Discovery Telecon 2011-06-14

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• Tuesday, June 14, 2011. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
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"Plays Well With Others"

OGC

• See links posted under Resources on Cluster Home Page: Discovery Cluster
  • OpenGIS OpenSearch Geospatial Extensions Draft Implementation Standard
    • defines elements that are optional and mandatory.
  • CSW 3.0 Part 4: OpenSearch Query Interface (presentation)
    • slide 19: Response Mapping
      • different mappings from ESIP spec
• should we support OGC "profile" within the ESIP conventions.
• Chris will contact George to find out if have more recent spec. plan to have telecon on this in August.
• Ruth: OpenSearch is making its way in realms other than Earth science. e.g. biology for genus/species
  • wants to find data, and its related data.
  • Eric working on some of this.

Earth System Grid Federation

• working on a REST API for search within the ESG, and may or may not include OpenSearch features.
• ESG may have gotten impression that ESIP is more OGC-like in terms of standards.
• ESG may need more features than what OpenSearch's simple features.
  • e.g. need support for 360-day years, ensemble forecast time, faceted search
  • Luca Cinquini is good contact.

• We want to find strategy/pattern of specifying faceted search for OpenSearch.
  • OpenSearch has SRU (Search and Retrieval via URL) extension
    • has Facet Parameters

Webinar for infusion of discovery technology

• To help new infusion cases of Discovery services.
  • intended mainly for the techies.
  • probably after ESIP.
• Possible title: "Getting started with ESIP Discovery Services"
• Want to cover the following (around 20 slides)
  • problem (3-4 slides)
  • solution (5-8 slides)
    • show the outer user view and inner technical view
    • To be effective, need to cover service providers and clients.
    • Cover services for OpenSearch, ServiceCasting, and DataCasting
  • sample applications with solutions (3 slides per applications)
    • IceBridge portal is driven by casting and OpenSearch. recently deployed this week.
    • Show power of mashups.
      • Ruth at beginning stages of using DataCasting to feed aggregator for web portal
    • EPA (Bill Sonntag)
  • governance process (4 slides)
• Contribute slide content
  • materials can also be used as outreach. e.g. EOSDIS (7 datacenters currently not supporting this)
  • post content to wiki page Discovery Webinar Materials

Any new DCPs in the works?

• Ruth's team will have some coming. but they need to organize things first. Sort OpenSeach results into different kinds of relationships. Search results are casts, but need to distinguish difference services for the data.
• Chris planning on micro-DCP on relation for OPeNDAP. wants a rel attribute for OPeNDAP.

Upcoming Telecons

• no telecon in July, as we will be at ESIP meeting.
• August: talk with OGC (we hope) and also discuss an RSS response type.

Attendees

• Chris Lynnes
• Hook Hua
• Eric Rozell (RPI, Discovery Cluster Fellow)
• Ken Keiser
• James Gallagher
• Ruth Duer
• Robert Downs