Discovery Telecon 2012-09-11

Topic #1: DCP's

• Update to DCP on versioning: ready for vote
• DCP on best practices: almost ready for vote
• DCP-8: close to being ready
• Plan to discuss DCP-8 and (hopefully) RFC DCP at the October telecon

[edit]Topic #2: SPG RFC (aka DCP 10)

• Schedule for putting together RFC
• Soliciting co-authors…
• RFC will be discussed through DCP process
• Could be used to construct validators
• Should we have schema? schematron?

[edit]Topic #3: Winter meeting

• Proposed: a brainstorming session early in week, planning session later in week. All in favor?
• BUT, not too early to start throwing ideas into the brainstorming pile
• Should tie it in with the Visioneers: grand challenges
  • E.g., satisfying the long tail
• Discuss in detail at November telecon

[edit]Topic #4: New business, anyone?

• Earth Cube Broker Hack-a-thon (Christine)
  • Thanks to Discovery Cluster for loaning the Discovery Geoportal for the hack-a-thon
  • Hack-a-thon resulted in a number of enhancements - namely usability when registering resources, and how to carve up collections vs. granules (e.g., THREDDS, imagery, Census data)
  • Now, Discovery geoportal is available for continuing our investigation - workflows discussed at Summer Meeting
  • ATOM 1.0 validation has been implemented via xsd
  • Also - Discovery geoportal has out-of-the-box capabilities for creating metadata. Christine discussed with Products & Services Cluster the possibility of finding a home for the application on the ESIP Portal site, so more ESIP members can have access to a metadata creation tool