wiki:Taskforces/CMDI/Meeting20190522

Joint CMDI & Curation taskforces meeting 2019-05-22 at CLARIN Centre Meeting 2019

  • What?
    • CMDI, best practices, curation
  • Who?
    • Members of the CMDI or the Curation taskforces and other people involved/interested in CMDI, curation and related matters
  • When?
  • Where?

Documents

Preparation

  • Read best practice guide
  • Read minutes of recent meetings if you didn't attend them
  • Attend the *Future of CMDI* brainstorm session (see ​centre meeting programme)

Agenda

See(​Google doc) for details and up-to-date information.

  • Summary of work since last centre meeting
  • Best practices and standardisation
  • Concepts / concept registry
  • Vocabularies / clavas
  • Curation

Notes

See(​Google doc) for raw notes.

Summary

Sent to tf-cmdi mailing list on 2019-05-30. ​E-mail in list archives requires authorisation.

On 21 and 22 May we had the Centre Meeting. On the second day of the event we had three CMDI themed sessions on the programme; the day after the Centre Meeting, we had a scheduled video conference on CMDI best practices and related tasks. I will report on the four (sub)meetings one by one below:

1. Future of CMDI session @ centre meeting

The purpose of this session was to brainstorm on various CMDI related topics that go beyond ongoing developments and other 'current affairs'.

Presentations:

  1. "Past and present of CMDI" as a general introduction/warming-up [1]
  2. A 'pitch' for all topic suggestions (mainly prepared by Menzo and me) [2]

The main topics that were discussed (at least the ones for which I have notes):

  • Cues for tools/auto values: functionality is being built on top of

this both at HuC (Netherlands) and in CLARINO (Comedi editor). Some kind synchronisation is needed.

  • CMDI & FAIR: Fair Principle I2 requires the use of 'FAIR

vocabularies'. Currently many CMD elements do not link to (good quality) concepts. Vocabularies that can be considered FAIR are not really used. Suggestion: perhaps we should open up the metadata infrastructure to use of (selected) external vocabularies and concepts? This should be investigated carefully. A proposal will be prepared and is expected to be ready for discussion in a first draft stage at annual conference.

  • General interoperability is something to keep focussing on. An

analysis of most used profiles would be helpful?

2. Joint TFs meeting @ centre meeting

Not many task force 'regulars' attended this meeting so as was the case at previous centre meetings it was mainly a session to present and discuss previous and ongoing work of the task forces.

Presentation:

  • Overview of recent work in task force [3]

One interesting was made in relation to the best practice guide: Koenraad remarked that there might be a need for easy work flows and general guidance for metadata modelling and authoring rather than very extensive best practices. More or less like some repositories are offering already for authoring/curation (easy metadata creation and management) but on the modelling site things are still a bit rough. Would be good to gather some more insights (survey?) and if it is deemed strategically important we can also increase the priority of this aspect.

Work on the third part of CMDI standardisation (ISO 24622-3 'Recommended Components') was presented. It would be good if this work and the group of people involved would be represented on an (internal) page to increase the visibility of the initiative a bit.

Many of those present volunteered to test the Common use cases questionnaire and some provided feedback at the end of the session.

Also see document with agenda & notes [4].

3. Curation hands on @ centre meeting

There is not much to report on for this session. Quite a few people attended and I presented Menzo's overview of available curation tools from last year. Wolfgang and Can (the ACDH curation module developers) were present and helped discussing and explaining how the curation module can be applied for curation purposes. We looked at various collections from the centres represented around the table and thus (hopefully) demonstrated the things providers can do themselves to check the quality and fitness of their own metadata.

[1] https://trac.clarin.eu/attachment/wiki/Taskforces/CMDI/Meeting20190522/20190522_future_of_cmdi_intro.pdf
[2] https://trac.clarin.eu/attachment/wiki/Taskforces/CMDI/Meeting20190522/20190522_future_of_cmdi_topics.pdf
[3] https://trac.clarin.eu/raw-attachment/wiki/Taskforces/CMDI/Meeting20190522/20190522_cmdi_curation_tf_meeting.pdf
[4] ​https://docs.google.com/document/d/1El7T8kqg5xDNux7xYIgqbXraR4BOC_mAoQNXNnUra1g/edit#heading=h.n65jvc13llu2

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