IPET-MDI Second Meeting

Location: Met Office, Exeter, UK

Date: 21 to 24 May 2012

• Registration & opening: 9:00am. 21 May 2012
• Closing 5pm 24 May 2012
• Meeting Room: To Be Decided
• Chair: Jeremy Tandy (UK)
• List of Participants
• WMO contact: Steve Foreman

Information about location

The meeting will be held at the Met Office.

Final Report

The final minutes of the meeting are now available.


Links in this paragraph are to interim drafts of version 1.3 of the metadata standard. The interim documents will be removed once the final versions are published.

Reference documents

Preliminary Draft Agenda

1. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING

1.1 Opening of the meeting

1.2 Approval of the agenda

• Doc 1.2(1) Draft Agenda

1.3 Working arrangements

Joint session with IPET-DRC

The agenda for the joint session is a separate document.


Draft

Tuesday Afternoon

2. Review of IPET-MDI objectives as agreed at CBS-Ext.(10)

2.1. Doc 2.1(1) Extract from CBS-Ext.(10)/Doc. 4.3 – 'Decisions for the OPAG on Information Systems and Services, including WIS'

3. Report from TT-ApMD

3.1. Doc 3.1(1) (Toyoda) Context and objectives of TT-ApMD
3.2. Doc 3.2(1) (Toyoda) Requests for change or clarification to WMO Core Metadata Profile arising from activities of TT-ApMD

• informational: final report of TT-ApMD-1

3.3. Allocation of responsibilities between TT-ApMD and IPET-MDI
3.4. Review of proposals and recommendations

4. Future work item: development of a normative test suite for validation of compliance to WMO Core Metadata Profile

4.1. Doc 4.1(1), Doc 4.1(4, Doc 4.1(5), Inf 4.1(1), Current status of WMO Core Metadata Profile specification and guidance material
4.2 Doc 4.1(3) - Examples of normative test suites from other standards

• WaterML. Members of IPET-MDI must log on to the wiki to see this document.
• O&M normative test suite
• XML test suite
• Coverages test suite
• WCS interface test suite

4.3. Requirements for validation of compliance to WMO Core Metadata Profile; what function(s) should a normative test suite provide?

• Doc 4.1(2) An example of validation of WMO Core Metadata (NGDC)

4.4. Assessment for tooling (aka rubrics) to support automated validation of WMO Core Metadata Profile compliance
4.5. Designing a normative test suite for WMO Core Metadata Profile

• Future work plan

Wednesday

5. WIS implementation feedback; clarification requests and Requests for Change (RF)

5.1 Doc 5.1(1) Review of interim guidance decisions from IPET-MDI Google Group (list of guidance decision)
5.2. {for each item} ratification of guidance with official IPET-MDI endorsement and concluding statements
5.3. Outstanding issues from WIS implementation teams (ALL: please canvas your local experts for outstanding issues concerning metadata)
5.4. Doc 5.1(2) Concerns raised by ET-WISC
5.5. Other requests for clarification or change concerning the WMO Core Metadata Profile
5.6. Recommendations for amendments to WMO Core Metadata Profile

6. ISO 19115-1:2012 Metadata revision - impacts to WMO Core Metadata Profile

6.1. Doc 6.1(1) Summary of changes to ISO 19115-1:2012
6.2. Identification of impacts to WMO Core Metadata Profile
6.3. Recommendations for future development of WMO Core Metadata Profile

7. Opportunities for harmonization of WMO Core Metadata Profile and JCOMM metadata profile

7.1. Doc 7.1(1) Status of JCOMM metadata profile and roadmap for change
7.2. Identification of opportunity to harmonize WMO and JCOMM metadata profiles arising from migration to ISO 19115-1:2012
7.3. Recommendations for future development of WMO Core Metadata Profile

8. Comparison of WMO Core Metadata Profile with Aviation metadata profile (OGC Aviation Domain Working Group)

8.1. Doc 8.1(1), Doc 8.1(2), Doc 8.1(3) Status of Aviation metadata profile and roadmap for change
8.2. Doc 8.1(3) - for review Guidance on the Aviation Metadata Profile
8.3. Identification of compatibility issues (if any) - can a record comply with both WMO and Aviation metadata profiles?
8.4. Recommendations for future development of WMO Core Metadata Profile
8.5. Recommendations to Aviation Domain Working Group on behalf of WMO

Thursday

9. WMO Core Metadata Profile roadmap

9.1. Definition of roadmap outlining release mile-stones for WMO Core Metadata Profile
9.2. Allocation of tasks to support release mile-stones

10. Change management procedures for WMO Core Metadata Profile

10.1 Doc 10.1(1) Requirements for change management procedures of WMO Core Metadata Profile
10.2. Recommendations and proposals for change management procedure of WMO Core Metadata Profile

11. Governance of WMO Core Metadata Standard, WMO Logical Data Model and other associated standards

11.1. Doc 11.1(1) Issues concerning the governance of the WMO Core Metadata Standard, WMO Logical Data Model and other associated standards
11.2. Adoption / endorsement and subsequent governance of standards concerning the WMO domain (weather, climate & water) developed outside WMO; e.g. WaterML2 developed within the Open Geospatial Consortium for the hydrology domain
11.3 Recommendations and proposals for change management procedure of WMO Core Metadata Profile

12. Future Plan of Work

12.1. Agree and summarise future plan of work
12.2. Choice of working practices/collaboration tools to support IPET-MDI ongoing work (eg JIRA, wiki, Google Docs, etc).

13. Recomnendations to ICT-ISS

13.1. Agree and summarize recommendations to OPAG-ISS (for presentation at ICT-ISS, June 2012)

14. Any other business

15. Meeting closure

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