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GEOSS AI Pilot Telecons

 

 

Telecons of the GEOSS AI Pilot Plenary are listed below in reverse chronological order.


Next Telecon

DATE: 6 January 2009
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC 
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Previous Telecons

Date Topics Discussed
20081223 Use Cases and Scenarios; Transverse Tech WG updates; Osamu Ochiai Farewell
20081209  Results of Interim Design Review, Community WG Reports, updated milestones and schedule
20081202 An Interim Design Review was held.  A Plenary telecon was not held.
20081114 Plan for AIP-2 Design Review,  Community Scenarios and Transverse Technology Use Cases, TT WG Reports.
20081104 KDDI CFP Response, Scenarios and Use Cases approach, Plan for Interim meeting,  Communtiy WG reports
20081028 WG Telecon times, Cross WG representation, Need for Community WG Scenarios, Transverse WG reports. 
20081021 WG e-mail lists, Cross WG representation, Community WG reports: metadata directory, base maps, task planning
20081014  AIP e-mail lists, Component defintions, first reports from Transverse Technology WGs
2008Oct 07 AIP Development Approach (WG Leaders, reports and wikis, e-mail lists, milestones), SBA WG Status,  recent CFP response
2008 Sep 30
 		Kickoff Summary, Development planning (Working Groups, Milestones, Collaboration tools), recent CFP responses
2008 Sep 25 AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop at NCAR Mesa Lab 25 and 26 September
2008 Sep 16 Update of CFP Responses and analysis; Plans for AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop including agenda and session leaders
2008 Sep 09 Analysis of CFP Responses, AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop
2008 Sep 02 CFP Responses, AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop
2008 Aug 19  CFP Activities, AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop
2008 Jul 15 AIP-2 CFP Clarifications Telecon
2008 Jun 24
 AIP-2 CFP Final Draft approved, AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop, GML and JAXB
2008 Jun 17 CFP Initial Draft, Plan for CFP Development, AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
2008 Jun 3 ADC-7 Results, GEOSS Common Infrastructure, CFP Rough Draft, AIP Milestones and Schedule
2008 May 13 GEOSS Common Infrastructure, CFP-2008 outline and work plan, AIP Milestones and Schedule, Task Sheet, ADC-7 prep
2008 May 6
GEOSS Common Infrastructure, CFP-2008 Outline, and work plan, AIP Milestones and Schedule, Task Sheet

2008 Apr 29

GEOSS Common Infrastructure, Review of CFP-2008 Outline, AIP Milestones and Schedule

2008 Apr 22

GEOSS Common Infrastructure, Themes for CFP-2008 , Lead editors for CFP-2008, AIP Milestones, GEOSS Workshops

2008 Apr 08

GEOSS Common Infrastructure, Open discussion of the activities of the AIP to support OP1

2008 Feb 12

Architecture Workshop Summary - February 3&4, ADC-6 Meeting Summary - February 5&6, Architecture Implementation Pilot Next steps

2008 Jan 22

ADC meeting and Architecture Workshop Planning, Call for Position Papers

2008 Jan 08

Architecture Workshop Planning, Call for Position Papers, EGU and IGARSS conference announcements



Telecon 23 December 2008

There was a peak of 15 participants on the Web Ex for this session. 
 
Discussions - not yet complete
  • Use Cases and Scenarios
    • Consolidated list of Use Cases
      • Discussion of consolidated list of use cases was led by Josh Lieberman and Nadine Alameh.  The list will need to be polished and refined as we proceed.  For example the Access WG may change use case #10 from "Access Services" to "Access Resources"
      • Jeff DlB asked what the state of implementation of each of the use cases is.  George P commented that AIP Phase 1 demonstrated the functionaliy of all the use cases, but they were not documented in Phase 1.  AIP-2 is now documenting the use cases.  It is anticipated that each of the use cases will again be implemted in AIP-2 and further that AIP-2 will identify persistent exemplar services for many of the use cases.
      • Discussion that the list needs to be consolidated further in order to allow ease of use in the Scenarios by the Community WGs.  For example, use cases 2, 3, and 4 could be combined into a single use case.  Perhaps 7 and 8 can be combined.  The variations would then be discussed in side of the single use case.  The TT WGs need to look at their use cases to see how they can be consolidated. Do not renumber the use cases.  For example if 7 and 8 are combined, use 7 for the combined use case and identify 8 as "number not used"
    • Mapping between Scenarios and Use Cases
      • The matrix mapping between the Scenarios and Use cases was discussed.  Currently the matrix is empty.  Several of the Community WGs commented they have already begun mapping their Scenario Events to Use Cases.  And the Communtiy WGs anticipated then updating the Matrix.
      • More columns may be needed as some Community WGs have more than one scenario.
    • Action: Transverse Technology WGs to first complete versions of Use Cases by 16 January.  This will include consolidating the Use Cases that the WG owns. Refining the titles and descriptions of the Use Cases in the consolidated list table.  Posting a dcoumented version of the use cases to the WG Google site.
    • Action:  Community WGs to complete scenario events table including identification of use cases for each event.
    • Action:  George P. to review and update redundant page based upon progress on consolidated Use Cases
  • Transverse Technology WG updates
    • Workflow and Alerts
      • Update provided by Greg Yetman and Eugene Yu
      • The two use cases for the Workflow WG look good titles and will be developed: #13 and #14.
      • There is a biodiversity scenario drafted that could use a workflow use case.
      • AQ portal permissions need to be changed - Stefan Falke to correct
      • Publishing workflow to GEOSS registry form BPEL editor.  Need a method to associate between services in the registry
    • Portals and Application Clients
      • Nadine Alameh provided a report.
      • WG is developing use cases.
      • Interested in Community WG use of GEO Web Portals.
      • ACTION: George P. to send the GEO Web Portal SBA alignments as developed in the GIOC Task Force.
    • Test Facility 
      • Upate provided by Mauro Semarano
      • Use cases have been drafted.
    • Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata
      • Update provided by Josh Lieberman and Ted Haberman
      • Discussion of how the metadata in the GetCapabilities and WSDL binding for services is not the same as the metadata needed for discovery in the catalogues.
      • Discsussion of metadata mappings icnluding SIO 19115, Coverages, FGDC, OGC CIM.  Focus is on "Mandatory core plus contact" 
      • Considering a recommendation of a link between GetCapabilities and MD_Metadata.  This may exist in OWS Common.  It does not exist in WMS 1.3 which does not use OWS Common
      • Considering a recommendation that GetCapabilities include link to registry that has a metadata record for the service.
    • Access Services: products, sensors, models
      • Update provided by Luis Bermudez
      • WG is dicussing the Use Cases
      • Discsussion of how "resource" in a GEOSS context can mean service, model, process.
      • Need to focus on how the use cases will meet user needs, through linking with the Community Scenarios.
  • Any other business



Telecon 9 December 2008

There was a peak of 28 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

  • Results of AIP-2 Interim Design Review, 2 December, Valencia
    • All presentations have been posted.
    • A Summary identifies the major observations of the review.
      • Change of Processing Services was well understood and accepted.
        • Confirmed new name of "Workflow and Processing WG"
      • More discussion is needed about how alerts are handled by the multiple WGs.
    • Emphasis was on Community Scenarios and Transverse Technology Use Cases
  • Community WG updates
    • Air Quality and Health
      • David McCabe and Ted Haberman led discussions about the AQ status
      • Discussion of WCS regarding how the GetCapabilities changed from version 1.0 to 1.1 to be consistent with OWS Common. 
      • Discussion of how an ISO 19115 metadata record contains different data than a GetCapabilities response
      • Stefano Nativi has done some analysis and after the telecon sent a message to the AQ mailing list with the document.
      • GEO Clearinghouse Portal Comparison was referenced but not extensively discussed.
    • Disasters
      • Stuart Frye provided an update on the activities of the Disasters WG.
      • Stuart thanked to Alexandre Robin for presenting the Disasters status at the Interim Design Review
      • DisastersWG Telecon next Tuesday.
      • WG has been developing Scnearion and will post revision next week.
      • The WG is making connections to many organizations.  An emphasis is on the International Charter for Disasters.
      • Greg Yetman to provide Stuart with contact informatin for Yuri
    • Climate Change and Biodiversity
      • Stefano Nativi provided an update
      • Emphasis is on developing the scenario in three areas: Pika, Polar Bears, and Protected Areas.  See the Interim Design Review presentation for detaisl.
      • Datasets are being identified.
      • Connecting the scenarios with the use cases will be next task.
    • Renewable Energy
      • No update was provided for this WG.
  • Any other business



Telecon 14 November 2008

There was a peak of 21 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

  • AIP-2 Development
    • Upcoming Milestones 
      • Community WG draft Scenarios needed by 7 November. 
      • Transverse TT draft Use Cases needed by 14 November
      • A storyboard milestone is needed in January.
    • AIP-2 Design Review , 2 December, Valencia
      • The Interim Design Review agenda was updated based upon the conversation in the telecon.
  • Community WG Scenarios
    • Status of WG Scenarios
      • Disasters and Energy WGs have posted draft scenarios
      • Air Quality is working on theirs in particular during the AQ telecon today.
      • Biodiversity and CC WG have been working on their scenarios, but the status is unclear.
    • Community Scenarios and Transverse Technology Use Cases 
      • This page will be used to have a single summary page for Scenarios and Use Cases.  Links to the WG pages on Google for the specific items.
  • Transverse Technology WG updates
    • Portals and Application Clients
      • Nadine Alameh provided an update by reviewing several items on the WGs google site page.
      • Summary of a recent WG telecon was provided.
      • Use cases have been initially identified - comments are invited and encouraged.
      • A list of reusable components has begun - seeking additional components to list.
    • Test Facility 
      • Mauro Semerano provided an update by reviewing several items on the WGs google site page.
      • A telecon was called but did not have participation, perhaps because of the time of day.
      • Use cases have been initially identified and drafted - comments are invited and encouraged.
      • An Engineering Report for the WG has been initally drafted.
      • Discussion of the "Testing a Service" use case.   Comment that adding a step that produced a record of the test results that could be added to the metadata record for the service.
    • Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata
      • Josh Lieberman provided an update by reviewing several items on the WGs google site page.
      • Discussion of three current topics: metadata, components, harvesting
      • Use cases have been initially identified - comments are invited and encouraged.
      • Summary of a recent WG telecon was provided:  Web Accessible Folders; Inspire Metadata Tool were discussed.
    • Access Services: products, sensors, models
      • Herve Caumont provided an update of  the WGs activities
      • There has been recent testing on NOAA data servers
      • CAP alerts via Atom feed are of interest to the Access WG.  CAP alerts will be addressed in the Access WG.  Other alerts will be discussed in the Workflow and Alerts WG - in particular alerts necessary for the asynchronize, long transactions.
      • Use cases are being discussed but are not yet identifed.  Need to coordinate Use case development across WGs to avoid duplication.  The Access WG should concentrate on access services by making the assumption that the client already knows the location of a server and that the server meets the needs of the user.  Discovery and fitness for use of the access service is part of the CCRM use cases.   The Access Use Cases should concentrate on how to make valid requests to access services and issues dealing with the return encoding format of the access services.
      • Discussion of a Service Checker developed by Michelle Anthony, USGS EDC.  Marten Hogeweg to send information to the AIP Plenary about the tool.  This is also relevant to Test FAcility WG.
    • Workflow and Alerts
      • Eugene Yu provided an update by reviewing several items on the WGs google site page.
      • Review of the WGs first telecon
      • Resource list has been updated.
      • Use cases will be developed: including consideration of SoA and Grid approaches and async.
  • Any other business
    • Josh Lieberman described some recent enhancements to the Google Site
      • A calendar has been added with links to individual calendars.   Josh invited WG leaders to contact him about establishing a calender for their working groups.
      • Discussion that the WG pages on Google Sites is the singular point of activity for the WGs.  George suggested that we link directly to those pages versus the OGC Network pages for the WGs.  Josh and Erin suggest that would be best for now, but that we will want to migrate the Google Sites material to the OGC Network pages at the end of phase 2.  This should be reasonably easy as the Google sites are html.  Attention to the Google gadgets will need to be considered.
    • GEO-V plenary , November 19-20, Bucharest including Exhibits by Member governments and Participating Organizations
    • GEOSS Worksop, December 3-4 2008, Valencia Spain
    • Next AIP Telecon: 9 December  - will include  Community WG updates



Telecon 4 November 2008

There was a peak of 33 participants on the Web Ex for this session. 

Discussions

  • Kickoff Workshop Presentations
    • More than half of the kickoff slides have been posted on the kickoff session pages .
    • Session Leaders should check the pages to make sure the presenatations have been posted correctly.  They may also want to contact individuals whose presentations are not yet posted.
  • Recent CFP Response
    • A CFP Response from KDDI received and is now posted.  KDDI plans to contribute visualization components.  The Portals and Client Applications WG leader was notified.
  • AIP-2 Development
    • e-mail lists for WGs are established
      • After the telecon Preferences for the mailing lists were changed to allow list members to see the list of subscribers.
    • WG telecons : some times are agreed and the table has been updated.
      • WGs are free to choose the telecon service of your choice.  There is no requirement to use the GEO webex facility.  Use of the GEO webex facility is at the discretion of the GEO Secretariat.   A member of the Secretariat must host the session.  The Secretariat does not have sufficient resources to provide webex for all WGs.  When you definitely need the webex facility for a given telecon, you will need to contact Osamu to see if he is available to host the session.
      • WG Leaders with recommendations on telecon facilities are encouraged to send your recommendations to the WG Leaders mailing list.
    • Cross WG representation is about half complete.
      • There were no updates during the telecon.  WG leaders should continue to seek identify persons that are more than one WG that agree to serve as a connection betweent he WGS.
    • Community Scenarios and Transverse Technology Use Cases
      • The approach to Scenarios and Use Cases was introduced.  The connection between scenarios and use cases could be visualized as a matrix where the use cases support multiple scenarios.  Methods to link between the Scenarios and Use Cases can be consider using the Google Sites.
      • Josh Lieberman (e-mail) is an expert on how AIP-2 is using Google Sites.  Josh is fostering an Help Page for the AIP-2 Google Site.
      • It is anticipated that the development of Scenarios and Use Cases will be iterative.  Scenarios and Use Cases were developed for the AIP-2 CFP and can be the basis of this continuing evolution of the two things.
      • ACTION A Use Case Template will be developed this week by George Percivall.
    • Upcoming Milestones 
      • Community WG draft scenarios are needed by 7 November.   ACTION The Community WG Leaders should announce the availability of their scenarios to the AIP Plenary list.
      • Transvers Tech WG draft use cases are needed by 14 November.
    • AIP-2 Design Review , 2 December, Valencia
      • The draft agenda for the review/meeting was discussed.  George needs to adopt a consistent name for the event.  Currently both "Design Review" and "interim meeting" are being used.
      • Most of the agenda is dedicated to the WGs.  ACTION:  WG Leaders need to advise George if they will attend the Review so they can lead the session.
  • Community WG updates
    • Air Quality and Health
      • Stefan Falke provided an update on the progress of the WG by reveiwing the WG's Google Site.
      • Current work items include: scenario development, metadata development and community portals
      • The metadata discussion focused on Web Accessible Folder approach to making metadata records available to  be harvested.
    • Disasters
      • No WG leader was avaialble to lead this discussion.
    • Climate Change and Biodiversity
      • No WG leader was avaialble to lead this discussion.
      • There was discussion of the CC and Biodiversity Telecon from last Friday
      • There was discussion in last Fridays telecon that the WG is developing scenarios.
      • Need for models was discussed.  Glenn Rutledge indicated this is a topic that the Access WG will support.
    • Renewable Energy
      • Lionel Menard provided an update on the progress of the WG by reveiwing the WG's Google Site.
      • Current work items include metadata, wofkflow, portals
      • Lionel has been working with  ESA and Spacebel regarding the SSE community catalog for use with Energy.
      • Use of the Inspire Tool to generate metadata
      • Consideration of Web Accessible folders for metadata records to be harvested.
      • Workflow is neede to access several data sets and produce resulting product.  SSE workflow may be used.
      • Community Portal: Mines Paris has developed a community portal.  Also looking a liferay from another European Project.
      • Discussion if a catalog should recommend how often it should be harvested as part of the registration of the catalog in the GEOSS Registries.
  • Any other business
    • GEOSS Worskhop, December 3-4 2008, Valencia Spain
    • GEO-V plenary , November 19-20, Bucharest including Exhibits by Member governments and Participating Organizations
    • Next AIP Telecon:  Many people will be on holiday on 11 November.  Also there will not be a AIP telecon on 18 November as the GEO-V plenary will be on-going that week.  So it was decided that one telecon would be scheduled  later next week.
    • The Next AIP Telecon will be 13 November 1400 UTC  - will include  Transverse Technology WG updates
    • After the conclusion of the telecon, several persons experimented with the Voice over IP functionality provided by Webex.  After several tests and configuration changes, it was decided that the audio quality was not sufficient.  The seperate phone line approach will continue to be used.


Telecon 28 October 2008

There was a peak of 39 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

  • Kickoff Workshop Presentations
    • About half of the kickoff slides have been posted in the kickoff session pages .
    • Send your slides to George Percivall e-mail so they can get posted.   
  • AIP-2 Development
    • e-mail lists for WGs are established
      • Change the settings on the e-mail lists to allow anyone to post a message.  If there is inappropriate messages sent to the mailing list we will need to revisit the policy.
    • WG telecons: some times are agreed.
      • Nadine proposed that WGs hold their telecons every other week.  This will allow WGs to share a timeslot.
      • Nadine to send a message to the WG Leaders list begin this coordination.
      • George will create a spot on web pages to list all of the agreed to WG telecon times.
    • Cross WG representation is about a third complete
      • Gordon Plunkett agreed to be the cross representation between Disasters WG and Test Facility WG
      • ACTION: WG Leaders to promote cross-representation in their WG telecons and actions.
    • Upcoming Milestones -
      • Community WG draft scenarios are needed by 7 November.  This will allow the traverse WGs to understand the Community WG plans.  Traverse WGs will then begin to identify relevant services for the scenarios and reusable use cases for accessing the services. 
  • Transverse Technology WG updates
    • Test Facility 
      • Mauro provided an update by reviewing the WGs google site
      • Proxy views service testing endpoints have been posted on the WG google site.
      • Several of the testing tools have been registered in the GEO components registry.  Other participants are encouraged to register their components.
      • Doug Nebert described recent changes to the Component Registry in particular a list of component types has been expanded.
      • Discussion of how NOAA entries are seen in the US GOS clearinghouse and relation to GCMD.
    • Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata
      • Josh Lieberman provided an update by reviewing the WGs google site
      • Josh is using two Google site features for posts and lists.
      • A summary of the CCRM telecon from 23 October was provided.
      • There was interest expressed in connecting to ECHO.
    • Access Services: products, sensors, models
      • No report was provided.
      • Nadine attended a recent Access WG telecon and reported that they need scenarios from the Community WGs
    • Workflow and Alerts
      • Liping Di and Satoshi Sekiguchi reported that they are behind on getting the workflow WG up and running.
      • They plan to set up their Google Site page and plan to organize a WG telecon.
      • The workflow WG is also looking for guidance from the Community WG in terms of a scenario to drive the workflow development.
      • Doug Nebert mentioned the image processing workflow use case discussed at the Kickoff Workshop.
      • Bob Chen reported that Greg Yetman may not be able to continue as a WG Leader. Bob said that CIESIN was planning to have different person from CIESIN support the WG.
    • Portals and Application Clients
      • Nadine Alameh provided an update by reviewing the WGs google site
      • The WG's mailing list is becoming populated and more persons are adding themselves.
      • Nadine reviewed the WG telecon on 27 October.
      • The WG is yet to decide on a regular time and date for their telecon, but Wednesday is a candidate.
  • Any other business
    • GEOSS Worskhop, December 3-4 2008, Valencia Spain
      • Workshop at the Valencia Conference center is open to anyone but attendance is limited.  Several activities are occurring that week in conference center in addition to the GEOSS Workshop.    There will be an AIP-2 Design Review on the afternoon before the workshop.
    • GEO-V plenary , November 19-20, Bucharest including Exhibits by Member governments and Participating Organizations



Telecon 21 October 2008

  • Kickoff Workshop Presentations
    • It was agreed that we should collect the kickoff slides and post them to the kickoff agenda page.  George will send an message to the AIP Plenary list. 
  • AIP-2 Development Approach
    • e-mail lists for WGs are established
      • A message was sent to AIP Plenary with instructions on how to sign up
      • Currently the two WG lists from AIP-1 (Clearinghouse and the Portals and Clients) are set for the list archives to be open to the public.   The other lists set up recently for AIP-2 WGs have closed archives.  WG leaders should decide if they want to open their WG list archvies to the public.
      • The warning message for the OGC list server page is caused by OGC self-certifying their site.  An explanation and recommendation that the users should accept the OGC license will be added to the WG e-mail list page.
  • Cross WG topics
    • Cross WG representation table will be updated with the names supplied by during the telecon.  Also a message will be sent to the WG leaders requesting additional inputs to the table.
  • Community WG updates
    • Disasters
      • Suart Frye provided are report on the Disasters WG activities.
      • Stuart is inviting individuals from several groups to join the WG list: Caribbeian fllod team, CEOSS WGISS List maintained by Dan Mandl, Kickoff Workshop attendees.
      • The Disasters WG is planning for telecons at 8:30 EDT on Tuesdays.
      • Didier Giaccobo is devleoping a list of components that will contribute to the disaster scenarios.
      • Several regional sencarios are anticipated: Africa, Caribbean.
    • Climate Change and Biodiversity
      • Stefano Nativi provided a report of the CC&B WG activities by reviewing the CC&B Google Site
      • Work items and Resources on the Google site have been updated.
      • Stefano will send out messages to invite sign-ups to the WG list.
      • Doug Nebert commented that the topic of land use should be added.  Discusison was that this is related to protected areas.  Results of the AIP-1 work on protected areas would be relevant.
    • Renewable Energy
      • Lionel Menard provided a report of the Energy WG activities by reviewing the Energy Google Site
      • Lionel will send invitations for the WG lists
      • The WG Participants  and Resource pages have been updated
      • One of the resources is the CIESIN map server.  Discussion was that it would be good for the Access group to develop a list of "Base Map" servers that could be used by the multiple community WGs.
      • Energy WG will be working with Larry McGovern to further develop the Energy models.
      • Discussion about metadata for resources.   CCRM WG to review what the Energy WG is doing. 
        Agreed that a Web accessible directory containg XML metadata records would be an acceptable way for a service to post its metadata.  The service then registers the directory with the Servcice registry.  The Clearinghouse would then harvest the XML documents from the web accessible directory in order for the services to be discoverable in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure.
    • Air Quality and Health
      • Stefan Falke  provided a report of the AQ WG activities by reviewing a powerpoint presentation.
      • Stefan sending out messages to invite sign-ups to the WG list.
      • AQ is having a similar discussion about metadata and also examining the INSPIRE metadata tool
      • The Access WG is working with AQ to develop a list of use cases to support WG inter-collaboration.
  • Any other business
    • GEOSS Worskhop, December 3-4 2008, Valencia Spain  - All are invited to attend.
    • GEO-V plenary , November 19-20, Bucharest including Exhibits by Member governments and Participating Organizations



 Telecon: 14 October 2008

Discussions

  • AIP-2 Development Approach
    • Plenary e-mail list has been updated by sending a message to all CFP response contact points.
    • e-mail lists for WGs
      • All WG leaders asked OGC to host their WG list.
      • Once WG lists are established a message will be sent to AIP Plenary with instructions on how to sign up. Done .
    • Percivall took action to contact Ruth Duerr and Jay Pearlman regarding the connection of AIP-2 Reports and GEOSS Best Practice Registry.  AIP will document progress during the course of development.  Some of the resulting documentation may be suitable for posting to the Best Practices wiki. We may propose some documents to be GEOSS BPs after completion in March 2009
    • Agreement that  "Disasters WG" will be the name of that WG.
  • Cross WG topics
    • Definitions for GEOSS components drafted by the IOC Task Force were reviewed. The edited definitions have been provided back to the IOC Task Force.
    • This approach was discussed and agreed:  A GEO Web Portal provides access to all GEOSS resources, including all SBAs.  AIP will develop  GEOSS Community Web Portals for 4 communities: Natural Disasters, Biodiversity&Climate, Air Quality, Renewable Energy. These will be referred to as GCPs and not as SBA portals. 
    • Need for cross representations in the Working Groups.  A table has now been established to determine such cross-representation.
  • Transverse Technology WG updates
  • Any other business
    • Next Telecon: 21 October  - will provide update on: Community WG updates



 Telecon: 7 October 2008

Discussions

  • AIP-2 Development
    • Working Groups have been established.  An invitation to lead a WG was sent to leaders of the Kickoff meeting sessions.  Based on e-mails replies and discussions during this telecon, most of session leaders have agreed to lead the WGs.  A list of the  WG Leaders will be posted. Responsibilities of the WG Leaders are posted on the AIP Development page.
    • Milestones and Schedule was reviewed.  The table needs to be refined in order to reflect the discussion about wikis, engineering reports and best practices.
    • Engineering Reports were discussed as being a document developed in the AIP that would then be offered for consideration by the GEOSS Best practice Wiki process.  The Best Practice wiki allows for either posting the best practice content directly in the wiki or to describe the practice in the wiki and then to post a document that describes the practice.  AIP will need to discuss and decide on the approaches.  For example should the results of the AIP WGs be documented, e.g., pdf, and then posted to the GEOSS Best Practice Wiki or should the AIP-2 WG Wiki on Google Sites be used to create content directly in the GEOSS BP Wiki?  George Percivall will contact Ruth Duerr, Point of Contact for the GEOSS BP Wiki on these topics.
    • Wikis for collaboration:  It was agreed that the WGs will use two web sites to manage their activities. 
      1. WG page on OGC network will be a summary of the WG agreements, e.g., a dashboard.  One use for this WG page will be to present to the AIP Plenary telecon.  The WG leaders will be the editors of the OGC Network pages.  
      2. WG pages on Google Sites will be used for the dynamic disucssion of the WG.  Josh Lieberman will send a message to the AIP Plenary to gather names of those that will be editing the WG pages.  Anyone invovled in the WG can request an account to edit the Google Sites WG pages.
      • Both the OGC Network and the Google Sites pages will remain publically accessible. If there are problems we would consider limiting access.
      • We need to investigate the methods to transition for the WG pages to the GEOSS Best Practice wiki.
    • e-mail lists
      • For the AIP Plenary list.  All existing accounts on the aip plenary mailing list will be unchanged.  George Percivall will send a message to the point of contact for each CFP response indicating how they can add persons from their organizations to the AIP Plenary list.
      • WG lists.  Two of the WG lists from last year will be reused: Portals and Clearinghouse.  Other WG leaders can decide if they want OGC to create a new mailing list for their WG or if they want to use a seperate mail reflector.
    • WG Telecons will be arranged by the WG leaders.  On an occasional basis WG leaders can request use of the GEO webex by contacting Osamu Ochiai. 
  • SBA/CoP/Scenario WG updates
    • Disaster Response  - Stuart Frye provided an update on the Disaster Resonse session at the GEOSS in Americas workshop last week.  Additional interest in the Caribbean Flood Scenario was identified at the workshop.
    • Climate Change and Biodiversity - Doug Nebert provided a summary of discussion from the AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop, including discussion of the polar area of interest for this scenario.
    • Renewable Energy  - Lionel Menard provide an update on several activities from last week about getting Mines Paris activities underway and of conversation with Greg Yetman about CIESIN support of the SBA.
    • Air Quality and Health - David McCabe provided an update  on the AQ session at the GEOSS in Americas workshop last week including increasing interest in the pilot scenario.  Erin Robinson reported the results of an ESIP AQ telecon from last Friday, including disucssions about wikis and telecons for the WG.  The AIP-2 AQ WG anticipates weekly telecons at 11 am EST (US) on Mondays. 
  • Recent CFP Responses
    • GEONETCast - The summary paragraph for the GEONETCast response was reviewed including the opportunity for SBA WGs to identify how GEONETCast can be used to supply data for their scenarios.
  • Any other business


 Telecon: 30 September 2008

  • AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
    • Summary presentation
    • 85 persons attended over the two days
    • Plenary and parallel sessions
    • Discussion of SBA and Transverse Technology topics
    • Initial identification of Working Groups and Milestones for Development
    • Pictures are now provided from the workshop 
  • AIP-2 Development
    • Working Groups
      • Working Groups are formed from the Kickoff Sessions. George Percivall will send a message to the Sessions Chairs invting them to be WG Leaders.
    • Milestones
      • Need for ability to integrate WG schedules into an overall schedule.  This was discussed at the kickoff.  Erin Robinson suggests that perhaps keeping WG schedules on Google Groups would enable integration of the schedules using Yahoo Pipes.
      • Larry McGovern will provide an set of milestones for developing RM-ODP views as part of the development effort.  These milestones will be need to be integrated with the development milestones.
    • Communication mechanisms
      • General agreement on the hybrid Drupal/Wiki approach to the collaborative workspace for the WGs.  The Drupal base OGC Network would relatively stable compared with the Wiki-style based pages.   Two options for wiki-style pages have been suggested: ESIP Federation is offering to host any WG workspace; Google Groups is also avaiable.  Erin Robinson suggested that the OGC Network page contain an RSS feed from the wiki page.  The RSS feed would indicate recent changes to the wiki page, thereby providing an automatic dynamic portion to the Drupal page.  WG leaders would be responsible for the other content on the Drupal/OGC Network page.  Any Participant could contribute to the wiki-page. 
    • Best Practices
      • Suggestion is to use the GEOSS Best Practice as the method to document the artifacts of the AIP-2 development process.  Discussion that Best Practices are typically an after the fact document rather than a design document.  AIP-2 would need to define an Initial BP as the design document.  Final BP's would be developed at the end of the process and made a deliverable to the process to GEO.
  • Recent CFP Responses
    • Giovanni: contributing to the Air Quality and Health WG.
    • GEO Grid: providing ASTER data, workflow processing based upon Grid infrastructur, and access control approaches.
  • Any other business
    • Next Telecon: 7 October


 Telecon: 16 September 2008


 Telecon: 9 September 2008

Discussions
  • CFP Responses
    • Posting of Responses
      • 32 responses are now posted.  The VIEWS response was the most recent addition.
    • Analysis of responses
      • The topics discussed in the analysis will support development of the Kickoff agenda and the subsequent organization for work.
      • Various edits were made to the Analysis summaries for missing contributions and topics.
      • Discussion that Operational Exemplars is a desired outcome of AIP-2, while recognizing that some of the contributions are prototypes.  This is to be anticipated as the development of GEOSS SOA cannot be done with the existing operational systems.  So, AIP as a pilot points toward how operational systems can evolved to make the results of the pilot peristent.  The GEOSS Registry allows for a service to indicate the level of operational status as an attribute for the registered service metadata.
      • Discussion of how GEOSS Clearinghouse will interact with the Community Catalogues: distributed search and harvest are the two use cases.  The various Clearinghouse candidates offer different capabilities for this interaction.  The AIP-1 Impelmentation Report indicates that the Clearinghouse will need to support both distributed search and harvest.  This is because in part due to the policies of the community catalogues.
  • AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
    • 25-26 September, Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Location: NCAR Mesa Laboratory
    • With ADC-8 and other GEO Meetings
      • Stuart Frye mentioned that Disaster Response will be a topic of the WGISS meeting on Wednesday, 24 Sept.
    • Purpose of AIP Kickoff:
      • Meet other Participants in AIP
      • Refine architecture of Annex B based upon CFP responses
      • Plan AIP Phase 2 activities into 2009
    • Agenda - draft is listed at the bottom of the Kickoff page 
    • Registrations for kickoff: 66 registered as of 8 Sept.
  • Any other business
    • Next Telecon: 16 September 1300 UTC 
    • It was decided that another telecon is needed prior to the kickoff.  So we will meet on 16 Sept. 


Telecon: 2 September 2008

Discussions
  • CFP Responses
    • Posting of Responses  21 responses received as of 1 Sept.  Additional responses were mentioned on the telecon.  About 30-35 responses are anticipated in total.
    • Plan for developing summary of responses.  IP Team (Percivall, Nebert, Caumont, Lieberman, and Simonis) to develop a summary of the responses to support the Kickoff activities.
    • Invitation to anyone interested in supporting review and summarization of the responses.  Contact gpercivall@opengeospatial.org
    • Erin Robinson, Wash Univ - St Louis, suggested that the summaries are posted on-line as web resource, e.g., OGC Network or on a wiki.  There was general agreement that this was a good idea and that the pages could begin now and become work spaces for topics throughout the pilot development phase.  The IP Team will consider how to implement this suggestion.
    • Larry McGovern indicated that INCOSE will support the SBA sessions with briefing on how to do enterprise modeling.  These briefings will need to be staggered across the SBA sessions to allow Larry to be visit each group.
  • AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
    • 25-26 September, Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Location: NCAR Mesa Laboratory
    • With ADC-8 and other GEO Meetings
    • Registrations for kickoff: 53 registered as of 3 Sept.
    • Purpose of AIP Kickoff:
      • Meet other Participants in AIP
      • Refine architecture of Annex B based upon CFP responses
      • Plan AIP Phase 2 activities into 2009
    • Agenda - draft is listed at the bottom of the Kickoff page
  • Any other business
    • Next Telecon, 9 September 1300 UTC 


Telecon: Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Discussions
  • CFP activity
    • Clarification telecon, July 18 - telecon results
    • Posting of Responses - draft page
      • Let us know if you are preparing a response. 
      • Supports coordination before and after responses are posted.
    • MOTION: there was no objection to making the Responses page public
      • The CFP states that this is our plan.
  • AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
    • 25-26 September, Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Location: NCAR Mesa Laboratory
    • With ADC-8 and other GEO Meetings
    • Registrations for kickoff: currently 34 people
    • Purpose of AIP Kickoff:
      • Meet other Participants in AIP
      • Refine architecture of Annex B based upon CFP responses
      • Plan AIP Phase 2 activities into 2009
    • Agenda - draft is listed at the bottom of the Kickoff page
      • Comments that the Plenary should be longer lasting the entire morning of the 25th.
      • Need to have discussion of primary use case in the plenary: registration, discovery and invoking the services.
      • Virtual constellations should be discussed
      • Discuss of special arrangements is needed.
  • AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • CFP finalized: June 26
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: June 30
    • CFP Clarification Telecon: July 18
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: Sept 1
    • Kickoff workshop: 25-26 Sept in Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • AIP-2 results transition to operations: 1st quarter of 2009
  • Any other business
    • GEOSS in the Americas : 29  Sept to 3 Oct in Panama City
    • GML and JAXB for Energy Schema -
      • Question sent to AIP Plenary mailing list byy Lucien Wald
      • "We are using the libraries java/jboss implementing JAXB."
      • "When we include GML schema, (we need at least "PointType" and
        "BoundingBox"), the translation of specifications into Java skeleton
        fails. This happens for version 3.1.1 and 3.2.1."
      • Message forwarded to OGC GML DWG; Answer from Galdos, Inc. to L. Wald
      • This item is still open.
    • Next Telecon, 2 September 1300 UTC - no telecon on 26 August


Telecon: Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Discussions
  • Review of CFP Final Draft
    • AIP Phase 2 CFP Final draft
    • Main Body and Annex B have been updated to version 20080624
    • Final draft of the three volumes were reviewed; several actions were agreed.
    • MOTION: It was unanimously agreed that the CFP is compete after implementation of the actions.
    • ADC and GEO Secretariat reviews and announcements
  • AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
    • 25-26 September, Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Location: NCAR Mesa Laboratory
    • With ADC-8 and other GEO Meetings
    • Purpose of AIP Kickoff:
      • Meet other Participants in AIP
      • Refine architecture of Annex B based upon CFP responses
      • Plan AIP Phase 2 activities into 2009
  • AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • CFP Final Draft: June 20 - done
    • CFP web page finalized: June 25
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: June 25 - TBD
    • CFP Clarification Telecon: July 18
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: Sept 1
    • Kickoff workshop: 25-26 Sept in Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • AIP Phase 2 augmentation results: 2009
  • Any other business
    • GML and JAXB for Energy Schema - message to AIP Plenary
      • http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/aip_plenary/2008-June/000114.html
      • "We are using the libraries java/jboss implementing JAXB."
      • "When we include GML schema, (we need at least "PointType" and
        "BoundingBox"), the translation of specifications into Java skeleton
        fails. This happens for version 3.1.1 and 3.2.1."
      • Message forwarded to OGC GML DWG
    • Next Telecon, 15 July 1300 UTC


Telecon: Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Discussions
  • Review of CFP Initial Draft
    • AIP Phase 2 CFP Annex B Initial Draft posted 20080606
    • AIP Annex B working draft 20080617f
      • This version includes multiple inputs merged using MS Word Merge function.
      • It is messy but shows the things we need to discuss during the telecon.
      • Inputs merged from: Nebert, Walther, Albani, Lieberman
    • We had a very constructive telecon today to review the CFP. We got about half way through Annex B. Interested persons are encouraged to review the edits on the Computational, Engineering and Technology viewpoints and provide comments.
    • The version of the CFP Annex B - Architecture edited during the telecon is now posted:
  • The near term plan for CFP Development:
  • "Near-Final" version to be posted on Friday, June 20
  • Near-final CFP to include Main Body, Annex A and Annex B
  • - Near-final will be announced to the AIP Plenary and ADC Co-chairs
  • - Comments on near-final sent to Percivall will be incorporated before June 24 telecon.
  • - Aim to get final approval of CFP by AIP Plenary during telecon on Tuesday, June 24
  • - Inputs from JoshL, SteveB, DougN (registry class diagram) needed on Wednesday June 18th.
  • - George and Larry to discuss Enterprise models this week. Larry please suggest a time/date.
  • AIP Phase 2 Kickoff Workshop
    • 25-26 September, Boulder Colorado, USA
    • NCAR Mesa Laboratory
      • The Mesa Lab sits outside and overlooking the city of Boulder
      • Renting a car for your transportation is recommended.
      • Visitor Parking at Mesa Lab is limited so we will investigate car pooling.
    • Logistics being developed
    • Kickoff to be held just after the ADC-8 Meeting.
    • Purpose of AIP Kickoff:
      • Meet other Participants in AIP
      • Refine architecture of Annex B based upon CFP responses
      • Plan AIP Phase 2 activities into 2009
  • AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • CFP Rough Draft: May - Complete
    • CFP inputs due by end of May - 80%
    • CFP Initial Draft: 3 June - Complete
    • CFP Final Draft: June 20
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: June 25
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: Sept 1
    • Kickoff workshop: 25-26 Sept in Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results: 2009
  • Any other business
    • Next Telecon, 24 June 1300 UTC


Telecon: Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Discussions
  • ADC-7 Results
    • AR-07-02 Task presentation to ADC-7
      • Thanks to Doug Nebert, Larry McGovern, Herve´Caumont
    • Discussions
      • scope and overlap and interaction of the AIP, the IOC phase (year), and the proposed Task Force.
      • user requirements and best practices registries in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure
      • CFP to emphasize users ability to access services based upon registry search results.
      • CFP to emphasize application schemas for EO products
      • role of ebRIM for broader set of registered items: CRS, SLD, schemas
    • AIP Kickoff agreed to be on 25-26 Sept in Boulder Colorado, USA
      • Co-located with ADC-8
      • Logistics to be developed.
  • Update on GEOSS Common Infrastructure
  • Review of CFP Rough Draft
    • rough draft of CFP Annex B - Architecture
    • About half of the CFP inputs for sections have been received.
      • Thanks to those that have sent inputs. Others, please send yours today if possible
    • "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" - Samuel Johnson
  • AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • CFP Rough Draft: May - Complete
    • CFP inputs due by end of May - 50%
    • CFP Final Draft: early June
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: June
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: August
    • Kickoff workshop: 25-26 Sept in Boulder Colorado, USA
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results: 2009
  • Any other business
    • Next Telecon, 17 June 1300 UTC

 


Telecon: Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Discussion
  • Update on GEOSS Common Infrastructure
    • Letters have been sent to GCI inviting contributions for GCI components: ESRI, Compusult, ESA, FAO, IEEE, GMU
    • A group is being formed of 10 members to lead the GCI evaluation : 4 from ADC and 2 from each of the other committees.
    • Telecon later in May of the group will develop Terms of Reference for the evaluation group.
    • The evaluation will emphasis logistics and operations. The GCI evaluation will be separate from the AIP IOC Augmentation. GCI evaluation will focus on sustainable aspects. AIP is focus is on IOC augmentation and refinement of components in practice.
    • The AIP CFP will follow the GCI in showing an interface between the GEO Portal and the GEOSS Component Registry.
  • Review of CFP Outline and work plan for development
    • 20080512 version of plan.doc
    • Test Facility for Service Registration was discussed based upon results of the February workshop. It is anticiapted that it will be a distributed Test Facility with components contributed by multiple organizations. The facility may reuse components from the existing OGC Compliance Test facility. The GEOSS Test Facility will not be performing OGC compliance tests. OGC Compliance certification can only be achieved using the test facility hosted by OGC and its members. The GEOSS Test Facility purpose is to support registration of services in the GEOSS registry and to achieve interoperability in the operational GEOSS network. The GEOSS facility may also provide the status checking of operational services.
    • Criteria for persistent, operational services were discussed. A version of the criteria will be presented at the ADC meeting next week.
    • UIC/ADC Air Quality Scenario Workshop
      • Question about geographic region: has the geographic region for the scenarios been chosen? Discussion was that the scenarios should be written so that they could be applied to any geographic location. Geographic areas of interest for the demonstrations will be initially discussed at the Kickoff Workshop.
    • ACTION: George Percivall to draft an initial version of the CFP for 2008.
    • ACTION: lead editors for the sections of the CFP are to provide input to G. Percivall by the end of May.
  • Discussion of AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • several items affecting the schedule so the dates are not firm
    • CFP inputs due by end of May
    • CFP Inital Draft: May
    • CFP Final Draft: early June
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: June (TBR)
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: end of June or early July (TBR)
    • Kickoff workshop: 2 days in September (Boulder?)
      • There was discussion that September was a busy month and perhaps the kickoff should be moved to August.
      • Discussion was that perhaps the workshop should be in October to allow for more preparation to make the workshop effective.
      • There was comment that we do not want to make the Kickoff too late.
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results: 2009
  • GEO AR-07-02 Task Sheet
    • GEOSS Workshops as separate task
    • Comments on the existing task sheet were requested.
    • Task sheet update has now (16 May) been submitted to the GEO Secretariat.
  • ADC-7 meeting in Geneva, May 20 & 21
    • Presentation of AR-07-02 will be done by Doug Nebert, Herve´Caumont, and Larry McGovern.
    • George Percivall will prepare a presenation package with inputs from Doug, Herve´and Larry.
    • George will not be able to attend the ADC-7

 

 

 


Telecon: Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Discussion
  • Update on GEOSS Common Infrastructure
    • Not discussed as several persons were not available due to trouble with webex call in line
  • Review of CFP Outline and work plan for development
    • The CFP plan has been updated since last week:
    • Began discussion this week with the Engineering Viewpoint
      • The traceability between the various viewpoints of the CFP Architecture needs to be addressed. The RM-ODP standards has requirements for relations between viewpoints.
      • ACTION: need to have discussion about traceability between viewpoints at future telecon.
    • Sensor Web in Section 4 - Ingo Simonis presented his ideas for CFP
      • Stuart Frye commented about recent NASA-ESTO work that is relevant to Sensor Web. Stuart to check if the information can be sent to Ingo, George, Larry.
    • Inter-calibration: we have had confirmation that CEOS continues to work on this topic and we believe that Stephen Ungar will be able to contribute to the CFP but this is not confirmed.
    • Ingo suggested that we drop CORBA and COM from the service description methods and perhaps add J2EE. George commented that the list of service definition languages comes from the GEOSS 10 Year Plan Reference Document.
  • Discussion of AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • several items affecting the schedule so the dates are not firm
    • CFP Inital Draft: end of May (TBR)
    • CFP Final Draft: early June (TBR)
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: June (TBR)
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: end of June or early July (TBR)
    • Kickoff workshop: 2 days in September (Boulder?)
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results: 2009
  • GEO AR-07-02 Task Sheet
    • Task Sheet update due May 15th to the GEO Secretariat from each of the Task POCs
    • Send any comments to George (percivall@myogc.org) on the Current Task Sheet that was last updated Feb 2008
  • Any other business
    • ADC-7 meeting in Geneva, May 20 & 21: several people will be attending. George Percivall is not able to attend but will work with other members of the team to provide an update on AIP to the meeting.
    • Next Telecon, 13 May 1300 UTC - Note that the time was requested to be moved one hour earlier to de-conflict with other meetings.


2008 April 29 - Telecon

DATE: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC
Discussion
  • Update on GEOSS Common Infrastructure:
    • Invitation letter to portal candidates is under review by ExCom via e-mail.
    • Composition of team(s) to review portals and to guide operations is under discussion.
  • Review of CFP Outline and work plan for development
    • Add section on new registries, e.g., Best Practices
    • Scenarios to include UML model prepared by Larry McGovern with each scenario leader.
    • There is interest in drought, in particular expressed by several persons from the US. David Arctur (darctur@ogcii.org) continues to develop the water management scenario for purposes other than AIP at this time. Interested persons should contact David.
    • Intercalibration remains of high interest to CEOS with upcoming meetings on the topic. Ken McDonald offered to provide contact information to George Percivall.
    • Metadata for GEO is a continuing topic - coordinate with GEO Task DA-06-04.
  • Discussion of AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • CFP Final Draft: end of May (TBR)
    • CFP announcement by GEOSec: end of May (TBR)
    • CFP Responses for Kickoff due: end of June or early July (TBR)
    • Kickoff workshop: 2 days in September (Boulder?)
    • Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results: 2009
  • Any other business


2008 April 22 - Telecon

DATE: Tuesday,22 April 2008
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC
Discussion
  • Update on GEOSS Common Infrastructure:
    • ADC Co-Chairs e-mail regarding status of Testing plan
    • GEOSEC testing plan memo
    • ADC Co-Chairs response for testing plan memo
    • GEOSec to send letter to GEO-all announcing/reminding that the registries are on-line and available (Doug Nebert has provided draft letter.)
  • Themes to be considered in developing a CFP for OP1 Augmentation:
    • Support Common Infrastructure Establishment Process
      • Initial Operating Capability (IOC) now established
      • Operating Phase 1 (OP1) planned for one-year duration.
      • AIP outcome to augment the IOC
    • Confirm open process for AIP
      • AIP outcome to support SBA tasks in using IOC and architecture
      • Development process is iterative; Anyone can join at anytime
      • Retain structure within a phase; e.g. kickoff, integration
    • Continue UIC/ADC collaboration,
      • SBAs emphasis as initially identified in Cape Town
      • Continue collaboration from Architecture Workshop, Feb 08
      • Identify operational SBA functionality to support persistence
    • Emphasize operational persistence; "persistent exemplars" ;
      • Networks of operational services linked using the GEOSS ADC Architecture
      • Deliver augmentations to AR-07-01 - Operations
      • Demonstrating cross-application use: services used beyond their original purpose.
      • Doug reinforced the importance of operational persistence for OP1.
    • Build on work done in 2007
  • Lead editors for sections of CFP-2008
    • SBA Scenarios
      • Disaster Response: Guy Sequin
        • Stuart Frye commented about recent work by CEOS on this topic that will support Guy's input to the CFP.
      • Air Quality : John White
      • Biodiversity: Doug Muchoney, et.al.
      • Energy - Solar: Lionel Menard
      • Enterprise Modeling of scenarios: Larry McGovern
        • Discussion of the variable behavior of the Clearinghouse: distributed search vs. harvest in advance. Larry sees that the scenarios are identifying requirements. George P. commented about the trade study about the topic in the Architecture Implementation Report. Several people expressed previous experience with the topic.
        • ACTION: send any comments on the topic to Doug Nebert, Josh Lieberman, Larry McGovern. They will use the material for developing the CFP topics and direction.
        • There was discussion about how to use UML in RM-ODP. After the telecon Larry found an ISO standard for the topic: ISO ISO/IEC 19793 Use of UML for ODP system specifications. ISO 19793 will be used as a guide for use of UML in the CFP.
      • Template for Scenarios
    • Other Topics
      • Catalogs, registry: Doug Nebert, Josh Lieberman
        • Doug: Clearinghouse definition and behavior will be a signficant portion of AIP OP1 activities.
        • Discussion that Best Practice Registry and User Requirements are to be added to CFP architecture.
        • Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa: IEEE has responded to Best Practice Registry CFP and has begun to implement the registry.
      • Sensor Web: Ingo Simonis
        • Sensor Web work will be coordinated with GEO Sensor Web Task (POC: Terence van Zyl)
        • Outputs of GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop will be used in CFP.
      • Workflow: TBC
      • Inter-calibration: TBC
    • Other: Percivall and (Hervé Caumont ERDAS/OGC)
  • Discussion of AIP Milestones and Schedule
    • The milestones are defined but the dates are not.
    • CFP Release:
    • Responses to CFP due:
    • Kickoff workshop: 2 days in September (Boulder?)
    • Interim results at GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results: 2009
  • GEOSS Workshops
    • XXI-Air Quality and Health Jul 02, 2008 Beijing, China
    • XXII - Air Quality and coastal ecosystems (weather forecasting) Jul 06, 2008 Boston, MA, USA
    • XXIII - Science Modeling & Data Policy Sep 14, 2008 Quebec City, Canada
    • XXIV - Water Security and Ecosystems Oct 27, 2008 ACCRA Ghana
    • XXV - Architecture of GEOSS, 1 day in week of 1 Dec 2008 -Valencia, Spain
  • Any other business
    • Next AIP telecon: 29 April 1400 UTC (1300 UTC was considered but after discussion 1400 was retained.)
    • Request by Frank Lindsay to focus on scenarios next week; George -this will be happen as part of detailed CFP discussion next week.
    • Osamu: be sure that the CFP emphasizes the services support multiple SBAs; agreed.

 


2008 April 8 - Telecon

DATE: Tuesday, 8 April 2008
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC
Discussions
  • Update on GEOSS Common Infrastructure:
    • The GEOSS Common Infrastructure Process paper was presented to the GEO ExCom, March 26/27.
    • The ExCom agreed that an Initial Operation Capability (IOC) should begin on about 1 May 2008. This will mark the beginning of GEOSS Operations Phase 1 (OP1). During OP1 an evaluation will be conducted on the Common Infrastructure IOC with an emphasis on GEO Portal. A task force (separate from AR-07-02) will be established for the evaluation. Letter agreements with the 3 GEO Portal Providers will be developed.
    • The ExCom also discussed: a search interface to the Clearinghouse; open source or proprietary code as a criteria.
  • Open discussion of the activities of the AIP to support OP1
    • Ideas for the relationship of the AIP to the IOC were discussed. Initial thoughts are that the AIP would augment the IOC with additional services and architecture. During OP1 it is anticipated that the will be flexibility in the components that will allow further development, adaptation and refinement of the architecture developed for IOC. OP1 should be viewed as a phase in a long term process of development of all the components of the Common Infrastructure but also the other components and services of the architecture.
    • During OP1 it will be necessary to continue development and refinement of the search capability across the community catalogues. This work will need to consider the differing vocabulary and metadata schemas implying the need for a broker functionality perhaps using the workflow services.
    • The AIP Process will need to support convergence and consistency across the diversity of contributions from the many participants. Focusing on the Societal Benefit areas will aid this focus. Also the process of CFP, CFP responses and Kickoff workshop for OP1 will bring focus to common areas of development. Formation of Working groups for AIP/OP1 will be useful to aid this convergence.
    • There was general support for an emphasis on "persistent exemplars" ; networks of services based on operational services linked together using the GEOSS ADC Architecture developed in 2007. Contributions by GEO Members with persistent services will be key to this.
    • A plan for developing the Call for Participation was briefly discussed. The plan makes use of the CFP from 2007. G. Percivall is enlisting contributions to the CFP development, e.g., scenarios from the architecture workshop. The CFP will remain open for the entirity of OP1, while urging responses to the CPF in time for planning the Kickoff Workshop. Developing an Open Call for Participation in AIP-2008
  • Discussion of AIP Schedule
    • The milestones are defined but the dates are not.
    • CFP Release:
    • Responses to CFP due:
    • Kickoff workshop: 2 days
    • Interim results at GEO Plenary: November
    • Final OP1 augmentation results
  • Any other business
    • Next AIP telecon: 22 April

 


2008 February 12 - Telecon

DATE: Tuesday, 12 February 2008
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC

Discussions
  • Architecture Workshop Summary - February 3&4
    • Overall Agenda of Workshop
    • Presentations for nearly all sessions are now posted in the pages linked to the overall agenda.
    • Water Scenario was discussed in telecon: contact Session leader David Arctur (darctur@ogcii.org) if you are interested in contributing or participating in the Water Scenario
  • ADC-6 Meeting Summary - February 5&6
    • Task AR-07-02 presentation to ADC-6
    • GEOSS Common Infrastructure Establishment Process paper
      • Discussion of Version 0 of the paper as presented by Jose Achache at ADC-6
      • Presented a revised Figure 1 with "GEOSS Common Infrastructure" including GEO Portal, Clearinghouse, and Registries
      • Questions and comments raised in the telecon discussion:
        • How can comments by the Task team be submitted?
        • How might ESRI and Compusult participate independent of a member or a participating organization.
        • OGC's role is as point of contact for GEO Task AR-07-02.
        • GEO Secretariat is conducting the establishment process.
        • The Establishment process and Task AR-07-02 are GEO activities.
    • AIP Scenarios and process
      • During ADC-6 there was an emphasis requested that the AIP focus on operational or nearly -operational deployments of solutions, designed by those with the problem being solved.
      • The role of AIP is to work with members, participating organizations and other GEO tasks to enhance the operational systems use of the GEOSS architecture.
      • The workshop scenarios identified jointly by UIC and ADC will be refined to meet this objective.
      • Emphasis needs to be made that the AIP process is open; there has been a perception that no participants could join after the CFP last year - this was an incorrect perception.
  • Architecture Implementation Pilot Next steps
      • The Draft Schedule presented at ADC-6 will need to be revised once the establishment process matures
      • Table 1 in Section 5 of the process paper Version 0 shows the schedule
        • Providers established by July 1
        • Version 0 of components in place by end of 2008
    • Clarity on the process is anticipated to increase in March.
      • Review of process: C4 meeting Feb 18 & 19
      • Decision on process anticipated by ExCom 12 in March
    • CFP will need to be consistent with the Establishment process.
      • Therefore the CFP may be as early as April and as late as June
      • The kickoff may be as early as June and as late as September.
  • Any other business


2008 January 22 - Telecon

DATE: Tuesday, 22 January 2008
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC
Check your local time
WebEx logistics are provided below .

Actions from the Telecon
  • ACTION: All Session Leaders to develop draft scenarios before the workshop - Complete.
  • ACTION: All are invited to post or provide position papers on topics for the sessions - Complete.
  • ACTION: Revise agenda to deconflict Test Facility and Workflow sessions - Complete.
  • ACTION: Percivall to invite Els LeDrew to provide an UIC statement during the Opening Session - Complete.
  • ACTION: All to aid in completing and correcting the table on task coordination - Complete.
  • ACTION: Percivall to send Muchoney information about the Agriculture Monitoring scenario developers - Complete.
Discussion:
  • ADC meeting and Architecture Workshop Logistics
  • Architecture Workshop, Feb 4 and 5
  • ADC-6 meeting, Feb 6 and 7
  • Both hosted by EC/JRC, Ispra, Italy
  • Participants should have registered before 15 January 2008.
    • Approximately 40 people are registered, so parallel sessions should be about 10-15 people which is a good size.
    • Registration is now closed. You can still contribute by sending a position paper (see below)
  • Workshop Sessions
  • Agenda and session descriptions - draft:
    • ACTION: All Session Leaders to develop draft scenarios before the workshop
  • UIC/ADC Scenario sessions
    • Air Quality and Health: John White
      • Rudy Husar will contribute to development - see comment on session page.
    • Nautral Disaster Response: Guy Séguin
      • Previous dicussions with Guy and others have led to a generalization from "hurricanes" to "natural disasters"
      • Guy provided a position paper that is posted as a comment on the session page.
    • Energy - Solar: Lionel Menard
      • Lionel reviewed the scenario that is posted on the session page.
      • See new comment and position paper from Andrew Woolf on session page
    • Biodiversity: Douglas Muchoney, et. al.
      • Based on telecon earlier today, scenario will focus on "species modeling for protected areas."
      • IP3 Team will co-lead the session and will have posted plans for IP3 development - see comment on session page.
    • Water/Drought monitoring: David Arctur
      • David is contacting several persons to support development of scenario.
  • Intercalibration Scenario - Stephen Ungar
    • Stephen is developing scenario; will send link to CEOS working paper as background on the topic of intercalibration.
    • DA-06-02 "Data Quality Assurance Framework" was identified as the domain Task for coordination.
  • Implementation Sessions
    • Initial Operating Capability: Doug Nebert
    • Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries: Doug Nebert
    • User Portals and Applications: Ingo Simonis
    • Test Facility and Service Registration: Paul Smits
    • Sensors Interoperability: Ingo Simonis
    • Workflow: Pier Giorgio Marchetti
      • Workflow will assume a Persistent Test Bed for testing and extenstions
      • Grid processing will benefit the processing needs in the workflow session.
      • Pier Giorgio to provide papers for reference on the session page.
    • Request to hold the Test Facility and Workflow sessions at separate times.
      • ACTION: Revise agenda to deconflict Test Facility and Workflow sessions - Done.
  • Opening and Closing Plenaries
    • Opening Session updated to incorporate Portal/Clearinghouse discussion into Recap of 2007
    • ACTION: Percivall to invite Els LeDrew to provide an UIC statement during the Opening Session
    • Session Leaders will need to provide one or two powerpoint (or other) pages summarizing the results of the session. These will be used in the ADC-6 meeting on Wednesday. George P. will consolidate all session inputs. Session leaders will be invited to speak to the session summary in ADC-6 if they are able to attend, else identify an alternate, or George will summarize.
  • Josh Lieberman asked if there had been specific direction from the UIC or ADC for the workshop:
    • The Workshop accepts the Core Architecture Implementation Report as a baseline for the workshop. The report includes current status and next steps. The report was briefed to the ADC Co-chairs in November.
    • The UIC and ADC have committed to collaboration on specific topics. The scenarios in the workshop are a result of this UIC/ADC collaboration. It is the aim of the workshop to inspire coordination between the AI Pilot as a cross-cutting integration task with the relevant UIC domain Tasks.
  • ACTION: All to aid in completing and correcting the table on task coordination
  • ACTION: Percivall to send Muchoney information about the Agriculture Monitoring scenario developers.
  • Call for Position Papers
  • To prepare for productive sessions, we are seeking position papers (1 to 3 pages) on the topics of the sessions.
  • Add a comment to a Session page and include a link to your paper.
  • Or, send your position paper to George Percivall and it will be posted and linked to a session page
  • ACTION: All are invited to post or provide position papers on topics for the sessions.
  • Any other business
  • Future Telecon: 12 February 2008, 1400 UTC

 


2008 January 08 - Telecon

DATE: Tuesday, 8 January 2008
TIME: 14:00:00 UTC
Check you local time here:
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=8&year=2008&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

WebEx logistics are provided below.

*** Draft Agenda

* ADC meeting and Architecture Workshop Logistics

- Architecture Workshop, Feb 4 and 5
- ADC-6 meeting, Feb 6 and 7
- hosted by EC/JRC, Ispra, Italy
- see previous message to AIP_plenary for workshop announcement
https://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/private/aip_plenary/2007-December/000078.html
- Participants should register before 15 January 2008.
https://jrc-meeting-registration.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

* Workshop Sessions

- Agenda and session descriptions drafted:
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/347
- UIC/ADC Scenario sessions
- Air Quality and Health: Phil Dickerson
- Agriculture Monitoring:
- Hurricane Disaster Response:
- Energy - Solar: Lionel Menard
- Biodiversity:
- Water/Drought monitoring: David Arctur
- Intercalibration - Stephen Ungar
- Implementation Sessions
- Initial Operating Capability:
- Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries:
- Test Facility and Service Registration:
- Sensors Interoperability: co-led by GEO Sensor Web Task
- Opening and Closing Plenaries

* Call for Position Papers

- To prepare for productive sessions, we are seeking position papers (1 to 3 pages) on the topics of the sessions.
- Send your position paper to George Percivall and it will be posted and linked to a Workshop Session or add a comment to a Session page and include a link to your paper.

* Any other business
- EGU Conference: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/
sessions of the new ESSI (Earth and Space Science Informatics)
http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?m_id=49&p_id=323&PHPSESSID=1be1da0a5bcbdd9681929a727bc69eac

- IEEE IGARSS: http://www.igarss08.org/
Abstract Submission: http://www.igarss08.org/Papers.asp

- Next Telecon: 22 January - 1400 UTC

 


Previous Telecons

Telecons before 2008 were not listed in on this page


WebEx Logistics

Topic: AR-07-02 AIP telecon
Date: Every Tuesday, from Tuesday, April 22, 2008 to no end date
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Meeting Number: 705 531 081
Meeting Password: geoss0

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