Discovery Telecon 2011-05-17

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• Tuesday, May 17, 2011. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
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Schedule for breakout session at ESIP

• Scheduled for Wednesday, July_13,_2011 @ 8:30am-10:00am. Track 4: ESIP Discovery Show and Tell
• tenetatively signed up a secondary Discovery session on Thursday afternoon after ServiceCasting session. May use extra session for topics such as OGC OpenSearch.
• (from last month's telecon)
• Overview of Discovery session
  • Get everyone up to speed with discovery services.
  • Designated technical consultants for each area:
    • OpenSearch: Chris Lyness
    • ServiceCasting: Brian Wilson
    • Collection Casting: Ruth Duer
    • Services/Solr/Depoyment: Hook Hua
• Showcase of various clients (e.g. ServiceCasting or DataCasting)
  • more like outreach. demonstrate impact of cluster

Agenda for Wednesday Session

• Overview (Lynnes)
• ECHO Clients and Demos (Cechini and Keiser)
• GES DISC: Mirador, Simple Subset Wizard, and Community Based Giovanni (Lynnes)
• RPI: Faceted Browse using OpenSearch (Rozell)
• NSIDC: Datacasting at Collection and File Level (Duerr)
• JPL: DataCasting (?)

Products and services proposal

• What use(s) the Discovery cluster might be able to think of proposing. See Testbed.
• Write draft proposal
  • Discovery Services and Clients: Interoperability Testing and Advertisement
  • The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. As such, a common testbed to deploy services and/or clients would enable the Federation members to test the interoperability of Discovery services and clients. More over, having a common testbed where Federation members from various data centers can access would provide a common platform that can be used to advertise their services. Currently it is difficult to know where services exist, what they do, and how to access them. Several machine-processable mechanisms for advertising services (such as service casting) have been evaluated by the NASA Tech Infusion Working Group. The testbed will provide an environment to demonstrate how Federation-wide member services can be advertised, described, and chained together using existing technologies.
  • ESIP Community Benefits: Improved interoperability of ESIP Discovery services and clients leading to broader adoption. Increased awareness and usage of Discovery services.
  • Cost: $8K to (1) setup the testbed for allowing service and client implementations to be deployed onto the testbed and (2) setup a service cast of Federation member’s services offered
• discussed idea with running virtualization images on the testbed.
• more value in interoperability test than advertisement.
• advertisement expects a more permanence.
• advertisement was more about demoes to drive new products.
• expose for demonstration purposes. need to update
• GMU may be SAing the machine.
• Ken to wrap up the proposal to the finance community. waiting input from IT&I committee, IQ, and Semantic Clusters.
• Hook to update the proposal based on feedback of usage of advertisement as a way to demonstrate the new products and services.

Plan for dialogue with OGC

• Ask George Percivall to have someone attend the June telecon telecon to go through the OGC OpenSearch spec
• at June 14th telecon
  • go over the OGC OpenSearch spec
  • Chris to post the spec document/link and contact George.

Ran out of time, topics deferred to next month's telecon

Discovery RSS Response Format

• (from last month's telecon)
• Cover for the two groups of users
  • With vested interest: direct interest in DataCasting service.
  • Without vested interest: interested in implications across other Discovery services.

Webinar for infusion of discovery technology

• (from last month's telecon)
• To help new infusion cases of Discovery services.
• Example case: EPA (Bill Sonntag)
• Possible title: "Getting started with ESIP Discovery Services"
  • intended mainly for the techies.
  • could even show again at ESIP.
• Contribute slide content
  • new wiki page Discovery Webinar Materials created to post content to.
  • Ruth has some high-level slides for setting the ground work.
• To be effective, need to cover service providers and clients.
• Cover services for OpenSearch, ServiceCasting, and DataCasting
• Show some existing applications.
• Show power of mashups.
  • Ruth at beginning stages of using DataCasting to feed aggregator for web portal

Attendees

• Olding
• Cechini
• Rozell
• Lynnes
• Robinson
• Hua
• Zednik
• Keiser