March 25, 2011

Participants

• Gregory Leptoukh (NASA GSFC)
• Peter Grimm (NOAA)
• Erin Robinson (ESIP Fed)
• Joanne Nightingale (NASA GSFC)
• Bruce Barkstrom (Independent)
• Siri-Jodha Khalsa (NSIDC)
• Ted Habermann (NOAA)
• Hook Hua (JPL)

Agenda

• Preparation for the Summer EIP Meeting in Santa Fe: ESIP Summer 2011 Meeting
  • Speakers
  • Main topics to discuss at the summer meeting - which ones are the most important:
    • Terminology/taxonomy
    • Data Intercomparison and quality harmonization
    • Best practices in different communities
    • Fit-for-purpose criteria for data quality (e.g., climate change need vs. near-real-time monitoring need)
    • Level 2 Quality flags (and what do they tell about the product quality)
    • Level 3 "Quality" (what’s that?)
    • Propagation of L2 uncertainty to L3
    • Effects of missing data on aggregates
    • Data quality ontology (The Semantic Web Cluster is already working on logistics of the Data Quality Ontology breakout session)
    • Presenting data quality to users
  • Breakout sessions – how many?
  • Identify reps of various research and application communities for:
    • their understanding and requirements for quality
    • methodology they use to assess and quantify data quality
    • Communities: SST, Ocean color, Precipitation, Atm Chemistry, Land, Modeling, Applications (e.g., Air Quality),...

• How and when for IQ telecons
  • One main topic per telecon (presentation via WebEx)
  • Every other Friday at 2:30 pm Eastern time (have been told that Fridays are on half hour somehow...

Action Items

• All: by Apr 1 identify potential speakers
• All: identify main D&IQ topics for the summer meeting
• All: reach out to different communities and identify reps
• Hook and Greg: setup a page for collecting and aliasing quality-related terms