TT-AvXML Meeting 2 - February 2012

Location: EUROCONTROL Headquarters, Brussels

Date: 28 to 29 February 2012

• Registration & opening: 9:00am. 28 February 2012
• Closing 5pm 29 February 2012
• Meeting Room: To Be Decided
• Chair: Enrico Fucile (ECMWF)
• Provisional List of Participants
• WMO contact: Steve Foreman

Information about location

• The EUROCONTROL web site gives information about visiting EUROCONTROLincluding a map.
• EUROCONTROL has also arranged rates at local hotels (see the "find a hotel" tab on the EUROCONTROL website)

Final Minutes

The final minutes of the meeting are linked from here.

Reference documents

• Terms of Reference for TT-AvXML
• Technical documents are being prepared through the Google Group. Versions will be copied to this page in the week of 20 February to make sure that the team is working from the same version. Until then, the reference version of documentation is that for the telephone conference of 6 February. TT-AvXML-T1.
• Minutes of TT-AvXML-1
• Minutes of TT-AvXML Telephone Conference 1

Agenda

Objectives of the meeting

• Agree methods of resolving issues arising from MARIE-PT
• Agree what has to be produced for submission to ICAO, and how this will be done
• Agree what documentation is required for CBS ad how it will be produced.

1. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING

1.1. Opening of the meeting

1.2. Approval of the agenda

• Doc 1.2: Agenda

1.3. Working arrangements

2. Feedback from MARIE-PT

• Document: TT-AvXML presentation to MARIE-PT
• Example METARs
  • METAR in text file
  • METAR in XML file
  • METAR in compressed form as XML file
• Doc 2.1: Feedback from MARIE-PT
• Informal notes on MARIE-PT implications for TT-AvXML
• Doc 2.2: Draft EC Resolution
• MARIE-PT documents
  • in particular time table for document preparation

3. Logical Data Model

• Deriving XML from TDCF - 31 January proposal

3.1. Status

3.2. Review of the model

3.3. Alignment between TDCF and XML format.

4. Conversion from Logical Data Model to XML schema

4.1. Status

• Automatic Transformation of UML to XSD

4.2. Name space and online location of XML schema

4.3. Maintenance of modelling and transformation tools

5. Test data and test activity

5.1. Status and results

5.2. Selection of data test set

5.3. Planning of further testing

6. Issues to be discussed

6.1. Handling parameters where ICAO and WMO practices or definitions differ

6.2. How to approach parameters where the TAC allow an option of mixed numbers and text

6.3. Consistency with AIXM

6.4. Packages to be maintained by WMO/ICAO

6.5. Use of tool sets

6.6. How should XML address bulletin header and BUFR Table 1 entries?

7. Update to plan

• Doc 7.1: Draft Updated Work Plan
• including documentation needed for ICAO and CBS
  • Doc 7.2: Implications for BUFR Edition 5
  • Doc 7.3: Definition of WMO Logical Data Model; for inclusion in WMO Manual on Codes
  • Doc 7.4: Responsibilities for managing components of the WMO Logical Data Model
  • Doc 7.5: Translating the WMO Logical Data Model into XML schema; for inclusion in the new "Guide to the Representation of Information in XML" (with equivalent status to Guide to FM 92 GRIB Edition 2).

8. Date of next meeting

• Telephone conference

9. AOB

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