CBS Expert Team on WMO Information System Centres (ET-WISC)

Welcome to the ET-WISC home page.

• ET-WISC Terms of Reference
• ET-WISC Members list
• ET-WISC Workplan

ET-WISC discussion forum

• ET-WISC technical discussion forum. Questions about WIS centres and the technology used to implement them, such as e.g Geonetwork. It can be read publicly and every registered user can post in it.
• ET-WISC internal discussion forum. Logged in Wiki-users can read it and ET-WISC users can post to it.
• ET-WISC has four task teams as described in the following table

ET-WISC Task Teams

• Self nominate for membership of ET-WISC and its Task Teams
• See self-nomination entries (Temporary page)

ET-WISC/TT-DC	WIS Data Centres (DCPC and NC)	TOR	Membership	Workplan
ET-WISC/TT-GISC	WIS Global Information System Centres (GISCs)	TOR	Membership	Workplan
ET-WISC/TT-OM	WIS Operations and Monitoring (Closed CBS-16)	TOR	Membership	Workplan

The ET-WISC pages can be read by anybody. ET-WISC members can contribute to the pages by adding comments.

ET-WISC working groups

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ET-WISC Meetings Pages

1. ET-WISC-2019 and TT-DC2019 - Beijing, China 12-15 March 2019
2. Joint ET-WISC-CTS etc 13-17 November 2017, Geneva
3. Joint ET-WISC / ET-CTS Telecon 19Jul2017 Record of meeting
4. 7th session Melbourne April 2016 - Joint meeting with TT-GISC 2016
5. WIS Monitoring Development Workshop - Geneva January 2014
6. WIS "Competencies and Curriculum" Development Workshop - Geneva October 2013
7. 6th session Beijing July 2013
8. 5th session Melbourne March 2012
9. 4th session Geneva February 2010
10. 3rd session Darmstadt June 2008
11. Developers Meeting - Reading February 2007
12. 2nd session Moscow May 2006
13. 1st session Geneva October 2005

Useful links

• Here are the most up to date OAI provider addresses of GISCs
• There is a page for the discussion of the EC-62 WIS demonstration and the CBS Ext-2010 demonstration.
• A wikipedia style page has been established for the discussion of WIS User and Role Management
• The ET-WISC has started working on the OAI operation guidelines.

Documentation Pages

1. WIS Home Page
2. WIS Project and Implementation Plan
3. WIS Functional Architecture
4. WIS Desgination Procedures
5. WIS Compliance Specifications for GISC, DCPC and NC
6. WIS User Requirements
7. Documentation of SRU and related technologies