LBA-DIS WG Meeting Agenda June 25, 2000

1)        Opening Remarks (Newcomer, Ballester)

• Review meeting agenda 

• Desired results from the meeting 

• Recording information and contributions to meeting report 

• Overview of recent activities

2)        South American Efforts (Ballester)

• Beija-flor system(s)

  • Plans (sites, metadata sharing)

  • Status and operational activities

• Data status

  • Data collected to date

  • Data that are and are not registered in Beija-flor

  • Data ready for public access

3)        European Efforts (Hoff)

• Use of ORNL and/or CPTEC Beija-flor system(s)

• EU Data Manager at CPTEC

  • Status

  • Work Efforts

• Data status

  • Data collected to date

    • CLAIRE, EUSTACH, Wet AMC

  • Data that are and are not registered in Beija-flor

    • CLAIRE, EUSTACH, Wet AMC

  • Data ready for public access

    • CLAIRE, EUSTACH, Wet AMC

4)        North American Efforts (Newcomer, Gentry, Nadler)

• Overview of LBA-Ecology system components (Nadler)

  • Beija-flor

  • LBA Metadata Editor and Documentation Tool

  • Science Team Information (STI)

• Beija-flor (Gentry)

  • Status/plans

  • Booklet

  • Demonstration(s)

• Data status (Gentry/Newcomer)

  • Data collected to date

  • Data that are and are not registered in Beija-flor

  • Data ready for public access

• Data status monitoring efforts (Gentry/Nadler)

5)     Beija-flor Operations and Maintenance Issues (Gentry/Nadler)

• Picklist generation and update at each site

• Sharing harvested metadata between sites

6)        Metadata Issue Discussion (Newcomer)

• Review current hierarchy

  • Category, Topic, Term, Variable

  • Review and discuss examples

• Detailed Variable Naming

• Measurement state information

• Measurement units

• Operational Quality Assurance

7)        Managing large data sets (Gentry)

• Aircraft and satellite Images

• Modeling data sets

• Registration

• Storage

• Distribution

• Quality Assurance

  • Metadata

  • Data

8)        Documentation Discussion (Newcomer/Gentry)

• Format and Content

•  Time frame/schedule for submission and review

9)        Review of overall data collection to archive process (Newcomer)

10)    Data and WWW-site Policy Issues and Operational Elements (All)

• Data

  • Is Brazil doing anything to monitor data policy compliance?

  • Does Brazil expect modules/components to monitor compliance and how?

  • Does Brazil want a regular reporting of data status?

  • What time period should be used to partition continuous data sets?
    

• WWW-sites

  • What components of the WWW pages does Brazil want to capture?

  • How frequently should the pages be captured?

  • Where should they be sent?

11)    Review of current LBA-DIS WG charter (All)

• Does it still apply?

• Are there parts that should be amended and how?

12)    Review of current DIS WG Chairpersons (All)

• Should there be changes to the elected officers or the officer structure?

13)    Review LBA-DIS WG operations (All)

• Should we be doing things differently?

• Are there things that would help if they were changed?

  • More regular communication with Brazilian participants

  • More regular participation by SSC representatives

  • Use of email distribution list for information dissemination

14)    Review of Science Conference posters to obtain data status information (All)

15)    WG Meeting report (All)

• Distribute to SSC

• Post on WWW-site

 

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