P&S Monthly Mar 16, 2011

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

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Minutes March 16, 2011 Products and Services Telecon


Participants: Rob Raskin, Ken Keiser, John Scialdone, Tyler Stevens, Yuechen Chi, Resge & Kai Liu (GMU), Phil Yang, Hook Hua, Carol Meyer

Presentation Slides: Media: Telecon-03-16-2011.pdf

Standing Time for a meeting – 3rd Wednesday at 2 Eastern
Tyler Stevens agreed to serve as Vice Chair of the Committee
Review of Committee’s Charter
Is the committee’s charter still relevant? Changes needed?
The bylaws reflect that the committee can/should be reflecting on best practices
No changes needed
Current Activities:
Expert Skills database
Stand alone system to link experts skills to organizational database
Proposed capability – service exchange
DOI testbed support
EZId (CA Digital Library)
Semantic Data & Services Registration
Application Specific Portal
Duplicated portal from EIE
Did a water portal & NASA water/energy cycle portal
Future Activities:
Webspace to advertise ESIP (member) products
Assign quality metrics to ESIP (member) products
Metadata for describing virtual products and services
Service exchange bank
Service for data set equivalence (testbed)
Experts skills database expansion to include connections between ESIPs and how they were facilitated
Privacy concerns for information
Expert skills database expansion to allow for people to be associated with multiple member organizations
Procedure for moving things out of testbed
Where should testbed machine reside?
Virtually? At an institution?
What role does the cloud play?
Next telecon – review proposal for submission to Ficom