08/09/17 TC

Attendees: Yonsook Enloe, Glenn Cunningham, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Ed Armstrong, Daniel Jacob, John Scialdone, Siri Jodha Khalsa, Helen Conover, Peter Leonard, Louis Aouvaris, Margaret Piepin, Gao Chen, Mary Kleb

Next SPG meeting is at the ESDSWG meeting on Oct 21-23 in Philadelphia.

Next SPG ALL telecon : Wed Nov 19 at 3pm ET

New and Old Action Items:

• Sept 19 – Ed Armstrong will revise the review questions for NetCDF review into one document and send that to Rich.
• Sept 23 – Helen Conover will contact Ross Swick about the revised Backtrack Tech Note. Will also ask him whether there is info about estimate for accuracy of algorithm in the Tech Note.
• Sept 26 – Rich will send the NetCDF review questions to the spg-anounce to ask for comments.
• Sept 30 – Allan will put together a template for a short Tech Note (5 pages or less).
• Oct 20 - Helen will invite Rob Raskin to STAFF telecon to discuss his future submission
• Nov 19? – John Scialdone, Helen Conover, Ananth Rao, Ed Armstrong – Initial Review of the SERF RFC. (Lola is expected to submit the SERF DIF soon.)

Notes/Discussion:

• Helen has sent couple of emails to Rob Raskin, asking him about attending future SPG Staff telecon to discuss his future submission. He has not replied yet.
• Daniel noted that Russ said that the THREDDS is not ready for standardization but he is still checking on NetCDF API RFC.
• Ed Armstrong said that Steve Hankin is pushing to get someone to submit the CF-1 as an RFC. Steve asked Ed to review the documentation before submission.
• Introduction of new SPG members – Gao Chen, Mary Kleb, and Margaret Piepin all work together at LaRC on airborne data.
• RFC Status –
  • DIF TWG – Allan said that the survey questions went out to the community via the spg-announce. We have 5 responses back so far, mostly positive. Still need more responses.
  • NetCDF TWG – Ed said that the TWG has met 4 or 5 times. The Review questions are ready to go out. There was some discussion on whether the review questions should be in 2 separate documents or in one, separated into sections. The SPG decided that the review questions should be in one document, separated out into sections. Ed will revise the Review Question document and send that to Rich by Sept 19. Rich will send out the Review questions to the community by the following week.
  • Backtrack RFC – Helen said the document revision should be done this week. Siri Jodha asked whether there was any discussion in the Tech Note about a limit for error estimate for the algorithm. Is there an accuracy estimate? Helen will ask Ross about an upper bound.
  • John Scialdone noted that Lola would like to propose a SERF RFC. Is the SPG interested in this? The SPG members agreed that Lola should submit the SERF RFC. John will server as the editor again. Volunteers to do an initial review of the SERF RFC when it is submitted: John, Ananth, Helen, and Ed.
• Chris Lynnes would like to submit 3 Tech Notes that are the lessons learned from his ACCESS project. One has to do with the WCS Server installation lessons learned, second one has to do with Provenance info prototype, and the third has to do with OGC CS/W and WCS interoperability. SPG agreed that these tech notes would be useful for certain communities. This brings up a bigger question of – what types of tech notes possible and what kind of reviews do we need for the different types of tech notes. We need to discuss this in October.
• Siri Jodha will be attending the Oct SPG meeting. He will provide an update on the GEOSS SIF activity. Rich and Ted are co-chairing the N American Regional Team for SIF but not sure if that activity will be under way enough to report on it by Oct.
• Music night – Helen is exploring the music options for both Tues and Wed nights. Please send her any suggestions and comment on her info she has sent.