Large Infrastructure in Mathematics Enhanced Services Cellule MathDoc : management report January - March 2002

Partner: UJF/MDC
Reporting Period: January - March 2002
From: Pierre Bérard
E-mail: Pierre.Berard@ujf-grenoble.fr
Telephone: +33 4 76635636
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Work Carried Out:

WP-0: Project Management
Partners: All
Work done:

+ LIMES local administration, various management reports [LG, PB].

Estimated achievement:
+ 8%

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WP-1: Quality of Data and Retrieval
Partners: FIZ, UJF, Eidetica, TUB; responsible: FIZ

            T1.1: System requirements analysis and specifications
                     D1.1: System Specifications (due September 2000)
Work done:
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            T1.2: Implementation of alpha versions
                     D1.2: Alpha versions incl. documentation

Work done:

+ diacritics filter : realisation, intensive tests [CG]

+ EDBM indexer : further tests (some in collaboration with FIZ) [CG,LG]

+ Report on ZMlookup proposition [LG]

  [Above items : work done jointly by CG or LG + internal discussions with EC and PB]

Estimated achievement: + 10%

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            T1.3: Intermediate services evaluation,
                   revision of specifications
                     D1.3: Evaluation report, alpha versions,
                      and revised specifications

Work done:

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WP-2: National Access Nodes
Partners: FIZ, UJF, HMS, USDC, TUB, responsible: FIZ

            T2.3: Incremental development of update procedures
                     D2.3: Update procedures including. Documentation
Work done:


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            T2.4: Extending the visibility and usability of the database
                     D2.4: Report on enhanced visibility, accessibility and usability
Work done:

Estimated achievement:

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            T2.5: Integration with other national offers, network structure for information in
mathematics
                     D2.5: Integration with other national offers (service and report)
Work done:

+ Elaboration of statistics of usage on French national access node
  (further study)

 [Above items : work done by [LG,CG] + internal discussions [LG,PB]]


Estimated achievement: +4%

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WP-3: Distributed Editorial Units
Partners: FIZ, UJF, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, TUB; responsible: FIZ

            T3.3: Installation and set up of basic technical functions for input
procedures, start of input delivery

                     D3.3: Input environment including documentation
                           (due March 2001)
Work done:

+ Maintaining work flow for bibliographical data, with preliminary steps to
  xml format [LG, EC]


Estimated achievement: + 5%

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T3.4: Improvement of existing functions and development of electronic reviewing tools
                     D3.4: Advanced input and reviewing facilities incl. documentation
                           (due March 2003)
Work done:
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WP-4: Information Dissemination and Concertation
Partners: FIZ, Eidetica, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, HMS, USDC, TUB; responsible: TUB

            T4.1: Public project WWW-server with project information
                  and public reports and Deliverables
                     D4.1: Public project WWW server (updated during the
                           whole duration of the project)
                           (due March 2004)
Work done:

Estimated achievement:

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            T4.2: Periodical dissemination of information from the
                  project; Concertation events.
                     D4.2: List of publications and presentations at events
                           and workshops (due March 2004)

Work done:

Estimated achievement:

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Project meetings attended:

Travels (other than project meetings):

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Problems:

Issue description:

Decision items:


Red Flag:

Recommended Solution:

Deviations from Plan:

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Other Comment:

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Costed Labour Resources:

WP-0: Project Management Partners: All Staff Category: Effort in
hours Engineer: 0
Scientist: 12

WP-1: Quality of Data and Retrieval
Partners: FIZ, UJF, Eidetica, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer:   310
Scientist:   54

WP-2: National Access Nodes
Partners: FIZ, UJF, HMS, USDC, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer:   10
Scientist:  20

WP-3: Distributed Editorial Units
Partners: FIZ, UJF, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer:   10
Scientist:  10

WP-4: Information Dissemination and Concertation
Partners: FIZ, Eidetica, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, HMS, USDC, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer:   0
Scientist:  0
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