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Christian: Start from more abstract to concrete. Begin by defining concepts (http://bit.ly/2Ekg7m6).
- Mike: May need to go back-and-forth. It’s not a concrete definition, but a suggestion that may be changed later.
- Brian: Can pick a document and have a “homework assignment” where we decide what changes we think can be made and then meet back together and discuss what we came up with.
- Following discussion, group agreed to the homework approach.

Meeting was held in Helsinki with Ed Simon, Jan, Michelle of EuroCRIS, Mike (VIVO), Anna (SIGMA)
Mike: EuroCRIS expressed interest in 2 initiatives: 1) Cerif to VIVO conversion (no interest for now in other direction). Could possibly be a project starting at SIGMA. Not a description of how to map- a working tool.
- A lot of the semantics are in code tables that can be heavily customized locally.
- Can a tool be built that converts CERIF 2 VIVO and allows others to use local code tables?
Second interest, Aligning semantics across a series of projects. (OpenAire, FAIR, CASRAI, VIVO, Freya, ORCiD, Cerif, COAR, KDSF, OBO, etc.)

Brian: What kind of output? A common ontology or mappings?
- Mike: That would be the first work item to consider.
Christian: This seems like a really large project.

Mike: Getting people together to discuss this might make people realize how big the project is.

Mike: Aligning ontologies is feasible. But some people only have a data model, a data structure (relational tables or JSON) and documentation. We have had this since the 1970s.
Research Graph has a large scale research graph. http://researchgraph.org
RDA may be forming a research graph working group.
Freya is creating a “PID Graph” connecting research entities via persistent identifiers

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