= Joint CMDI & Curation taskforces virtual meeting 2019-12-18 =
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* What?
 * Discussion on CMDI (task forces) strategy
* Who?
 * Members of the [[Taskforces/CMDI|CMDI]] or the [[Taskforces/Curation|Curation]] taskforces and other people involved/interested in contributing to CMDI and metadata curation
 * Wednesday 18 December 2019, 10:00 - 11:00 CET (on basis of [https://doodle.com/poll/4vndw2iic3tcgfwz 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 [https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697-Getting-Started documentation] for more information.

== Documents ==
 - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cRJKiise8HFS16gqG4gC3TsI0W-TnLSnebh_YS6mZ3U/edit?usp=sharing CMDI strategy]
 - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xBfAzrBChY1HT-aQTzdcGv1yxtCgYpDxGZRNcqFmoc/edit?usp=sharing CMDI core metadata proposal]


== Preparation ==

* `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)

* `TODO`: Add any missing tasks (before next meeting)

* `TODO`: Add names of persons interested in contributing to the task (before next meeting)

For details, see [[../Meeting20191118#Notes|notes of previous meeting]]

== Agenda ==

(Tentative)


1. General task force(s) strategy/operation
  1. Task forces structual organisation
  1. Operational 'lifecycle'
1. State of CMDI and strategy considerations
  1. Continued review and expansion of [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cRJKiise8HFS16gqG4gC3TsI0W-TnLSnebh_YS6mZ3U/edit?usp=sharing CMDI strategy document] (focus on goals and tasks)
    1. Goals (finalise)
    1. Tasks (finalise, add names and priorities)


== Notes ==

=== Task forces organisation ===
* There will a broad 'general metadata task force' and a (flexible) number of specific task forces below that
* Specific task forces meet at their own chosen schedule and report in regular (but less frequent) broad meetings on specific topics (see overview of tasks below)
    * broad meeting every 6~8 weeks
    * smaller task forces report on activities
    * also reports on
        *  ongoing CMDI infrastructure development
        * recent metadata support cases and other relevant requests
        * curation activities
* Mailing lists
    * members of tf-curation mailing list will be added to the tf-cmdi list
    * tf-curation list will be deprecated
    * tf-cmdi descriptive name will be changed to 'Metadata task force'


=== Goals ===
Goals finalised for now:


Overall goal: enable and support the creation and exploitation of high-quality metadata, by:
* Providing working and easy to adopt solutions for
    * Creating and editing metadata instances
    * Sharing and reusing metadata components and profiles for specific use cases
    * Creating new metadata components and profiles based on existing ones
        * Encouraging reuse 
        * Retaining as much as possible of the interoperability and discoverability benefits obtained by direct reuse
* Providing support
    * for essential CMDI features across infrastructure aspects
    * to metadata modellers, authors and consumers
    * to developers aiming to build new solutions on top of CMDI or integration CMDI into existing solution
* Providing documentation
    * for metadata modellers, authors and consumers, as well as developers
* Ensuring high metadata quality
* Continued development of the components of the broader metadata infrastructure for
    * Collaborative modelling workflows (Component registry)
    * Metadata distribution (OAI-PMH, harvesting)
    * Resource discovery (VLO)


Success of the various aspects of the CMDI strategy can be assessed using the following indicators:


* Good presentation and discoverability via VLO
* FAIR compliance (see also B centre requirements)
* Common uses cases are well supported
* Interoperability with wider research community, and within that especially other connected communities 
    * Factor in e.g. DOI, Zenodo, Schema.org, !WikiData
    * Interoperability with standards like !DataCite, OLAC, DCAT
    * Align with/learn from CESSDA, DARIAH
* Being able to answer the questions of (aspiring) creators of new metadata in a complete and straightforward way:
    * Which information to provide via metadata? 
    * How to create metadata
* Metadata quality evaluation (curation module)
* Satisfaction of users (authors, consumers, modellers) of the metadata infrastructure


=== Tasks ===
In order of priority, the following tasks are envisioned for the next year. Each task can be carried out by a separate 'specific task force'.


* First quarter of 2020
    * Complete common use cases evaluation (Andreas & Twan)
    * Core profiles and components (Twan, Alex, Andreas, Marcin, Oddrun, Felix)
    * Vocabularies investigation (Oddrun, Matej, Dieter, Twan)
    * CMDI general documentation rewrite (Alex, Felix, Dieter)
    * Solutions for gathering user feedback/experience/satisfaction (Alex, ...)
* Ongoing activities
    * Ongoing curation activities (addressing individual issues in Trac and CLARIN-D support system)
* Later
    * Solutions for collaborative metadata modelling (investigate/design/implement)
    * Design/requirements gathering for CMDI 2.0


=== Next steps ===
* Wrapping up of common use case evaluation in January (Andreas + Twan)
* Meeting on core metadata & vocabularies early - mid January
    * https://doodle.com/poll/wupu4h7a4evnae32
* Broad CMDI meeting mid February
    * https://doodle.com/poll/ymrdv7ue63h2y6gd