ISTC DWG Meeting Spring 2019 Vienna

Joint CETAF ISTC and Digitisation Working Group Meeting, Vienna 13-14 February 2019

Attendance

• Anton Güntsch (BGBM Berlin)
• Elspeth Haston (RBGE)
• Heimo Rainer (Vienna)
• Dominik Röpert (BGBM Berlin)
• Peter Grobe (ZFMK)
• Björn Quast (ZFMK)
• Martin Stein (Copenhagen)
• Dagmar Triebel (SNSB)
• Mathias Dillen (Meise)
• Ayco Holleman (Naturalis)
• Alex Hardisty (Cardiff)
• Roger Hyam (RBGE)
• Falko Glöckler (MfN Berlin)
• Simin Chagnoux (Paris)
• Wouter Addink (Naturalis)
• Frederik Berger (MfN Berlin)
• Laurence Livermore (NHM)
• Celia Santos (CSIC)
• Patrik Mráz (Prague)

Draft agenda

February 13

ISTC (13:00 - 18:00)

13:00	Welcome, introduction of participants, adoption of agenda (A. Güntsch)
13:20	QoS workshop Copenhagen - report, next steps
	- "Botany Pilot" (D. Röpert)
	- ID Implementers Registry (A. Güntsch)
	- CETAF Specimen URI Tester - new developments (R. Hyam)
14:20	Coffee break
14:50	DiSSCo Technical Infrastructure
	- Infrastructure overview (A. Hardisty)
	- Discussion (central vs distributed services?, responsibilities and role of natural history collections?, role of CETAF IDs for specimens?, joint activities?, other questions?)
16:00	DiSSCo related activities
	- COST Mobilise WG4 "Development of Standards and Guidelines for data archiving and long-term preservation" (D. Triebel)
	- GeoCASe – current situation and next steps (F. Glöckler)
	- COST Mobilise Person ID workshop (E. Haston)
17:00	CETAF strategy and development plan - targets and activities
17:45	AOB, next meetings
18:00	End of (ISTC) meeting

19:00 Dinner

February 14

Digitisation Working Group (9:00 - 13:00)

09:00	Welcome, introduction of participants, adoption of agenda (E Haston)
09:20	Minimal Information for Digital Specimens (MIDS) (A Hardisty) - to be confirmed
	- CETAF Collections Group
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Review of DiSSCO-related projects and work programs
	- SYNTHESYS+
	- ICEDIG
	- MOBILISE
12:30	CETAF strategy and development plan - targets and activities
12:45	AOB, next meetings
13:00	End of DWG meeting

Logistics

Venue

Natural History Museum Vienna
Burgring 7
AT-1010 Vienna

The venue is located just outside and opposite of subway Station VOLKSTHEATER - exit "Ring/Museen".

Transport

From the airport

At the airport you will find green signs once getting out that lead you to a direct train connection called CAT (City Airport Train). It runs every 30 minutes HH:09 and HH:39 nonstop to the "Wien Mitte Landstraße" single € 11 € return € 19 https://www.cityairporttrain.com/en/home

From there continue to the Museum using the orange subway line U3 direction Ottakring towards "Volkstheater".

By train

Nowadays trains main arrival point is Wien Hauptbahnhof. From there you can use subway line U1 to Stephansplatz change for subway number U3 to Volkstheater A second less frequent stop is Westbahnhof. From there you can directly connect to the NHM using subway U3, again to Volkstheater.

Public transport

The public transport system in Vienna is dense. Tickets can be purchased at counters of bigger stations, at the airport, railway stations or online https://shop.wienerlinien.at/index.php/tickets

A useful route planner for public transport is @ https://www.wienerlinien.at/eportal3/ep/tab.do?tabId=0 Available also as a mobile App QANDO https://m.qando.at

Map

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Hotels

IBIS - https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-0796-ibis-wien-mariahilf/index.shtml MERCURE - https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-5358-hotel-mercure-wien-westbahnhof/index.shtml LEONARDO - https://www.leonardo-hotels.com/leonardo-hotel-vienna Pension Wild - https://www.pension-wild.com/en/

all available direct or via booking.com / Expedia / trivago etc.