28/06/06 kickoff meeting wp4 coordinating research

28/06/06 Kickoff Meeting

WP4

COORDINATING RESEARCH


Table of contents

1-Introduction

2-Organization

3-Objectives

4-Activities


Integrating the infrastructure basis

1-Introduction

WP4 is one of the eight workpackages of the EDIT project. It is Lead by the Spanish CSIC. This workpackage address the scientific and cultural impediments which hamper development of taxonomic new knowledge to fulfil the needs of scientific and other stakeholders, including top management levels.

Coordination And Integration

Resources Products

EDIT coordination and management

WP1

Integrating the expert and expertise basis

Coordinating research

WP2

WP3

WP4

Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy

Unifying Revisionary taxonomy

Applying taxonomy to conservation

Training and Public Awareness

WP5

WP6

WP7

WP8


3-Organization

WP Leader: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas(Spain)

CSIC Institutes participating:- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales –leader-,

- Real Jardín Botánico,

- Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes,

- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (Barcelona)


3-Organization

Constraints

Hiring not possible until contract were signed and a copy available to CSIC

WP4 not started at due time: few activities undertaken to date


2-Objectives

General

Maximise the efficiency of the extant organizational effort by promoting synergies among research teams within EDIT and beyond, :

• by exploring prospective areas for future collaborative efforts

and• by identifying end users and their needs from the field of taxonomy.


2-Objectives

For the 5 Years: Maximise the efficiency and scientific excellence of the extant

organizational effort by promoting synergies among research teams within EDIT and beyond.

Link taxonomic research with societal requirements (end user communities).

“Scientific alertness”: Explore prospecting areas for future collaborative projects. This will include emerging research topics and new tools and technologies.

Develop a durable integrated research agenda for the EDIT roadmap.

Organize competitive calls for tender and follow up projects


2-Objectives

WP4

EDIT Governing Boards (NSC, SAC, BD)

End Users Liaison Group

Researchers

Other EDIT WPs

CETAF

WP4 “Scientific Alertness Group”

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Research Agenda

EDIT Roadmap


4-Activities

4.1 Integrating research projects within and beyond EDIT

4.2 Design and establish mechanism for call for tenders and follow-up of projects

4.3 Liason research / End-users

4.4 Scientific alertness: prospecting new and emerging opportunities

4.5 Progress towards an Integrated Research Agenda


2-Objectives

First 18 months

• Set up blueprint for coordination of research projects within EDIT

• Link taxonomy with societal requirements (end users).

• Prospect for new research topics and new tools and technologies for taxonomic identification, and for implementation of corresponding collaborative projects.


2-Objectives


Deliverables Report on the state-of-the-art taxonomic research within EDIT

(month 18) (collaboration with NHMD)

Agenda for thematic EDIT meetings (month 10 - 18+)

Draft and agreed guidelines for selecting pilot projects (month 12-18)

Preliminary database of potential evaluators of projects (month 18+) (NHMD)

Specific goal: Promote collaboration and complementarity among research teams within EDIT and establish mechanisms for integration of non-EDIT experts


4-Activities

Proposal

Explore within EDIT institutions and through a bibliometrical analysis in collaboration with the Centro de Información y Documentación (CINDOC) of the CSIC:

Who?, With whom?, Where?, Which group? Geographical areas? Methodologies?……..



2-Objectives

4.2 Liaison research / End-users

Deliverables: Web platform for e-conferences (month 4) (WP1)

Report on brainsturming e-conference to identify potential end user groups and decide on how to assess their taxonomic needs (month 12)

Draft report on research – end user liaison (month 12) (probably postponed)

Structure and terms of reference for liaison group (month 18) (INRA)

Specific goals: Identification and categorization of end users groups.

Assess end users’ needs for taxonomy by sectors of end users


4-Activities

4.2 Liaison research / End-users

Many activities postponed until hiring


2-Objectives


Specific goals:

Prospect new areas for integrated research in EDIT, e.g., as identified from SAC, liaison groups, NSC and BD

Prospect new tools and technologies for improving rapid taxonomic identification


2-Objectives

4.3 Scientific alertnesss: prospecting new and emerging opportunities

Description of work:

Setting up an “alertness group” to prospect emerging opportunities (methods, tools, etc.).

Organising workshops on already identified topics, including DNA Bar-coding (in collaboration with WP3), Morphometrics-Image Recognition and Sounds (for acoustic animals)

Establishing a taskforce for organizing further workshops on themes suggested by alertness group, NSC, SAC, liaison groups or by CETAF, or emerging from the WP2 information on ongoing research.


4-Activities


Proposal:

“Alertness Group” should cover at least:

Conceptual advances in Taxonomy

Technological innovation for potential taxonomic application (Image analysis -XR, CTScan, ESEM, Communication, Robotics, Molecular biology, Proteomics, etc)

Information accessibility through Internet (databases, cartography, PDF-bibliography, etc)

Others to be identified


4.3 Scientific alertnesss: prospecting new and emerging opportunities

Description of work: Setting up an “alertness group” to prospect emerging opportunities (methods, tools, etc.).

Organising workshops on already identified topics, including DNA Bar-coding (in collaboration with WP3), Morphometrics-Image Recognition and Sounds (for acoustic animals)

Establishing a taskforce for organizing further workshops on themes suggested by alertness group, NSC, SAC or liaison groups, or emerging from the WP2 information on ongoing research.

4-Activities


First EuropeanAnimal Sound Research and

Libraries WorkshopMadrid, Sept 27-Oct 1st, 2006

Hosted by Fonoteca Zoológica

EDIT WP4


Confirmed Participants• Jose Pedro do Amaral (Museo Bocage, Lisboa)• Laure Desutter-Grandcolas (Musée Histoire Naturelle de Paris)• Karl-Heinz Frommolt (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)• Anna Omedes (MCNC, Barcelona)• Gianni Pavan (CIBRA, Pavia)• Gustav Peters (Museum Koenig, Bonn)• Maria Angeles Ramos (MNCN, Madrid)• Carmen Quesada (GBIF, Madrid)• Richard Ranft (British Library, London)• Klaus Riede (Staatliches Museum Naturkunde, Stuttgart)• Friedhelm Schwenker (Neuroinformatik Uni, Ulm)• Rafael Márquez (MNCN, Madrid)


Topics Considered:• European Network of Experts in Bioacoustics

• Coordination of Animal Sound Libraries (EDIT)

• Integration with international efforts (GBIF)

• New Methodologies– Collection conservation methodologies– Sound Comparisons– Automated Taxonomic ID– Sound Monitoring


Joint Workshop:

SYNTHESYS NA-E (New Collections: tissues, DNA..)

EDIT WP4: DNA Bar-coding, Phylogenetics & related items (collaboration with WP3)

Aims:

- Re-define NA-E

- Improve synergies between SYNTHESYS - EDIT

- Optimize coherence, integration, creativity and value for money in a common approach.

4-Activities

Other workshops


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