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  <created-at>Mon Jul 27 12:48:15 UTC 2009</created-at>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;This group aims to connect all people actively interested or participating in the new initiative, the &lt;a href="http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/affiliated-organizations/cwa/"&gt;Concept Web Alliance.&lt;/a&gt;(CWA)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;the Aim of the CWA is: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;To enable an open collaborative environment to jointly address the challenges associated with high volume scholarly and professional data production, storage, interoperability and analyses for knowledge discovery.&amp;ldquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The '&lt;a href="http://conceptweblog.wordpress.com/magnet-group/"&gt;Magnet Group&lt;/a&gt;' is an international group of prominent coleagues in the field of e-science and Web based interoperability who also seve as an interim Sterring Cimmittee.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;There are a series of working groups that are already active and some of them have their own focus group in MyExperiment, see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to join any group that is of direct interest to you and join the discussions&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Also, there will be a first &lt;span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CWA conference in the course of 2010&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, all people signed up to this group will be notified as soon as the date, venue and the theme have been decided.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The current working groups are:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Category 1: organizational and operational &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="../../../groups/185"&gt;Governance&lt;/a&gt; (co-Chairs confirmed: Albert Mons&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_46" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="albertmons" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_albertmons" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;/Jan Velterop&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_58" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="villavelius" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_villavelius" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Policies&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.3&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="../../../groups/199"&gt;Organizational structure&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Albert Mons&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_47" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="albertmons" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_albertmons" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.4&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Legal and licensing&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.5&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="../../../groups/200"&gt;Capacity building&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Albert Mons&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_48" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="albertmons" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_albertmons" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.6&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="../../../groups/186"&gt;Commercialization / valorization&lt;/a&gt; (co-Chairs confirmed: Albert Mons&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_49" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="albertmons" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_albertmons" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;/Jan Velterop&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_59" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="villavelius" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_villavelius" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
1.7&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/187"&gt; Sustainability / public fundraising&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Barend Mons)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Category 2: Scientific and Technical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.1 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/193"&gt;Unified persistent ID&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Geoffrey Bilder&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_52" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_offline.png" skype_name="gbilder" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_gbilder" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/182"&gt;ConceptWiki&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Christine Chichester&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_55" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_on.png" skype_name="christine_chichester" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_christine_chichester" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.3 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/192"&gt;Nano-Publication format&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Andrew Gibson&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_56" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_on.png" skype_name="gibsonyarr" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_gibsonyarr" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.4 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.myexperiment.org/groups/209"&gt;Content acquisition &lt;/a&gt;(Chair confirmed: Christine Chichester&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_54" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_on.png" skype_name="christine_chichester" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_christine_chichester" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.5 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Content capture (Chair confirmed: Marco Roos&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_51" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_busy.png" skype_name="marco.roos" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_marco.roos" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.6 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Storage and maintenance (Chair confirmed: Scott Marshall)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.7 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.myexperiment.org/groups/210"&gt;Quality control&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Christine Chichester&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_53" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_on.png" skype_name="christine_chichester" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_christine_chichester" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.8 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Attibution (provenance, credits)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.9 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/194"&gt;Reasoning&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Erik Schultes)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.10 &lt;a href="../../../groups/201"&gt;Tool development&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Erik van Mulligen)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;2.11&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/190"&gt;Multi-linguality&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Gerard Meijssen&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_57" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_on.png" skype_name="gerardmeijssen" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_gerardmeijssen" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Category 3: Strategy/Advocacy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
3.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Scientific credibility (Chair confirmed: Antoine van Kampen)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
3.2 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/202"&gt;Advocacy&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Jan Velterop&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_60" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_away.png" skype_name="villavelius" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_villavelius" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
3.3 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="../../../groups/198"&gt;Conference 2010&lt;/a&gt; (Chair confirmed: Ruben Kok&lt;img border="none" id="__skype_nh_node_id_62" class="skype_name_highlight" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_offline.png" skype_name="ruben.kok1" name="__skype_nameHighlighting_node_ruben.kok1" onmouseover="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOver(this);" onmouseout="__skype_nh_icon_mouseOut(this);" alt="" /&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;We are still looking for Chairs for, the group on Policy and Legal issues and for the group dealing with Provenance, please suggest people. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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