Breakout Sessions-Day 1

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

January 9, 2008

Breakout Sessions #1, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Techncial Breakout 1a - Building Better Metadata

Time Session Leader
1:30-2:15 FGDC and ISO Geospatial Metadata Standards Ted Habermann
2:30-3:15 GCMD DocBuilder, DIF and SERF Metadata Tyler Stevens

There is the possibility of an additional educational metadata best practices session as well (TBA)

Technical Breakout 1b - Semantic Web

  • Use cases for semantic web development
  • Developing ontologies
  • Other topics TBA

Issue Breakout 1 - AQClusterJan08

Breakout Sessions #2, 3:45-5:45 p.m.

Technical Breakout 2a - Registering Data and Services (GCMD, GOS)

Time Session Leader
3:45-4:15 GCMD Data/Services Registration GCMD presenter TBD
4:30-5:00 GOS Registration Model(s) (harvesting, metadata upload) John Kozimor
5:15-5:45 Registering air quality web services with metadata catalogs Stephan Falke

Technical Breakout 2b - Developing an Ontology for Services

  • Classifying services and describing service interfaces to support "smart" workflow composition (presentations by Liping Di & Rahul Ramachandran)
  • Begin development of core services ontology
  • Exchange experiences with semantic software stacks (triple stores, inference engines, rules engines, etc.)

Issue Breakout 2 - Water Management Cluster Meeting

Session Leaders Tim Owen, NOAA/NCDC and Will Pozzi, CREW/WaterNet
Session Rapporteur Carol Meyer, ESIP Federation
Session Objectives
  • To connect portal and ontological development in water management with user requirements for products, services, and data discovery tools; and
  • To consider these connections in the context of an emerging climate cluster (to include water management, air quality, and the carbon cycle)


Agenda
Time Session Leader
3:45 Opening Remarks Dick Wertz
3:50 Preamble Presentations: Portal Synergies in Water and Drought and Ontological Development as a Foundation for Products and Services in Water Management Tim Owen, Will Pozzi, Jeff Arnfield, and Tyler Stevens
4:10 Review of Submitted ‘One-Pagers’ (click here for template) Will Pozzi
4:25 Moderated Panel Discussion (use case TBD) Tim Owen
5:30 Summary of Discussion and Next Steps Carol Meyer


Potential Discussion Topics
  • Ontologies
  • Metadata/registries
  • Inventories
  • Knowledge directories
  • Data discovery from GCMD portal perspective (ECV, WaterNet, CUASHI)
  • On-line catalogues, networking, and screen scraping capabilities
  • Standards and service-oriented architecture (USGEO/ADM perspectives)
  • Matching resources (data tools, models, research papers, visualization overlays) with accessibility (RISA/AASC/REACT perspectives)
  • Semantic capabilities – textual and graphic – of targeted user groups


One-Pagers