June Documentation Telecon

·         Summer meeting sessions are all on Thursday

·         The new commons website had problem with adding presenters – This is NOW fixed

o   ACTION – can session leads add more information about participants and their sessions where possible

·         Ed I not able to travel to the meeting and will be attending online

o   ACTION – Ed will either set up a different person to present or will provide his slides to Peng or Ted before the session

·         Hack-a-thon

o   Anna set out a new program http://nb.mit.edu/tutorial/ to use during the hack-a-thon – it is a collaborative pdf – can edit it

o   Ideas for topics:

§  Doc-u-comp – discuss documentation components

§  Reusable pices of metadata

§  Compare ISO to ECHO records

o   ACTION – Anna will email the ESIP-all to build up interest in the hack-a-thon and determine if there are specific topics of interest

·         Ted – side-notes

o   Slide share – added link in comment and had 116 views on slide show – another one has 465 views … conclusion: talking about ISO gets slide show views

o   Gethub.com/iso211 – includes the standards for ISO 1915-2 and -3

§  Since NOAA and NASA use -2 with extensions - -3 will include these exceptions

§  -3 will become a draft international standard

o   Anna – will -3 include gmi and gmc

§  Neither – went from 20 name spaces to 1

§  Md and mi will be kept as same name space (as will a few other)

o   19139 revisions (xml implementation)

§  Need to break uml and enconding rules

§  Will set up a complete set of encoding rules in one place

§  Ted has been nominated by USA for XML group

·         ACDD @ ESIP summer meeting

o   There is no formal session – maybe an informal session on Friday afternoon

o   Also need time of OCDD – Ted might have funding to pay someone to work on this