Large Infrastructure in Mathematics Enhanced Services Cellule MathDoc : management report January - March 2003

Partner: UJF/MDC
Reporting Period: January - March 2003
From: Laurent Guillopé
E-mail: Laurent.Guillope@math.univ-nantes.fr
Telephone: +33 2 40379893
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Work Carried Out:

WP-0: Project Management
Partners: All
Work done:
+ LIMES local administration, various management reports [LG].

Estimated achievement:
+5%

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WP-1: Quality of Data and Retrieval
Partners: FIZ, UJF, Eidetica, TUB; responsible: FIZ
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                T1.3: Intermediate services evaluation,
                       revision of specifications
                         D1.3: Evaluation report, alpha versions,
                          and revised specifications

Work done:
+ ZMlinker 
   + delivery of a first prototype of the ZMATH matching application
      (see http://adrar.ujf-grenoble.fr/ZMATH/zlink.html) [CG]
   + preliminary study for matching on unstructured references [CG]
   + internal discussions [CG, LG, YL]

Estimated achievement:
+ 25%

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                T1.4: Implementation of beta versions and integration into production process
                         D1.4: Production system incl. documentation

Work done:


Estimated achievement:


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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: None

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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: None

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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: 
 + Discussions with INIST (Nancy, CNRS) for collaboration with ZM [LG, YL]

Estimated achievement:
+10%

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                T2.6: Development of license models, further contracts and other continuous co-operations
                         D2.6: Report on license and contractual matters, and other co-operations
Work done: None
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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)

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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:
 + Maintaining work flow for bibliographical data transmission to Berlin [LG]
 + Discussions with INIST (Nancy, CNRS) for collaboration with ZM [LG, YL]
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: None

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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:

Laurent Guillopé
Lecture : Mathematics and databases (open) access
Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and
Future Trends, CNRS-INSERM-ICSTI conference
Paris, January 23-24, 2003, France

Laurent Guillopé
DML-EU Berlingen Brainstroming meeting 
Berlingen, January 31 - February 2, 2003, Switzerland

Laurent Guillopé
Lecture : NUMDAM : year 0
inside the Special session 'Electronic Databases'
Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics, EMS -SMAI -SMF Joint Conference
Nice, February 10-13, 2003, France

Claude Goutorbe, Laurent Guillopé, Yves Laurent
Guests from the Steering committee of the world DML
Grenoble, March 19, 2003. 

  [travel costs for the meetings in Paris, Berlingen, Nice and Grenoble
  supported by the Cellule MathDoc from its own resources.]

Estimated achievement:
+8%

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Costed Labour Resources:

WP-0: Project Management
Partners: All
Staff Category: Effort in hours
     Engineer : 0
    Scientist : 5


WP-1: Quality of Data and Retrieval
Partners: FIZ, UJF, Eidetica, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
    Engineer  : 175
    Scientist : 35

WP-2: National Access Nodes
Partners: FIZ, UJF, HMS, USDC, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
    Engineer  : 0
    Scientist : 15

WP-3: Distributed Editorial Units
Partners: FIZ, UJF, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, TUB
Staff Category: Effort in hours
    Engineer  : 0
    Scientist : 20

WP-4: Information Dissemination and Concertation
Partners: FIZ, Eidetica, DTV, SIBA-UNILE, HMS, USDC, TUB UJF
Staff Category: Effort in hours
    Engineer  : 20
    Scientist : 55