Large Infrastructure in Mathematics Enhanced Services Cellule MathDoc : management report July - September 2000

LIMES Management Report July -- September 2000

Partner: UJF/MDC
Reporting Period: July - September 2000
From: Pierre Bérard
E-mail: Pierre.Berard@ujf-grenoble.fr
Telephone: +33 47663 5636
Fax: +33 47663 5611
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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:

+ Preparation and attended Barcelona meeting [LG].
+ Preparation Athens meeting [CG, LG, PB]
+ Prepared internal monthly management report [PB]
+ Prepared LIMES 3-monthly management report [PB]


Estimated achievement:  + 5%
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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)

Recall work done April--June, 2000

+ Test MSC browser installed ==> specifications for MSC browser
+ Document on updating mirrors
+ Contribution to identification of authors and serials

Work done:

+ Design of indexing software for incremental updating procedure for
  mirrors. Initial development tests. [CG, LG]
+ Preparation and attended Berlin Architecture Committee meeting,
  Sept 2000, WP1 part estimated at 50% [LG,CG,PB]

Estimated achievement: + 5%
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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:

Work already done.

Estimated achievement:
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            T2.2: Basic installation of national access nodes
                     D2.2: National access nodes (due September 2000)

Work done:

+ Administration of 3 mirrors (update procedure and user
  information and identification) [CG, EC]
+ Preparation and attended Berlin Architecture Committee meeting,
  Sept 2000, WP2 part estimated at 25% [CG]

Estimated achievement: + 5%
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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:

+ Preparation and attended Berlin Architecture Committee meeting,
  Sept 2000, WP3 part estimated at 25% [CG]

Estimated achievement: + 5%
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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:

Estimated achievement:
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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:

+ Preparation and dissemination of information on LIMES to
  heads of association of mathematics librarians [LG, PB]
+ Updating internal LIMES pages [LG]

      Laurent Guillopé attended
      Workshop on Large Infrastructures
      Strasbourg, Sept 2000

Estimated achievement: + 3%

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Project meetings attended:

+ LIMES Barcelona meeting, July 2000 [LG]
+ LIMES Architecture Committee Meeting, Berlin September 2000 [CG]

Travels (other than project meetings):

+ EU workshop on Large Infrastructures, Strasburg September 2000 [LG]
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Problems: none
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Other Comment: none
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Costed Labour Resources:

WP-0: Project Management
Partners: All
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer  :  4 m/h
Scientist : 24 m/h

WP-1: Quality of Data and Retrieval
Partners: FIZ, UJF, Eidetica, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer  : 192 m/h
Scientist :  32 m/h

WP-2: National Access Nodes
Partners: FIZ, UJF, HMS, USDC, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer  : 32 m/h
Scientist :  8 m/h

WP-3: Distributed Editorial Units
Partners: FIZ, UJF, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer  : 8 m/h
Scientist : /

WP-4: Information Dissemination and Concertation
Partners: FIZ, Eidetica, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, HMS, USDC, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
Engineer  :  /
Scientist : 32 m/h
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