Talk:Air Quality Community Summer 2009 Meeting

Erin's Meeting Notes -- Erinmr 13:14, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

Hi All - I'm adding a few observations I had from the meeting. Would others also add their notes/comments about the meeting? Thanks- Key questions seemed to be: (1) what is the AQ Community Infrastructure? (2) how does it interact with the GEOSS Common Infrastructure? (3) How will AQ Comm Infra improve/support AQ Community Day 1:

From Tim Dye: Need for "Super Easy" button, i.e. the barrier to participate in community activities needs to be low; there need to be tools/methods clearly established that help data providers enter
From Uma: Barriers to entry - need common vocabulary, developers dilemma (the cost is to high to participate)
From Rudy/me: The AQ Community Infrastructure spans more than just the GCI and AQ conventions need to be established for AQ data access and metadata. When standards are in place, HTAP activities are enhanced.

Needs: identify high value data for users, identify processes that are redundant among users (like georeferencing) that could be done once before distribution, provide metadata that answers user questions, allow data selection for particular space-time-parameter subset

Day 2: Focused on use cases, how information currently flows and how it could be improved by AQ Comm. Infrastructure

GEO AQ CoP discussion -

ESIP is one area where members of the GEO AQ CoP will come from. ESIP/GEO AQ CoP will overlap, but both be maintained
Need autonomous web space for the GEO AQ CoP
Forest CoP is active, should check out.

Action items to move forward:

Map out the NO2 use cases with a better description
What can be implemented by Jan 2010 ESIP?
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