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

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