Summer 2011 meeting session agenda
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Planned Agenda for the Products & Services Breakout Session at the 2011 ESIP Summer Meeting
- July 14, 2011 @ 8:30-10:00AM
- Introduction and Testbed Concept (Ken Keiser)
- Current Testbed Activities
- Expert Skills Database (Rob Raskin)
- Unique Data Identifiers (Rob Raskin)
- Semantic Registration of data and services (Kai Liu)
- Application-specific portals and GMU overall participation (Phil Yang)
- Future (proposed tasks)
- Plans for new portal environment (Ken and others)
- Federated Discovery task (Hook Hua)
- Interoperability - metadata authoring (Rahul Ramachandran)
- Data Stewardship (Nancy or Ruth?)
- Information Quality (Tyler Stevens/Gregory Leptoukh)
- Open discussion on new topics and ideas (all)
Meeting Notes:
Products and Services (P&S) Cluster Breakout Session (12 attendees)
Introduction and Testbed Concept (Ken Keiser)
- Reviewed the agenda and provided purpose of the P&S
- Provided an overview of the current and past activities
Current Testbed Activities
Expert Skills Database (Rob Raskin)
- Testbed was funded through the ESIP front office
- Functions for ESIP members to create/edit their skills and levels
- Move it towards a production environment with a link from the ESIP homepage
- Need a review of the interface for future consideration
Unique Data Identifiers (Rob Raskin)
- Originated from the Preservation and Stewardship cluster
- EZID – DOI Catalog Service Systems
- DataCite – how best to cite data thru a metadata style. http://www.datacite.org/
- Preservation and Stewardship cluster is doing a paper and making a recommendation about what service could best fit the ESIP community
- Used EZID API to view and update DOIs of glacier photograph metadata
Semantic Registration of data and services (Kai Liu)
- Online interface for semantic registration of datasets and other web resources
- User login and ontology upload. Use cases for project
- University of Texas at El Paso – using ESIP ontology ~ product of semantic web cluster
Application-specific portals and GMU overall participation (Phil Yang)
- GMU developed the web portal architecture and manages the GEOSS Clearinghouse. Their group is also doing development for the Geospatial Platform.
- Climate@Home – citizen science for climate change
- SilvarCarbon – forest and terrestrial carbon management
Future (proposed tasks)
Plans for new portal environment (Ken and others)
- Better web visibility and access
- Improve ability host and support projects
- Drupal based environment
- Configuration Board to oversee tasks/activities
Federated Discovery task (Hook Hua)
- Work from the discovery cluster – OpenSearch, Data Casting, Service Casting
- Multiple data centers have the above implementations
- Established a governance process – community based approach
- Interoperability testing: conformance to specification
- Provide a common platform for advertisement in testbed – host in testbed, have an association of data to services and mashups.
- Having people register their service feeds
- Peter Fox addresses that OpenSearch was not specifically designed for ESIP. That is why it is good to have a testbed for a comparative assessment of these technologies that would best benefit ESIP.
Data Stewardship (Nancy)
- Permanent identifiers – The Preservation cluster looked at different schemes
- Report addressed the identifiers
- Planned activities: determine if ID schemes and/or best practices can be recommended
- Look at 2 different data sets and address implementation issues
- How best to advertise their activities to ESIP users?
Information Quality (Tyler Stevens/Gregory Leptoukh)
- Data Quality measures
Open discussion on new topics and ideas (all)
- Use the testbed to help facilitate the collaborator activities
