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December 3, 2009 Telecon

1-3 pm EST
Phone: Meeting Number: 877-326-0011
Meeting Code: *7884944*
GoTo Meeting Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/203214995

Topics

(feel free to add agenda items)
1. Recap of Last Meeting
2. GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot 3 (AIP-3), George Percivall http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=36656
3. Water Cluster Activities at Winter ESIP Federation meeting
4. Discussion Draft Water Cluster Vision Statement
5. Date of Next Meeting (January 5-7, 2010)

Meeting Docs

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

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-==October 1, 2009 Telecon==
+==December 3, 2009 Telecon==
--3 pm EDT <br>
+-3 pm EST <br>
 Phone: Meeting Number:  877-326-0011<br>
 Meeting Code:  *7884944*<br>
-GoTo Meeting Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/188806762
+GoTo Meeting Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/203214995
 ===Topics===
-(feel free to add agenda items)
+(feel free to add agenda items) <br>
-#Review of prior ESIP Water Cluster Activities - Paul Houser & All
+. Recap of Last Meeting <br>
-#EPA Office of Water Water Quality Exchange (WQX) General Update - Chuck Spooner
+. GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot 3 (AIP-3), George Percivall   http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=36656 <br>
-#Presentation & discussion of CUAHSI Activities - TBD
+. [[Water Cluster Activities]] at Winter ESIP Federation meeting <br>
-#Potential for external review of EPA OEI Substance Registry System (SRS) chemicals and other terminology related to water - TBD
+. Discussion Draft [[Vision Statement for Water Cluster |Water Cluster Vision Statement]] <br>
-#Solving Ontology Wranglings ala MMI - Liaison with ESIP Semantic Cluster Group - Luis Bermudez & All
+. Date of Next Meeting (January 5-7, 2010)
-#GEOSS Related activities (in consultation with NASA/NOAA) - TBD
-#Topics and organization for ESIP winter meeting (January 2010) All
 ===Meeting Docs===
-[[Media:20091001_MMI_Ontology_Wrangling.pdf | MMI Ontology Wrangling]]
 ===Participants===
+:*George Percivall
 :*Bill Sonntag
-:*Paul Houser
-:*Debbie Belvedere
-:*Rick Hooper
 :*Carol Meyer
+:*Brand Niemann
+:*Christine Eggers
+:*Luis Bermudez
+:*Rob Raskin
+:*Todd Dabolt
 :*Brian Rogan
-:*Lawrence Friedl
-:*Bruce Bargmeyer
-:*Kevin Keck
 :*Gary Foley
+:*Rob Fatland
+:*Jami Montgomery
+:*Phil Yang
 :*Will Pozzi
-:*Mark Hamilton
-:*Danny Hardin
-:*George Percivall
-:*Louis Sweeney
-:*Luis Bermudez
-:*Chuck Spooner
-:*Sara Graves
-:*Wenwen Li
-:*Phil Yang
-:*Gail Hodge
 ===Notes===
-. Review of prior ESIP Water Cluster Activities
+. Round robin introductions were made <br>
-:Paul Houser, co-chair reviewed prior activities of the ESIP Federation Water Cluster.  Those activities fell into 3 distinct areas:
+. Last Meeting Recap
-::*development of the Earth Information Exchange (EIE) portal for water
+:*Winter meeting activities and session breakdown
-::*contributions of ESIP partner data sets in response to the Puget Sound Initiative
+:*Need a couple of use cases by end of meeting for proof of concept (EPA, others?)
-::*technology contributions to GEO decision support initiatives (especially in the area of ontology development) (Will Pozzi)
+:*Need identify someone to lead ontology management
+:*Outreach: Ontology meeting during AGU; NIDIS/NOAA; NASA
-. Water Quality Exchange (WQX) General Update
+:*Vision statement
-:Chuck Spooner, EPA Office of Water provided an overview of the Water Quality Exchange (WQX).  He first provided background on the STORET data warehouse, an archive of state reported measurements accessible through an xml query.  The WQX schema provides for a data and exchange format, which has now been adopted by USGS.  EPA and USGS will be combining their query systems (< 1 year away from completion), with NOAA and Agricultural Research Service also interested.  EPA's Office of Water is working with USGS and OGC to improve access to real-time data.
+. George Percivall, OGC - GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot 3
-:Other EPA Data Sources:
+:*Looking for a Drought scenario
-::*National Hydrography Dataset (NHD, NHD Plus) is an addressing system for facilities and sampling points
+:*AIP Task - pilot new processes in support of creating the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
-::*Watershed Boundary Data Set provides hydrologic unit codes (HUCs) for subsections of watersheds
+:*work collaboratively across GEO committees (e.g. UIC to get user needs)
-:Next Steps
+:*AIP 2 Achievements
-::*EPAS's data system is now duplicated using USGS query techniques, with a possibility that a single query system will be used in the future
+::*Community of Practice Scenarios
-::*a master water quality portal is in development
+::*Reusable Processes
-::*methods of data analysis with automatic linking is a key priority for EPA data systems
+::*
-:Other Related Activities
+::*SBAs covered: Disaster Management, Air Quality & Health, Energy, Biodiversity and Climate Change
-::*Berkeley Water Center is working with Microsoft Research to make NWISS and STORET data available through SciScope (an Open Source tool). Will be adding Web 2.0 and 3.0 capabilities.
+:*AIP 3 (call to be issued in January 2010)
-::*USGS Flow Network is working closely with NOAA
+::*Build on GCI Community Services
-::*Environmental Information Exchange Network grant opportunity - closes Nov. 20 and available to states only
+::*Engage new Communities of Practice
+::*Focus on Data; Promote Content
-. Presentation & Discussion of CUASHI Activities
+::*Results in time to support EO Summit (Nov. 2010, Beijing)
-:Rick Hooper, CUASHI provided an overview of the Hydroseek (beta) search engine.  Hydroseek is an ontology-aided search engine for finding scientific data on water quality and hydrology from approximately 1.9 million sites in the USA.  The developers of Hydroseek sare seeking community input into the system, including metadata contributions from academia.  The developers of Hydroseek are interested in improving the user search experience and community-built web services for the system.
+:*Use Cases (SOA)
-:It was noted that there are many tool building efforts underway and that Bruce Bargmeyer, Bill Sonntag and Chuck Spooner would work together across organizations to understand how such tools might be leveraged.
+:*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
-. Potential for External Review of EPA OEI Substance Registry System (SRS) chemicals and other terminology related to water
-:Bill Sonntag wanted to make participants on the call aware of two resources related to the SRS:
-::*System of Registries - www.epa.gov/sor
-::*Terminolgy - www.epa.gov/etss
-. Solving Ontology Wranglings ala MMI - Liaison with ESIP Semantic Cluster Group
-:Luis Bermudez (SURA/MMI) provided and overview of the Marine Metadata Initiative (MMI) Ontology Registry and Repository and the Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment.  There is a problem of many data sources and limited homogeneity across systems.  the MMI project is working on semantic mediation.  They have established a community framework for mapping/crosswalking across terminologies used by different systems.  The framework includes:
-::*Controlled vocabulary creation
-::*Registration/storage of vocabularies
-::*Metadata association
-::*Versioning
-::*Semantic query support
-::*Term mapping
-::*Mapping repository
-::*Vocabulary and term URI resolution
-The end result is the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository.
-:Related projects:
-::*SONET (https://sonet.ecoinformatics.org) - a marine-freshwater interface
-::*International Coastal Access Nework (ICAN) (https://ican.science.oregonstate.edu) - using OGC Services to access ontologies
-:Phil Yang inquired how the group would actually integrate ontologies into various tools.  This point is the key to success.
-:George Percivall wanted to note that a sign of maturity for terminology may not be agreeing on the terms rather, a better measure of maturity would be when observations are processed using good vocabularies of observation types.
-. GEOSS Related Activities (in consultation with NASA/NOAA)
+Action Items:
-:George Percivall is the task lead for the GEO Architecture Implementation Pilots (AIP). The AIP attempts to augment the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) through the development of portals, clearinghouses, registries, etc. The AIP seeks Community of Practice-created implementations of the GCI. The AIP3 is in the planning stage, with much interest in a water focus for this round.
+:*Link to NIDIS for scenario
-. Topics and organization for ESIP winter meeting (January 2010) All
+:*Poll Cluster members about Drought or Water Quality scenario
+:*All - Review and edit Draft vision statemente for Water Cluster
 ===Action Items===
-:*Sonntag, Bargmeyer and Spooner to examine existing tools to see what can be leveraged across organizations.
-:*Planning for Winter ESIP Federation activities related to water, with Semantic Web Cluster, to work toward ontology integration and a united ontology for the water community
-:*Identify ontologies for potential integration
-:*Create a testbed for testing out the integration/convergence of water vocabularies
-===[[#Previous Calls| Previous calls]]===
+==[[Previous Telecons]]==