SIF TeleconMarch 9, 2012

Agenda• Discussion of SIR taxonomy changes

– Review of letter to SIF for SIR contributions• 2012 Plans

– UNEP Live update– GEOSur update– WMO invitation– Etc.

• Interoperability Assessment work• 2011 Interoperability Workshop Report• AOB

Taxonomy Changes• In reviewing the updated Component and Service Registry pick list

options, I noticed that the classification and list of the standards is in need of review and revision with an eye towards simplicity. I have the following recommendations for clean-up:

Several entries have no classification 'leaves' in the CSR and therefore cannot be associated with anything.

– Data Acquisition– Development Environments and Software Languages– Modeling, Simulation, or Analytic Processing Service– Archival

• While there may be merit to some of these, they are less useful with no standards (leaves) under them. I would suggest that either some effort be made to add one or more standards/ arrangements or to drop/re-group these stubs.

Taxonomy Changes• "Data Transformation Services" and "Modeling, Simulation, or Analytic

Processing Service" Case in point would be OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) as an example standard for the processing service, but then again this is a data transformation service. Drop/Merge these two categoriesinto a new "Transformation, Modeling, and Processing Services" and add WPS and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) as new candidate standards.

• Schema and Semantics not only sound like they mean the same thing, they have each similar content. These should be merged into "Community Data Schema". GeoSciML is under Data Format and Schema. It should be in one or the other.

• In fact, the Data Format entries should be reviewed as to whether they are truly multi-disciplinary formats or are community-specific. WaterML shows up twice in Semantics, too, but should be in the Community Schema. SKOS and OWL should be under Data Formats, if Semantics is redistributed to "Community Data Schema" and "Data Formats.“

Taxonomy Changes• "Technical Documentation" should be dropped. Its sole

entry "REST" should be moved to Data Access for that it is what it will be used for in GEO.

• ISWG-TEST-ENTRY-TITLE-007 should be removed from "Metadata" and "Engineering Process." This leaves Engineering Process without any standards. Drop Engineering Process or merge with Quality Assurance to create a new category "Process and Quality Specifications“

• HTTP version 1.1 has three entries under Comm and Telecom. Merge these.

2012 SIF Plans• AIP-5

– SB – [ACTION] I will work with MW over next couple weeks to help with this. Will see if AIP5 could be a vehicle for this. There’s 3 weeks remaining before the AIP5 CFP will be released. It’s already a busy program, but it’s possible this could still fit if it’s bringing additional resources.

• CFP Response• Work Plan

– Tutorials• Will continue with AIP-5• SIF will still manage• Need participants• Need to finish off two tutorials• Need to write a new one for discovery and access

– Data licensing, user registration and SSO, data use metrics

2012 SIF Plans• Interoperability Assessment Whitepaper

– Still needs wrapping up for initial release– Will it evolve in 2012 ???

• Community outreach• SIR reviews (we need to finish this)

– Discuss Paul Eglitis’ idea• Interoperability gaps

Interoperability Workshop Report

• Recording review• Write report• Publish report

AOB• Next meeting (2012-MAR-23)