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Working groups

As a result of the Conference in New York in May, twenty groups have been proposed to take on the task of determining scope, deliverables and a time table, and subsequently make detailed proposals, for specific topics of importance for the CWA.

For each group, a number of individuals who have already signed the CWA Declaration are being approached directly and invited to participate, but anybody with an interest in participating in these groups is cordially invited to join (email: info@removethis.conceptweballiance.org). Unless you have their email addresses, the info@conceptweballiance.org address should also be used to get in touch with the Chairs of the working groups - please indicate the name of the Chair and the working group number in your email.

The proposed working groups are:

Category 1 - organizational and operational

1.1    Governance (co-Chairs confirmed: Albert Mons/Jan Velterop)
1.2    Policies
1.3    Organizational structure (Chair confirmed: Albert Mons)
1.4    Legal and licensing
1.5    Capacity building (Chair confirmed: Albert Mons)
1.6    Commercialization / valorization (co-Chairs confirmed: Albert Mons/Jan Velterop)
1.7   Sustainability / public fundraising (Chair confirmed: Barend Mons)

Category 2 - Scientific and Technical

2.1    Content capture (Chair confirmed: Marco Roos)
2.2    Tool development (Chair confirmed: Erik van Mulligen)
2.3    Storage and maintenance (Chair confirmed: Scott Marshall)
2.4    Unified persistent ID (Chair confirmed: Geoffrey Bilder)
2.5    Quality control (Chair confirmed: Christine Chichester)
2.6    Triple model / format (Chair confirmed: Andrew Gibson)
2.7    Attribution (micro- and nano-credits)
2.8    Content acquisition (Chair confirmed: Christine Chichester)
2.9    Triple Browser/reasoning (Chair confirmed: Erik Schultes)
2.10  Multi-linguality (Chair confirmed: Gerard Meijssen)<o:p></o:p>

Category 3 - Strategy/Advocacy

3.1    Scientific credibility (Chair confirmed: Antoine van Kampen)
3.2    ConceptWiki (Chair confirmed: Christine Chichester)
3.3    Advocacy (Chair confirmed: Jan Velterop)
3.4    Conference 2010 (Chair confirmed: Karin van Haren)

Proposals for additional working groups would be considered as well. Please email info@removethis.conceptweballiance.org

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