Towards a Virtual Research Centre Crete, KnowledgeWeb WP2.6 Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe York Sure, Max Völkel, Rudi Studer {sure, voelkel,

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Agenda Proposal for restructuring Researcher exchange Metrics for the research area Requirements for portal Add-on Participants List Result Summary

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Issue 1: Management of budget Objectives –Coordinate and strengthen the research activities –Facilitate the exchange of researchers between organizations –Disseminate research results –Organize the cooperation within Europe and with other international initiatives in America, Asia, and Australia Deliverables –D2.6.1 Report on budget allocation –D2.6.2 Report on research and exchange collaboration –D2.6.3 Report on workshop and conference organization –D2.6.4 Report on research advance Not the focus of WP2.6, rather general management issue

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Issue 2: Transparency of coordination efforts InstitutionEffort France Telecom5 Freie Universität Berlin4 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano4 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique 4 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid4 University of Karlsruhe (WP Leader)8 University of Trento5 Vrije Universiteit Brussel4 Total38 Where are the WP leaders (except INRIA and UKARL)? Where is Manchester as research leader?

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Agenda Proposal for restructuring Researcher exchange Metrics for the research area Requirements for portal

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Researcher Exchange Goal: encourage exchange of researchers across KWeb partners Process (draft): –Announcement of the exchange at the beginning –Final report on research advance achieved after each exchange Timeline: to be initiated within first 12 months Open questions: –So far preferred solution: each partner pays for exchange out of own budget –How can partners be encouraged?

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Agenda Proposal for restructuring Researcher exchange Metrics for the research area Requirements for portal

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Metrics for self-assessment Deliverables on time Internal Review Number of peer reviewed publications Web site hits Contribution to standards Number of researchers exchanged Total time of exchange durations Number and quality of scientific events organized

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Agenda Proposal for restructuring Researcher exchange Metrics for the research area Requirements for portal

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Requirements for KWeb portal Process support for exchange of researchers –Forms for entering exchange details (participant, location, start/end, final report about advance..) Support for metrics and self assessment –Management of deliverables (list of deadlines, list of deliverables delivered, status for deliverables …) Support for dissemination –Easy import/entering of publication details (e.g. BibTex import, definitely RDF/S import) -> reuse of OntoWeb/Bibster ontology –Easy import/entering of events organized under the umbrella of KWeb (again, RDF/S mandatory..)

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Add-on Participants List Result Summary

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Participants List Jerome Euzenat Ruben Lara York Sure Max Voelkel Rudi Studer Asuncion Gomez Perez Carole Goble Wolf Winkler Pavel Shvaiko Holger Wache Mustafa Jarrar

AIFB © Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Result Summary Agreement: avoid shifting of PMs, it is agreed that all leading partners in research feel responsible and committed to their leadership function Action: Inform PMB that Innsbruck will be responsible for “D2.6.1 on Budget Allocation” Action: UKARL to raise research exchange issue in PMB meeting Action: UKARL to send out to other partners in WP2.6 to clarify their interests