Timing, hosts and locations of (grouped) events of NanoImpactNet

• A working relationship with groups of nano-tox related people,
including outstanding scientists and regulators.
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• The possibility of collaborating with the leading publisher’s
companies is being considered.
NHECD, soon to be at the end of the development phase, is aiming at the dissemination of the assets obtained (i.e., developed tools),
while working on enlarging the repository. All of this is towards achieving a high quality of information and tools.
5 Organization of NHECD
NHECD scientific activities are conducted within five work packages (WPs, see table below). NHECD success is a consequence of the
synergetic relationship between the work packages results, themselves a result of the synergy between the partners. Where possible,
joint activities that were not initially planned were held to ensure that NHECD achieves its goals in an optimal way.
Table 1. Work packages (WP) of NHECD
WP Title Topic
1 Provision of
Information
Technology
Provide the information technology infrastructure enabling to establish and maintain on an on-going basis
an automated retrieval, indexing and extraction of relevant results from scientific publications in common
electronic document formats. The data will be categorized as per special domain taxonomy specially
designed by domain experts for efficient navigation by novice users. The framework will enable domain
experts to comment the extracted results while considering the journal impact factor and the novelty of
results.
2 Toxicology The overall goal of this WP is to provide knowledge in the domain of the impact of nanoparticles on health
and environment for setting a data-base. This will be accomplished by providing appropriate taxonomy,
prioritizing and ranking of the articles and selection of PDF articles, in addition to the provided meta-data,
that will serve for a comprehensive data mining. An additional central goal is to validate, at each stage of
development of the tools for data mining, the quality control of the developed process.
3 Tools and
environment
4 Interaction with
stakeholders and
dissemination
0 Project
Management
To supply and maintain tool and infrastructure including hardware, software and networking services. The
primary software includes open source content management, database and website front-end of the
project, accessible to all the users per their definitions. On an ongoing basis, to provide system
administration and management services including user management (anonymous users, registered users,
etc.), security and access management, backup and recovery, and more.
Exchange with relevant stakeholder groups to integrate further information and meet requirements.
Provision of purposeful information towards all target groups, and processing of feed-back in order to
optimize the system. Comprehensive promotion. Evaluation of options to further operate NHECD after the
project end.
Ensure a smooth flow of the project activities – constant monitoring and steering of the work with the
objective to achieve the project goals. Proper and timely execution of all administrative and financial tasks
including the contractually required reports. Elaboration and implementation of corrective actions, where
necessary. Faithful interaction with the Commission’s representatives.
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