DESIRE: Peer Review Report

Project Number:

RE 4004 (RE)

Project Title:

DESIRE II - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education II

Deliverable Number:

D5.1

Deliverable Title:

Training and Dissemination. Web Indexing Workshop 2000.

Deliverable Type:

PU

Deliverable Kind:

PE

Principal Reviewer:

Name

N/A
 

Address

  
 

E-Mail

  
 

Telephone

  
 

Fax

  
 

Credentials

  

Other Reviewers:

List of Questionnaire responders (see List of Workshop participants for personal information) – 20 of the 21 people below completed an evaluation form:

  1. Egbert Gramsbergen
  2. Xavier SOSNOWSKA
  3. Carlos da Cruz
  4. Matija Grabnar
  5. Dan Brickley
  6. Dave Beckett
  7. Mark Overmeer
  8. Pete Mallinson
  9. Gerti Foest
  10. Henny Bekker
  11. Thomas Lenggenhager
  12. Stig Venaas
  13. Anders Lund
  14. Dmitry Galagan
  15. Andriy Levytskyy
  16. Miroslav Milinovic
  17. Renée Verdegaal
  18. Dennis Nicholson
  19. Wolfgang Dalitz
  20. Martin Fuchs
  21. Thomas Eggenweiler

See Appendix 1.

Summary:

Relevance

(1 2 3 4 5) 4.2
 

State of the art

(1 2 3 4 5) 4.2
 

Met objectives

(1 2 3 4 5) 4.0

 

Clarity

(1 2 3 4 5) 3.7
 

Value to participants

(1 2 3 4 5) 3.9
     

Specific Criticisms

  

None

Evaluation

Evaluation of the Workshop was done in the form of an evaluation questionnaire completed at the end of the workshop. 20 forms out of 21 were returned to TERENA, who collected the results summarised below.

Aims and content of the workshop

  1. Relevance, average score 4.2 (on a maximum of 5)
    20 responses: 11 rated the workshop as 4 and 6 as 5 (excellent)
  2. State of the art, average score 4.25 (on a maximum of 5)
    20 responses: 8 as 4 and 8 as 5 (excellent)
  3. Met objectives, average score 4.31 (on a maximum of 5)
    20 responses: 16 as 4 and 2 as 5 (excellent)
  4. Clarity, average score 4.13 (on a maximum of 5)
    20 responses: 10 as 4 and 2 as 5 (excellent)
  5. Value to participants, average score 4.69 (on a maximum of 5)
    20 responses: 14 rated the workshop as 4 and 2 as 5 (excellent)

The workshop sessions

The sessions that were considered the most useful by participants were:

No sessions were singled out as being particularly poor or not relevant.

Facilities and organisation

The facilities and organisation all received an average mark of 4.1 – 4.3 out of 5.

Relevance to participants

Did the workshop meet your expectations?

19 respondents replied YES.

Workshop Materials

Workshop Program and materials are available at:

http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/indexing/

Participants

Total number of workshop participants was 21 delegates and 12 speakers, from 10 European countries plus 2 speakers from the USA.