[GSDI Technical] Provisional Work Items for 2007 GSDI Technical Working Group

[Gregory Yetman]

Hi Doug,

These look good to me. One quick question -- when you say that 'members 
are welcome to support this activity' in #2 do you mean by contributing 
resources, registering services, or both?

If there's enough interest from others to work on the cookbook I can 
contribute, and perhaps strong-arm some other CIESIN folks to do the 
same. Would there be a target date for releasing the revision (such as 
for a workshop at GSDI-10)?

cheers,

Greg


Doug Nebert wrote:
> I'd like to propose the following tasks for contribution by the GSDI 
> members this year, as achieved through the GSDI Technical WG. Please 
> feel free to comment, volunteer, and propose additional items.
> 
> 2007 Tasks for Technical WG:
> 
> 1. Work with the Open Geospatial Consortium on the common definition of 
> an "SDI 1.0" suite of standards and an approach for future designations.
> Status: The OGC Architecture Board is beginning discussions of the 
> concept and rationale behind an OGC perspective on an SDI suite of 
> standards and will develop a position soon. GSDI members will be invited 
> to comment and contribute their SDI implementation perspectives. The TWG 
> should recommend a GSDI position relative to this branding.
> 
> 2. Develop a global registry for all geospatial web services.
> 
> Status: A prototype Web Services Registry of all known geospatial web 
> services from numerous catalogs is being prototyped for the Group on 
> Earth Observation (GEO) System of Systems (GEOSS) activity. Members of 
> the GSDI Association (a recognized GEO Participating Organization) is 
> welcome to support this activity in support of earth observation and SDI 
> interests. An operational capability is expected by May 2007.
> 
> 3. Revise the GSDI Cookbook to reflect current practices and standards
> 
> Status: No progress yet, need to solicit input and editors for updates 
> of the various chapters for a Version 3.0 release, if there is 
> sufficient interest.
> 

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Columbia University
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