Discovery Telecon 2011-03-08

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

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DCP-1 review

  • Review final changes to DCP-1: ESIP Discovery Cast Atom Response Format v1.1
  • Answer some questions posted on the DCP-1 Discussions.
    • Is a rectangular bbox in the response always required? Even if the 'natural' bounds are a circle or polygon?
      • Should add note that if there are geospatial information in the response item, then should always have a box. Could add other shapes.
    • James G: better to remove optional circle shape to increase interoperability. more options is bad thing. Circle doesn't bring more benefits.
      • Chris: want to be simple as possible while as general as possible.
    • namespaces to use georss.
    • rel links and IANA.
      • Predefined IANA namespaces do not need a namespace.
      • Brian is concerned with needing more information for machine parsable rel types.
      • We should play nice with the OGC types as well.
      • Brian advocates for supporting both rel "data" and "enclosure" (IANA) types.
      • Atom uses rel and alternate type links.
      • To keep things simple, we decided to remove mapping to IANA for now. Stick with original rel link types: data, browse, documentation, metadata, collection, service, event, feed.
      • Feeds of feeds allows for hierarchy. Though there are real use case for it, we'll keep it in for now.
    • This is a 'baseline' specification of the OpenSearch response. Would need specifics for granule, collection, and service responses.
    • Should we specify that all discovery services must support the full GeoRSS-Simple spec? Note the support of box, circle, and polygon types. But radius, line, and point are not in yet.

Decide on Voting Method

  • What are we voting for?
    • From last month's minutes, "Also done via Discussion pages, with thread named "Voting"; people can leave their signatures with Yea or Nay".
  • James G: GDAL has a group of 5 or so people on the board. Any one of them can veto. But the intent is that they generally won't.
    • Chris: 3/5 majority of Yays to Nays, and the editors can veto.
  • Anonymous voting?
    • Most agreed that better not to do it anonymously.
  • Where to vote?

Next DCP ideas

  • Specific extensions to Discovery Atom Response format for Granule-level, Collection-level, and Service responses. Simply builds upon DCP-1.
  • Discovery RSS Response Format?
  • OpenSearch Request Format. adopt OGC OpenSearch spec?
  • ServiceCasting Request Format?
  • DataCasting Request Format?
  • Mashup conventions?


ESIP Summer Discovery Session planning

  • Next meeting in July, so not many telecons left. The theme is Information Quality.
  • Two things could do:
  1. Technical workshops
  2. Educational outreach. demo various implementations.
  • Would have to request time at ESIP first.
  • First, do we want something relevant to the Information Quality theme?
    • James G: may be better off to stick with out main message on Discover service capabilities. more working meeting.
      • second by Jeff.
  • Curt and Hook agreed about need for outreach.
  • Talk to Carol about outreach.

Attendees

  • J. McWhirter
  • M. Cechini
  • C. Lynnes
  • C. Tilmes
  • W. Sonntag
  • H. Hua
  • B. Wilson
  • J. Gallagher