Draft Agenda for the Breakout Session of the MPAR Working Group

Introduction

H. Ramapriyan, GSFC

Present state of metrics reporting

Feedback from HQ study managers/HQ perspective

Frank Lindsay

Present state of metrics collection web site (Phase 2 items)

COTS tools for automated web-based metrics' collection

Subgroups' status

Reuse portal presentation

HQ Review of Reuse Recommendations - discussion

Review of four reuse case studies

(20 minutes per case study - presentation plus discussion)

Guest speaker

Policy discussion

Adjourn

Wednesday June 15th, 2005

Introductions & Overview
- Charter, Process, & Instruction to Authors

RFC Review
with 30 min morning break and one hour lunch break
• DAP 2 - James Gallagher - 15 min
• GeoTIFF - Frank Warmerdam - 30 min
• NetCDF4 to HDF5 -- Bob McGrath - 30
• Level 2 Precipitation Product Technical Note - Michael Goodman - 15 min
• OGC WMS Proposed Standard - Sam Bacharach- 20 min
• Surface Reflectance Product Technical Note - Robert Wolfe - 15 min
• AURA HDF Guidelines Technical Note - Scott Lewicki - 15 min
• MLS Science Data Processing Software guidelines - Dave Cuddy - 20
• Vegetation classification -Denny Grossman - 20 min
• ECHO Technical Note - Robin Pfister - 20 min
• Cryospheric data products - Glenn Cunningham - 10 min
• GLIMS Geospatial Data Model for Glacier Analysis Data- Siri Jodha Khalsa - 10
min
• Others - Any potential from ESIPs and REASONs?

Process & Community Engagement discussion
with 30 min afternoon break
How is the Standards Process working for
• Grounds up community standards
• Technical Notes
• International Standards
Revisions to approved RFCs - how should we handle this?
How can we get better feedback during Implementation Review? From Operational
Review?
• Report back from SPG members on any notable community engagement activitie
• How to engage community from measurement systems/long term records vs mission
systems
• GEOSS role?

Work plan for next 12 months
• Community engagement
• More rfcs
• Working more closely with other ESDSWG groups
• Improving the Standards Process

Adjourn

Web Services Integration: Progress and Challenges
• Participants
o Rudy Husar: DataFed Air Quality Data & Services
o Oscar Castaneda: A Global Tropical Forest Information Center - TRFIC-2
o Brian Wilson: GENESIS-II: Data Fusion and Analysis for Multi-Sensor
Earth System Science
o Eric Malaret: Rapid Environmental Assessment Composition Tools
(REACT) and the WWW Information Processing Environment (WIPE)
o Robin Pfister: The EOS Clearing House (ECHO)
• Summary
o Web services provide a new way to deliver Earth science information.
This session will provide several case studies of implementing web
services to deliver Earth science information. The participants will
provide an overview of the Earth science data and web services they offer,
the challenges they faced integrating web services into their system, and
the benefits they have observed.
TIWG Breakout Session

Web Services Infusion Roadmap
• Participants
o All attendees, including participants from the morning web services
integration case studies.
• Summary
o Web services are subject to the “network effect”, where the value of the
technology increases geometrically with the number of participants who
have adopted the technology. This session will work to create a
“roadmap” for deploying web services. Consideration will be give to
infrastructure components that are needed to enable web services (e.g.,
service directories), reasonable timelines for deploying needed
capabilities, and NASA’s role in facilitating the deploying of this valuable
technology.

ECHO- A Case Study for Technology Infusion
• Participants
o Robin Pfister/Michael Burnett, Discussion Lead
o All attendees
• Summary
o ECHO is an excellent example of infusing a new technology into the Earth
science community. The ECHO team will lead a discussion of the various
barriers to infusion, both sociological and technical, using ECHO
experiences as a specific case study and inviting discussion by attendees
of related barriers and solutions from their experience.

Technology Infusion Recommendations
• Participants
o Rob Raskin, Discussion Lead
o All attendees
• Summary
o NASA is in a unique position to facilitate the infusion of key technologies
needed to reach the goals set out in the Earth science strategic plan. Based
on the discussions above, the group will formulate additional
recommendations on actions NASA can take to accelerate technology
infusion.

Adjourn