January 6, 2012

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Friday, January 6, 2012
Time	Session Details	Location
7:00	Registration Desk Open	Lower Level Foyer
7:45	Public-Private Partnership Discussion	New Hampshire
8:30 - 10:00	Semantic Web Ontologies and Applications	Potomac
	Air Quality	Foggy Bottom
	IT&I ESIP Commons Review (Talk Notes)	Dupont
	Evaluation Workshop: The Case for Project Evaluation	City Center
	Preservation and Stewardship Planning	Mt. Vernon
10:00 - 10:30	Break	Lower Level Foyer
10:30 - 12:00	The ESIP Testbed - An Infrastructure for Community Collaboration	Potomac
	Disaster BoF (Talk Notes)	Foggy Bottom
	CF Standards Extensions for Remote Sensing Data	Dupont
	Evaluation Workshop: The Case for Project Evaluation	City Center
	Discovery Cluster Planning Session	Mt. Vernon
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch	New Hampshire
1:30 - 3:00	Earth Science Collaboratory Charrette	Potomac
	Education committee meeting	Foggy Bottom

8:30-10:00 am Breakout Sessions

Semantic Web Ontologies and Applications

Room: POTOMAC
Session Lead(s): Fox

Description:

• Data Quality Screening Service (Chris Lynnes)
• Review of goals/outcomes of this Meeting
• Erin will demonstrate ESIP Network progress
• Eric/Tom will give more updates/questions about ESIP project
• Cluster Collaborations:
  • Information Quality
  • Energy and Climate
  • Discovery
  • Preservation and Stewardship

ESIP Collaboration Areas: Semantic Web
Expertise Level: Apprentice
Topic tags: Tech

Air Quality

Room: FOGGY BOTTOM
Session Lead(s): Bagwell, Dye, Lough

Description: Air Quality Workgroup meeting, including:

1. Update on new and current projects (CIERA, others)
2. Review of new Best Practices guidance (CyAir) and development/updating/management of a living guidance document
3. Implementation of the Community WCS server
4. Other topics TBD

ESIP Collaboration Areas: Air Quality
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: SB, Tech

IT & I ESIP Commons Review

Room: DUPONT
Session Lead(s): Ramachandran

Description: Over the years, ESIP wiki has served as a useful mechanism to capture knowledge and information. However, limitations of the ESIP wiki in providing a formal citable knowledge management system have led to the creation of the ESIP Intellectual Commons (iCommons).

The objectives of the ESIP iCommons are:

1. Provide a knowledge repository to formally capture and publish all the information and knowledge generated as part of ESIP activities
2. Provide a citation mechanism to acknowledge individuals and groups that generate new knowledge
3. Provide a publication medium for information that cannot be printed elsewhere such as technical reports, use cases, education modules.

The objective of this session is two-folds. First, to apprise the ESIP community of the current status and capabilities of the ESIP iCommons. Second, to solicit feedback to shape this knowledge management system to best serve the ESIP community

ESIP Collaboration Areas: IT&I
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: Tech, Org

Evaluation Workshop: A Framework for Project Evaluation

Room: CITY CENTER
Session Lead(s): Prados

Description: On day two, we'll work through a practical framework from the point of view of Public Value. In the most general sense, public value is linked to individual and societal interests and to the institutional forms and actions of government.

The CTG Public Value Framework uses the concept of public value to help government and those that work with government understand the tangible and intangible values that information can provide to multiple and often diverse stakeholders. The purpose of this workshop is to provide earth science information researchers and government practitioners with tools and strategies to help them better understand the value that the information they work with can or is providing to their various stakeholders. During the workshop, participants will learn about existing CTG methods and tools and how they can be used to help support the design, implementation, and evaluation of earth science information projects and ensure that the value these projects can provide is identified, communicated, and assessed. Workshop sponsored by the Decisions Cluster and conducted by Brian Burke, CTG at SUNY Albany and Dan Ferguson, University of Arizona. ESIP Collaboration Areas: Decisions
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: Org

Preservation and Stewardship Planning

Room: MT. VERNON
Session Lead(s): Tilmes, Duerr

Description: We will review status of the various active activities in the cluster and discuss future plans. Those activities include: Data Stewardship Principles, Preservation Use Cases, Identifiers, Citations, Provenance and Context Content Standard, and Preservation Ontology.

ESIP Collaboration Areas: Data Pres.
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: DL, Org

10:30-12:00 pm Breakout Sessions

The ESIP Testbed - An Infrastructure for Community Collaboration

Room: DUPONT
Session Lead(s): Keiser

Description: This session is to discuss the progress of the P&S committee testbeds tasks and analyze how that can be supported by cloud computing or the requirements for computing infrastructure.

• Testbed Overview and promotion - maybe a standup survey? (Ken) (15 min)
  • Quick poll of attendees - simple binary questions
  • Did you know ESIP has a Testbed?
  • Would you consider using cloud resources for your work?
  • others?
• ESIP Front Office Perspective on the Testbed (Carol/Erin) (15 min)
  • Importance to the Federation
  • Options for expansion/moving forward
• Current Tasks - very brief overview (3 min each, 1-2 slides) (15 min)
  • Portal - Phil
  • Discovery - Christine/Hook
  • Quality - Phil/Greg
  • Metadata - Jerry/Rahul
  • Preservation - Nancy
• Cloud Resources - A Testbed task, then the Testbed Infrastructure – (Phil) (15 min)
  • A testbed of cloud resources
  • A cloud to host testbed tasks/services
• Open Discussion (and buffer for going over on other presentations) (30 min)
  • When to move tasks from Testbed to Production
  • Other discussion topics?

ESIP Collaboration Areas: Cloud, Prod. & Services
Expertise Level: Apprentice
Topic tags: Tech, DL

Disaster BoF

Room: FOGGY BOTTOM
Session Lead(s):

Description: This session is to gauge the interest of the ESIP community in starting a new Disaster Cluster. ESIP Collaboration Areas:
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: SB, Tech

CF Standards Extensions for Remote Sensing Data

Room: DUPONT
Session Lead(s): Raskin

Description: The CF metadata conventions were developed originally to meet the needs of the modeling community. We will discuss extensions needed to serve the needs of the remote sensing community, including: spectral band descriptions, swath geometry representation, and data quality representations. ESIP Collaboration Areas: CF
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: DL

Evaluation Workshop: A Framework for Project Evaluation

Room: CITY CENTER
Session Lead(s): Prados

Description: Day 2 of Evaluation Workshop. Continued from 8:30-10:00 am Session. ESIP Collaboration Areas: Decisions
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: Org

Discovery Cluster Planning

Room: MT. VERNON
Session Lead(s): Hua, Lynnes

Description: In this joint Earth Science Collaboratory (ESC) and Discovery Cluster session, we will discuss and plan the direction of the Discovery Cluster for the coming year. With multiple Earth science data centers already implementing these Discovery services, a forum is needed to discuss planning, interoperability, community process issues for the Discovery services. We will also discuss how Discovery can contribute to the ESC vision.

This session will tentatively focus on other topics to push forward on. A. Draft DCP-3: Where do we go from here? (25-min)
B. Faceting and Custom Fields Discussion (25-min)
C. Some Lessons Learned from Apache Solr-based Faceting (10-min)
D. Any Other Topics for Discovery? (10-min filler)
E. Leveraging the Discovery Testbed (20-min)

ESIP Collaboration Areas: Disc.
Expertise Level: Apprentice
Topic tags: Org, Tech

1:30-3:00 pm Breakout Sessions

Earth Science Collaboratory Charrette

Room: POTOMAC
Session Lead(s): Lynnes

Description: Earth Science Collaboratory Charrette* We will begin to outline the feature list for the Earth Science Collaboratory. As a starting point, we will look at some desired features coming out of the EarthCube Charrette, asking questions like: is this appropriate for ESC, who benefits and how do they benefit? We will also entertain feature requests unique to the ESC. *A charrette is a collaborative design session: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette ESIP Collaboration Areas: ESC
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: DL, Tech

Education Committee

Room: FOGGY BOTTOM
Session Lead(s): Caron

Description: The ESIP Education Committee meeting will focus on plans for the Summer ESIP meeting, representation at education conferences, and the work of the two Education Committee working groups: Climate Change Education and Internal ESIP Education. ESIP Collaboration Areas: Edu.
Expertise Level: Beginner
Topic tags: Org