20191030 SG NLPL
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NLPL steering group meeting
Time: 2019-10-30 : 14:30 - 16:00 CET Video connection: https://cscfi.zoom.us/j/9917669499
Place: Video conference Live minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qB8XGHnDMBRz6b5b74ezH5iue3URe7SpGFM73r5YEpM/edit?usp=sharing
Invited:
- Tomasz Malkiewicz, NeIC (PO)
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
- Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki
- Martin Matthiesen, CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd
- Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo (and Uninett Sigma2 AS)
- Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen
- Filip Ginter, University of Turku
- Leon Derczynski, IT University, Denmark
- Bjørn Lindi, NeIC (PM)
NLPL-SG 19-11 Welcome and Attendance
NLPL-SG 19-12 The Agenda for the SG meeting
- 14:30 NLPL SG 19-20 Attendance and agenda (1')
- 14:31 NLPL SG 19-21 Approval of the agenda (1')
- 14:32 NLPL SG 19-22 Status of the Project / Virtual Laboratory (20')
- 14:52 NLPL SG 19-23 The NLPL Winter School (20')
- 15:12 NLPL SG 19-24 Beyond 2019 (20')
- 15:32 NLPL SG 19-25 NLPL Benefit Realisation (10')
- 15:42 NLPL SG 19-26 NeIC Affiliate programme (5')
- 15:47 NLPL SG 19-27 Next Meeting (5')
- 15:52 NLPL SG 19-28 Any Other Business (3')
NLPL SG 19-22 Status of the Project / Virtual Laboratory
- NLPL milestones
- NLPL Spreadsheet (see May 2018 and October 2019 sub-sheets)
- NLPL Project Plan
Proposed Updates to Project Plan
Helsinki suggests to take over 2.5 person months originally earmarked for services by CSC; similarly, Oslo offers to take over 2 infrastructure-related person months from USIT.
- A.3.5 [20/12] Automated data replication and back-up across NLPL systems
- A.3.6 [20/12] Partial automation of software re-installation on Puhti and Saga
- A.3.7 [20/12] Interface to CSC and Sigma2 user databases for mailing lists
- A.3.8 [20/12] Renegotiation of resource allocations and collaboration framework
- D.3.1 [20/12] Building comparable corpora for Faroese and West Greenlandic
- E.4 [20/12] Sample code and tutorial on training and using ELMo and BERT
- F.1.2 [19/12] Data sets and documentation for the second batch of downstream tasks
- F.2.2 [19/12] Code for second batch of downstream tasks
- F.2.3
[20/12] Wiki for adding downstream tasks - G.3.2 [20/12] Reorganization of OPUS for migration to object storage and Allas
NLPL SG 19-23 The NLPL Winter School
The NLPL Winter School is tentatively set for 3-5 February, 2020. A project team of two people is needed for publishing the winter school and organizing the registration.
NLPL SG 19-24 Beyond 2019
- Following up the national e-infrastructure providers in each country: Draft Letter
NLPL SG 19-25 NLPL Benefit Realisation
- First draft:
NLPL SG 19-26 NeIC Affiliate programme
A decision regarding the affiliate programme is expected in December, 2019.
NLPL SG 19-27 Next Meeting
- Online 2019-12-11, 13:00 - 15:00 CET - is this still the plan?