Karin asked by Ray to write a plan for the Canadian Reseach Knowledge Network which would be the basis of a call for proposals. Discussed how specific such a document has to be (what we want versus what we want and how to do it, etc), and value of metadata and in particular being able to do iterative searches with one pass based on metadata and then another pass based on plain text or text-in-element searching.

Then went over what she has so far and recommended modifications particularly to nature, frequency and scale of additions to the dataset(s), what capabilities they want in addition to a giant plain-text indexing etc. (i.e. what elements in each document are they going to try to parse out automatically).