WebServices

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Events Meeting Agenda and Notes for 2015: Upcoming: 2015-10-12: *Monthly Telecon*, 4pm ET Completed: 2015-09-14: *Monthly Telecon*, 2pm ET Webex/Telecon Instructions: 1. Go to https://esipfed.webex.com/ 2. Click the "Meeting Center" tab 3. Select “Web Services Monthly Call” (or the Activities/Special Topic title). 4. If a password is required, enter the Meeting Password: 23136782 5. You can then choose to use your computer to join the audio portion of the meeting, or you can use your phone to dial in. Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493 Attendee access code/Meeting Password: 23136782 Previous Meeting Agenda and Notes:

Get Involved We are currently on hold here, but if you have a WS topic to discuss, get in touch. All meetings are conducted via ESIP Webex (see left-hand side of this page). Monthly Meeting (next meeting October 12th, 2015 4pm EDT/1pm PDT) We meet on the second Monday of each month at 4:00pm Eastern. Activities/Special Topic Discussion Meeting: We also meet for Activities and Special Topics discussions as necessary. Email List: ESIP-WebServices Email Archive: ESIP-WebServices Email Archive

Activities 26 Jan 2017 We propose that the cluster look at measuring web services patterns of use at sites where large servers are run (e.g., NASA and NOAA). A casual observation is that subsetting services for data access are underused relative to simple file-access, but to qualify and quantify this more data about access patterns are needed. OPeNDAP has some experience with analysis of access data for web services (e.g., server logs) and often has found very telling patterns that can be used to improve server performance, so even if the perception regarding under-utilization it false, there will be significant benefit to the analysis of use. If it is the case that web services are underused, we should ask why. Is it because users lack knowledge about them? Or do these services underperform users' expectations? ESIP represents an excellent forum for this investigation since it is unique in having people representing all three groups of users (implicitly) mentioned above (end-users, system developers and data center managers). Other suggestions: Google Doc with potential topics of interest list

Resources (and Other Stuff) ESIP-Discovery Web Services Mission Statement