Products and Services

Chair: Christine White, Esri

Vice-Chair:

Monthly Teleconference

The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon (currently) on 3rd Tuesday of every month at 2 pm EST.

Next Meeting: Tue, February 18, 2pm – 3pm Eastern The telecon call-in information for these meetings are below:

Dial: 1-877-668-4493

Access Code: 23140358 #

https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed&service=1

Testbed

The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated. The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit.

• Documentation on moving to EC2 Micro Instance - Christine White

Committee E-mail List

http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products

Yearly Highlights

2013 highlights/report given at the 2014 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting

Meeting & Telecon Minutes:

Please see the P&S Telecon Minutes page.

Topics of Interest

2014

Testbed Projects & RFP

Documentation, Lifecycle, and ESIP Utilization of Testbed Projects

FUNding Friday Revamp

Ongoing

Improving metadata compliance within ESIP Federation

Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance

Representation of versioning

Peer-reviewed datasets

Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers

Metadata harvesting and exchange and associated catalog services

Client access to catalogs

Service quality

Data Quality

Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records

Federation Inventory

Metadata Resources & Data Standards

Metadata Clearinghouses for ESIP Products and Services

ECHO

GCMD

GCMD ESIP Data Portal

GCMD ESIP Data Services Portal

Metadata Standards

ECHO Data Model

GCMD DIF

FGDC