P&S Monthly June 15, 2011

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Minutes June 15, 2011 Products and Services Telecon

Participants: Yuechen Chi (GMU), Kai Liu (GMU), Phil Yang (GMU), Hook Hua (JPL), Steve Olenbach (NEON), Ken Keiser (UAH)

Agenda:

P&S Testbed proposal - Submitted - what's next?

Plans for ESIP session for P&S Testbed activities.

Poster registrations

FUNDing Friday

Notes:

Mentioned that the 2011 Testbed proposal was submitted to the Finance Committee, so next steps will depend on funding approval

The final proposal is available on the Testbed Wiki site

ESIP Summer Meeting Plans

Mentioned that today (June 15) is the last day to submit a poster abstract

There will be a FUNDing Friday activity where short presentations are given to possibly receive $5K funding to implement ideas

Semi annual reports from funded ESIP groups are due at the end of June so Ken will send around requests for input in the next week or so

The P&S breakout is on Thursday, July 14, from 8:30-10:00 am. We need to line up topics and presentations - suggested

Introduction and Testbed Concept

Current Testbed Activities

Expert Skills Database

Unique Data Identifiers

Semantic Registration of data and services

Application-specific portals

Future (proposed tasks)

Plans for new portal environment

Federated Discovery task

Interoperability - metadata authoring

Data Stewardship

Open discussion on new topics and ideas

Ken will send around the list of topics with suggested presenters for short presentations (10 minutes or less) - link to Summer 2011 meeting session agenda

Brief discussion on possible support for virtual environments on the new Testbed portal - hopefully this can be continued in more detail at the summer meeting.

Short, but useful meeting - thanks to those who participated.