Discovery Telecon 2011-10-11

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• Tuesday, October 11, 2011. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
• WebEx Info:
  • Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493
  • Attendee access code: 231 407 50
  • To start the online portion of the Personal Conference meeting , go to https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed&service=1 and select the Discovery Cluster meeting.

Attendees

• Chris Lynnes
• Christine White
• Erin Robinson
• James Gallagher
• Bob Downs
• Eric Rozell
• Ken Keiser
• Christine White
• Hook Hua
• Ruth Duerr
• Brian Wilson
• Call-in User 6
• Call-in User 8
• Call-in User 9

Notes

EarthCube white paper status and plan

Since last month's Discovery and ESC telecons, there have been some new information on the whitepaper posted: http://earthcube.ning.com/profiles/blogs/announcement-please-post-your-whitepapers

Also, we can see the white papers submitted so far: http://earthcube.ning.com/page/background-reading

Hook had signed up to finished the governance section (just posted).

There is longer version: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_White_Paper#Governance_-_Hook

And a shorter version: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_White_Paper_Short#Technical_Governance

• Meeting Notes
  • Mark Parsons made major revisions (we weren't really following the charette call)
  • Chris: are we ready to submit the whitepaper?
    • Hook: can look at others submissions on the EarthCube website, most other submissions were closer to 10 pages
    • Bob made minor revisions this morning ("wordsmithing")
    • Does the sign on statement mean you agree or made modifications, sign to larger or smaller?
      • Signing means you agree, sign to smaller section
    • Should try to get the whitepaper in this week
    • ACTION ITEM: Ruth will submit whitepaper
    • What's the best way to submit?
      • Create PDF or link to wiki?
      • One person linked to Google Doc.
    • All minor changes should be made by 4 MST Wednesday Oct 12, 2011
  • To sign the document: an asterisk (for bullet) and insert 4 tildas at the bottom of wiki page
  • Who will present the whitepaper?
    • The following cannot present: Chris, Ruth, Hook, Brian
    • The following may be attending: (Erin or Carol), Christine, Rahul
  • Where is the charrette?
    • Arlington

Plans for awarded Discovery Testbed implementation

• Discovery cluster submitted testbed to ESIP Products and Services committee
  • Awarded to ESRI, lead by Christine White

• What could ESRI do that would be useful for the ESIP discovery cluster?
  • What are the goals?
  • What are the success criteria?

• Christine can present status/progress at Winter Meeting

• Solicitation was about...
  • Testbed for interoperability testing
  • Used for advertising ESIP community services
  • Services to data broker (identifies services that are compatible with data) ("Icing on the cake")

• ESRI's response:
  • Responded to 3 of the tasks, selected for task 2
  • using open source GeoPortal server software as a base
    • can be extended/modified/etc. without concern
  • Some of the RFP features are available out of the box (GeoRSS/Atom results)
  • Development would be useful for orgs outside of ESIP
  • the hours of the project will be billed for conversations with ESIP, development will be paid for by ESRI
  • ESRI gets first-hand information/use cases for developing this data portal
  • Cluster gets a useful testbed for advertising services/datasets, etc. for RFP

• What sort of impact should the RFP have on Discovery Cluster? What can be coordinated by ESRI?
  • Anyone using GeoPortal automatically cast datasets?
    • All providers using GeoPortal can be aggregated using data casting standards.
  • Is it possible to get "automatic" casting from GeoPortal?
  • Ruth clarifies casting from GeoPortal.

• What is the best way for cluster to collaborate with ESRI?
  • Ruth: NSIDC can talk to ESRI about what the GeoPortal should have (i.e., casting capabilities)
  • Hook: what about the OpenSearch front-end, GeoPortal has uses OpenSearch...
  • Chris: seeking a "standing" server where people can write and test OpenSearch clients
  • Christine: GeoPortal can be used to register data and services, it can also be an endpoint for testing clients
  • Chris: would the GeoPortal server respond to OpenSearch request
    • Christine: it should
  • GeoPortal is not the interface at geoportal.org
  • Hook: suggests a starting point - a place for community members to register OpenSearch services, casting services, etc.
    • GeoPortal can be used to register and search services
  • Christine offered to give a demo of a "vanilla" GeoPortal server
    • This can be a topic of next month's telecon.
  • Christine will coordinate with Hook and Brian to produce an interesting demo

• What is the timeline for the work?
  • ESRI is flexible on the timeline (response was to have work completed within one year)

• What are the success criteria?

ESRI GeoPortal Source: [1]

DCP-3

Discovery_Change_Proposal-3