Water Cluster Telecons

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October 1, 2009 Telecon

1-3 pm EDT
Phone: Meeting Number: 877-326-0011
Meeting Code: *7884944*
GoTo Meeting Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/188806762

Topics (feel free to add an item to the agenda):

1. Review of prior ESIP Water Cluster Activities - Paul Houser & All
2. EPA Office of Water Water Quality Exchange (WQX) General Update - Chuck Spooner
3. Presentation & discussion of CUAHSI Activities - TBD
4. Potential for external review of EPA OEI Substance Registry System (SRS) chemicals and other terminology related to water - TBD
5. Solving Ontology Wranglings ala MMI - Liaison with ESIP Semantic Cluster Group - Luis Bermudez & All
6. GEOSS Related activities (in consultation with NASA/NOAA) - TBD
7. Topics and organization for ESIP winter meeting (January 2010) All

Meeting Docs
MMI Ontology Wrangling

Participants

• Bill Sonntag
• Paul Houser
• Debbie Belvedere
• Rick Hooper
• Carol Meyer
• Brian Rogan
• Lawrence Friedl
• Bruce Bargmeyer
• Kevin Keck
• Gary Foley
• Will Pozzi
• Mark Hamilton
• Danny Hardin
• George Percivall
• Louis Sweeney
• Luis Bermudez
• Chuck Spooner
• Sara Graves
• Wenwen Li
• Phil Yang
• Gail Hodge

Notes
1. Review of prior ESIP Water Cluster Activities Paul Houser, co-chair reviewed prior activities of the ESIP Federation Water Cluster. Those activities fell into 3 distinct areas:

• development of the Earth Information Exchange (EIE) portal for water
• contributions of ESIP partner data sets in response to the Puget Sound Initiative
• technology contributions to GEO decision support initiatives (especially in the area of ontology development) (Will Pozzi)

2. Water Quality Exchange (WQX) General Update Chuck Spooner, EPA Office of Water provided an overview of the Water Quality Exchange (WQX). He first provided background on the STORET data warehouse, an archive of state reported measurements accessible through an xml query. The WQX schema provides for a data and exchange format, which has now been adopted by USGS. EPA and USGS will be combining their query systems (< 1 year away from completion), with NOAA and Agricultural Research Service also interested.

1. Presentation & discussion of CUAHSI Activities - TBD
2. Potential for external review of EPA OEI Substance Registry System (SRS) chemicals and other terminology related to water - TBD
3. Solving Ontology Wranglings ala MMI - Liaison with ESIP Semantic Cluster Group - Luis Bermudez & All
4. GEOSS Related activities (in consultation with NASA/NOAA) - TBD
5. Topics and organization for ESIP winter meeting (January 2010) All

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