Minutes of Telecon 23 March 2010

Attendees

• Frédéric Guillaud
• Bruce Wright (chair)
• Ben Domenico
• Andrew Woolf
• Chris Little
• Dominic Lowe

Apologies

• Jeremy Tandy

Agenda:

• 1) Review actions from last week
• 2) Discuss any issues of relevance from Frascati TC
• 3) Review Use Case progress (actors/information types)
• 4) AOB
• 5) Next Meeting

1) Review actions from last week

• ACTION A9: AW to flesh out polar year use case further using real example from polar year. Remains OPEN
• ACTION A14: AW to follow up by email to see if a CM meeting in Frascati is feasible. CLOSED
• ACTION A15: AW to follow up use case 1 wiht AB by email. CLOSED n/a
• ACTION A16: AW to follow up use cases 2 and 3 by email with PT. CLOSED DONE
• ACTION A18: AW to follow up on hydrology use case (possibly re WRON work in australia) Remains OPEN
• ACTION A19: AW: Put on twiki guidance about how to identify datatypes OPEN
• ACTION A21: ALL Begin to identify data types on use cases by next telecon. See meeting notes for details OPEN - aim to complete all use cases by next telecon 13 April

2) Frascati TC

• We discussed the WMS time proposals
• Ben Domenico updated the group on NetCDF encoding standardisation
• We discussed the harmonisation of 'RangeType' in GML/SWE/WCS
• Here are the consolidated slides for the TC closing plenary.

3) Review Use Case progress

• Some good progress has been made on about half the use cases
• Information types beginning to emerge
• Need to continue to move the use cases forward
• Andrew recapped on the INSPIRE methodology (paraphrased below):
  • Identify data types in use cases
  • Step back and look at commonality between data types
  • Look at information models that already exist and compare with our needs
  • Begin to suggest what our data types might look like
  • Use model driven approach to start to formalise this.
  • Also consider the types of queries (operations) we might want to make.

• We agreed that we should aim to populate as many use cases as possible (Action 21) by the next telecon
• Next telecon we should begin to move to the next steps of the methodology.

• NEW ACTION A22: AW: Specify the methodology on the wiki.
• NEW ACTION A23: BW: Add 'current owner' to use cases on wiki.

4) AOB

• No.

5) Next Meeting

• Due to easter move telecon by a week to 13th April.
• However to avoid ongoing clashes with the fortnightly GML SWG we will maintain our current fortnightly pattern otherwise
• i.e. we will have a telecon on 13th of April, then again one week later on the 20th to get back in sync.

• NEW ACTION A24: DL: Arrange meeting for 13th taking into account summer time etc..

Summary of new actions and decisions from this meeting:

• NEW ACTION A22: AW: Specify the methodology on the wiki.
• NEW ACTION A23: BW: Add 'current owner' to use cases on wiki.
• NEW ACTION A24: DL: Arrange meeting for 13th taking into account summer time etc..