Fifth Telecon of the Task Team of GEO Task ID-03

Telecon
July 2, 2012, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC

Minutes (Version 0.1 of 2012- 7-30 5:12)

Participants:

Hans-Peter Plag, NBMG, University of Nevada, Reno (Task Co-Lead (IEEE) and Point of Contact)
Douglas Cripe, GEO Secretariat (Contributor, GEO Sec.)
Ian McCallum, IIASA (Co-Lead, EGIDA Project and EC)
Anna Riverola, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Contributor, GeoViqua)
Massimo Menenti, CEOP-AEGIS (Co-Lead, EC, CEOP-AEGIS)

Agenda:

1 Acceptance of the Agenda, Minutes of T4, Action Items

2 Reports from Task Team members

3 ID-03 and Strategic Targets
A report on the relation of ID-03 and the GEOSS Strategic Targets has been prepared for the ID-IB, which used the report for a report to the ExCom. The URR has been used to visualize the links between ID-03 and the Targets. This revealed that most "to be achieved through" bullets of the Science and Technology Strategic Target are not addressed by ID-03. See the report and the draft ID-IB methodology .

4 The GEOSS Science and Technology Service Suite (GSTSS)
An initial page for the GSTSS has been established at http://www.gstss.org . The menu will be discussed. For a description of the GSTSS, see the abstract for ICHMET.

5 Any other business

6 Date and Time of the next ID-03 Monthly Telecon
It is proposed to organize the next ID-03 telecon on August 6, 2012.

7 Summary of Action Items

Notes:

1 Acceptance of the Agenda, Minutes of T4, Action Items

Hans-Peter Plag opened the meeting. The agenda was accepted as proposed. There were no comments on the minutes of T4.

The Action Items were briefly reviewed. Concerning

Action Item ID03-T4-1: Douglas Cripe will investigate whether additional options can be made available for the status of a Task activity in the Task Sheet. The new options should include 'suspended'. Responsible: Douglas Cripe, Deadline: 2012-06-30,

Douglas Cripe reported that these additional option can be implemente

Hans-Peter Plag reported that noone followed up

Action Item ID03-T4-2: All Task Team members will provide their personal prioritization of Task Activities to Hans-Peter Plag, who will prepare an aggregated overview over the prioritizations. Responsible: All, Deadline: 2012-06-30.

Ian McCallum stated that work related to

Action Item ID03-M1-1: Ian McCallum will prepare a draft description of the Best Practice in data citation and distribute it to the Task team for comments. Responsible: Ian McCallum, Deadline: 2012-05-31,

Action Item ID03-M1-2: Ian McCallum will prepare a draft text on data citation for the GEOSS Web Portal and distribute it to the Task team for comments. Responsible: Ian McCallum, Deadline: 2012-05-31,

Action Item ID03-M1-4: Ian McCallum and Hans-Peter Plag will prepare Version 2 of the Data Citation Standard and address the issues identified by ICSU-CODATA. Responsible: Ian McCallum, Hans-Peter Plag, Deadline: 2012-06-30,

was delayed but would be followed up in the next weeks. Similarly, Hans-Peter Plag reported a delay for

Action Item ID03-M1-5: Hans-Peter Plag will prepare a draft GEO label concept and implementation plan and distribute it to the Task team for discussion. Responsible: Hans-Peter Plag, Deadline: 2012-05-31.

Concerning

Action Item ID03-M1-8: Hans-Peter Plag will write to all SB Task leads and ask for considerations to submit proposals for compelling examples to ID-03. Responsible: Hans-Peter Plag, Deadline: 2012-05-31,

Hans-Peter Plag mentioned that a new proposal had been submitted but emphasized that more proposals were needed.

2 Reports from Task Team members

No additional reports were made.

3 ID-03 and Strategic Targets

A brief report on the relation of ID-03 and the GEOSS Strategic Targets had been prepared for the ID-IB, which was included in the report if the ID-IB to the ExCom. The URR has been used to visualize the links between ID-03 and the Targets. This revealed that most "to be achieved through" bullets of the Science and Technology Strategic Target are not addressed by ID-03. See the report and the draft ID-IB methodology .

After some discussion, it was concluded that the science review of the GEO Work Plan was an important activity. This resulted in:

Action Item ID03-T5-1: Hans-Peter Plag will ask the ID-IB about options concerning a science review of the GEO Work Plan. Responsible: Hans-Peter Plag, Deadline: 2012-09-10.

4 The GEOSS Science and Technology Service Suite (GSTSS)

Hans-Peter Plag introduced the GSTSS and mentioned that an initial page for the GSTSS has been established at http://www.gstss.org . The menu was briefly discussed. A description of the GSTSS is given in the abstract for ICHMET. After a breif discussion, the following AIs were agreed:

Action Item ID03-T5-2: All will send comments to Hans-Peter Plag on the initial web page for the GSTSS available at http://www.gstss.org Responsible: All, Deadline: 2012-08-01.

Action Item ID03-T5-3: Douglas Cripe will talk to Rick in the GEO Sec about the GSTSS. Responsible: Douglas Cripe, Deadline: 2012-08-01.

5 Any other business

Douglas Cripe reported that the transition to the new director of the GEO Secretariat is going well.

6 Date and Time of the next ID-03 Monthly Telecon

It was agreed to hold the next ID-03 telecon on August 6, 2012.