IQ cluster kick-off meeting

Participants

• Gregory Leptoukh (GSFC)
• Steve Berrick (NASA HQ)
• Chris Lynnes (GSFC)
• Hook Hua (JPL)
• Scott Ritz (GSFC)
• Tylor Stevens (GSFC)
• Ethan McMahon (EPA)
• Bill Teng (GSFC)
• Peter Fox (RPI)

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