Attendees:
Achim, Arofan, Carsten, Dan G., Darren, Flavio, Hilde, Ingo, Jared, Simon, Wendy
Agenda:
1. Presentation of new WG – Glossary
Dan and Arofan reported from the work of the group. The group has already nine members. The WG will not create own definitions, but will describe existing ones. A question was discussed regarding what to do with discrepancies in definitions across DDI specifications. The group was asked to report such instances back to the groups that maintain the specifications if similar are detected.
A Scientific Board contact will be assigned to the group at the next meeting of the Scientific Board.
2. Report from URN resolution group work – Carsten
Carsten reported from the work of the URN resolution temporary working group of the Scientific Board. A background document for discussion is currently in preparation by the group. Work will be ongoing on the new year, and the next meeting of the group is scheduled to January 18th.
3. Status update SB Contacts for the WGs
Ingo plans to meeting with the TC in the week of December 13th.
Darren will meet with representatives of the CV group in the week of December 20th.
Achim has been in contact with the SDTL group and report that their progress looks good. He will meet with the group in January.
Simon has been in contact with the CDI group regarding a possible meeting with the group, and will receive a written document from Arofan describing the achieved goals and future plans.
Flavio has been in contact with the new chairs of the Training group and awaits response regarding the collaboration.
Hilde (Paradata group) and Carsten (XKOS) no actions taken.
4. Plan meeting of the Scientific Community
A meeting of the Scientific Community will take place on January 27th. Two important questions related to this are:
Two reporting meetings a year could be too much?
How to trigger interesting discussions?
Ingo and Hilde had with help from Achim prepared some possible agenda points for the SC meeting in January (below). These were discussed at the meeting, and in general, all members liked the proposed topics:
URN resolution
Ignition speech – Arofan, Carsten?
Communicate issues and requirements
Mapping approach between specifications
Ignition talk – Flavio?
Mapping between DDI specifications
Ignition talk – ask representative from EOSC Semantic Interoperability Task Force , Metadata standards group?
Presentation of the mapping work of the EOSC Interoperability Framework, the EOSC Semantic Interoperability Task Force, in relation to DDI
Mapping formats discussion. SKOS format, other?
Cross-specification implementation guidelines (could be part of the above?)
Ignition talk – Arofan, Flavio?
Definition about what an implementation guide should contain.
Which areas need an implementation guide?
Example: Variable cascade in GSIM, DDI-Lifecycle and DDI-CDI
Scientific Plan focus
Is something missing in the plan overall?
Is something missing on the level of the WGs?
Ideas for Advisory members for the SB – suggestion for candidates
Cycles of meetings of the Scientific Community
Once or twice a year?
Types of meeting(s) (reporting/discussion)?
In connection to a conference (virtual/in person)?
Closeness in time to members meeting?
Closeness in time to finalization of the Scientific Plan?
In addition to the above, two additional topics were suggested at the meeting:
Simon suggested a short intro to the work of the SB and the work of the WGs for newcomers.
Darren proposed to focus on best practices for versioning, regarding DDI CVs and a linked data platform.
As everybody feel this would be too much for a meeting scheduled to two hours, somebody (likely Ingo and Hilde) will go through all of the topics in order to figure out how much time each of them would be likely to require.
This will form background for decisions regarding which and how many topics to choose.
5. Feedback from EDDI?
SB members who took part in activities related to the EDDI conference as well as the EDDI Training Fair advance gave all positive feedback on the different events.