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<big><center>'''Welcome to the Products & Services Committee'''</center></big>
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<center>Chair: Soren Scott</center>
  
Vice-Chair:  
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==Purpose==
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Per Section V.2.1 of the [http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/1/13/Bylaws_12_01_11_FINAL.pdf ESIP Federation Bylaws], the Standing Committee for Earth Science Products and Services carries out the following:
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* encourages the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;
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* provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and
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* provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.
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Products and Services carries out this mission by soliciting for and supporting projects through the ESIP Testbed and also through the FUNding Friday mechanism.
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==Communications==
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===Monthly Telecon===
  
==Monthly Teleconference==
 
 
The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon (currently) on 3rd Tuesday of every month at 2 pm EST.  
 
The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon (currently) on 3rd Tuesday of every month at 2 pm EST.  
  
The telecon call-in information for these meetings are below:
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To join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone, click:
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https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/580593221
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You can also dial in using your phone.
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United States: +1 (872) 240-3311
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Access Code: 580-593-221
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Upcoming Meeting: [[P&S Upcoming Telecon]]
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Minutes Archive: [[P&S Telecon Minutes]]
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=== Committee E-mail List ===
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:http://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products
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=== ESIP Slack Channel ===
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We're also on the ESIP Slack team as the #products_services channel.
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==2016 Activities==
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[[2016PSWorkPlan | 2016 Work Plan]]
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===Technology Evaluation===
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[[P&S Tech Eval Overview | Overview]]
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[[P&S Tech Eval Process | Process]]
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[[P&S Tech Eval Documentation | Documentation]]
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====Software Quality Guidelines====
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A community-wide activity to develop software quality guidelines for integration into the ESIP evaluation framework.
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[[P&S Software Guidelines Background]]
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[[P&S Software Guidelines Sprint]]
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====NASA AIST Technology Evaluation====
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ESIP, through an agreement with NASA AIST, is piloting a technology evaluation framework. This began in the fall of 2015 and will continue in 2016.
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==Annual Activities==
  
: Dial: 1-877-668-4493
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===Testbed===
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'''Please see the ''[[Testbed]] wiki page'' or [http://testbed.esipfed.org/ ESIP Testbed Site] for latest info.'''
: https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed&service=1
 
  
== Testbed ==
 
 
The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated.  The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit.  
 
The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated.  The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit.  
  
Projects deployed in the Testbed are proposed through response to the Testbed RFP or FUNding Friday activities. Testbed project proposals are reviewed by the Testbed Configuration Board. To learn more about the Testbed or projects hosted there, see the [http://testbed.esipfed.org/ ESIP Testbed Site].
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Projects deployed in the Testbed are proposed through response to the Testbed RFP. Testbed project proposals are reviewed by the Testbed Configuration Board.
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RFPs go out in April and October.
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'''[http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/9168 Current RFP] (ends May 13, 2016)'''
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===FUNding Friday===
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FUNding Friday is an opportunity for students and ESIP members to receive funding during the Summer Meetings. We host an evening event for those interested to put together a poster (the proposal) which are presented Friday morning to the ESIP community. Proposals are awarded by popular vote.
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[[FUNding Friday 2011 | FUNding Friday Rules]]
  
===Testbed Projects, 2014-2015===
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[[FUNding Friday Projects | Past Projects]]
  
 
  
===FUNding Friday Projects, 2015===
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| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD
 
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| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864
 
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| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004.  It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation.  This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF.  || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760
 
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| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871
 
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| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860
 
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| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has.  By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742
 
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| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections.  Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case.  This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools.  This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope.  Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content.  This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735
 
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== Committee E-mail List ==
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==Committee Updates==
:http://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products
 
  
==Yearly Highlights ==
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For committee governance or business updates that don't get covered in a telecon, please see [[P&SChairUpdates | Updates]].
:[[2013 highlights/report given at the 2014 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting]]
 
  
==Meeting & Telecon Minutes: ==
 
Please see the [[P&S Telecon Minutes]] page.
 
  
==Topics of Interest==
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===Historical Info===
:Testbed Projects & RFP
 
:Documentation, Lifecycle, and ESIP Utilization of Testbed Projects
 
:FUNding Friday
 
:Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance
 
:Peer-reviewed datasets
 
:Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers
 
:Client access to catalogs
 
:Service quality
 
 
:[[P&S Data Quality|Data Quality]]
 
:[[P&S Data Quality|Data Quality]]
 
:[[P&S Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records|Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records]]  
 
:[[P&S Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records|Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records]]  
 
:[[Federation Inventory]]
 
:[[Federation Inventory]]
  
== Metadata Resources & Data Standards ==
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=== Metadata Clearinghouses for ESIP Products and Services ===
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:[http://www.echo.nasa.gov ECHO]
 
:[http://www.gcmd.nasa.gov GCMD]
 
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=esip&MetadataType=0 GCMD ESIP Data Portal]
 
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=esip_svcs&MetadataType=1 GCMD ESIP Data Services Portal]
 
  
===Metadata Standards ===
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[[category:CollabArea]]
:[http://www.echo.eos.nasa.gov/documents/data_partners/ECHO_10_Data_Partner_User_Guide.pdf ECHO Data Model]
 
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/difman.html GCMD DIF]
 
:[http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/fgdc-endorsed-standards FGDC]
 

Latest revision as of 23:10, April 29, 2016

Welcome to the Products & Services Committee
Chair: Soren Scott

Purpose

Per Section V.2.1 of the ESIP Federation Bylaws, the Standing Committee for Earth Science Products and Services carries out the following:

  • encourages the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;
  • provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and
  • provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.

Products and Services carries out this mission by soliciting for and supporting projects through the ESIP Testbed and also through the FUNding Friday mechanism.

Communications

Monthly Telecon

The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon (currently) on 3rd Tuesday of every month at 2 pm EST.

To join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone, click: https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/580593221

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (872) 240-3311

Access Code: 580-593-221

Upcoming Meeting: P&S Upcoming Telecon

Minutes Archive: P&S Telecon Minutes

Committee E-mail List

http://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products

ESIP Slack Channel

We're also on the ESIP Slack team as the #products_services channel.

2016 Activities

2016 Work Plan

Technology Evaluation

Overview

Process

Documentation

Software Quality Guidelines

A community-wide activity to develop software quality guidelines for integration into the ESIP evaluation framework.

P&S Software Guidelines Background

P&S Software Guidelines Sprint

NASA AIST Technology Evaluation

ESIP, through an agreement with NASA AIST, is piloting a technology evaluation framework. This began in the fall of 2015 and will continue in 2016.



Annual Activities

Testbed

Please see the Testbed wiki page or ESIP Testbed Site for latest info.

The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated. The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit.

Projects deployed in the Testbed are proposed through response to the Testbed RFP. Testbed project proposals are reviewed by the Testbed Configuration Board.

RFPs go out in April and October.

Current RFP (ends May 13, 2016)

FUNding Friday

FUNding Friday is an opportunity for students and ESIP members to receive funding during the Summer Meetings. We host an evening event for those interested to put together a poster (the proposal) which are presented Friday morning to the ESIP community. Proposals are awarded by popular vote.

FUNding Friday Rules

Past Projects


Committee Updates

For committee governance or business updates that don't get covered in a telecon, please see Updates.


Historical Info

Data Quality
Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records
Federation Inventory