Large Infrastructure in Mathematics Enhanced Services Cellule MathDoc : management report October - December 2000

LIMES Management Report
Partner: UJF/MDC
Reporting Period: October - December 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:

Participation in Athens meeting [PB, CG, LG].
Work on consortium agreement (Comments on MathDoc Cell server)
[PB].
Local management (monthly and 3-month 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)
Work done:

T1.1:

- Preparation of Athens meeting

- Development of edbm/indexer module (a test version should be
  available by April 2001). Details on current status of
  development described in Goutorbe's message into AC-mailing
  list (message dated 2001 Jan 23).

- Design of identification tool of serials for the interface
  (similar to MSC browser) ; a demo version (based on the partial
  list of serials received by MDC) should hopefully be available
  by april 2001. Will serve as specifications.

- Comments to MSC browser taken into account --> new version of
  MSC browser (see demo version available on MDC server).
  Comments to come on AC-mailing list.

  This MSC should be available on the international mirrors
  in April 2001.

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


D1.1:

- Specifications for updates: not yet available et should be
discussed at the Amsterdam meeting of the Architecture Committee
(no comments received by MDC on document posted earlier, see
Athens meeting minutes).

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            T1.2: Implementation of alpha versions
                     D1.2: Alpha versions incl. documentation


Work done:

- MSC browser (modified) demo version available on MDC
  server ==> final specifications.


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:

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:

- Modifications on mirrors, update procedure and identification of
  users
- Preparation of Athens meeting

Work done by [CG, LG, PB]

Estimated achievement:
+5%


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

- No comments received on document posted on MDC server since
  June. Will be discussed in Amsterdam.

Estimated achievement:

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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:

Estimated achievement:
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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:

Estimated achievement:
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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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            T3.3: Installation and set up of basic technical functions for
                  input procedures, start of input delivery
                     D3.3: Input environment including documentation

Work done: New procedures for transmission of bibliographic data
from editors (SMF and EDPScience) into ZM Database (conversion
from editor format to ZM format) [LG]

Estimated achievement: 5%

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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:

Athens meeting [PB, CG, LG]

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Problems:


Issue description: No feed back at all on update mechanism
although strongly requested at the Athens meeting.


Red Flag:

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

E= engineer, S = scientist

E = 2 p/h
S = 22 p/h

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

E= engineer, S = scientist

E = 350 p/h
S = 50 p/h


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

E= engineer, S = scientist

E = 12 p/h
S = 12 p/h



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

E= engineer, S = scientist

E = 0 p/h
S = 5 p/h


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

E= engineer, S = scientist

E = 0 p/h
S = 0 p/h
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Total WP1--WP4

E = 364 p/h
S =  89 p/h

Total : 453 p/h