IQ cluster kick-off meeting

Participants

• Gregory Leptoukh (GSFC)
• Steve Berrick (NASA HQ)
• Chris Lynnes (GSFC)
• Hook Hua (JPL)
• Scott Ritz (GSFC)
• Tyler Stevens (GSFC)
• Ethan McMahon (EPA)
• Bill Teng (GSFC)
• Peter Fox (RPI)

Main objective

Prepare for the Summer 2011 ESIP Fed meeting

Theme Idea for the Summer meeting

Data/Information Quality

Topics

• Data quality provided vs. data quality needed (fitness-for-purpose). Solicit and present data quality needs for climate change, air quality, disaster management
• Pixel quality vs. product quality
• Validation issues. What is Level 3 data validation? What is Level 3 data quality?
• Best practices in different communities addressing data quality, e.g., SST error budget
• Existing IQ frameworks and methodologies (Data View)
• Quality ontology
• Quality provenance
• Quality harmonization
• Interaction with QA4EO and other international entities dealing with data quality for earth observations

Breakout sessions

• IQ cluster (terminology, standardization, IQ framework, IQ4EO white paper preparation)
• Semantic web cluster (to discuss data quality ontology)
• Air quality cluster

Discussions

Tuning the summer meeting tangible objectives:

• White paper(s). Formulate and consistently present user requirements for data quality
• ...

Suggested speakers:

• Eloquent representative from a user community who present a compelling story for data quality specific to her/his community. Potential candidates: Jim Hansen for Climate change; Caspar Ammann from UCAR
• Programmatic view - Martha?
• Data provider response - Wentz?

Suggested topics:

• Summarize presentations from the last AGU quality and uncertainty related sessions.
• Select just few communities to start with - cannot work with too many before and at the meeting
• Involve educators as a specific community

Suggested workshops:

• Present accomplishments in data quality area by various ACCESS and ESTO projects.
• Do actual data quality framework development based on inputs (if any) from the IQ cluster members

Action items

For the summer meeting:

• Send out a couple of example use cases for data quality requirements (Greg, Chris?)
• Solicit ideas for breakout sessions (all)
• Propose more Invited speakers (all)
• Approach all ESIP cluster/groups/committees to start quality aspect discussions (Greg)

For the IQ cluster:

• Suggest and invite to the IQ cluster people who might be interested in contributing (all)
• Identify volunteers for writing best practices in different communities
• Identify tangible short-term and long-term goals
• Collect references and build the IQ Knowledge Base
• Establish telecon day/time (Greg)