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Project Meeting6 December 2007Lisbon - Portugal
Project eContentplus ECP-2005-CULT-038042
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Agenda

• Review - Report
• Work performed during this year
• Generic work plan for the next period
• Administrative issues
• ACTION POINTS!!!

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Review - Report

• It started smooth, it became hard, but it ended
  VERY WELL (green flag)!!!
• Main Recommendations (well receive a more
  detailed written confirmation)
• Drop the remaining of the WP8
• Focus in the data and the portal, to provide a
  service earlier, which can be evaluated yet
  during the projects time!!!
• Focus on sustainability of the results
• For example, in order of not depend only from
  TEL, install a DIGMAP Service in each partners
  library...
• Other issues...
• Provide more detailed Progress Reports
  (especially, underline the positive impact
  factors in the partners...)

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Agenda

• Review - Report
• Work performed during this year
• Generic work plan for the next period
• Administrative issues
• ACTION POINTS!!!

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Work performed during this year
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Work performed during this yearWP1 Project
Management

• Task 1.1 Organisational management
• DoW amendment (IMI became eligible partner in
  January)
• Task 1.2 Financial management
• Transfer of 1st instalment
• 1 Financial Statement
• Task 1.3 Technical management
• 4 project meetings
• 2 Progress reports
• We expect these tasks to proceed normally...

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Work performed during this yearWP2 - Thesauri

• Task 2.1 State of the art
• D2.1 Geographic and Historical Thesauri A
  State of the Art
• Task 2.2 Analysis and Design
• D2.2 DIGMAP Thesauri Analysis and Design System
• Task 2.3 Development
• work in progress as planned...

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Work performed during this yearWP3 - Catalogue

• Task 3.1 Authority File
• D3.1 Catalogue Requirements
• Task 3.2 Maps Harvester
• Prototype cat.on.map
• work in progress as planned...
• Task 3.3 Metadata cross mappings
• Defined the DIGMAP profile (based in the TEL
  profile).
• work in progress as planned...
• Task 3.4 Catalogue
• D3.1 Catalogue Requirements
• D3.2 Catalogue Design and Implementation
• work in progress as planned...

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Work performed during this yearWP4 - Indexing

• Task 4.1 Area Detector
• D4.1 State of the Art in Image Processing for
  Digitised Maps
• Task 4.2 Technical Features Extractor
• Task 4.3 Semantic Features Extractor
• Task 4.4 Areas Matcher
• Task 4.5 Indexer
• D4.2 Design of the Indexing System
• Task 4.6 Retrieving Interface
• work in progress as planned...

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Work performed during this yearWP5 User
Interface

• Task 5.1 Requirements and Analysis for the user
  interface of the International Catalogue of
  Digitized Old Maps
• Task 5.2 Requirements and Analysis for the user
  interface of the Authority Database of Maps
  Engravers, Editors and Printers
• Task 5.3 Requirements and Analysis for the user
  interface of the Multilingual Geographic
  Thesaurus
• Task 5.4 User Interface Design of the DIGMAP
  Information System
• Task 5.5 User Interface Implementation of the
  DIGMAP Information System
• There are not expected results to report for this
  period, but, concerning the D5.1 Requirements
  and design of the DIGMAP public user interface,
  previewed M14, it was agreed to postpone it to
  M16, especially to take advantage of the results
  of the workshop...

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Work performed during this yearWP6 Service
Interface

• Task 6.1 Internal Service Interface
  Requirements and Design
• D6.1 Requirements and Design for the internal
  service interface
• Task 6.2 Internal Service Interface
  Implementation
• Task 6.3 External Service Interface
  Requirements and Design
• D6.2 Requirements and Design for the external
  service interface
• Task 6.4 External Service Interface
  Implementation
• work in progress as planned...

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Work performed during this yearWP7 Assessment
and Evaluation

• Task 7.1 Assessment and Evaluation Thesauri
  (WP2)
• Task 7.2 Assessment and Evaluation Indexer
  (WP4)
• Task 7.3 Assessment and Evaluation Catalogue
  (WP3)
• Task 7.4 Assessment and Evaluation User
  Interface (WP5)
• Task 7.5 Assessment and Evaluation Service
  Interface (WP6)
• Actions performed
• Set up evaluation framework methodology
• Ongoing analysis of project documentation in the
  Working Groups and based on this make the changes
  within the documents
• Evaluation of results (cooperation with WP8) and
  feedback of the Advisory Group
• work is expected to progress as planned...

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Work performed during this yearWP8 External
Cooperation

• Task 8.1 Advising Group Set Up
• done...
• Task 8.2 Advising Group Activities
• in progress...
• Task 8.3 Advising Group Report
• Done
• D8.1 Advising Group Recommendations (M09)
• In the future
• D8.2 Advising Group Final Report (M24)

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Work performed during this yearWP9 Awareness
and Dissemination

• Task 9.1 Project web site
• D9.1 DIGMAP Web Site
• Task 9.2 General dissemination
• Multiple participation in workshops and
  conferences...
• D9.5 Mid-Term Demonstration (proofs of
  concept...)
• Task 9.3 Newsletter
• D9.2 DIGMAP Newsletter (Two issues edited...)
• Task 9.4 Mid Term Workshop
• initially planned for September, will be held the
  December 7!
• Task 9.5 Final Workshop

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Work performed during this yearThe Global DIGMAP
Use Cases
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Work performed during this yearThe DIGMAP
Environment (simplified)
Main focus of the work during the first year...
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Work performed during this yearCatalogue
cat.on.map / collections of external resources
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Work performed during this yearCatalogue
cat.on.map / cataloguing and external resurce...
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Work performed during this year OAI-PMH servers
37 OAI-PMH servers (55 collections) identified
worldwide (excluding TEL members)
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Work performed during this yearIndexer System
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Work performed during this yearIndexer System
iconographic features...
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Work performed during this yearIndexer System
iconographic features...
The algorithm started by detecting 87 segments,
from which 23 were also automatically selected in
a second step. Human selection will select the
definitive relevant features...
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Work performed during this year Proof of Concept
of the Portal
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Work performed during this year Proof of Concept
of the Portal
Iconographic Features
Search and Browsing
Forum
Cataloguing
Highlights
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Work performed during this year Forum

• DIGMAP should promote discussions around the
  indexed resources and enable active user
  participation. For that we have the use cases
  Asking expertsand Answering questions.
• This service will reuse open-source software
  MyForum.

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Work performed during this yearSearching...
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Work performed during this yearTextual Browsing
Indexes
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Work performed during this yearTextual Browsing
Authors Index
Towards the Authority File...
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Work performed during this yearTextual Browsing
- Geoparser
Towards the Geographic Thesaurus...
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Work performed during this yearTextual Browsing
(simple) Time Index
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Agenda

• Review - Report
• Work performed during this year
• Generic work plan for the next period
• Administrative issues
• ACTION POINTS!!!

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Work plan for the next period

• The design is done!
• The implementations are under way...
• Next priority will be for the contents (improve
  and harvest metadata, thesauri, authorities,
  georeferencing of the resources, cataloguing of
  external resources, etc.)

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Work plan for the next period
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Work plan for the next period
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Work plan for the next period

• Task 6.2 Internal Service Interface
  Implementation
• Task 6.4 External Service Interface
  Implementation

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Work plan for the next period
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Work plan for the next period
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Work plan for the next period

• Partnerships to Explore...
• TEL / EDL
• BN, BncF and NLE are already members of TEL
• KBR is a partner in EDL...
• NLE, IST and BN are partners in TELplus...
• Maphistoy - http//www.maphistory.info
• Afriterra - http//catalog.afriterra.org
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection -
  http//www.davidrumsey.com
• Arquivo Virtual de Cartografia Urbana Portuguesa.
  http//urban.iscte.pt/
• World Digital Library - http//www.worlddigitallib
  rary.org/
• Humboldt project - http//www.esdi-humboldt.eu/hom
  e/gmes_inspire.html
• Technology
• Google Earth, Visual Earth, ECAI Timemap...

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Map History / History of Cartography (maintained
by Tony Campbell)(http//www.maphistory.info/)
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One more example to explore Afriterra(http//cat
alog.afriterra.org)
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OAI-PMH servers
37 OAI-PMH servers (55 collections) identified
worldwide (excluding TEL members)
A service, similar to cat.on.map, will be
available during February to support the
registration and management of this information
(Diogo is working on it, Paula will help...)!!!
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Agenda

• Review - Report
• Work performed during this year
• Generic work plan for the next period
• Administrative issues
• ACTION POINTS!!!

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Work performed during this yearIndicators
Financial Execution
The first period of the project was mainly
focused in the technical issues...
PARTNERS PLEASE PROVIDE (to IST) AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE YOUR EXPECTATIONS!!!
...For the second year the focus will be in the
contents and evaluation of the results!
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Work performed during this yearMaterial
Indicators
BNP 6.033 BNCF 5.837 KBR 4.222 NLE 1.014
Maps 1.998 Collections 12 Others 87
3 papers (in this moment)
??? Unrealistic expectations, as these results
require technical infrastructure that only now is
available...
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Agenda

• Review - Report
• Work performed during this year
• Generic work plan for the next period
• Administrative issues
• ACTION POINTS!!!

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Specific Issues - Administrative

• What
• Review Project Report 2 (D1.2b) Provide new
  version to the EC!!!
• Answer to the ECs comments to the financial
  report
• Revise resources to be spent until the end of the
  project
• Review the flyers
• Who
• IST / Partners
• When
• As soon as possible!!! Before Christmas!!!!
• As soon as possible!!! Before Christmas!!!!
• Until the end of December!!!
• As soon as possible!!!

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Specific Issues - Records

• BestOf WE REALLY NEED A LARGER COLECTION !!!
• Process for IST to report errors in the records
  and partners to correct them?
• Libraries define the visualisation formats for
  the records (in the indexes and in the search
  engine it should be the same format!!)
• Libraries revise the way the indexes are built
  (are we using the correct MARC fields?)
• Libraries define the limits of the collections
• Genres of works (maps, manuscripts? iconography?
  bibliography?)
• Dates (well include resources up which date?)

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Specific Issues - Portal

• Process to define the portal
• Services
• Layout
• Policy for highlights
• Resources from the partners
• External resources
• Translation of the interface

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Specific Issues Search Engine

• Define fields to search
• Define visualization format (the same of the
  browsing indexes?)
• Translation of the interface

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Specific Issues Maps Features

• Genres of features to consider?
• Process to approve features?
• Evaluation plan?

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Specific Issues cat.on.map

• Define the indexing language (genres of the
  resources)
• Workplan for the registration of more resources
  (by the libraries)
• Translation of the interface
• Evaluation plan?

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Specific Issues Next Meetings

• Periods
• February/March/April
• June/July
• September (closing of the project)
• It all depends of the Workshop Brussels
• July?
• September?
• Firenze?
• Sofia?