Products and Services

Monthly Teleconference

Next call

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009, 3 PM EST

800-508-7631 Access Code: *1297219*

Discussion topics:

1. Review past Committee activities
2. Update Committee goals and objectives based on participant interests
3. Plan for the Summer ESIP Meeting (e.g., a Metadata Fair?)
4. Select a Committee Vice-Chair
5. Identify permanent telecon day/time

Issues of interest to the Products and Service Standing Committee

Potential topics:

1. Deficiencies of current metadata standards: ISO 19115, OGC WMS/WCS/WFS
2. Improving metadata compliance
3. Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance
4. Representation of versioning
5. Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers
6. Use cases for general ESIP usage
7. Metadata harvesting and exchange and associated catalog services
8. Client access to catalogs
9. Service quality

Prior topics:

Data Quality

Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records

Federation Inventory

Committee E-mail List

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Products_and_Services

Reference Documents

Air Quality Metadata Use Case: https://sites.google.com/site/geosspilot2/air-quality-and-health-working-group/aq-community-catalog---publish-register-harvest

Past Discussions:

P&S Monthly August 29, 2006

P&S Monthly May 23, 2006

P&S Monthly April 25, 2006

P&S Monthly March 28, 2006

Purpose of Products and Services Committee - from ESIP Bylaws

a. To encourage the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;

b. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and

c. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.