EScience Seminar 2008
Topics[edit]
- Unique and persistent identifiers, 27/28 March 2008
- Responsible for contents: Daan Broeder (MPI Nijmegen) and Malte Dreyer (MPDL)
- Background: An increasing number of scientists uses the internet to link between primary and secondary resources, as well as publications for various reasons. The corresponding (considerable) investments have to be protected by keeping those links unique and persistent, unlike the widely used URLs.
- Goal: The seminar will discuss suggestions for a stable mechanism for referencing sources persistently and will work out corresponding strategic measures for the Max Planck Society.
- Place: RZG München
- Aspects of long term archiving, 19/20 June 2008
- Responsible for contents: Wolfgang Voges (MPI Garching) and Dagmar Ullrich (GWDG)
- Goal: Based on the gain in experience in previous years of the GWDG and the RZG in offering services for bitstream preservation and the awareness of the need for open archivable formats, strategies for long term archiving in the Max Planck Society will be developed. Furthermore, future service offers and suggestions for file formats and metadata will be discussed, and organisatorial responsibilities within the life-cycle management of data (format migration, access strategies) within the Max Planck Society will be clarified.
- Place: GWDG Göttingen
- Metadata infrastructures, 14/15 October 2008 (date was changed from 23/24 October)
- Responsible for contents: Traugott Koch (MPDL) and Peter Wittenburg (MPI Nijmegen)
- Background: All Max Planck Institutes have to cope with the management of an increasing amount of data and its storage for at least 10 years. Metadata descriptions are essential to the solution of the management problem. Metadata can also be used to support resource discovery, to perform scientific data-mining and to generate virtual collections.
- Goal: The seminar will present and discuss the role of metadata in the context of management, use and reuse of scientific data (e-Science). Presenters from ongoing large international e-Science projects will describe issues, experiences, problems and solutions. International and German experts will talk about standard-developing efforts regarding necessary infrastructure components and demonstrate feasible methodologies , i.e. metadata application profiles, linking between datasets and publications, treatment of aggregations of web resources. Presentations from MPI's are intended to document metadata related needs and experiences and to further the discussion on cooperation and a strategy for future work in the MPG.
- Place: Harnack House, Berlin
- Please contribute to the preparation of this seminar on it's special CoLab page
The flyer of the seminar series is available for download: Media:EScience2008_Flyer.pdf, and
the poster can be downloaded as well: Media:EScience_PosterA2.pdf.
If you have other topics which you would suggest or if you would like to suggest priorities etc, please, add your comments to this forum. A more exhaustive list of possible topics can be found in the Themennet.
Unique and persistent identifiers[edit]
Preliminary Agenda[edit]
March 27
11:00 Start
Opening: Peter Wittenburg
11:30 - 12:10
Felix Sasaki (W3C): Identifying Objects in the web and beyond
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:40
Sue Ellen Wright (ISO): Requirements from ISO work on PIDs
13:40 - 14:20
Larry Lannom (Handle System): Using Handle for managing PIDs
14:20 - 15:00
John Kunze (CDL): N2T and ARK for PIDs
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:10
Norman Paskin: DOI, what it adds to the handle system. Business Model
16:10 - 16:50
German National Library: Benefits of PID installations for LTA
16:50 - 17:30 Panel Discussion: PIDs: Ready for Research Data?
Felix Sasaki, Larry Lannom, John Kunze, Norman Paskin, German National Library
March 28
09:00 - 09:20
Summary of the first day
09:20 - 09:40
Nestor: Requirements for PID Systems
09:40 - 10:20
Michael Lautenschlager (MPI f. Meteorology): Primary data registration
10:20 - 11:00
Jeff Oegema, MPI for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics: Requirements for PIDs
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:10
Daan Broeder (MPI f. Psycholinguistics)
12:10 - 12:50
Malte Dreyer (MPDL): PIDs and repositories
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:20 Summary and Conclusions
14:20 - 15:00 Open Discussion
15:00 The End (Coffee Break)