September 5th, 2018

• Aurelian Constantinescu
• Andy Hoggarth
• Maria Muradori
• Trevor Taylor
• Cameron Wilson
• Yanmei Wu

• Bradford Dean
• Tom Landry

• Update on previous actions
• Comments on the mini-plan boilerplate created by YW; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t8kavsRNKaDUEq9NzW_DzVTt5TXftqkVbsCCA-hfosM/edit
• Geomatics standards update for Government of Canada Treasury Board and consultation process

• MM Provided an update on CCOG/Canada SDI Summit

  • TT to attend and speak on behalf of the forum Oct 1-3rd, White Horse - “why do we want Interop?Issues-based ( fires, floods, oceans, north and remote communities, climate change, etc )
  • Oct 1st - ESRI hosted Social Event
  • Oct 2nd - SDI Summit - outcomes - “the three-tier square” - Collect information on f Canadian spatial Data Value chain ( e.g.data, interop, standards, apps, policy)

• • Oct 3rd *am – Present to CCOG AGM (0830-1000) - 5 yr Strat plan - deliver expanded perspective to assist in planning

• AH to work with his staff and Geomatics Atlantic organisers to introduce the Canada Forum

  • Ted Mckinnon open to the concept, awaiting an additional response

• GeoAlberta 2018 and the possibility of Canada Forum Activity
  • Scott’s McHale ’s is open to discussion – looking for sponsorship in exchange for a speaking slot for the GeoAlberta Event. Sponsorship not an option

• • Scott is very interested in finding ways to collaborate between Alberta and the Forum above the GeoAlberta event and western representation/co-chair possibilities for the forum
  • Reach out to Steve Liang to see if he is attending/interest in a Western possibility.

• • Reach out to Gordon Plunkett, ESRI Canada, as a founding member of the Forum for a speaking possibility

• • BD – suggested we could have a GoToMeeting session with Alberta Stakeholders - TT to bring this up with Scott the week of September 10th
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) - BD used some of the slides from the template deck plus Firelight group tweeted a note (retweeted by OGC)

• Draft Intro Slide Deck for the forum: Deck requires one more review prior to translation. See this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NyoKDnv1LjH0TLVOhr7knmNU8Ipmu6ZXq57gi_KaUnM/edit?usp=sharing

• Role of Universities/Academic Digital Object Identifiers?

  • Data Management – work with Universities to check for interest in collaborating to determine standard based ways to better manage Data assets (e.g. Digital Object Identifiers, also increasingly and NSERC requirement)
  • Need Representation from the University sector
  • Reach out to Perry Peterson and perhaps UNB? CW - Arctic Consortium - polar data community Academic Research - Polar 2018 Nov 28-30th, WMO Geneva - Polar Data Architecture Workshop.

• To help avoid stovepipes, all chairs should identify common cross-cutting issues.
• Climate - Innovation, Monitoring, and resilience were provided as an example. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) leading –

• AH pointed out the draft plan requires wordsmithing to ensure it is not perceived as government only, has a greater focus on innovation and to overcome various perceptions of what is “CGDI”. Consider using the CCOG SDI Summit as a test for government response. Consider arranging a side meeting for review during Geomatics Atlantic.

• For discussion in the future; determine when we should hold a full forum telecom to present the first draft

• Updating geomatics standards for Government of Canada Treasury Board (TB) and consultation process. TB - reached out to NRCan - two theme; Open data and TB recommended standards ( two now Metadata and WMS (ISO version)/ Looking to modernize (CW include forward looking Tech Trends - Cloud, GeoAI Machine Learning?).Opportunity for the Forum to work with TB and influence and provide updates to better account for-data life cycle, innovation, modernisation (e.g.). TB policies can have teeth - a “stick” that may have procurement implications. TT should it be inclusive of other standards (e.g. IHO) ? Looking for opportunities to influence. CW - several half day forums ? state of play today and future trend ?. Will require clear understandable message for TB staff.