Geodata Committee 16th Meeting

Meeting Details

 Chair: David Bitner 
 Voice: Conference Call
 IRC backup: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org (or via Web based IRC client)
 Date: 2008-March-26 (at least in the Americas and Europe)
 Time: 1500 GMT / 1100 East Coast (fixed time)

Agenda

• Governance -- Add Vice Chairs? (Bitner)
• Vector Data Status (Martin Spott)
• GeoJSON Format Update (Chris Schmidt)
• Raster Data Status (Chris Schmidt)
• Metadata Update (Jo Walsh)
• TelaScience Systems Update (Norman Vine, John Graham)
• GeoNetwork Install (Lorenzo Becchi)
• OSGB Study Response (Schuyler)
• Mission Statement Work (Bitner)
• 2008 Work Plan (Bitner)

Logs

IRC Logs although talk was primarily on the phone

Attendees

• David Bitner
• Kevin Ward
• Ned Horning
• Shawn Baldwin
• Chris Schmidt
• John Graham
• Norman Vine
• Dave Smith
• Markus Neteler

Minutes

• Governance

 * Idea to have Vice-Chairs for following categories 
   * Raster Data Repository
   * Vector Data Repository 
   * Metadata Standards / Tools (including GeoNetwork Install)
   * Systems (Coordinate with SAC / Telascience)
   * GeoData Licensing
 * Vice-Chair would just be responsible for keeping track of what is going on in their respective areas
 * Would be responsible to report at each meeting
 * Idea generally accepted, will send out a call for volunteers 

• Vector Data Status Report

 * [1] has links to getCapabilities documents available
 * Martin Spott relayed after the meeting that he's been keeping the wiki up to date [2]

• Raster Data Status Report

 * We have a lot of relationships built to start ingesting near real-time Modis data as well as to acquire large amounts of data from USGS, NOAA, and NASA
 * Will plan a meeting in the near future to strategize the plans

• TelaScience Systems Update

 * Discussion on where we have space, what work is being done on each machine

• Mission Statement

 * Bitner will take another stab at pulling together the comments received in December