Joint CMDI & Curation taskforces virtual meeting 2019-11-18
- What?
- Discussion on CMDI (task forces) strategy
- Who?
- 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
Preparation
Agenda
(Tentative)
- General task force(s) strategy/operation
- Task forces structual organisation
- Operational 'lifecycle'
- State of CMDI and strategy considerations
- Continued review and expansion of CMDI strategy document (focus on goals)
- Tasks
- Documentation (incl Best Practices)
- Documentation of and support for (common) use cases (cf. Common Use Cases questionnaire and questionnaire responses)
- Core metadata
- Use of vocabularies
- Metadata curation work
- Software stack development
Notes
Present: Andreas, Felix, Marcin, Neeme, Oddrun, Twan
Task force(s) oganisation
Added to the document, with agreement among attendees:
“Modus operandi”
- Regular ‘broad’ meetings
- Smaller task forces report on activities
- Operation of task specific groups (task forces)
- Ongoing/longer running activities ('maintenance'): curation, CMDI specification
Decision on merging of CMDI & curation task forces deferred until next meeting with better representation of both groups
Review and expansion of CMDI strategy document
Analysis
Andreas has suggested an additional weakness which is accepted and included (Limited availabilty of tools for metadata creation)
Goals
Oddrun has proposed a one (short) paragraph 'CMDI mission' statement which is accepted and included:
The mission of CMDI is to provide a comprehensive infrastructure for metadata management in the CLARIN community. The leading concerns of CMDI are to cover any kind of language resources, to offer flexibility for metadata modellers and creators, as well as ensuring semantic interoperability and discoverability of the resulting metadata.
Sketch of (mixed) high and low level goals + assessment actions were organised into a new list of goals, and a separate list of ways of assessing the current state in terms of these goals.
- Support the creation of high quality metadata records
- Provide working solutions for the creation of metadata to (aspiring) creators of new metadata
- [Make it as easy as possible to share and reuse metadata components for specific use cases (for metadata modellers)]
- [Make it as easy as possible to create new metadata components and profiles while allowing for as much of the interoperability and discoverability benefits as possible]
- [Making the metadata work for the end user (discoverability scenario inside and outside our infrastructure)]
- [Support for essential CMDI features throughout infrastructure aspects]
- [Provide sufficient support and documentation for modellers, metadata creators and users and developers]
TODO: finalise the list of goals, especially the items between brackets (highlighted in yellow in the document) for now; these could probably be a bit more to the point and in any case need better phrasing (before next meeting)
Tasks
A table of potential tasks to be taken up (partially in parallel) in the short - mid term has been added to the document. For each task, a small (sub) task force can be initiated, and reporting should take place on a regular basis in broader meetings (i.e. similar scope to this meeting).
TODO: Add any missing tasks (before next meeting)
TODO: Add names of persons interested in contributing to the task (before next meeting)
TODO: Add priorities (after next meeting)
Planning
Next meeting
Next meeting in December
- Doodle
- Preparation tasks for all:
- suggestions for completion of goals section
- suggestions for tasks and task<->people
