Discovery Telecon 2015-04-14

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• Tuesday, April 14th, 2015. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT

Webex Info

To Join the online portion of the Personal Conference meeting

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1. Go to https://esipfed.webex.com
2. Click the “Meeting Center” tab
3. Select the Discovery

If a password is required, enter the Meeting Password: 23138372

To start the audio portion of the Personal Conference meeting w/ phone

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• Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493
• Call-in toll number (US/Canada): +1-408-600-3600
• Call-in toll number (US/Canada)*: +1-571-918-6008

Attendee access code: 231 383 72

Attendees

• Doug Newman
• Ruth Duerr
• Chris Lynnes
• Eugene Yu
• Kang Li
• Soren Scott

Pending Actions

• Completed - Flesh out 'global data discovery' presentation - Doug
• Completed - Eumetsat access - Yonsook
• Completed - Reach out to ESRI regarding Open Search Best Practices - Doug. Next step convene initial meeting

Agenda

• Continue 'common mechanism for discovering services' discussion - done.
• Global OpenSearch presentation @ Summer ESIP meeting - done.
• Presenting OPeNDAP urls wrt Best Practices - next session

Notes

• Summer ESIP presentation

• Global Open Search should be a plenary or workshop topic to reach the right audience
• Self-describing services session - ESIP IT&I group? We have ’solved’ the discovery problem. Now we need to ‘Understand what we find’ Vertical integration needs to be achieved.

• Next steps for 'common mechanism for discovering services'

1. List of candidate services
2. Prioritize list (OPeNDAP, CSW, THREDDS)
3. Produce Best Practices for candidates concentrating on self-description
4. Produce Validator for Best Practices

Actions

• Ruth Duerr: Provide a list of canidates for Service Best Practices and Validators

• Provisional list includes OPeNDAP, CSW and THREDDS