March 25, 2011

Participants

• Gregory Leptoukh

Agenda

• Preparation for the Summer EIP Meeting in Santa Fe: ESIP Summer 2011 Meeting
  • Speakers
    • Main topics to discuss at the summer meeting - which ones are the most important:
      • Terminology/taxonomy
      • Data Intercomparison and quality harmonization
      • Best practices in different communities
      • Fit-for-purpose criteria for data quality (e.g., climate change need vs. near-real-time monitoring need)
      • Level 2 Quality flags (and what do they tell about the product quality)
      • Level 3 "Quality" (what’s that?)
      • Propagation of L2 uncertainty to L3
      • Effects of missing data on aggregates
      • Data quality ontology (The Semantic Web Cluster is already working on logistics of the Data Quality Ontology breakout session)
      • Presenting data quality to users
    • Breakout sessions – how many?
    • Identify reps of various research and application communities for:
      • their understanding and requirements for quality
      • methodology they use to assess and quantify data quality
    • Communities: SST, Ocean color, Precipitation, Atm Chemistry, Land, Modeling, Applications (e.g., Air Quality),...

• How and when for IQ telecons
  • One main topic per telecon (presentation via WebEx)
  • Every other Friday at 2:30 pm Eastern time (have been told that Fridays are on half hour somehow...

Action Items

• by Apr 1 identify potential speakers
• by Apr 1 identify main topics