Products and Services
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Monthly Teleconference
Next call
- Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009, 3 PM EST
- 800-508-7631 Access Code: *1297219*
Discussion topics:
- Review past Committee activities
- Update Committee goals and objectives based on participant interests
- Plan for the Summer ESIP Meeting (e.g., a Metadata Fair?)
- Select a Committee Vice-Chair
- Identify permanent telecon day/time
Issues of interest to the Products and Service Standing Committee
Potential topics:
- Deficiencies of current metadata standards: ISO 19115, OGC WMS/WCS/WFS
- Improving metadata compliance
- Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance
- Representation of versioning
- Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers
- Use cases for general ESIP usage
- Metadata harvesting and exchange and associated catalog services
- Client access to catalogs
- Service quality
Prior topics:
Reference Documents
Air Quality Metadata Use Case: https://sites.google.com/site/geosspilot2/air-quality-and-health-working-group/aq-community-catalog---publish-register-harvest
Past Discussions:
- P&S Monthly August 29, 2006
- P&S Monthly May 23, 2006
- P&S Monthly April 25, 2006
- P&S Monthly March 28, 2006
Purpose of Products and Services Committee - from ESIP Bylaws
- a. To encourage the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;
- b. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and
- c. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.
