EuroCRIS PLATFORM MEETING

From	To	Activity	Presenter	Chair	Rapporteur

		THURSDAY 10 MAY
10,00		Welcome	Marga van Meel
10,15	10,30	Maribor Meeting, short report	Vigdis Kvalheim		Anne Asserson
10,30	11,30	EuroCRIS Platform: Preliminary Ideas	Eric Zimmerman	Jostein Hauge	Anne Asserson
		What is the mission? -objectives? -strategy? -funding?
		Charter, proposed draft,
		General discussion ….to be continued on Friday….
11,30	12,00	Break
12,00	13,00	CRIS2002: Preliminary Ideas	Wolfgang Adamczak	Jostein Hauge	Walter Niedermayer
		-Mission/orientation, -Target groups, -Structure, -Content elements, -Committees needed
		Main topics: Meta databases and classification
		General discussion ... to be continued on Friday….
13,00	14,00	LUNCH
14,00	14,30	World of CRIS - what's new?	Eric Zimmerman	Marga van Meel	Anne Asserson
14,30	15,00	How far will metadata and search engines get us?	Søren Hovmand	Anne Asserson	Vigdis Kvalheim
		(Search/harvest in a hybrid environment. Reflections when planning the future architecture of The Danish National Research Database.)
15,00	15,30	How far will metadata and search engines get us?	Keith Jeffery	Anne Asserson	Vigdis Kvalheim
		WWW+harvest or DB+query? What is best for CRIS?
15,30	16,00	Break
16,00	16,30	GRIDs: The future of IT systems?	Keith Jeffery	Anne Asserson	Søren Hovmand
16,30	17,30	Discussion on Architecture		Walter Niedermayer	Søren Hovmand
		Data input - quality
		Output - recall and relevance
		Easy to use user interface
		Centralised or distributed
		Is ERGO2++ the answer?

19,30		DINNER by invitation of NIWI

		FRIDAY 11 MAY
9,00	9,30	CERIF Revisited.	Keith Jeffery	Maria Flaminia Ramos	Anne Asserson
		Is it -A catalog model (metadata)? An export exchange data model/format? A template for a CRIS?
		General discussion
9,30	10,30	Demo of CERIF based systems:
		The XML/RDF encoding schemes for CERIF. Application profiles for scientific metadata.	Andrei Lopatenko
		SRIS, Scottish Research Information Systems	Helen Baird
		CRIS-MER, The CRIS on Migration and Ethnic Relation, an interactive on line tool. PPT foiles	Katerina Pouliasi
		FDok, an extended CRIS database under development at the University of Bergen, Norway	Anne Asserson Jostein Hauge
10,30	11,00	News from participating organisations, including demos, on:		Søren Hovmand	Jostein Hauge
		News from Austria	Walter Niedermayer
		Developments in the Netherlands	Marga van Meel
		NEST, Network for the Exploitation of Science and Technology	Keith Jeffery
11,00	11,30	Break
11,30	11,45	ERIS, European Research Information System	Helen Baird	Sinikka Koskiala	Keith Jeffery
11,45	13,00	Future Strategy with respect to the failing EC/ERGO	Maria Flaminia Ramos	Sinikka Koskiala	Keith Jeffery
		Do nothing?
		Continue through IMC to DG Innovation?
		Go via ERIS to DG Research?
		Propose EC-funded project?
		General discussion
13,00	14,00	LUNCH
14,00	15,00	CRIS2002: The next steps and proposed plan	Wolfgang Adamczak	Jostein Hauge	Vigdis Kvalheim
		General discussion
15,00	15,30	Break
15,30	16,30	EuroCRIS Action Plan	Eric Zimmerman	Jostein Hauge	Walter Niedermayer
		Result from general discussion
		Mission proposed
		Objectives proposed
		Charter adjusted at the meeting
		Proposed brochure
16,30	17,00	Forward planning	Jostein Hauge		Anne Asserson
		New leadership, Next meeting, Other topics
		Adjusted Action plan with discussion
17,00	17,15	Closing of the Ninth platform meeting	Marga van Meel		Harrie Lalieu

EuroCRIS platform meeting Agenda