Documentation Cluster - April 2013 Telecon

1)      ESIP summer meeting (July 9 – 12)

·         Ted has already submitted 5 session for HDF workshop/tutorial (NASA)

·         Currently Ted is the lead on all of these sessions, but other people will take them over as they get registered

·         Topics include

·   aggregation (across HDF files – how certain groups are doing this)

·   using NASA data – tutorial with someone from Matlab and possibly ESRI (though this conflicts with the ESRI conference)

·   Town Hall – new things at HDF and get ideas for directions

·   Cool Tools – things venders are doing with NASA data (specifically HDF)

·         These are not linked to documentation and are not directly related

·         Will have separate sessions – continuation of CF unleashed and something about conventions

·         (Ed) HDF5 conventions – includes CF and other is due by the fall – should we invite that group

·         ACDD (attribute conventions for data discovery) governance group

·   Looking for home for conventions – a group with responsibility for convesions and distribution of conventions

·   Question of joining ACDD and CF - possibly

·         Ted (personally) – does not think it is a good idea – OGC would be a better choice

·         ? is this because CF isn’t easy to change – YES, also there is a lot of baggage with CF

·         Such as problems with groups and objects

·         ? is the conflict group/objects – how implement

·         CF does not do groups

·         OGC has done tones to get NetCDF and CF in OGC – want to build on that work

·         OGC – broader audience and group

·         They need help I metadata (ex. for their services)

·         Such as help with NetCDF and wms, and wcs, etc. (lots of possibilities)

·         There is also a ESDIS metadata session by Katie

ACTION – Ted will contact Katie about including documentation and metadata architecture

·         2 sessions by “documentation” – 3 hr total

·   NASA ISO

·         HDF5

·         Iso

·         NASA’s role in ISO

·   ACDD – documentation and discovery

·         ACDD governance

·         Discovery of objects

·         Maybe NCIso

ACTION – Kelly will create the session for the summer meeting

·         Walt will also have a session for the summer meeting

·         Ed – may not be able to attend

2)      CF standard names (Alek)

·         Still not have standard names accepted

·         Each time Alek suggests this, someone replies with a problem

·         Ed – governance of CF is breaking down – 1 or 2 people can object and stop a change

3)      February action items

·         No

·         Ed still not sure how to add documentation link and a new page

·         Add [[Category: Documentation]] to link to documentation page

·         To add new page – do a search for your title and a red link, click it for new page

·         Walt is still having problems logging in

·   Erin had told several of us to delete cookies, but that hasn’t worked for him

·   Walt will contact Erin if he is still having problems