Discovery Telecon 2012-07-10

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• Tuesday, July 10, 2012. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
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Attendees

• Erin Robinson
• Chris Lynnes
• Christine White
• Eric Rozell
• James Gallagher
• Hook Hua
• Nga Chung
• Ken Keiser
• Ruth Duerr

Action Items

• Eric, Hook, Nga, Chris, Christine, Ruth - prep slides for Hack-a-thon session
• Chris - prep OpenSearch Intro for hack-a-thon session
• Ruth - prep Casting Intro for hack-a-thon session
• Chris - market the Hack-a-thon

Past Action Items

• Chris Lynnes - Start a page of URLs and resources for the hack-a-thon
• Chris Lynnes - Set up coordination page for mentors
• Chris Lynnes - Work with Hook to get list of packages needed for the testbed VM
• Chris Lynnes - Send out "marketing" message to esip-all
• Hook Hua - What are you going to mentor?
• Eric Rozell - Set up the VM on the ESIP shared account for people to use during the hack-a-thon
• Anyone - Pick a technology/language to mentor (or backup mentor) at the hack-a-thon!
• Everyone - Review DCP-7 so you're informed when it goes up for vote!

Agenda

• Plan/Logistics for Discovery Hack-a-thon (Hook)
  • Refer to Discovery_Hack-a-thon_Details
  • Intro presentation
  • Plan for time allocations. Note we have 2 x 90-minute sessions.
  • Got mentors?
  • Machine/platform use
  • Marketing
• Plan/Logistics/Agenda for Metadata Casting session for data, services and events (Brian)
• Plan/Logistics for Open Source Software Evaluation (Yuanjie)
• Agenda for Planning Meeting (Chris)
  • Discovery Change Proposal Status
    • DCP-4: OPeNDAP Links in the Atom <link/> element Ratified
    • DCP-5: Valids and restrictions for query elements Waiting for Response from OpenSearch community
    • DCP-6: Adopt Dublin Core Date Specification in Atom Response Ratified
    • DCP-7: Error Handling Best Practices for Discovery Repsonse Close to voting
  • Specification revision / SPG Submission
  • Overall next step directions for Discovery cluster
    • coordination with EarthCube
      • DDMA
      • Interoperability
      • Web Services
      • Brokering
      • Semantic Web ?
    • coordination with ESC efforts
    • coordination with Semantic Web cluster
    • Next steps for Discovery Testbed
    • Expand to Data Exploration?

Notes

Plan/Logistics for Discovery Hack-a-thon (Hook)

• How to run the timing?
  • Allot time to specific technology, or give broad overview and let everyone "go at it"?
  • What to do for those who will be bored with the coding part? Point is to show low-barriers of entry...
  • Casting, publishing, aggregation should be in non-coders
  • Have mentors for individual groups, and quickly go through coding part
  • Since there are two sessions, have coding and non-coding sessions
  • What if someone is interested in more than one? People are stuck in one language for the whole ninety minutes...
  • Non-coders will need more help getting going, demos will be more appropriate
  • Final Decision: non-coders first (may continue into second session), then coder second session, split into quadrants...

• Do we need a VM? (Probably not)
  • Not for any of the non-coder stuff... probably not for Perl, Python, or Java
  • Only the XSL transform has a dependency, and that's only on a JAR...

• Chris, Hook, Ruth coordinate presentation order and introduction...

• We will need to give intros for OpenSearch and *casting
• If the tutorials seem brutally obvious, that's okay, people just need a push to start using

• How to market?
  • Facebook, our own mailing lists, Google+ group, Twitter #esipfed

Plan/Logistics/Agenda for Metadata Casting session for data, services and events (Brian)

• Brian was not in meeting
• Ruth will be presenting

Plan/Logistics for Open Source Software Evaluation (Yuanjie)

• Yuanjie was not in meeting
• Christine will be one of four presenters
• Usability tests, data catalog, NDC experiences, etc...
• Someone should capture relevant pieces to Discovery cluster

Agenda for Planning Meeting (Chris)

• DCP-4 and -6 are adopted
• DCP-5 is back for rework
• DCP-7 is Hook's
• DCP pages should be updated (the summary pages should reflect ratification)
• Need to focus on DCP-5 and DCP-7
• Hopefully, the sessions won't get too detailed into the DCPs
• The planning session should really focus on the overall next steps and ESDSWG standards submission
• Important thing is to coordinate resources and people for next steps