Seventh Monthly Telecon of the Task Team of GEO Task ST-09-02
August 29, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Minutes (Version 0.1 of 2011- 9- 1 20:44)
Participants:
Douglas Cripe,
GEO Secretariat
(Contributor, GEO Sec.)
Ian McCallum,
IIASA
(Contributor)
Hans-Peter Plag,
NBMG, University of Nevada, Reno
(ST-09-02 Co-Lead (IEEE) and Point of Contact)
Bente Lilja Bye,
BLB
(Contributor, EC - EGIDA)
Russell Lefevre,
University of North Dakota
(Contributor, IEEE Committee on Earth Observations)
Eva Sevillano,
UAB
(GeoViQua)
Agenda:
1
Acceptance of Agenda, Minutes of T6 (see
draft minutes
), and Action Items
(see
AI List
).
2
ST-09-02 Activities in Work Plan 2012-2015
3
Activity 2.1: GEOSS Data Citation Standard Version 2.0
V1.0 of the Citation Standard has been discussed at the 22nd meeting of the ExCom in July 2011. It was
requested that the Citation Standard is more aligned to what others are doing, in particular WCRP and ICSU.
A summary of relevant work by others with links to other draft citation standards and rules is available at
http://www.geo-tasks.org/st0902/citation_i.php
. We will
discuss how we can align the V2.0 to the work by the ESIP Federation Preservation and Stewardship Cluster, CODATA,
and others.
4
Activity 2.2: GEO Label
More details to be added soon.
5
Any other business
6
Date and Time of the next meeting and Monthly Telecons
ST-09-02 is organizing a meeting on Spetember 15, 2011 with two parts: part 1: GEOSS Citation Standard;
part 2: GEO Label
The next monthly telecon is proposed for September 26, 2011 at 13:00-14:00 UTC.
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Summary of Action Items
Notes:
1
Acceptance of Agenda, Minutes of T6 (see
draft minutes
), and Action Items
(see
AI List
).
The agenda was accepted as proposed. The status of the action items was briefly reviewed.
Concerning
Action Item
ST2-T5-2:
Bente Lilja Bye
will produce a review of existing geo-labels.
Responsible:
Bente Lilja Bye,
Deadline:
2011-07-31,
Hans-Peter Plag
reported that
Bente Lilja Bye
had provided a draft review, which would be integrated into
the GEO label document. He also reported that in following up
Action Item
ST2-T5-3:
Hans-Peter Plag
will provide further clarification of the discussion around Activity 4.3 at the STC-16 in Sydney.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-05-25,
progress was made towards a draft
document for distribution to the task team.
With respect to
Action Item
ST2-T3-1:
Hans-Peter Plag
will draft a letter from the GEO Secretariat Director to the IAU, which will invite IAU
for a dialog with GEO, potentially under the lead of the STC.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-04-15,
Douglas Cripe
and
Hans-Peter Plag
agreed to discuss the focus of the letter in more detail
during the GEO meetings in Salzburg.
Hans-Peter Plag
emphasized the importance of following up the action items
Action Item
ST2-T2-2:
Stuart Marsh
will follow up with Rob Koopman and Ian Jackson to ensure that a revised proposal for the
compelling example "OneGeology" is submitted.
Responsible:
Stuart Marsh,
Deadline:
2011-04-30,
Action Item
ST2-T1-1:
Russell Lefevre
will solicit a proposal of a compelling example for the GEOSS portfolio for Science and Technology
in the Energy SBA.
Responsible:
Russell Lefevre,
Deadline:
2011-01-15,
Action Item
ST2-T1-2:
Stuart Marsh
and
Hans-Peter Plag
will prepare a proposal of a compelling example for the GEOSS portfolio for Science and
Technology in the Disaster SBA.
Responsible:
Stuart Marsh,
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-01-15,
and
Action Item
ST2-M2-8:
Vojko Bratina
will invite an additional proposal for a compelling example.
Responsible:
Vojko Bratina,
Deadline:
2010-10-15.
Russell Lefevre
commented that he would follow up ST2-T1-1.
2
ST-09-02 Activities in Work Plan 2012-2015
Hans-Peter Plag
briefly pointed out that the ST-09-02 activities made it into one specific Task. He encouraged
the task team to continue to be active in this task.
3
Activity 2.1: GEOSS Data Citation Standard Version 2.0
Hans-Peter Plag
briefly summarized the status as it was reflected in
http://www.geo-tasks.org/st0902/citation_i.php
. He added
that in the meantime, the U.S. Academy of the Sciences also had formed a group to look at data citation. A
workshop was held on August 22-23, 2011 in Berkeley, Ca, and the output of the workshop was relevant for the
ST-09-02 progress towards a version 2 of the GEOSS Citation Standard.
Ian McCallum
asked whether GEO should continue
to work on a citation standard, or whether it would be better to just wait until the international groups
would agree on something.
Hans-Peter Plag
pointed out that the ExCOM consider a GEOSS standard important, but requested
that the standard would be aligned to the international development. Moreover, several leaders of international
groups had pointed out that a GEOSS standard could promote the issue and stimulate an international agreement.
There was consensus that the version 2 should be fully aligned to the work of several international groups, including
the ESIP Federation Preservation and Stewardship Cluster, CODATA, and the Academy of Sciences group.
Concerning the meeting on September 15, 2011, it was agreed that
Ian McCallum
and
Hans-Peter Plag
would invite the relevant people.
Action Item
ST2-T7-1:
Ian McCallum
and
Hans-Peter Plag
will send invitations to relevant people to attend the ST-09-02 meeting in
Salzburg.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Ian McCallum,
Deadline:
2011-09-02.
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Activity 2.2: GEO Label
Hans-Peter Plag
reported that
Bente Lilja Bye
had provided a draft review of many labels. He reiterated that the
discussion in GEO was somewhat polarized with some people and groups favoring a label based on
self-assessment of data providers, while other were more in favor of a label based on an external
assessment and potentially also the option of certification. The document under development would
provide a background for the latter position.
Eva Sevillano
introduced herself and informed that she joint the group in Barcelona working on the GEO label in
GEOViQua.
Concerning the meeting in Salzburg,
Hans-Peter Plag
reported that several GEO groups would be invited, including
those working on QA4EO (quality assurance for Earth observations).
5
Any other business
There was no other business
6
Date and Time of the next meeting and Monthly Telecons
ST-09-02 is organizing a meeting on September 15, 2011 with focus on the GEOSS Citation Standard;
and the GEO Label.
The next monthly telecon will take place on September 26, 2011 at 13:00-14:00 UTC.
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Summary of Action Items
Action Item
ST2-T7-1:
Ian McCallum
and
Hans-Peter Plag
will send invitations to relevant people to attend the ST-09-02 meeting in
Salzburg.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Ian McCallum,
Deadline:
2011-09-02.
Minutes prepared by
Hans-Peter Plag
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