Hi, last Thursday, Rintze, Frank, and I had a conference call with Alex Garnett and Juan Pablo Alperin of the Public Knowledge Project http://pkp.sfu.ca . We wanted to explore if (and if so how) CSL could find an institutional host at the PKP and what that would entail. Generally the conversation was very positive, the PKP folks know CSL and actually have started using it in one of their projects. They seemed quite positive about the general prospect of providing a home to CSL. They don't have much in terms of developer time to offer, but said that short term some advice and time for grant writing would be possible. They said they would want to be included in some way in the CSL decision-making process, though more in terms of knowing what's going on than to influence decisions (we did describe said process as open and consensus-based, which they seemed fine with). As for grants, as other have said, they said that it's basically impossible to get grants to cover day-to-day operations. Grant institutions want to fund something specific and new, so we'd have to think about that. Rintze and I came up with three areas on the spot: 1. Specifications - while the syntax is well specified, all the little things like eliminating double spaces/punctuation etc. that the processors do (or not) isn't. It should be 2. Legal CSL - incorporating Frank's modification for legal support 3. Other CSL 1.1/2.0 developments including field updates, potential multilingual improvements etc. Perhaps the biggest concern in all of this is that Rintze and I don't see how this is going to reduce our work (which, after all, was one of the original reasons we started talking about this).
I'll send a separate e-mail tomorrow with a brief proposal on the framework for a PKP-CSL partnership, but wanted to get this out there for both information and discussion. Best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Karcher Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science Northwestern University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
