LIMES Large Infrastructure in Mathematics
Enhanced Services

Cellule MathDoc : management report
April - June 2000

Partner: UJF/MDC
Reporting Period: April - June 2000
From: Pierre Bérard
E-mail: Pierre.Berard@ujf-grenoble.fr
Telephone: + 33 4 76 63 56 36
Fax:       + 33 4 76 63 56 11
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Note: CG = Claude Goutorbe, EC = Elizabeth Cherhal, LG = Laurent
Guillopé, PB = Pierre Bérard

Work Carried Out:

WP-0: Project Management
Partners: All

Work done:

Attended Berlin meeting (CG, LG, PB). Setting up internal
management and budget procedures with UJF. Managements reports
(internal monthly, LIMES internal 3-monthly).

Installation of LIMES internal pages on MDC server

            www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal/

deliverable will be posted on this page (access control : same
user_name and password as on internal pages in Berlin)

Estimated achievement: 9%
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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:

1) Identification of AUTHORS and SERIALS (problem analysis, tests).

Contribution to deliverable:

+ WP1 Comments on author identification (June 2000)
  www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal/authors20000615.html

+ WP1 Comments on serials identification (June 2000)
  www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal/serials20000615.html

                        possible further contribution of UJF/MDC
                        to the structure of the database of serials

2) Updating mirrors (problem analysis, making a comparison tool
for update data, analysis of past updates)

Contribution to deliverable:

+ WP1 Updating servers (document prepared for the Zentralblatt-Math
  Coordinating Committee, Berlin, May 2000, 5)
  www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal/us20000503.pdf

+ WP1 Updating national nodes, C. Goutorbe, June 2000
  www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal/unn200006.pdf

3) MSC browser

Contribution to deliverable:

+ WP1 MSC browser : test installation (May 2000, 31)
  www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal

  test on : www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/EDBMW3/

Estimated achievement for WP1: 6%
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WP-2: National Access Nodes
Partners: FIZ, UJF, HMS, USDC, TUB, responsible: FIZ

            T2.1: Investigation of location, distribution and needs
                  of potential users
                     D2.1: Report on national user community
                           (due September 2000)
Work done:

Analysis of needs. Analysis of locations of local servers and contacts with
possible national mirror sites.

Estimated achievement: 70%

>>> Report on national user community to be written
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            T2.2: Basic installation of national access nodes
                     D2.2: National access nodes (due September 2000)
Work done:

Installation of a national French access network of 3 specific mirrors
(Grenoble, Marseille, Orsay). They are already functional, see

                        www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/ZMATH

Estimated achievement: 100%

Deliverable:

+ WP2 Installation of a national access network to Zentralblatt MATH in France
      (June 2000)
      www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/Internal/fr-mirrors200006.html
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WP-3: Distributed Editorial Units
Partners: FIZ, UJF, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, TUB; responsible: FIZ

            T3.1: Internal workshop on reviewing standards, policies,
                  and editorial operations.
                     D3.1: Workshop report (due September 2000)
Work done: none

Estimated achievement: 0%
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            T3.2: Decision procedures for selection of sources.
                  Selection of national sources to cover.
                     D3.2: List of sources including description of
                           contents and coverag (due September 2000)
Work done: none

Estimated achievement: 0%
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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: installation of a public LIMES pages on MDC server
            www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/LIMES/

Estimated achievement: 0%
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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:

Presentation of LIMES at a meeting of technical staff members of
mathematics departments (P. Bérard, Paris May 29, 2000)

Estimated achievement: 0%
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Project meetings attended:

Berlin meeting (April 2000): CG, LG, PB

Travels (other than project meetings):
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Costed Labour Resources:

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

Engineer: 8

Scientist: 44

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

Engineer: 234

Scientist: 62



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

Engineer: 158

Scientist: 4

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

none

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

none