Discovery Telecon 2011-11-08

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• Tuesday, October 11, 2011. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
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Notes

EarthCube white paper status and plan

Since last month's Discovery and ESC telecons, there have been some new information on the whitepaper posted: http://earthcube.ning.com/profiles/blogs/announcement-please-post-your-whitepapers

Also, we can see the white papers submitted so far: http://earthcube.ning.com/page/background-reading

Hook had signed up to finished the governance section (just posted).

There is longer version: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_White_Paper#Governance_-_Hook

And a shorter version: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_White_Paper_Short#Technical_Governance

Meeting Notes

• Mark Parsons made major revisions (we weren't really following the charette call)
• Chris: are we ready to submit the whitepaper?
  • Hook: can look at others submissions on the EarthCube website, most other submissions were closer to 10 pages
  • Bob made minor revisions this morning ("wordsmithing")
  • Does the sign on statement mean you agree or made modifications, sign to larger or smaller?
    • Signing means you agree, sign to smaller section
  • Should try to get the whitepaper in this week
  • ACTION ITEM: Ruth will submit whitepaper
  • What's the best way to submit?
    • Create PDF or link to wiki?
    • One person linked to Google Doc.
  • All minor changes should be made by 4 MST Wednesday Oct 12, 2011
• To sign the document: an asterisk (for bullet) and insert 4 tildas at the bottom of wiki page
• Who will present the whitepaper?
  • The following cannot present: Chris, Ruth, Hook, Brian
  • The following may be attending: (Erin or Carol), Christine, Rahul
• Where is the charrette?
  • Arlington

Plans for awarded Discovery Testbed implementation

Meeting Notes

• Discovery cluster submitted testbed to ESIP Products and Services committee
  • Awarded to ESRI, lead by Christine White

• What could ESRI do that would be useful for the ESIP Discovery Cluster?
  • What are the goals?
  • What are the success criteria?

• Christine can present status/progress at Winter Meeting

• Solicitation was about...
  • Testbed for interoperability testing
  • Used for advertising ESIP community services
  • Services to data broker (identifies services that are compatible with data) ("Icing on the cake")

• ESRI's response:
  • Responded to 3 of the tasks, selected for task 2
  • using open source GeoPortal server software as a base
    • can be extended/modified/etc. without concern
    • http://geoportal.sourceforge.net/
    • http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/geoportal/index.html
  • Some of the RFP features are available out of the box (GeoRSS/Atom results)
  • Development would be useful for orgs outside of ESIP
  • the hours of the project will be billed for conversations with ESIP, development will be paid for by ESRI
  • ESRI gets first-hand information/use cases for developing this data portal
  • Cluster gets a useful testbed for advertising services/datasets, etc. for RFP

• What sort of impact should the RFP have on Discovery Cluster? What can be coordinated by ESRI?
  • Anyone using GeoPortal automatically cast datasets?
    • All providers using GeoPortal can be aggregated using data casting standards.
  • Is it possible to get "automatic" casting from GeoPortal?
  • Ruth clarifies casting from GeoPortal.

• What is the best way for cluster to collaborate with ESRI?
  • Ruth: NSIDC can talk to ESRI about what the GeoPortal should have (i.e., casting capabilities)
  • Hook: what about the OpenSearch front-end, GeoPortal has uses OpenSearch...
  • Chris: seeking a "standing" server where people can write and test OpenSearch clients
  • Christine: GeoPortal can be used to register data and services, it can also be an endpoint for testing clients
  • Chris: would the GeoPortal server respond to OpenSearch request
    • Christine: it should
  • GeoPortal is not the interface at geoportal.org
  • Hook: suggests a starting point - a place for community members to register OpenSearch services, casting services, etc.
    • GeoPortal can be used to register and search services
  • Christine offered to give a demo of a "vanilla" GeoPortal server
    • This can be a topic of next month's telecon.
  • Christine will coordinate with Hook and Brian to produce an interesting demo

• What is the timeline for the work?
  • ESRI is flexible on the timeline (response was to have work completed within one year)

• What are the success criteria?

ESRI GeoPortal Source: [1]

ESIP 2012 Winter session planning

• What are the Discovery Cluster topics?
  • One topic may be a recap of the charrette, joint breakout of discovery and ESC
  • Basic planning meeting, to plan goals for the next six months
    • Discuss plans for moving forward on the testbed
  • Workshop/breakout for GeoPortal demo or progress report
  • Need titles, main speakers, short abstract by next week for scheduling a winter meeting session
• Proposed Sessions
  • a face-to-face meeting for wrapping up DCPs
    • New DCPs
      • DCP for error handling not discussed (but it is implied for OpenSearch to use HTTP error codes)
  • Casting demos
    • The theme is collaboration, how can casting/discovery conventions support collaboration
    • Ruth will be able to show next step beyond July demo (aggregating casts from distributed sources, making available to portal using OpenSearch)
    • Need to focus on demos/use cases that align with collaboration theme
  • Part of planning session: What are the implications for discovery conventions in the ESC?
    • How do we move forward on a more collaborative discovery cluster?
    • How can the discovery services meet the requirements of the ESC? (joint-session with ESC)
• Winter meeting is shorter, so not as much time for demos/workshops
• The ESRI demo/participation in Winter Meeting will be coordinated by the Discovery cluster
• ACTION ITEM: Submit the abstracts for the Winter Meeting sessions

DCP-3

Discovery_Change_Proposal-3

• Is the Discovery cluster defining the "types" that are allowable?
  • the convention should be totally open, no constraints on what values are used
• Using plurals to differentiate collections of data and services vs. individual services
  • use "serviceCast" and "collectionCast" instead of "collections" and "services"
• Should differentiate between data available from FTP and data offered through OPeNDAP
• Anyone can add examples to the wiki
• What about structured metadata file?
  • What's the metadata format (ISO would be an example)?
• Add example for OpenSearch Description Document (has its own mime/type)