DisasterResponse telecon 2016-02-04

Organizers: Karen Moe, Emily Law, Sean Barberie

Agenda:

Discussing strategic plan, plans for summer meeting, and direction forward

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Notes

ESIP Disaster Cluster Telecon

Our goal for this session is to look over the strategic plan

Want to focus on specific activities leading up to the summer meeting
The strategic actions for the federation seem to dovetail nicely with our goals as a cluster
This will serve as our roadmap both for work within the cluster and work with other clusters
Let's start with line 19: Promote Authoritative Data Sources
This is related to things we've already been discussing here in the cluster
There are a couple other areas too where we can tie in with symantics for promoting our products
At the winter meeting Karen did attend a session run by Rama and Bob Downs: the information quality cluster.
They are looking at use-case development. Have developed a template for integration and exposing the drivers for information quality needs.
This is definitely an area where we can do some work.
so for our strategic plan, we can actually show which ESIP priorities we can meet right now and even put dates for fulfillment or milestones.
How can we collaborate with the Information Quality Cluster in generating "trusted data set" examples? Perhaps we could provide use-cases using their template for our existing projects like those of Maggi and UAH.
How can added-value information be appended to existing data sets? It is easy to share data, it is very difficult to create value-added information...even things as simple as legends.
We should maybe put together a Google doc of all of our requirements for a trusted data source.
"It's not a trusted data source unless it comes with a legend and a clickable map" --Dave Jones
How can we not just expose maps, but create meaningful visualizations of these maps.
Sean will create a google docs document for this discussion to continue in a live-interactive environment so that we can figure out what our trusted data needs are.

Discussion of the testbed:
during the disaster cluster breakdown session we had a discussion with Tom of All Hazards Consortium.
Room for more collaboration between the disaster cluster and AHC.
AHC will be very useful in providing us with what community needs we should be aiming to meet.
March meeting: anything specific we want the group to do?
We might want to have a couple data sets to show.
If you're thinking about providing a sample dataset, send Dave an email.
Possible important key focus areas for the next few months: refine what it means to be "trusted data". So following up with this Google Doc.
Other important area: how we're organizing ourselves to do this testbed activity. How do we get our earth observation data organized so that it can be examined and tested by an external community?