Skype Chats on interoperation between Pleiades and EDH
Monday, 13 September 2010
Time: 1500 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0800 Huntsville
Attending: JC, TE
- NEH/DFG application DFG or NEH (16 November 2010 deadline)
- Amount: $100,000 - 350,000 = Euro 80,000 - 280,000.
- Subversion: configuration and maintenance of server
- Joint workload Pleiades / Geographic Database EDH
- search for toponyms in Pleiades: automatised through batch searching developed by Pleiades
- processing of the KML formatted data from Pleiades. filtered for use in EDH per script
- interface in the EDH data (RDF, Atom feed et al.) for data exchange from EDH to Pleiades: development of a central metaportal (EAGLE-like)
- development of further tools for joint work with Pleiades if and when necessary
- further development and integration of the EDH geographic database into the EDH infrastructure
- broadening of the scope of the search possibilities in the realm of geographic data (freely defined radius around any chosen toponym)
- EpiDoc: work out possibilities and techniques for converting proprietarially stored text data (*.itx) to EpiDoc (aim simplified exchange of data with comparable text databases, long term storage of EDH data)
- develeopment of XSLT files on the basis of existing IRT files
- exploration of Xsugar to enable simplified entry of XML data: support scripts to convert data where necessary
- creation of a workflow to automatise and standardise the import of EpiDoc data from other projects
- integration of EpiDoc data into the EDH infrastructure
- Akademie der Wissenschaften prepared to offer support in the case of success
- 1/2 position
- further financial commitment to provide for student work contracts
- provision for computer needs
Monday, 26 July 2010
Time: 1500 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0800 Huntsville
Attending: JC, TE, FFG, BG
- NEH/DFG application DFG or NEH (16 November 2010 deadline)
- Amount: $100,000 - 350,000 = Euro 80,000 - 280,000.
- One full time position. To work on the geographic database. Entry and optimization.
- Extra IT support (position).
- More work on EpiDoc?
Tuesday, 08 December 2009
Time: 1600 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0900 Huntsville
Attending: JC, TE, FFG, BG
- IRT situation. Looking much better now. GB and JC have improved the output edh-table.xml. AD has already done scripting work and reckons that not much more has to be done in order to be able to import the contents of edh-table.xml into the EDH DB2 database.
- Coordinates progress PleiadesMoI
- Model of EDH geography database
- Mock up for demonstration of cooperation between EDH and Pleiades.
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Time: 1600 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0900 Huntsville
Attending: JC, TE, FFG, BG, SG
- Arrangements for New York
- IRT situation
- Coordinates progress PleiadesMoI
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Time: 1600 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0900 Huntsville
Attending: JC, TE, FFG, BG, SG
- Coordinates PleiadesMoI
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Time: 1600 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0900 Huntsville
Attending: JC, TE, FFG, BG, SG
- What should coordinates look like? There are short ones and long ones. Do we have guidelines?
- Here is a first stab at how EDH might try to process data: EDH_Coordinates
- Fix New York meeting dates.
- Clarity about what we think we can provide for demonstration in February in Heidelberg.
- Linking to Pleiades for Moesia Inferior. Specific steps that need to be taken. Page started here
- Incorporation of IRT from London. Specific steps that need to be taken.
- EDH has to indicate what format the export of the London files should be in.
- London sends file(s).
- EDH imports
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Time: 1500 Heidelberg/Montpellier = 0800 Huntsville
Attending: JC, AD, TE, FFG, BG, SG
- Scheduling the New York meeting (known conflicts?)
- proposed dates are Wednesday to Friday 20-22 January as full working days - arrivals from Europe Tuesday 19 January
- First workshop report: see spreadsheet
- VacationSchedules
- Schedule future chats: 17.08.2009 Monday 15.00 08.00
- Time estimates
- Status of July tasks
- EDH to provide details of end formats: rules for creating .itx files already sent to CCH; list of IRT texts already in EDH likewise already sent to CCH and now processed in a spreadsheet
- method and implications for handling IRT collaboration against EDH content
- Mees has provided EDH with coordinates for Limes places (Germany)
- clean up road map
- mine original agenda for dropped issues or tasks
- fix web page
- Transfer of workplan to tracker/wiki content