Solta 2011 Agenda

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Tue 8.00-10.00: Self-Introduction, 5 mins/participant

Husar/Vidic

Welcome, Logistics
Self-Introduction - by each participant

• Slides 1-2: Name, institution, relevant research (on interoperability, networking), participation in major projects/programs
• Slide(s) 3-(4): What would you like to take away from the workshop; what would you like to offer to the workshop (or AQ CoP)

Tue 10.30-12.30: Introduction of Hubs, AQ CoP, 5 min each

Schultz/Bernonville

Intro of AQ Data Hubs - by their representatives

• AQ Community Servers: CommonDataFed, FJ Juelich, NGC/CIERA, EBAS (VIEWS)
• Other Servers: DLR/ACP, AIRNow, EEA NRT, AQMEII (AeroCom, RSIG, GIOVANNI)
  

Air Quality Community of Practice (AQ CoP) - R Husar
Air Quality Community Data Server - M. Schultz

Tue 16.00-18.00: IT Beakout: AQ Community server software

Decker/Hoijarvi

Use of netCDF and other data formats
Gridded data service through WCS
Station-point data service (SQL)
Data server performance issues/solutions; Server co-development tools
Relationship to other WCS servers; Real Data-to-WCS/WFS/WMS-Mapping

Tue 16.00-18.00: NoIT: Data network environment: Scope, providers, users

Vik/Fialkowski

Data Classes: by source, by content, by space-time-parameter
Data Providers: Existing data integration/dissemination organizations: Data Hubs
Data Users: Science Teams, Decision support, Public info: Data-to-knowledge; data-to-decision transformers
Current data flow: reality assessment dedicated, closed system stovepipe??

Wed 8.00-10.00: Breakout reports, general server items

Eckhardt, Gaussev

Report from the IT breakout session: Community server software
Report from non IT breakout session: ADN scope, providers, users
Report from the pre-workshop Data Catalog side meeting
Crossover topics between IT and non-IT issues

Wed 10.30-12.30: AQ network: Servers, Catalog, Clients

Bigagli/Robinson

What few things must be the same, so that everything else can be different?

Metadata for finding and understanding, CF, ISO)
Data access/use constrains, quality control, data versioning, etc.
What is the design philosophy
Service oriented (everything is a service), Component and network design for change; open source (everything?!)
Network-level data flow, usage statistics (GoogleAnalytics), performance
... goal is to obtain a good basis for discussion in the following breakout sessions, both from the IT and non-IT sides.

• Server Software Design (uFIND). Issues?

Functionality of an Air Quality Data Network Catalog (ADNC)?
Content and structure (granularity) of ADNC?
Interoperability of ADNC

• Interoperability with whom? what standards are needed? CF Naming extensions?
  
• AQ Discovery Metadata Convention (for use in ISO, Data Catalogs...)
• Extend CF Naming conventions for Point Data
• Devise human-readable CF naming equivalents?

Access rights and access management

What are the generic (ISO, GEOSS, INSPIRE) and the AQ-specific discovery metadata?
Minimal metadata for data provenance, quality, access constrains?
Single AQ Catalog? Distributed? Service-oriented?

• GI-cat
• uFind

Wed 16.00-18.00: Relationship, cooperation, governance

Nativi/Domenico

• User perspective, value chain .. user can not find..

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• EPA - HTAP Terry Keating??
• EEA - H. Anderson??, Peder ??

Relationships, cross-thematic links (EGIDA, ESIP) How can we collaborate?

• http://www.delicious.com/tag/integratinginitiative+governance

Group dinner

Thu 8.00-10.00: Networking impediments and opportunities

Kjeld/Ludewig

JJ Bogardi, Global Water System Project (GWSP) at EGIDA, Bonn:
Nature of Networking Projects: Complex funding; mixture of paid and voluntary; multiple obligations; international; differing project maturity; governance, cultures
Which glue keeps it together? Trust and personal affinity. Common objectives and scientific values. Mutual respect. Mutual benefit (win-win). Complementarity. Donor dictate
Lethal“ ingredients. Turf mentality. Budget discrepancies. Too much competition. Lack of data and information exchange. Donor jealousy

• Clear statements about obstacles: no clear structure; no dedicated funding and no clear idea(s) yet how to do it.
• Opportunities, fixes: ID manageable work packages; Find, organize, distribute reusable components, resources; Create win-win situation

Thu 10.30-12.30: ADN user relations/help, whom, what?

Galmarini/Dye

• Target User communities
• Use cases for different applications... from scientists to managers, media people and the general public)?
• How can users find out about (each) system? Big future issues: data quality, traceability, metadata..

Thu 16.00-18.00: Workshop outputs, outcomes, plans?

Schultz/Husar

What are the anticipated outputs? Agreement on community WCS server for grid and point data; server governance, distributed catalog; workshop summary
What are the anticipated outcomes? Better understanding of the network, higher level of trust and concrete steps toward turning the ADN from virtual to real
What are the short-term opportunities? Do we have Common long-term goals and visions?

Friday: Boat trip