Hi Erin,
Thanks for the quick reply. The ESIP Federation hosting facilities sound
like they could be an ideal venue for these discussions on topics that
cross community boundaries. I am taking the liberty of sending this email
exchange to a few groups that might have thoughts on it. In particular,
the suggestion came up in the OGC CF-netCDF Standards Working Group, so I'm
sending them a copy along with the old GALEON mail list which at one time
was used for this sort of cross-community interaction. And I'm going to
ask the Unidata Technical Staff for their take on it too.
The topic that spurred our looking into ESIP Fed as a kind of "neutral"
venue was a discussion of conventions for carrying uncertainty information
in netCDF (and ncISO) objects, but it might also be a good place for
conversations among the groups working on data models for CF. I'd like to
get some feedback from these folks before the CF-netCDF SWG session at the
OGC Technical Committee meetings next month.
Thanks again,
-- Ben
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Erin Robinson <erinrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hey Ben -
>
> Sounds like ESIP would be a great place for this conversation and it is
> absolutely open for your use.
>
> There are a few places that you might be able to expand from - Rob Raskin
> had started a CF cluster with a list
> esip-cf<http://www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-cf>.
> Ted Habermann and Ed Armstrong (I've cc'd them here) have expanded the CF
> group to broaden to documentation, but the group has still focused some of
> it's activity on CF topics. Here is the ESIP category with much of the CF
> Convention
> work<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Climate_Forecast_Conventions>.
> Here is a link to the documentation cluster
> too<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Cluster>. We
> also have had some data quality activities, but nothing recent. There is a
> info
> quality cluster <http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Information_Quality>that
> has a
> list-serv <http://www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-infoquality>too.
>
> If your topic is separate from either of these areas, let me know and we
> can spin up another list-serv to cover the need. On the wiki, I think you
> have an account, so you can create pages - each page comes with a
> discussion page (threaded forum). I'm happy to help you get content on the
> wiki and create a space that makes sense for your group.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Erin
>
> *Erin Robinson*
> Information and Virtual Community Director
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> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Ben Domenico <bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi Erin,
>>
>> One of the topics that came up in the OGC CF-netCDF Standards Working
>> Group is the possible use of the ESIP Federation wiki and a mailing list
>> for discussion topics that need an airing beyond the OGC membership. One
>> such topic is a proposed set of conventions for embedding uncertainty
>> information into netCDF. We want to make sure we have a discussion in a
>> broad community. If it would be possible to use the ESIP Fed facilities,
>> how would I go about making the arrangements?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- Ben
>>
>
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