IQ cluster kick-off meeting

Participants

Gregory Leptoukh Steve Berrick Chris Lynnes Hook Hua Scott Ritz Tylor Stevens Ethan McMahon Bill Teng Peter Fox

Main objective

Prepare for the Summer 2011 ESIP Fed meeting

Theme Idea for the Summer meeting

Data/Information Quality

Topics

• Data quality provided vs. data quality needed (fitness-for-purpose). Solicit and present data quality needs for climate change, air quality, disaster management
• Pixel quality vs. product quality
• Validation issues. What is Level 3 data validation? What is Level 3 data quality?
• Best practices in different communities addressing data quality, e.g., SST error budget
• Existing IQ frameworks and methodologies (Data View)
• Quality ontology
• Quality provenance
• Quality harmonization
• Interaction with QA4EO and other international entities dealing with data quality for earth observations

Breakout sessions

• IQ cluster (terminology, standardization, IQ framework, IQ4EO white paper preparetion)
• Semantic web cluster (to discuss data quality ontology)
• Air quality cluster

Discussions

Suggested speakers:

• Eloquent representative from a user community who present a compelling story for data quality specific to her/his community. Potential candidates: Jim Hansen for Climate change
• Programmatic view - Martha?
• Data provider response - Wentz?

Suggested

Action items

For the summer meeting:

• Solicit ideas for breakout sessions
• Propose more Invited speakers
• Approach all ESIP cluster/groups/committees to start quality aspect discussions

For the IQ cluster:

• Suggest and invite to the IQ cluster people who might be interested in contributing
• Identify volunteers for writing best practices in different communities
• Identify tangible short-term and long-term goals
• Collect references and build the IQ Knowledge Base
• Establish telecon day/time