital assets. Key processes are:
 * Bringing together the best efforts at national, organisational and individual level in order to launch enhanced Europe-wide actions, initiatives and services
 * Developing national services and digitisation programs, particularly in countries where these are non-existent at present
 * Bringing together research, education, cultural heritage and “memory” institutions and organisations in the commercial and non-commercial sector
 * Enhancing digital scholarship in the humanities and arts across Europe

Partner:


 * Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), United Kingdom
 * Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS), France
 * Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Netherlands
 * University of Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Goettingen State and University Library (SUB), Germany
 * Academy of Athens, Greece
 * Archaeology Data Service (ADS), United Kingdom
 * Athena - Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication & Knowledge Technologies, Greece
 * Cyprus College, Cyprus
 * Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ireland
 * Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
 * Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia
 * Oxford University Computing Services, United Kingdom

MPDL Deliverables:

The MPDL will take the lead in the two work packages contributing to the design of the financial and legal structure of DARIAH and is involved in the governance and logistical work and in the activities of the technological reference architecture of DARIAH based on eSciDoc.

Status:

The Grant Agreement between the European Commission and the project partners has been signed by the project partners.

Funding schema:

Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7)

Call: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1

Internal project start / end:

September 2006 –

Intended project start:

October 2008

Proposed funding period:

2 years

MPDL contact:

Andreas Gros, Heike Neuroth

DiLiA (Digital Library Assistant)
Project description:

The focus of this project lays in the development of novel access possibilities to information stored in digital libraries. Digital libraries contain information of different scientific domains and provide a web-based access to its digital formats. At present users may search by names, standardized key words or other text-based possibilities. DiLiA will expand the access and search possibilities in various dimensions: DiLiA will support and guide users during their information inquiries in allowing to search virtually within search results. Furthermore DiLiA will enable to extract cross references and correlations for a selected pool of documents.

Partner:
 * German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany

MPDL Deliverables:
 * Access and documentation of eSciDoc interfaces, if necessary the provision of new interfaces
 * Provision of BibTeX interfaces to enable import of bibliographic data
 * Access and documentation of efficient APIs
 * Documentation of SRU/SRW interfaces, enabling open search requests

Status:

Proposal is accepted and funding is provided.

Funding schema:

Programm zur Föderung von Forschung, Innovationen und Technologien (ProFIT) der Investitionsbank Berlin. Das Programm wird von der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Europäischer Fond für Regionale Entwicklung / EFRE) kofinanziert.

Internal project start / end

September 2007 –

Funding period:

01.06.2008 – 30.12.2011

Funding Money:

109.725,00 EUR

MPDL contact:

Malte Dreyer

eHumanities
Project description:

The aim of the project is the conceptual development of a virtual research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Germany. The project will focus on the following activities:
 * Preparation of a study about the national and international situation in the domain of eHumanities-Infrastructures.
 * Organization of an expert-workshop to develop a concept for the creation of a research infrastructure in the Arts and Humanities. Expert-workshop will take place on 6th of June 2008 at SUB Goettingen with invited national and international experts.
 * Elaboration of a roadmap to demonstrate how a national infrastructure in an virtual research environment for the Arts and Humanities may look like.
 * Organization of an eHumanities conference at SUB Goettingen (planned for 20th of January 2009).

Partner:

Proposal has been submitted by the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB). The MPDL and the Technical University Darmstadt are both scientific co-applicants that contribute merely through their expertise and do not get any funding.

Status:

Proposal has been positively evaluated. Project has started.

Funding schema:

DFG Förderprogramm: Kulturelle Überlieferung, Aktionslinie “Bibliotheken und Archive im Verbund mit der Forschung”

Funding period:

01.01.2008 - 31.12.2008

MPDL contact:

Heike Neuroth

Link:

http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/

eSciDoc
Project websites:
 * http://www.escidoc-project.de (official project website)
 * http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/Category:ESciDoc (related work in progress)
 * https://zim01.gwdg.de/trac/wiki/eSciDoc (related work in progress)

Project description:

The aim of the project is the development of a re-usable infrastructure and user-applications for the scientific communication and publication in research organisations. It is focused on the long-term and free access to research results and materials (publications and primary-data) as well as the support of innovative forms of scientific and multidisciplinary cooperations.

Partner:


 * FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany

MPDL Deliverables:

Status:

Third project phase has been granted.

Funding schema:

Funding body: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Topic: eScience – kollaboratives, wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Netz

Funding Program: IT-Forschung 2006

Internal project start / end:

2004 –

Approved funding period:

01.08.2004 – 31.07.2009

MPDL contact:

Malte Dreyer (project lead), Ulla Tschida (service management), Natasa Bulatovic (development), Rupert Kiefl (user interface engineering)

KIM (Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten)
Project website: http://www.kim-forum.org/

Project description:

The Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM) is an competence center for interoperable metadata in Germany. The goal is to build information and communication platforms and provide advice to users and developers of metadata profiles.

Partner:
 * Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), Germany
 * German National Library (DNB), Germany

MPDL Deliverables:
 * Support creation of the TechWatchReport
 * Support creation of an database of experts contributing to the TechWatchReport

Status:
 * The project has received the announcement of funding by the DFG.

Funding schema:

DFG programme "Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS)"

Internal project start / end:

2008 – 2009

Proposed funding period:

15 months

Contact:

Andreas Gros

PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe)
Project website: http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/PARSE.Insight

Project description and Partner:

see PARSE.Insight

MPDL Deliverables:

Joint tasks of MPDL and SUB Goettingen:
 * Development of a roadmap on the long-term availability of scientific research data
 * Identification of relevant scientific data provider and their approach of digital long-term archiving
 * Preparation of an analysis of the European research infrastructure in the domain of long-term availability of digital primary data
 * Development of an environment for a comparative analysis of the implications of investment decisions in the domain of digital long-term availability
 * Participation in existing standardization efforts in the domain of digital long-term availability
 * Organization of the projects' PR activities

Status:

Proposal has been accepted.

Funding schema:

Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7)

Call: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-2

Internal project start / end:

May 2007 –

Project start / end:

01. March 2008 - 28 February 2010

Proposed funding period:

2 years

Funding Money:

72.653,00 EUR

MPDL contact:

Wolfgang Voges, Heike Neuroth

PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research)
Project website: http://www.peerproject.eu/

Project description:

Peer-reviewed journals play a key role in scholarly communication and make an essential contribution to the progress of science and European competitiveness. The publishing and research communities agree that access to the results of European funded research is important to maximise its use and impact. However, they hold different views on whether mandated deposit in open access repositories is necessary and the embargo periods that would be appropriate. No consensus has been reached on a way forward.

The key problem is that there is no clear evidence of what the impact of archiving research outputs in open access repositories will be if implemented on a broad and systematic scale. The PEER project is a collaboration involving the publishing, library and research communities to gather this evidence. The aim is to develop an “observatory” to monitor the effects of systematic archiving over time. Participating publishers will collectively contribute 300 journals to the project and allow deposit of stage-two research outputs in European repositories using various embargo periods. Supporting research studies will address issues such as:
 * How large-scale archiving will affect journal viability
 * Whether it increases access
 * How it will affect the broader ecology of European research
 * Factors influencing the readiness to deposit in institutional and disciplinary repositories and the associated cost
 * Models to illustrate how traditional publishing systems can coexist with self-archiving.

Partner:


 * International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), Netherlands
 * European Science Foundation (ESF), France
 * Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), Germany
 * Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France

MPDL Deliverables:

The MPDL will take the lead in the work package called "manage research process". Beyond this the MPDL is also involved in the project management and in public relations activities. More information about the MPDL role in PEER is available on the project homepage

Status:

Proposal is accepted

Funding schema:

eContentplus programme of the European Commission.

Internal project start / end:

September 2007 –

Project start:

01. November 2008 - 31.09.2011

Funding Money:

670.350,00 EUR

Proposed funding period:

3 years

MPDL contact:

Christoph Bruch

SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing)
Project description:

The SOAP project will describe and analyse open access publishing. It will compare and contrast business models, gauging the importance of research funder mandates and investigating differences and similarities when publishers lead on open access and when libraries or research communities lead. This will lead to better understanding of the propensity for research communities to adopt open access. The SOAP project will document routes for an orderly transition to open access publishing and delineate a number of directions along which publishing may evolve in future.

Partner:


 * European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
 * Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom
 * BioMed Central Ltd, United Kingdom
 * Sage Publications Ltd, United Kingdom
 * Springer Science + Business Media Deutschland GmbH, Germany

MPDL deliverables:

The primary role of the MPDL is the characterization of Open Access publishing business models. Furthermore the MPDL is in charge of the dissemination activites. Beyond this, the MPDL participates in the other work packages in a minor role.

Status:

Proposal has been accepted; contract in progress.

Funding schema:

Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7)

Call: FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1

Internal project start / end:

November 2007 - November 2008

Project start / end:

01. March 2009 - 28. February 2011

Proposed funding period:

2 years

Funding Money:

198.699,00 EUR

MPDL contact:

Ralf Schimmer

WFSI (World Forum on Scientific Information)
Project description:

The Forum is an attempt to create a self-sustainable Forum with a lasting impact for European and World Policies in the domain of the dissemination of Scientific Information, Scientific Publishing and Knowledge Sharing while taking the opportunity to use and reinforce the framework provided by the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), specifically the Action Line C9 e-Science which is coordinated by the Division for Science Policy and Sustainable Development (Mustafa El Tayeb, Director) at UNESCO.

Partner:


 * ICV Volunteers, Switzerland
 * UNESCO, France
 * Association pour la recherché et le développement des processus industriels / Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France
 * The Association of African Universities, Ghana
 * Molecular Diversity Preservation Foundation, Switzerland

MPDL deliverables:

The MPDL will lead the work package on network and community building with publishers, archivists and librarians.

Status:

Proposal has been submitted.

Funding schema:

Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7)

Call: FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1

Internal project start / end:

Proposed funding period:

3 years

MPDL contact:

Christoph Bruch

TextGrid – Vernetzte Forschungsumgebung in den eHumanities
Project website: http://www.textgrid.de

Project description:

TextGrid zielt darauf ab, seine Nutzerbasis durch die Integration neuer fachwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen (z. B. Musikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte) zu verbreitern und die Nachhaltigkeit von TextGrid als virtuelle Forschungsumgebung für die eHumanities zu garantieren. Darüber hinaus strebt TextGrid zusammen mit den anderen wissenschaftsbezogenen Community Grids in Deutschland eine enge inhaltliche Kooperation an.

Die Voraussetzungen für die technische und fachliche Nachhaltigkeit werden in zwei Säulen erarbeitet: Neben der Stabilisierung der Technologie wie der Dienste gilt es, ein tragfähiges Geschäftsmodell zu entwickeln (BMBF Referat 524) sowie eine international vernetzte Community aus Fachwissenschaftlern, Institutionen und Entwicklern im Sinne eines eHumanities-Netzwerkes aufzubauen (BMBF Referat 722).

Dadurch werden die geisteswissenschaftlichen Communities in die Lage versetzt, sowohl ihre Forschungsfragen auf einer neuen Daten-, Dienste- und Methodenbasis zu bearbeiten als auch ihre Wissenschafts- und Kommunikationskultur neu zu organisieren in Richtung auf international vernetzte, kollaborativ, inter- und transdisziplinär forschende Communities.

Partner:


 * Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB)
 * Universität Paderborn, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar*Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Netherlands
 * Saphor GmbH, Deutschland
 * Fachhochschule Worms, Fachbereich Informatik
 * Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Deutschland
 * Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, vertreten durch Max Planck Digital Library
 * DAASI International GmbH, Deutschland
 * Universität Trier, Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften
 * Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
 * Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
 * LMU, Münchner Zentrum für Editionswissenschaften

MPDL Deliverables:

Zur gegenseitigen Nachnutzung der technischen Komponenten und für eine optimale Interoperabilität werden bestehende Dienste und Tools der eSciDoc Infrastruktur und der TextGrid Plattform zusammengeführt. Die Zusammenführung der Komponenten wird durch die zugrunde liegenden Open Source Konzepte beider Projekte unterstützt (AP 1). Darüber hinaus beteiligt sich die MPDL an der Entwicklung eines nachhaltigen Geschäftsmodells (AP 3) und den Aufbau eines eHumanitie Netzwerkes in Deutschland (AP 7). Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt bildet die Entwicklung geeigneter Tools für die Wissenschaftler des MPI Kunstgeschichte und für das MPI Psycholinguistik (AP 6).

Status:

Projektantrag für zweite Projektphase bewilligt.

Funding schema:

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Referat 722 und Referat 524

Internal project start / end:

Intended project start:

Februar 2009

Proposed funding period:

3 years

MPDL contact:

Malte Dreyer, Heike Neuroth

= CARPET =

(Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology)

Project description:

The aim of CARPET is the development of an information platform about electronic publishing. This information platform will give a structured, evaluative overview on available epublishing tools and services, and guide users to the appropriate technical solutions for their respective usage scenario. It will also provide recommendations on best practices and applicable standards (regarding document models, publication workflows or architectures of publishing systems). The platform shall become a virtual competence center for electronic publishing, a forum for users and developers alike.

Partner:


 * Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), Germany: DINI
 * Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU), Germany

MPDL Deliverables:

In principle, the MPDL is involved in all project activities but will take the lead in the work package dedicated to standards and interoperability and in the PR activities of the project.

Status:

Proposal has been approved.

Funding schema:

DFG Programme: Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS)

Project start / end:

July 2007 –

Funding period:

01.10.2008 - 30.09.2009

Funding Money:

128.085,44 EUR

MPDL contact:

Melanie Stetter, Christina Weyher, Frank Schulz