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First thoughts on a seminar program in the MPG (Peter Wittenburg, december 2005)
Topics of interest[edit]
Research life cycle[edit]
- Changes in research methodology
- Changes in research questions and discourse
- "Communication" and "interdisciplinarity" - impact in the three sections of the MPG
Functional aspects[edit]
- Integration and Interoperability
- Virtual Organizations
- Virtual collaborations
- "Break down the barriers"
Enabling technologies[edit]
- Grid Technologies
- Certification and PKI infrastructure
- Authentification and authorization
- Web services
- Grid software
- Repositories
- Federation technologies
- Relevant standards
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Metadata/registries
- Schemas
- Concept registries
- Ontologies
- Media technologies
- Linguistic and text technologies
- Relevant standards
Legal and ethical aspects[edit]
- Basis of federations
- Open Access Movement
- IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) and legal framewokr
- Licensing
- Ethical questions
Political / strategic issues[edit]
- International activities (e.g. UK, USA, France, NL)
- Activities supported / funded by EU
- Positioning of MPG?
- Political activities of MPG?
Target groups (their functions)[edit]
- Main focus on MPG scientists and staff
- Representatives of other research organizations are welcomed
Directors, management representatives:
- Awareness building, transfer of strategical knowledge, input in discussions on formation and infrastructure
Scientists:
- Awareness building, transfer of concrete knowledge
Developers:
- Transfer of concrete knowledge
Planned activities[edit]
- Topic-clusters will be offered for specific target groups => seminars from 2-5 days (2-day course for directors)
- Within the topic cluster, re-combinable modules will be developed
- Focus of knowledge transfer on “grid technologies” and “semantic web technologies” (5 day seminar each)
- Seminars will be organised by RZG (Rechenzentrum Garching) and technical group of MPI Psycholinguistics. Support will be provided by the MPG.
- Experts will be invited to each of the seminars, with special attention on external experts for the seminars organised for directors
- Seminars will start in summer 2006