David:
I would be willing to be a co-convenor of a session on the
application of
OGC 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 TODAY
Thanks 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 of
you
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
last
year.
- Standards session - similar to the EGU session convened earlier
this
year
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
Fall
AGU meeting. It will be important to have at least one ESSI (Earth
and Space Science Informatics) session along the lines of what has
been 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
lines
and submit it.
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/session_proposals.php
But I encourage others to submit ESSI sessions as well.
-- Ben
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Building Interoperability Across the Geosciences
There are a number of critical stumbling blocks to overcome in
creating the geoinformatics component of the Cyberinfrastructure
for
the Sciences. These challenges include: agreement on common
standards,
vocabularies, and protocols; engagement in a vast number of
distributed data resources; practices for recognition of and
respect
of intellectual property; a simple data discovery system with
distributed and integrated catalogues; mechanisms to encourage
development 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
partnerships
that 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 National
Geoinformatics 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 in
informatics and building interoperability. Examples will include
the
kinds of dynamic and powerful science capabilities that can be
realized.
Standards-Based Interoperability Among Tools and Data Services in
the
Earth Sciences
Topics for this session include development of interoperable data
access, analysis and display systems based on evolving
international
standards. These are embodied by a variety of efforts
including: the
specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO and
community standards such as OPeNDAP, the netCDF Climate and
Forecast
Conventions, the standards adoption processes at NASA and NOAA, and
the 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 Interoperability
Experiment; and GEOSS Web Services Network (GWS). These
initiatives
are facilitating standards-based access to multi-dimensional Fluid
Earth Science (mainly the atmospheric and ocean sciences)
datasets by
employing and influencing the evolution of the emerging standards
such
as Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Catalog
Services for the Web (CS-W), and the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
suite
which includes the Sensor Observation Service (SOS).
Presentations and
demonstrations for this session are encouraged for interoperability
efforts in addition to those mentioned here. If possible, there
will
be a special electronic poster area set up for live, online
demonstrations of these interoperability technologies.
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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 in
the Geosciences using OGC Standards”. I went to several
sessions on
informatics at EGU Vienna and there was a lot of interesting stuff
presented
but the most interesting session was one that was not at first in
the
formal
program – a “splinter session” that Stefano and George Percivall
of OGC
organized informally that had a series of presentations about use
of OGC
standards in various geosciences domains. The difference
between this
and
the other informatics sessions was the session had an
intellectual spine
and
a consistent methodology while what I heard in other sessions was a
collection 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 to
emerge here in Europe. I was VERY impressed by the work
presented by Jon
Blower of the Reading e-Science Center about the use of THREDDS
by the UK
Met Office. Sounds like you have a great engagement with them.
I am in
Geneva with Ilya Zaslavsky now and will meet to today with people
from the
WMO about the OGC/WMO working group in hydrology. It’s a meet
and greet
session to get to know one another.
David
From: bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
Ben
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 I
contacted the AGU about publishing ESSI presentations in an
electronic
form.
There was interest and a few questions from their electronic
journals
person. 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.
-- Ben
On 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
something
similar from this meeting.
Thanks for your leadership of EGU-ESSI. I was very enlightened
by our
session on OGC services yesterday. We should do something similar
for AGU
in
San Francisco in December.
I agree that OGC standards are the way to go to achieve
interoperability
in
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
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