Water Cluster Telecons

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February 4th 2010 Telecon

3 pm EST
Phone: Meeting Number: 877-326-0011
Meeting Code: *7884944*

Topics

1. Introductions & Opening Comments

2 Water Cluster Activities at Winter ESIP Federation Meeting

3 Discussion of ESIP Water Cluster Use Case Development

4 GEOSS AIP-3 Process Status discussion

5. Other Business

6. Date of next Teleconference

Participants

• George Percivall
• Bill Sonntag
• Carol Meyer
• Brand Niemann
• Christine Eggers
• Luis Bermudez
• Rob Raskin
• Todd Dabolt
• Brian Rogan
• Gary Foley
• Rob Fatland
• Jami Montgomery
• Phil Yang
• Will Pozzi

Notes

1. Round robin introductions were made
2. Last Meeting Recap

• Winter meeting activities and session breakdown
• Need a couple of use cases by end of meeting for proof of concept (EPA, others?)
• Need identify someone to lead ontology management
• Outreach: Ontology meeting during AGU; NIDIS/NOAA; NASA
• Vision statement

3. George Percivall, OGC - GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot 3

• Looking for a Drought scenario
• AIP Task - pilot new processes in support of creating the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
• work collaboratively across GEO committees (e.g. UIC to get user needs)
• AIP 2 Achievements

• Community of Practice Scenarios
• Reusable Processes
• SBAs covered: Disaster Management, Air Quality & Health, Energy, Biodiversity and Climate Change

• AIP 3 (call to be issued in January 2010)

• Build on GCI Community Services
• Engage new Communities of Practice
• Focus on Data; Promote Content
• Results in time to support EO Summit (Nov. 2010, Beijing)

• Use Cases (SOA)
• Scenarios (end users)
• Drought Scenario

• Asian Water Cycle, SDSC, FCU, CUASHI, JAXA, EuroGEOSS, ESIP, GEO Water CoP
• Hydrology Interoperability Experiment (OGC activity) - standards development/refinement as opposed to the GEOSS AIP which seeks to apply interoperability arrangements to SBAs
• Candidate Scenario was previously developed under AIP2 but didn't have critical mass to move forward
• Other scenario suggestion: visual beach (environmental indicator)

• How to Get Involved

• No funding provided
• Help with scenario development
• Semantic mediation use case

Action Items:

• Link to NIDIS for scenario
• Poll Cluster members about Drought or Water Quality scenario
• All - Review and edit Draft vision statemente for Water Cluster