Joint CMDI & Curation taskforces virtual meeting 2018-11-19

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• What?
  • CMDI 1.2 best practices
  • Common uses cases document
  • Recommend components
• Who?
  • Members of the CMDI or the Curation taskforces and other people involved/interested in the specification of best practices for CMDI
• When?
  • Monday 19 November 2018, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (on basis of ​doodle)
• Where?
  • Zoom: ​https://clarin.zoom.us/j/534115968
  • Note: If using Zoom for the first time, allow for some setup time before the meeting. The above link should get you started. See ​documentation for more information.

Documents

• ​CMDI Best Pratices draft on Overleaf (read link)
• Best Practices editing guide
• ​Proposal for a recommended general info profile (work in progress)

Preparation

See notes of previous meeting

Agenda

(Tentative)

• Best practices
  • [] Contributions and acknolwedgements section to be created
  • [] Bibliography to be reinstantiated
  • [] Namespace prefixes table should be fixed, now runs off page
  • [] CMDValidate markers have to be rendered nicely, and this has to be indicated in the 'how to use' section (Menzo)
  • Links to FAIR metrics
  • Make new release based on current version?

• Common uses cases document

• Recommend components

• CCR

• Vocabularies
  • Resource types
    • [] Propose current vocabulary to centre committee (Curation TF - Matej?)
  • Licences
    • Exact modelling of vocabulary requires thought/discussion (use of collections and/or various concept schemes and broader/narrower for licence families and licences)
    • [] Menzo can convert current state of spreadsheet to vocab
    • [] Start discussion with curation task force to get this going
  • Guidelines for vocabulary modelling (e.g. hierarchies, use of collections) are desirable

• Curation
  • Ongoing activities

• Planning
  • December Vienna meeting?

Notes

Present: Alexander, Hanna, Menzo, Oddrun, Twan

Best practices

• Best practices editing guide updated for Overleaf/LaTeX
• CMDValidate markers now rendered correctly/nicely (not as regular notes)
• FAIR metrics:
  • Menzo made a ​sheet to align the best practices and fair metrics
  • Some metrics still need to be evaluated, others need clarification, discussion
  • We could contact the authors; some we know and/or are based in the Netherlands, we could contact them easily
  • Menzo will work this out a bit more. We can integrate it into the best practices at a later stage.
• Publish new version of the guide
  • v1.2.0 is ready for publication (TODO: Twan) after the following TODOs have been completed
    • [x] Smells section on p.24 should get a page reference to p.13 where smells are introduced (Twan -> ​dccdf8)
    • [ ] Fix namespaces table rendering (e.g. rotated on separated page; TODO: Alex)
    • [ ] Add bibliography section (TODO: Menzo)
    • [x] Contributions and acknowledgements section has to be created (Twan -> ​f33173)

Common uses cases (document)

Susanne is not present so limited discussion possible

• Potential new case: bibliographic metadata
  • GEI are modelling METS
  • Some open questions regarding modelling and concepts
  • In general an interesting case that could have relatively wide application, also an interesting case for best practices, common use cases
  • CLARIN (task force) representatives will discuss and try to closely monitor the work, offer guidance, and will report (TODO: Twan)

Recommended components/general info

The initiative is getting more concrete. Although not many people provided input or showed interest in participation at the bazaar in Pisa, we have several people that are interested and we are planning to invite a number of additional people so as to have a good representation of domains and existing approaches.

Main goals are to

• define 'general info' components that can jointly form a general info component that can be generally applied in specific profiles and also forms the basis for a very generic profile
• define a (to be determined) number of more application/domain specific components that can be considered 'recommended' within a certain context but not for general application

Plan is to

• Start a working group (or other kind of CLARIN body) with members dedicated to pick up part of this effort
• Plan for a real-life meeting some time in the mid term (ultimate opportunity seems the next centre meeting, but earlier would be nice)
• In the meantime prepare information and a concrete plan, organise through remote meetings
• Have some kind of online place/platform for working on this jointly
• Align, at least to some degree, with the ISO 24622-3 work ('recommended compnents') which is currently in the hands of Maria Gavriilidou (ILSP)

Planning

• Physical, mapping based curation centred meeting will take place on 6 December in Vienna
• Next join task forces meeting with a focus on best practices and related efforts will take place in the second week of January
  • ​Doodle