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GO-ESSP Community Workshop
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Jussieu) in the 'Latin Quarter' of Paris, France
11-13 June 2007
Agenda
Day 1: Theme: CF Standards; Governance, Support, and Future
8:00 – 8:50 Arrival time – Host Jean-Yves Peterschmitt; Tea and Coffee – (50 min)
9:00 Welcome – logistics, and expectations for the meeting Dean Williams – (5 min)
9:05 Day-1 Introduction – Karl Taylor and Bryan Lawrence: “Introduction to CF issues to be addressed ” – (10 min)
9:15 CF Governance (1 hr 15 min)
- CF website – Dean Williams: ”Status and remaining issues for website” – (5+5 min)
- Standard Name Committee – Alison Pamment: “Status, improvements needed, and issues for discussion” – (15+15 min)
- Conventions Committee – Karl Taylor: “Support and governance issues” – (10+25 min)
10:30 BREAK (20 min)
10:50 Convention changes & technical discussion (1 hr 20 min)
- GridSpecs – V. Balaji: “Sub-grids & curvilinear Cartesian coordinates” – (45+20 min)
- Wording changes – Alison Pamment: “Ros Hatcher's wording change” – (5 min)
- Variable identification – Russ Rew: “Coordinate variable identification with the axis attribute” – (5+5 min)
12:10 LUNCH (1 hr 5 min)
1:15 CF technical discussion continued (1 hr 15 min )
- CLIVAR WG – Anna Pirani: “Requirements of the seasonal prediction community” – (10+5 min)
- Issues concerning underlying principles of CF (e.g., differing needs of obs. vs. models; how much intelligence required of applications; advisability of "pointers" to information external to the netCDF file; standard names vs. other controlled vocabulary; aggregation and discovery files) – (1 hr)
2:30 BREAK (20 min)
2:50 Miscellaneous technical issues (e.g., forecast (valid) time and original (run) time; ensembles; subgrid variation; time & calendar for paleoclimate simulations) – (1 hr)
3:50 Software in support of conventions (1 hr)
- LibCF – Ed Harnett and Russ Rew: “The new NetCDF CF library and status” – (20+5 min)
- NetCDF-4 – Russ Rew: “Experiences with NetCDF-4 and implications for the new CF conventions” – (15+5 min)
- CMOR – Karl Taylor: “The future of CMOR” – (10+5 min)
4:50 Completion of any discussions postponed from earlier in the day (20 min)
5:10 Day wrap-up discussion (20 min) – Outstanding issues; synthesis of discussion; and action items; promotion of CF; What can we do to make the system work better?
5:30 Adjourn
Day 2: Themes: AR5; Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData
9:00 Day-1 Introduction – Karl Taylor: “Introduction to AR5 and its Timelines” – (10 min)
9:10 Focus on AR5. Session Chair TBD
- V. Balaji, Princeton University, “AR5 use cases” - (20 + 5 min)
- Michael Lautenschlager, WDC Climate/Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, “IPCC WG II+III Requirements for AR5 Data Management” - (20 + 5 min)
- Bryan Lawrence, NCAS/BADC “Technical and social requirements for a putative AR5 distributed database of simulation and other data” - (20 + 5 min)
10:25 BREAK (20 min + 5 min)
- Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL – “A proposed architecture for AR5 distributed model analysis and comparison” - (20 + 5 min)
10:50 AR5 Panel Discussion (1 hr 20 min ). Panel Moderator TBD
12:10 LUNCH (1 hr 15 mins )
1:25 Semantic Content of Metadata. Session Chair TBD
- Jon Blower, University of Reading – “DEWS: Delivering CF-NetCDF marine data through OGC Map and Coverage Services” – (20 + 5 min)
- Lois Steenman-Clark, University of Reading - “NMM - a draft standard semantic metadata” – (20 + 5 min)
- Jeremy Tandy, Met Office – “Moving forward from the RAL Feature Workshop" – (20 + 5 min)
- Bert Jagers, Delft Hydraulics, Delft – “Storing data for integrated 1D, 2D, 3D models of rivers, estuaries, and seas “ – (20 + 5 min)
- Eric Guilyardi, NCAS/BADC – “METAFOR, a project for devising a Common Information Model for climate modelling data and models" – (10 + 5 min)
3:20 BREAK (20 min)
3:40 Semantic Aggregation of Metadata. Session Chair TBD
- Luca Cinquini, NCAR – “RDF/OWL triple stores”– (20 + 5 min)
- Rocky Dunlap, Georgia Tech - “Employing Semantics for Multi-Schema
- Aggregation” – (20 + 5 min)
- Roy Lowry, British Oceanographic Data Centre - “Vocabulary management: a foundation for semantic interoperability through ontology development” – (20 + 5 min)
4:55 Day Wrap-up Round-table Discussion (20 min) – Outstanding issues, synthesis of discussion, and action items.
5:15 Adjourn
Day 3: Theme: Interoperability and User Experience
9:00 A Focus on User Experience. Session Chair TBD
- Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire – Connecting large data bases to users through open-source, web-based tools - (20 + 5 min)
- Michael Burek, NCAR – “Experiences in using the Community Data Portal to support Scientific Data Workflows” - (20 + 5 min)
- Serguei Nikonov, GFDL – “The LASurator” - (20 + 5 min)
10:15 BREAK (20 min)
10:35 Interoperable Systems. Session Chair TBD
- Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ, German Climate Computing Center – “Distributed data access and processing in the Collaborative Climate Community Grid (C3-Grid) Project” – (20 + 5 min)
- Jai-Ho Oh, Pukyong National University – “Current Progress on the Weather/Climate Information System in Korea” – (20 + 5 min)
- Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF – “The EU Funded BRIDGE Project” – (20 + 5 min)
- Michael Burek, NCAR – “Experiences with Metadata Federation using OAI and THREDDS” – (20 + 5 min)
- John Caron, UNIDATA – “Restricting Access to OPeNDAP, WCS Datasets with the THREDS Data Server” - (20 + 5 min)
12:40 Wrapup. Session Chair TBD (30 mins)
1:00 Main Meeting Adjourns – Safe Travels!
1.00 Working Lunch (Steering Committee Team Only, 1 hr)
2:00 Planning Meeting (Steering Committee Team Only, 2 hrs)
4:00 Steering Committee Meeting Adjourns - Safe Travels!
