IT and Interoperability Telecons

January 31, 2012

Call focused on a discussion about whether IT&I should take on a coordinating or facilitating role amongst the interoperability/IT clusters, to wrt:

• Action from IT&I telecon

• Suggest that each cluster that is relevant to IT and I provide mission statement that be be used as a starting point to improve ESIP interoperbiity and increase understanding.

• IT and Interoperability Committee Mission Statement

Ensure that data, information and services can be readily discovered, exchanged and integrated through the use of interoperability standards and protocols.

• Earth Science Collaboratory-Foster the development of a framework supporting rich, collaboratory data analysis and knowledge sharing among Earth scientists.
• Discovery-Promote the usage of lightweight standards and conventions to support federated discovery of Earth science data and information.
• Semantic Web-The objective of the Semantic Web Cluster is facilitate application areas of ESIP using semantic web methodologies and technologies.
• Drupal-Open Source Collaboration Software Framework and Community
• Geospatial-Improve access and discovery of GIS within ESIP community with an emphasis on remotely sensed

data

• CF-Propose extensions to CF to benefit the Earth Science Community
• Visualization-Focus on the Visualization of earth science data
• Cloud Computing-Foster collaborative research on cloud computing architecture, reference model, and relevant new technologies
• Information Quality-Bring together people from various disciplines to assess aspects of quality of remote sensing data.