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Attendees Emily Law, President Christine White, Vice President Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B Bob Arko, Type I Rep Ted Habermann, Type III Rep LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies Erin Robinson, Staff Annie Burgess, Staff Rebecca Fowler, Staff

Mintes

Approval of Feb & March Minutes
- Denise Hills motioned to approve the February minutes. LuAnn Dahlman seconds.
- Denise Hills motioned to approve the March minutes. Ken Keiser seconds.
- February and March minutes were approved.
President's Report
- Highlight
  - Sponsors visit: Erin, Christine and I met with NASA and NOAA sponsors. The purpose was to provide our sponsors an update of ESIP activities that are of specific interest to their programs and to hear how ESIP can serve them better. Other topics included ESIP Evaluation, International Data Week, Earth Science User Conference, etc.
  - Potential partners visit: We also visited US-GEO/OSTP, NIH and World Bank. The purpose was to provide potential partner/collaborative organizations a high-level overview of ESIP, share with them our strategic vision and activities, learn about their synergetic activites, and explore opportunities and collaboration.
  - Takeaways and actions from these visits can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBJFzHSGInlQYSKAlLzYXY04nXqLcMTBGvyA_gd4HJQ/edit
  - Significance: Congratulations to H.K. "Rama" Ramapriyan for having been elected as the Vice Chair of Data Stewardship Committee. Congratulations to Rich Signell for having been appointed as the Vice Chair of IT&T Committee.
  - Significance: Thanks to all the Committees, Work Groups and Clusters that have finalized their Annual Work Plans.
Staff Report
- Highlights
  - Meeting News - Summer Meeting Location update; Winter Meeting Save the date - Jan 11-13, 2017, Bethesda, MD
    - The HB2 legislation in North Carolina has created a need to change venues for the ESIP Summer Meeting. The meeting will move from the UNC Friday Center to the Durham Convention Center. The Durham Convention Center is a private facility that provides unisex single-stall bathrooms. The co-located DataONE meeting is in agreement that moving locations is appropriate. ESIP is not able to move the meeting outside of North Carolina as travel arrangements have already been made into the Raleigh-Durham airport.
  - Proposal Updates: NOAA Proposal Submitted! USGS Request for Proposal
  - Annie Keyes will be on medical leave for two weeks, starting April 22nd.
  - ESIP staff will circulate the draft Summer Meeting schedule for comment next week.
Committee Reports
- C&B
  - Staying tuned into Fed-Foundation integration discussions with respect to C&B interests
  - Discussed Policy & Procedure (P&P) documents and logistics - see draft hosting page
  - Drafted C&B Plans page for inclusion with requested Group Plans
- Finance
  - No budget activity this month.
  - Some discussions with C&B on ESIP P&P page.
- Partnership
  - Reviewed new member applications, requested additional information where necessary; ready to recommend to Assembly.
  - Drafted Committee strategic plan.
  - Recieved ESIP Welcome letter for New Member Packet; review/edits continue.
- Data Stewardship
  - Election of H.K. Ramapriyan ("Rama") as co-chair
  - Report out from RDA attendees
  - Presentation + QA - Jennifer Saleem Arrigo
  - For more details on any of the above: Meeting Notes
  - MOTION by Rama: I move that the ESIP Federation endorse the international accord “Open Data in a Big Data World”. The endorsement form and details can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LGAoUnS3vJ1-3yc5d-PZNlMyGoeKRNm4fbwXnL1qw78/viewform.
    - Denise Hills made a motion to endorse the Open Data in a Big Data World accord. LuAnn seconds.
- Education
  - Completed our Strategic Planning discussion and will post results this week.
  - Held our first Webinar, Using Recreational Drones for STEM, on March 22: We had 37 very engaged participants
  - Our pre-webinar survey indicates that participants are interested in using recreational drones to gather data, and also to learn about how drones are used in professional settings. The most frequent answer about how they hope to use drones for learning is in after-school clubs. Also, participants identified "sufficient professional development" as the thing that would motivate them most to begin using drones for teaching and learning.
  - Next Webinar is two weeks from Today: April 26 @ 4 PM EDT. Title is Plan, Fly, Review: Documenting Drone Data.
- IT&I
  - Rich Signell (USGS / WHOI) is coming onboard as IT&I co-chair
  - Combining USGS Tech Stack and ESIP IT&I R&R webinar series
    - Join forces and resources for broader exposure and audience
  - Next two "Tech Dive" Webinars scheduled (formerly "Rants and Raves")
- Nominations
  - Stay tuned for example P&P document
- Products & Services
  - Developing guidelines for RFPs (with ExCom and Semantic Tech) and Testbed privacy and evaluations.
  - Continuing to look for participants for the software evaluation effort, will be discussing possible collaboration with Software Carpentry and working with EarthCube on a related assessment workshop.
- Semantic Technology
  - Working on an ESIP-wide resource for semantic technology deployment
  - Working on an ESIP-wide evaluation/tutorial on ontologies and semantics with likely hands-on eval at summer meeting
  - Working with Products & Services and software group to re-use/extend evaluation and reuse metrics
Type Rep Reports
- Type I
  - Continuing to gather and compare information on registries (ESIP Type I, EarthCube CDF, WDS/DSA, COPDESS, re3data.org). Will discuss at the COPDESS meeting at EGU on 04/21, specifically 1) how to create links between repository profiles, and 2) which statements/accords the repository has endorsed.
- Type II Characterizing ESIP Member Contributions
- Type III
Other Business
- Any other business?

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-==March Minutes==
 '''Attendees'''
-* Emily Law, President
+Emily Law, President
-* Christine White, Vice President
+Christine White, Vice President
-* Denise Hills, Chair, Nomination Committee
+Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership
-* Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
+Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
-* Ethan Davis, Chair, IT&I
+Bob Arko, Type I Rep
-* Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
+Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
-* Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship
+LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education
-* Bill Teng, Chair, Chair, FiCom
+Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I
-* LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education
+Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations
-* Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership
+Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies
-* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies
+Erin Robinson, Staff
-* Sky Bristol, Type II
+Annie Burgess, Staff
-* Kathy Fontaine, RDA, GEO
+Rebecca Fowler, Staff
-* Leslie Hsu, USGS
-* Erin Robinson, Staff
-* Annie Burgess, Staff
-* Rebecca Fowler, Staff
-'''Minutes'''
+'''Mintes'''
-# [[Draft Excom Minutes|February Minutes]] are pending approval.
+# Approval of  [[Draft Excom Minutes|Feb & March Minutes]]
-# GEO Update
+#* Denise Hills motioned to approve the February minutes. LuAnn Dahlman seconds.
-#* Kathy Fontaine is the ESIP representative to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) board. GEO is an intergovernmental organization focused on coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information. Kathy spoke about the current GEO work plan, noting it is transitional and is only in effect until their 3-5 year plan comes together. Kathy’s roll on the GEO board will be advocating for how ESIP can contribute to GEO. Kathy said that there is a great emphasis on user engagement and involvement at GEO, however there is a lack of definition regarding who users are. While GEO is not a scientific organization or research body, it is a way that research results can be feed into an applications arena. GEO engages with member nations who attend the plenary and bring their nation’s data policies - there is a lot of international pressure to share Earth science data in an open fashion. A USGEO and ESIP connection would be a great linkage between GEO and USGEO.
+#* Denise Hills motioned to approve the March minutes. Ken Keiser seconds.
-#* Action
+#* February and March minutes were approved.
-#** Blog post about ESIP and GEO, including success stories around data citation guidelines.
-# SciDataCon Session Coordination - Build on Big Data and Earth Sciences theme
 # President's Report
 #*Highlight
-#**Significance: The Education Committee is focusing on using recreational drones for STEM learning. Two webinars on drones for educators are planned on March 22 and April 26. The goal of the first one is to inspire participants by sharing some of the great things drones are being used for. The second is on gathering and organizing data by drones.
+#**Sponsors visit: Erin, Christine and I met with NASA and NOAA sponsors. The purpose was to provide our sponsors an update of ESIP activities that are of specific interest to their programs and to hear how ESIP can serve them better. Other topics included ESIP Evaluation, International Data Week, Earth Science User Conference, etc.
-#**Significance: The All Hazards Consortium and StormCenter Communications, Inc. have launched the GeoCollaborate™ Disaster Lifecycle Testbed activity within the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group (FRWG). The FRWG will be testing data access and sharing of critical data layers in a collaborative environment to improve situational awareness and decision making. The testbed activity was introduced to the East Coast Corridor Coalition (EC3) Executive Steering Committee and was well received.
+#**Potential partners visit: We also visited US-GEO/OSTP, NIH and World Bank. The purpose was to provide potential partner/collaborative organizations a high-level overview of ESIP, share with them our strategic vision and activities, learn about their synergetic activites, and explore opportunities and collaboration.
-#**GEO partnership: The nomination of Kathy Fontaine to be a member on the GEO Programme  Board representing ESIP has been accepted. Congratulations, Kathy!  She will be participating in the Program Board Work Plan Symposium to be held in Geneva in May, GEO-XIII Plenary to be held in St. Petersburg in November, as well as other periodic telecom meetings.
+#**Takeaways and actions from these visits can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBJFzHSGInlQYSKAlLzYXY04nXqLcMTBGvyA_gd4HJQ/edit
-#*Actions
+#**Significance: Congratulations to H.K. "Rama" Ramapriyan for having been elected as the Vice Chair of Data Stewardship Committee.  Congratulations to Rich Signell for having been appointed as the Vice Chair of IT&T Committee.
-#**Contact Christine and me if you have any significant events, acknowledgement/recognition you would like to be highlighted in the President’s report.
+#**Significance: Thanks to all the Committees, Work Groups and Clusters that have finalized their Annual Work Plans.
-#**Reminder: ExCom to review and add ideas to 2016 work list on the [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]].  We’d like your inputs/feedback as well as help to prioritize this year’s work. This will assist in identifying opportunities to get involved.
 # Staff Report
 #* Highlights
-#** GoToMeeting Migration - ESIP is transitioning from WebEx to GoToMeeting to host all of our community telecons. ESIP staff will make every effort to make this a seamless transition, including notifying collaboration area chair person(s) of when their area is switching over, updating the collaboration area wikis with new GoTo telecon links, providing instruction on how to start and run a meeting and offering a training practice call. We will also make ourselves available to anyone responsible for starting and running the telecons if they would like to practice ahead of time.
+#** Meeting News - Summer Meeting Location update; Winter Meeting Save the date - Jan 11-13, 2017, Bethesda, MD
-#** NSF Spoke proposal in collaboration with Univ. of Wyoming, Univ of Washington and NCAR submitted Feb. 25.
+#*** The HB2 legislation in North Carolina has created a need to change venues for the ESIP Summer Meeting. The meeting will move from the UNC Friday Center to the Durham Convention Center.  The Durham Convention Center is a private facility that provides unisex single-stall bathrooms. The co-located DataONE meeting is in agreement that moving locations is appropriate. ESIP is not able to move the meeting outside of North Carolina as travel arrangements have already been made into the Raleigh-Durham airport.
-#** NOAA proposal is in last rounds of development and will be submitted next week. Thanks to those who have contributed updates.
+#** Proposal Updates: NOAA Proposal Submitted! USGS Request for Proposal
-#** Supported ESIP Collaboration areas in planning for 2016
+#** Annie Keyes will be on medical leave for two weeks, starting April 22nd.
-#** OGC Updates - Annie Burgess attended the OGC Testbed-12 kick-off, specifically looking for ways to connect the ESIP Testbed activities or improve the Testbed. Erin is at OGC this week to support the Open Climate Data Repository activity started by Steve Adler at the Winter Meeting.
+#** ESIP staff will circulate the draft Summer Meeting schedule for comment next week.
-#* Actions:
-#** If you have other ideas of NOAA-specific accomplishments or activities for the next three years, email Erin.
-#** Plenary speaker suggestions for the ESIP Summer meeting should be added [https://slack-files.com/T092JLYMR-F0MQQPQF5-547844bfe5 here]
-#** Rebecca led development of a [http://esipfed.org/Sponsorship Meeting Sponsorship prospectus]. Please share this with partners who may be interested in sponsoring.
 # Committee Reports
-#* C&B - met on Feb 19
+#* C&B
-#**Updating bylaws document per Winter Meeting Assembly approval
+#** Staying tuned into Fed-Foundation integration discussions with respect to C&B interests
-#**Preparing for participation with Federation-Foundation re-integration efforts - more to come
+#** Discussed Policy & Procedure (P&P) documents and logistics - see [[List_of_Polices_and_Procedures|draft hosting page]]
-#**Discussed "Standing Rules" (now "Policies and Procedures") document to help groups define details beyond bylaws - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJtCT40vlJ_y4NgKIbnA8hcaxNGhb6qoV_xCFpmPnFI/edit?usp=sharing template/example] available for review
+#** Drafted [[2016C%26BPlans|C&B Plans page]] for inclusion with requested Group Plans
-#**Revisiting officer terms + with respect to Fed-Found integration efforts - more to come
 #* Finance
-#**Status of FY16 proposed budgets: (1) approved supplemental travel budget from Data Stewardship Comm (for Force-11) and (2) responded to Semantic Technologies Comm - requested some changes and more information; specifically, an initial $ amount was approved for "AWS Computer Resources" to facilitate the analysis of requirements, options, and costs; goal of "AWS Computer Resources" is to enable a dedicated, long-term resource available ESIP-wide.
+#** No budget activity this month.
-#**Ficom discussing with C&B on "standing rules" document.
+#** Some discussions with C&B on ESIP P&P page.
 #* Partnership
-#**New Committee met for the first time Feb 29, to meet-n-greet, and discuss with Erin goals and objective of the committee, perhaps expanding the traditional Partnership role.  This first meeting was primarily to explore this idea of expanding the scope and identify some near term activities to check off the list (e.g., polishing the New Member Packet, reviewing ESIP 1-pager and previous Partnership Strategic Plans).  Next steps are to draft the SP, complete the New Member Packet, review of new member applications, and brainstorm for summer meeting engagement.
+#** Reviewed new member applications, requested additional information where necessary; ready to recommend to Assembly.
+#** Drafted Committee strategic plan.
+#** Recieved ESIP Welcome letter for New Member Packet; review/edits continue.
 #* Data Stewardship
-#**We are looking forward to hearing about last week's RDA plenary during our March meeting.  We also continued framing our paper pertaining to the use of identifiers for non-datasets.
+#** Election of H.K. Ramapriyan ("Rama") as co-chair
+#** Report out from RDA attendees
+#** Presentation + QA - Jennifer Saleem Arrigo
+#** For more details on any of the above: [[Interagency_Data_Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation_Forum/TeleconNotes/2016-03-21meetingnotes|Meeting Notes]]
+#**'''MOTION''' by Rama:  I move that the ESIP Federation endorse  the international accord “Open Data in a Big Data World”. The endorsement form and details can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LGAoUnS3vJ1-3yc5d-PZNlMyGoeKRNm4fbwXnL1qw78/viewform.
+#*** Denise Hills made a motion to endorse the Open Data in a Big Data World accord. LuAnn seconds.
 #* Education
-#**We expect to begin advertising our two Webinars and the Educator workshop this week. You can view developing outlines for each session in this [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iFCsjpWTZUnGMyUGJk3r2PKZrtY9er9-Lrz3O9ot8Yo/edit#slide=id.g11a77b6b97_0_23 slide deck].
+#** Completed our Strategic Planning discussion and will post results this week.
+#** Held our first Webinar, Using Recreational Drones for STEM, on March 22: We had 37 very engaged participants
+#** Our pre-webinar survey indicates that participants are interested in using recreational drones to gather data, and also to learn about how drones are used in professional settings. The most frequent answer about how they hope to use drones for learning is in after-school clubs. Also, participants identified "sufficient professional development" as the thing that would motivate them most to begin using drones for teaching and learning.
+#** Next Webinar is two weeks from Today: April 26 @ 4 PM EDT. Title is Plan, Fly, Review: Documenting Drone Data.
 #* IT&I
+#** Rich Signell (USGS / WHOI) is coming onboard as IT&I co-chair
+#** Combining USGS Tech Stack and ESIP IT&I R&R webinar series
+#*** Join forces and resources for broader exposure and audience
+#** Next two "[[Interoperability_and_Technology/Rants_And_Raves_Webinar_Series|Tech Dive]]" Webinars scheduled (formerly "Rants and Raves")
 #* Nominations
+#** Stay tuned for example P&P document
 #* Products & Services
-#**We are beginning an activity to develop ESIP software evaluation guidelines, potentially through a P&S working group. We are also exploring using rotating co-chairs for the committee (reminder: looking for interested volunteers from other clusters). Discussing the larger tech evaluation needs (reuse, readiness levels, metrics) with other committees/clusters and potential sessions for Chapel Hill.
+#** Developing guidelines for RFPs (with ExCom and Semantic Tech) and Testbed privacy and evaluations.
+#** Continuing to look for participants for the software evaluation effort, will be discussing possible collaboration with Software Carpentry and working with EarthCube on a related assessment workshop.
 #* Semantic Technology
-#**We received budget feedback from FiComm and are proceeding with exploration of compute resources. This is being done in conjunction with Products and Services and the Cloud Computing Cluster to reuse existing information and best practices. We have initiated a discussion on ontology governance and software reuse in conjunction with other ESIP groups. Discussion will continue and we plan to have a session on these topics at the summer meeting. We are beginning a comparison of ontology portals and features. Look for a survey to be conducted ESIP-wide to better understand what the community needs in an ontology repository.
+#** Working on an ESIP-wide resource for semantic technology deployment
+#** Working on an ESIP-wide evaluation/tutorial on ontologies and semantics with likely hands-on eval at summer meeting
+#** Working with Products & Services and software group to re-use/extend evaluation and reuse metrics
 # Type Rep Reports
-#* Type I - No Type report.
+#* Type I
-#* Type II - No Type report.
+#** Continuing to gather and compare information on registries (ESIP Type I, EarthCube CDF, WDS/DSA, COPDESS, re3data.org). Will discuss at the COPDESS meeting at EGU on 04/21, specifically 1) how to create links between repository profiles, and 2) which statements/accords the repository has endorsed.
-#* Type III - No Type report.
+#* Type II [[Characterizing ESIP Member Contributions]]
+#* Type III
 # Other Business
-#* Leslie Hsu, USGS, reported on the joint USGS & ESIP [https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/Software+and+Data+Carpentry+Workshops Software and Data Carpentry Workshop] to be held April 12-14th at the Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO.
+#* Any other business?
-==February==
-'''Attendees'''
-* Emily Law, President
-* Christine White, Vice President
-* Denise Hills, Chair, Nomination Committee
-* Ethan Davis, Chair, IT&I
-* Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
-* Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship
-* Bill Teng, Chair, Chair, FiCom
-* LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education
-* Bob Arko, Type I Rep
-* Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
-* Erin Robinson, Staff
-* Annie Burgess, Staff
-* Rebecca Fowler, Staff
-'''Minutes'''
-# [[Approved_Excom_Minutes/Excom_2015/December2015|December Minutes]] were approved electronically.
-#*Bill Teng motioned to approve the December minutes. Emily Law seconded.
-# President's Report
-#*Highlight
-#**Funding opportunity: USGS is interested in standing up a couple of prototypes to demonstrate a PROV registry and an Annotation catalog. The products of these prototypes could potentially become community resources for ESIP. Sky Bristol, Steve Aulenbach, Erin, Annie, Christine and Emily held an initial telecom to discuss how ESIP can facilitate and support this effort.  The conversation included how testbed framework can facilitate the prototypes, evaluation of the deliverables, and communication of such distributed architecture and products. USGS is currently crafting a project outline that will allow us to formulate a detailed plan to support their needs. Products and services committee will be involved.  No action for ESIP at this time.
-#**Meeting: Christine and Emily met at JPL last week and discussed ESIP 2016 work plan. The short distance between us affords regular tag up opportunities to work together closely.
-#*Actions
-#**Committee chairs, working group and cluster chairs/co-chairs (may be Type reps as well?) to update work plan to align with ESIP direction in order to achieve ESIP goals laid out in the strategic plan approved by the assembly during 2016 winter meeting.
-#**Excom to submit written report to ExCom wiki shortly after receiving monthly call notification, and read the reports prior to the call in an effort to allow more time for discussion.
-#**ExCom to review and add ideas to 2016 work list on the ExCom wiki. We’d like your inputs/feedback as well as help to prioritize this year’s work. This will also assist in identifying opportunities to get involved.
-# Staff Report
-#*Highlight
-#** NOAA Proposal draft will be shared early next week.
-#** Legal update - The conflict of interest law has been changed as of 2013. Federal employees can serve on boards. Waiting for explicit confirmation from NASA and NOAA.
-#** Rebecca Fowler is leading a refresh of esipfed.org, adding meetings.esipfed.org and will be working to organize content
-#** Annie Burgess reported that evaluation processes are evolving for the Testbed.
-#** ESIP is part of a team working to establish a data science internship network.
-#** Member highlights from our new ESIP members will be posted on the blog over the next few weeks.
-#** Call for sessions for the 2016 Summer Meeting will go out this week.
-#** The new website will include a meetings.esipfed.org.
-#** Staff has been working to define roles/tasks for clarity. Also created staff email - staff@esipfed.org, for when you are unsure who to contact.
-#*Actions
-#** Website refresh - If you are interested in providing feedback, let Rebecca know.
-#** Looking for member highlights and AGU data blog contributors
-# Committee Reports
-#* C&B -
-#**No activities since winter meeting
-#**Will be holding telecon with new C&B members (soon) to discuss (1) updating bylaws with approved changes, (2) draft of a "Standing Rules" document to address ESIP best practices and procedures that are not appropriate for bylaws (will discuss with FICom as noted below), (3) Revisiting officer term lengths discussed last year but put on hold for federation-foundation discussions, (4) prepare for discussion on changes to federation-foundation relationship as necessary
-#* Finance
-#**Status of FY16 proposed budgets: (1) 3 approved (Drupal WG, Data Stewardship Comm, Education Comm); (2) 1 to be submitted (Semantic Technologies Comm); and (3) supplemental travel budget from DS Comm (being reviewed).
-#**Request to be sent to those groups who received funding for FY15 for reports on results. This item is on Ficom's list of processes to be (a bit) more formalized.
-#**Ficom to follow up with Ken K. re: C&B initiative on compiling ~best practices (or SOPs) for all committees (+other groups?) in some esip wiki space. Aligns very nicely with Ficom's formalization efforts.
-#* Partnership
-#**Partnership is planning to move to monthly meetings.  First meeting agenda topic is to strategize/prioritize short-term actions for the committee.  Suggested ideas include:  Welcome package and/or new member/welcome telecon; review/modify Conduct Code; coordinating with landscape mapping effort; and summer meeting engagement ideas with members.
-#* Data Stewardship
-#** We are developing an outline and aims and scope for a paper concerning the use of identifiers for non-dataset entities, focusing on software.
-#* Education
-#**[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iFCsjpWTZUnGMyUGJk3r2PKZrtY9er9-Lrz3O9ot8Yo/edit#slide=id.gc6f8954bc_0_53 This brief slide deck] outlines the committee's plans to encourage the use of recreational drones for STEM. Planning is underway for two Webinars and a summer workshop for educators.
-#* IT&I
-#** Ethan and Erin will be discussing IT&I plans after ExComm Telecon
-#** Follow up on my call-to-action at ESIP Winter Mtg
-#** Request for ExComm input (including ideas for Rant/Rave topics)
-#* Nominations
-#**The 2015 NomCom is working on a suggestions/lessons learned document available here: [[Nomination Committee/Suggestions]]
-#* Products & Services
-#** Discussing ESIP's potential participation in OGC Testbed 12 and 13.
-#** Continuing efforts to expand the tech evaluation process through the P&S testbed with support from interested ESIP members across clusters/committees.
-#** Two governance questions to raise: a) (related to Semantic Tech committee discussions) Is there a need or desire to define the RFP and review board processes for all committees, through an ESIP-wide standing rules document? and b) regardless of decision regarding A, can we resolve the outstanding issues around privacy items such as the submitted proposals?
-#* Semantic Technology
-#** Used discussions in January to think about the structure of the committee. Several liaisons to internal and external groups were identified. Had initial discussions with Testbed and Products and Services to leverage expertise. Budget was drafted and sent to Ficom. Identified a few high priority topics to pursue in coming months. Deploying a core set of ESIP Semantic Technologies such as Ontology Repository and Linked Data efforts. One key topic that has emerged is how to govern ESIP semantic resources. Will be discussed at February telecon. Continue discussions with EarthCube Semantics Working group and beginning connections with RDA and OGC.
-# Type Rep Reports
-#* Type I - Suggested goals for 2016: 1. Work to align existing online directories (ESIP, COPDESS, CDF, re3data, etc); and 2. Recruit more NSF-supported facilities .
-#* [[Characterizing ESIP Member Contributions|Type II]] - Interest in dynamically characterizing ESIP Member Contributions.
-#* Type III - No Type report.
-# Other Business
-#* 2016 Work Plan ([https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oFfmBybB37NkWM0icYst9oWD_f961fCE5YU6tO0rv5M/edit#gid=0 Initial tasks])
-#**Actions
-#***Collect 2016 work plans from collaboration areas.
-#***Determine top work items for the year.
-#* Summer Meeting Updates - Visioneers met last week. Call for sessions will open on Feb.16. ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hjD2MOYwmhSi2pvXpKkDDlAcXO4eteikdYhWWAhsE3Y/edit Notes], [https://esip-all.slack.com/messages/summer_mtg/details/ Slack channel for planning]. There is a strong interest in science communication, plenary speakers from diverse disciplines and touching on the story-telling aspects of big data.
-#* International Data Week
-#** RDA, CODATA and the World Data System are coming together in Denver for a joint meeting this fall - RDA and SciDataCon will be the week of September 11th. ESIP has been asked to think about its contribution to International Data Week. Call for sessions has been extended to March 7th.
-#**Actions
-#***Create a google doc to share ideas for International Data Week.
-#* Discuss Earth Science Data Analytics cluster's [[Proposed Definition and Goals of Earth Science Data Analytics]]
-#** ESDA observed that there is not a formal definition for Earth science data analytics. ESDA would like to have an ESIP endorsement of their proposed definition. The first step towards ESIP endorsement is discussion by Excom and, if there are no changes, put the definition as a standing document in front of the Assembly.
-#** Actions
-#***Excom members should use the [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Talk:Proposed_Definition_and_Goals_of_Earth_Science_Data_Analytics&action=edit&redlink=1 discussion] section of the [[Proposed Definition and Goals of Earth Science Data Analytics]] page to provide comment.