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John, I was wondering about the overlap with yours as well, but think yours will probably draw the marine folks more than ours will.
Peter, what about the town hall? There were a lot of those last year: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/index.php/Events/TownHall What's involved in setting one up? Deadlines?Would anyone on IN19 be interested in a town hall meeting on the use of standards in geosciences research? Or one on marine data management? Or...?
dka -- On Jun 12, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Peter Fox wrote: John, discussion forum: town hall is the recognized method.You can have a BOF during lunch times but it does not get on the program.
We do have a good email list to announce such meetings to. Please let me know what I can do to assist. Regards, ---Peter. On 12/06/2009, at 5:34 PM, John Graybeal wrote:
Ben,Thanks for this. I wonder if there is any way to heighten the distinction between this session and IN15 (I'm one of the co-chairs there), copied below for info. Although the words are quite different a lot of the essence overlaps. Your focus is clearly more on standards, so that's suggestive.Of course, this sort of thing is inevitable, so it won't bother me much if they go in as written.By the way, we've been discussing how to create an actual discussion forum at AGU. So far as I know, there is no way to set up any such activity, short of a townhall or meeting at some other venue. I'd be interested in your feedback.Thanks for your thoughts, here's the IN15 item:Strategies for Improved Marine and Synergistic Data Access and InteroperabilityMindful of the growing number of ecological research data systems, data management efforts and underlying ontologies, this special session will focus on solutions to, and strategies for, accessing marine and synergistic data across multiple collections, platforms, systems, and standards. The effective integration of data retrieved from distributed sources depends upon negotiated arrangements of science domain concepts, metadata frameworks, and community engagement. We will hear about arrangements of these components for managing field data and the lessons learned from different strategies. This session represents an opportunity for the marine and related data management communities to draw together our diverse data management experiences and learn from our collective research efforts and associated community developments.John On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Ben Domenico wrote:Hi all, Based on valuable feedback to my earlier message, I have submitted a placeholder session. I believe we can update it if needed, but I want to get something in before the deadline. What I submitted is pretty general, so please consider submitting additional sessions if you think more specific topic areas are needed. I'll include my draft which turns out to be session IN19 below..http://submissions3.agu.org/specialsession/sessionlist.asp? sectionid=6Many thanks for the quick responses. -- Ben ========================= Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research via Interoperable Data Systems Based on International Geospatial Standards for Earth and Space SciencesWithin the general realm of the Earth sciences, research and educationinitiatives are increasingly focusing on the challenging topics and the boundaries of the traditional disciplines. Stovepipe data systems have been an impediment to such integrated studies in the geosciences. Hence standards-based interoperability among data systems greatly facilitates progress in these important multi-disciplinary research fields. As a consequence, several groups in the Earth and space sciences are implementing international open standards for discovery, access and processing of geospatial information. These standards provide for interoperability well tuned to the Earth and space sciences, because members of the same community developed the standards. This session will show some of the latest advances in implementing open standards for access to sensor data, processing of the data suitable for a specific decision or research context, and presentation of the information to the various communities ranging from researchers, policy makers and general public. Discussion by the session participants will result in additional feedback to the standards bodies (OGC, ISO, as well as the community standards groups in theindividual disciplines) to further advance the standards applicabilityto Earth and space sciences. ===============================================================On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, David Arctur<darctur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:Ben, have a look at the link George included for the EGU session details:http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/525The EGU session was particularly significant from the breadth of geosciences fields represented. However, I agree with your OGC+ perspective, and would like to encourage ISO, CUAHSI and other community standards groups to submit papers as well. If you've already got your title and description along the lines you just mentioned, I'd like to suggest that David M, Stefano and Ico-convene this with you. How does that sound to David M and Stefano? best, dka -- On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Ben Domenico wrote: Hi again, The question that comes up for me is whether we want multiple standards-based interoperability sessions. My idea was to propose one session that was more or less a combination of the twodescriptions I sent out in the original email of this thread. Many ofthe ideas that have come up in the subsequent emails sound pretty similar. (I don't recall the details of the EGU session description offhand.)In terms of what I had in mind, one possible distinction would be that what I would propose would not be confined to OGC standards but wouldalso embrace ISO and community standards such as the CUAHSI ODM, Unidata netCDF CF, and OPeNDAP which originated in the oceans community ... and so forth. But my tendency seems to be to combinethings rather than break them into parts. Bottom line for me is that,if others are going to propose a general standards-basedinteroperability session, that's great and I will participate in thatand will not propose a separate one. Let me know. -- Ben On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Maidment, David R<maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:David:I would be willing to be a co-convenor of a session on the application ofOGC standards like the one that Stefano and George organized as a “splinter session” in Vienna. David From: David Arctur [mailto:darctur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:29 PM To: George Percivall Cc: Ben Domenico; Maidment, David R; Stefano Nativi Subject: Re: AGU ESSI session submission deadline TODAYThanks George. I've submitted IN14 for data fusion, but would like a co-convener for a session like the one on standards at EGU. Would any ofyou be interested? -- David Arctur +1(512)771-1434 Sent from my PDA On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:15 PM, George Percivall <gpercivall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ben, all, David Arctur will be attending AGU for OGC this year. David is submitting two sessions propsoals:- Fusion session - similar to the one convened by Fox and Arctur lastyear.- Standards session - similar to the EGU session convened earlier thisyear by Nativi and Percivall http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/525 He is traveling today and may respond a bit later. George On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Ben Domenico wrote: Hello all,It turns out today is the deadline for proposing sessions for the FallAGU meeting. It will be important to have at least one ESSI (Earth and Space Science Informatics) session along the lines of what hasbeen done in the past. From the last two AGU meetings, I've dug out two session descriptions that could serve as a model. If I don't hear from anyone else soon, I'll put something together along these linesand submit it. http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/session_proposals.php But I encourage others to submit ESSI sessions as well. -- Ben ================================================ Building Interoperability Across the Geosciences There are a number of critical stumbling blocks to overcome increating the geoinformatics component of the Cyberinfrastructure for the Sciences. These challenges include: agreement on common standards,vocabularies, and protocols; engagement in a vast number ofdistributed data resources; practices for recognition of and respectof intellectual property; a simple data discovery system with distributed and integrated catalogues; mechanisms to encouragedevelopment of web sevice tools for analysis; and business models for continuing maintenance and evolution of information. This session will showcase the national and international initiatives and partnershipsthat are successfully overcoming these challenges and starting to achieve interoperability across geoscience domains. These efforts include organized systems and networks such as the Geosciences Information Network,OneGeology, GeoSciNet,and the NationalGeoinformatics System, as well as use of standards such as GeoSciML,WaterML, OGC and a number of others. Presentations will discuss progress to date, philosophies, and solutions to problems ininformatics and building interoperability. Examples will include thekinds of dynamic and powerful science capabilities that can be realized.Standards-Based Interoperability Among Tools and Data Services in theEarth Sciences Topics for this session include development of interoperable dataaccess, analysis and display systems based on evolving international standards. These are embodied by a variety of efforts including: thespecifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO andcommunity standards such as OPeNDAP, the netCDF Climate and ForecastConventions, the standards adoption processes at NASA and NOAA, andthe Observations Data Model of the hydrology community. Examples of concerted efforts to develop demonstrations of these interoperability technologies include: Geo-interface to Atmosphere, Land, Environment,Ocean; netCDF (GALEON); the Ocean Sciences InteroperabilityExperiment; and GEOSS Web Services Network (GWS). These initiativesare facilitating standards-based access to multi-dimensional FluidEarth Science (mainly the atmospheric and ocean sciences) datasets by employing and influencing the evolution of the emerging standards suchas Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service (WFS), CatalogServices for the Web (CS-W), and the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite which includes the Sensor Observation Service (SOS). Presentations anddemonstrations for this session are encouraged for interoperabilityefforts in addition to those mentioned here. If possible, there willbe a special electronic poster area set up for live, online demonstrations of these interoperability technologies. ================================================On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM, David Maidment<maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >wrote: Ben:We should definitely do a session at Fall AGU on “Data Interoperability inthe Geosciences using OGC Standards”. I went to several sessions oninformatics at EGU Vienna and there was a lot of interesting stuff presentedbut the most interesting session was one that was not at first in theformalprogram – a “splinter session” that Stefano and George Percivall of OGCorganized informally that had a series of presentations about use of OGCstandards in various geosciences domains. The difference between thisandthe other informatics sessions was the session had an intellectual spineand a consistent methodology while what I heard in other sessions was acollection of neat stuff without a lot of common patterns. I have to say,though, that netCDF and THREDDS is a common pattern that is starting toemerge here in Europe. I was VERY impressed by the work presented by JonBlower of the Reading e-Science Center about the use of THREDDS by the UKMet Office. Sounds like you have a great engagement with them. I am inGeneva with Ilya Zaslavsky now and will meet to today with people from theWMO about the OGC/WMO working group in hydrology. It’s a meet and greetsession to get to know one another. DavidFrom: bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf OfBen Domenico Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:01 PM To: David Maidment Cc: Stefano Nativi; George Percivall Subject: Re: Digital Earth Hi David, Stefano and George,I'm pleased that the EGU sessions have gone well. A month or two ago Icontacted the AGU about publishing ESSI presentations in an electronicform.There was interest and a few questions from their electronic journalsperson. But I have not heard back from them since I answered their questions. This is a good reminder to me to pester them about it once more.Wish I were there. Because the Europeans are so committed to standards,the EGU is a great meeting for such discussions. -- BenOn Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:12 AM, David Maidment <maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >wrote: Stefano:Your issue of Digital Earth is cool. It would be good to do somethingsimilar from this meeting.Thanks for your leadership of EGU-ESSI. I was very enlightened by oursession on OGC services yesterday. We should do something similar for AGUin San Francisco in December.I agree that OGC standards are the way to go to achieve interoperabilityin the GeoSciences. David David R. Maidment Director, Center for Research in Water Resources University of Texas Austin Tx 78712 Tel: (512) 471-0065 Email: maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx George Percivall Open Geospatial Consortium http://www.opengeospatial.org/ E-mail: percivall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice: +1-301-560-6439 ****************************************************************************This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. 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