Solta 2011 Agenda

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Daily Schedule
07:30-08:00 Breakfast
08:00-10:00 Morning Session 1
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Morning Session 2
12:30-16:00 Free, lunch on your own
16:00-18:00 Afternoon Session
18:00-19:00 Discussion with wine, cheese

Tue 16.00-18.00: 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 data source-driver (mandated, research); by content (emission, ambient, remsens, model), by space-time (global, regional)
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 - assessment: flow from hubs, into dedicated processing value chains; closed system? stovepipe??

Wed 8.00-10.00: Breakout reports, general server items

Domenico/Gaussev

What few things must be the same, so that everything else can be different? 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: Data network catalog and clients

Bigagli/Eckhardt

Functionality of an Air Quality Data Network Catalog
Catalog content and structure (granularity) of ADNC?
Minimal metadata for discovery, data provenance, quality, access constrains?
Single AQ Catalog? Distributed? Service-oriented?, Access rights
Catalog Clients expand here

Wed 16.00-18.00: Relationship, cooperation, governance

Nativi/Robinson

• User perspective, value chain .. user can not find..
• Relationships, cross-thematic links (EGIDA, ESIP), How can we collaborate?
• http://www.delicious.com/tag/integratinginitiative+governance
• EPA - HTAP Terry Keating??; EEA - H. Anderson??, Peder ??

Wed 18.00-19.00: General Discussion, with wine and cheese

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? More servers and data added to the shared data pool and more willing users of shared data.

Thu 18.00-19.00: General Discussion, with wine and cheese

Friday: Boat trip