Please review the draft report of IPET-MDI-I, propose changes to the draft report and record a summary of your change below

Proposal:

The members of the IPET-MDI are invited to review the draft report of IPET-MDI-I.

Submission of proposals for change will be completed via Google Docs. Where amendments are made, please add a summary comment to this wiki-page (as Pierre has already done below)

A read-only version of the draft meeting report can be found here

The deadline for review & comment has been extended from Friday 7th May 2010 to Wednesday 12th May 2010 to allow the remainder of the team who were unable to attend the meeting time to comment & review.

If you wish to participate in this review & have not already been invited please contact the Chair of IPET-MDI

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History

You are invited to present a summary of your proposal for change in this page.
Date - Name - Summary of Change
4/05/2010 - Pierre - Editorial amendments to paragraph 4
4/05/2010 - Jeremy - Moved section "Tooling to support collaborative development of WMO Core Profile standard" from paragraph 2 to paragraph 4 as the text refers to our chosen modes of future working
5/05/2010 - Jean-Pierre -
para 2.1.2.3, 2.1.2.7: small text change
para 2.1.2.9: the MD fileIdentifier should quote the WMO Product Identifier without the W_ pflag
para 2.1.2.10: caution about suggesting automatic DAR MD change at harvest
para 2.1.2.14: prefer the MX_FileName solution over the environmentDescription
para 2.1.2.14: lose the W_ pflag in the example fileIdentifier
para 2.1.2.16: suggest to use <<cross-reference>> as opposed to direct (vertical) hierarchy
para 2.1.2.20: ref to proper ISO element
para 2.1.2.20: the VolA gazeteer should be queriable by WMO station ID or ICAO CCCC
para 2.1.2.22: no validation for other community profiles ?
para 2.1.2.25: MD should avoid empty elements
para 2.1.2.32: should we lose the MD_FrequencyCode extensions and use userDefinedMaintenanceFrequency instead ?
para 2.1.2.42: suggest we lose the idea of documenting distribution from a virtual local Cache
6/05/2010 - Jeremy -
Table of contents updated
report paragraphs renumbered to remove duplicates
recommendations renumbered to include item that was left without number
para 2.1.1.1: version number correction
para 2.1.1.2: grammar edit
para 2.1.2.21 specific xpath expressions added for rec. 13 & rec. 15
para 2.1.2.42 added URLs for reference material
para 2.1.2.56 grammar edit
6/05/2010 - Eizi -
para 2.1.2.13: clarification that the content of gmx:fileName is regular expression
para 2.1.2.14: now gmx:fileName is place to write regular expression, recommendation of regexp syntax
7/05/2010 - Jean-Pierre -
part 2 graphs: inserting a new MD_Distributor does not seem appropriate. See details and example XML code
7/05/2010 - Jean-Pierre -
continuation of part 2 graphs: same remark about MD_Distributor
para 2.1.2.2: no more mention of the validation / pre-validation procedure for MF GTS metadata (cf IR3) ?
para 2.1.2.2: maintenanceNote element appropriate to mark a metadata as draft ?
para 2.1.2.3: added info on multi-lingual MD and an example. Manuel, how does the spanish sound ?
9/05/2010 - Eizi -
overall: merged comments by Jean-Pierre
para 2.1.2.6: rework to correctly describe GTS FNC
para 2.1.2.7: clarify that filename only regulated for metadata exchange among WIS Centres, not for implementation internals
para 2.1.2.8: reasoning for using suffix ".xml", still wondering what productIdentifier for pflag=M