Welcome to the METAFOR project

Welcome to the METAFOR wiki and issue tracking site. This site provides a place for the METAFOR team to collaboratively develop technology and discuss/resolve issues pertaining to that technology. The content is expected to change regularly, reflecting the current status of METAFOR.

The main objective of the METAFOR project was to develop a Common Information Model (CIM) to describe climate data and the models that produce it in a standard way, and to ensure the wide adoption of the CIM. METAFOR addressed the fragmentation and gaps in availability of metadata (data describing data) as well as duplication of information collection and problems of identifying, accessing or using climate data that are currently found in existing repositories. METAFOR has optimized the way climate data infrastructures are used to store knowledge, thereby adding value to primary research data and information, and providing an essential asset for the numerous stakeholders actively engaged in climate change issues (policy, research, impacts, mitigation, private sector).

The METAFOR project formally finished in August 2011. However, work on the CIM, CMIP5 questionnaire and tools and services are continuing in other forms. This website will remain active indefinitely and will point to new resources and activities as they become available.

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Good Starting Points

• The Rules - how this Trac site is meant to be used
• recent changes - a list of changes to this site listed in reverse chronological order; note that the menu in the top-right can restrict the changes to wiki, tickets, or repository only (if you want to look at tickets, please select both "ticket changes" and "ticket details").
  • wiki changes
  • ticket changes
  • repository changes
• active tickets - the set of all active tickets grouped by "component"
  • tasks - active task tickets
  • issues - active issue tickets
  • admin - active admin tickets (reports, meetings, etc.)
• current releases of the CIM:
  • CIM v1.5
  • CIM v1.4
  • CIM v1.3
  • CIM v1.2
  • CIM v1.1
  • CIM v0.2
• CIM tools & services:
  •  http://zonda5.badc.rl.ac.uk/ - The METAFOR CIM Portal
  •  http://q.cmip5.ceda.ac.uk/ - The CMIP5 Questionnaire
  •  http://qc.cmip5.ceda.ac.uk/qc/ - The Quality Control Tool
• requirements
• use-cases
• help - links to useful documentation

• deliverables - List of deliverables in date order
• Dissemination - Dissemination materials (including leaflets and quarterly newsletters)

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Organization of Wiki Pages

Each wiki page should be located appropriately. The following directory structure should be used:

wiki/requirements
wiki/use-cases
wiki/tickets
wiki/<top-level-component>

Where the <top-level-components> are: WP1-7 and CMIP5. Additional sub-directories can be added as needed for specific components. The index page for each top-level-component should include links to all relevant requirements, use-cases, and tickets.

Further information can be found here.

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Wiki Index

1. WP1: the starting point for WP1: Project Management
2. WP1/Amendment3: Amendment 3: Metafor project extension
3. WP1/SoftwareManagement: Live Deliverables
4. WP1/TelcoMinutes: Teleconference minutes
5. WP1/TelcoMinutes/20Sept2011
6. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco138_27Sept2011: Telco 138 - 27th September 2011
7. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco139_4Oct2011: Telco 139 - 4th Oct 2011
8. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco140_11Oct2011: Telco 140 11th October 2011
9. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco141_1Nov2011: Telco 141 1st November 2011
10. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco142_6Dec2011
11. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco143_5Jan2012: Telco 143 5th January 2012
12. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco144_2Feb2012: Telco 144 2nd February 2012
13. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco145_6Mar2012: Telco 145 6th March 2012
14. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco146_2Apr2012: Telco 146 2nd April 2012
15. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco147_10May2012: Telco 147 10th May 2012
16. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco148_31May2012: Telco 148 31st May 2012
17. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco149_21June2012: Telco 149 21st June 2012
18. WP1/TelcoMinutes/Telco150_05July2012: Telco 150 5th July 2012
19. WP2: the starting point for WP2: The CIM
20. WP2/ControlledVocabulariesList: A flat list of controlled vocabulary terms for the CIM
21. WP2/DevelopingTheCIM: some guidelines for developing the CIM
22. WP3: the starting point for WP3: testing/populating
23. WP3/Agile: Metafor WP3 Group - Agile Management
24. WP3/Agile/Sprints/01: Metafor WP3 Group - Sprint 01
25. WP3/docs
26. WP3/telcos
27. WP3/telcos/03/agenda
28. WP3/telcos/04
29. WP3/telcos/05: Agenda
30. WP4: the starting point for WP4: Services
31. WP4/Agile: Services Group - Agile Management
32. WP4/Agile/Sprints/01: Services Group - Development Sprint 01
33. WP4/Agile/Sprints/02: Services Group - Development Sprint 02
34. WP4/Agile/Sprints/03: Services Group - Development Sprint 03
35. WP4/Agile/Sprints/03/url-design: Initial Thoughts on Metafor URL design to supplement attached note
36. WP4/Agile/Sprints/04: Services Group - Development Sprint 04
37. WP4/Agile/Sprints/05: Services Group - Development Sprint 05
38. WP4/Agile/Sprints/06: Services Group - Development Sprint 06
39. WP4/Agile/Sprints/07: Services Group - Development Sprint 07
40. WP4/Agile/Sprints/08: Services Group - Development Sprint 08
41. WP4/Agile/Sprints/08/Agenda
42. WP4/Agile/Sprints/09: Services Group - Development Sprint 09
43. WP4/Agile/Sprints/11
44. WP4/Agile/Sprints/12: Services Group - Development Sprint 12
45. WP4/Agile/Sprints/19
46. WP4/Deliverables
47. WP4/MF-ISENES-Timeline
48. WP4/NumSim: WP4/NumSim
49. WP4/PortalDeployment: pre-requisites
50. WP4/QDeployment: Deploying the questionnaire
51. WP4/QSandbox: Notes on building questionnaire sandboxes
52. WP4/ServicesPlanningDocument: Metafor Services (WP4, WP5, & WP6): Deliverables, Dependencies, and …
53. WP4/URIstructure: WP4/URIstructure - The Metafor URI structure(s)
54. WP5: the starting point for WP5: Tools
55. WP6: the starting point for WP6: CIM Creation
56. WP7: the starting point for WP7: Dissemination
57. CMIP5: the starting point for CMIP5
58. CMIP5/FileMetadata: CMIP5 Internal File Metadata
59. CMIP5/QuestionaireBetaTesting: Comments, queries and issues raised by our beta testers
60. CMIP5/QuestionaireIssues: Alpha 5 release of the CMIP5 questionnaire: …
61. CMIP5/QuestionaireRequirements: CMIP5 questionnaire requirements
62. CMIP5/QuestionaireTimeline
63. CMIP5/QuestionnaireAccess: Instructions for Access to the CMIP5 Questionnaire …
64. CMIP5/QuestionnaireCentres
65. CMIP5/QuestionnaireOpenLetter: Open letter to our users
66. CMIP5/QuestionnaireTimeline
67. CMIP5/Storyline
68. CMIP5/VarURIStructure: CMIP5/Variable Structures
69. CMIP5_CVSoft
70. requirements: METAFOR requirements
71. requirements/testRequirement: requirement: make sure that thingies contain widgets (sample requirement)
72. use-cases: METAFOR use-cases
73. use-cases/AnnotateCIMRecord: Use-Case: Annotate a CIM Record
74. use-cases/BrowseCIMRepository: Use-Case: Browse a CIM Repository
75. use-cases/CaptureGridDefinition: Use-Case: Capture a Grid Definition
76. use-cases/FindCIMRepository
77. use-cases/FindExperimentsForModel: Use-Case: Find Experiments Based On Model X
78. use-cases/FindModelsForExperiment: Use-Case: Find Models Used In Experiment X
79. use-cases/FindModelsToCouple: Use-Case: Find Models To Couple
80. use-cases/FindRelatedCIMRecords: Use-Case: Find Related CIM Records
81. use-cases/FindRelatedCitations: Use-Case: Find Related Citations
82. use-cases/KeywordSearchCIMRepository: Use-Case: Keyword Search a CIM Repository
83. use-cases/QueryCIMRepository: Use-Case: Query a CIM Repository
84. use-cases/ViewCIMRecord: Use-Case: View a CIM Record
85. use-cases/ViewDatasetQualityReport: Use-Case: Find Related Citations
86. use-cases/create-qc-record: Use-Case: Modify or Create a quality control record
87. use-cases/template: Use-Case: <name>
88. use-cases/testUseCase: Use-Case: a sample use-case
89. tickets/1008: QC for CMIP5 Questionnaire Records
90. tickets/167: CIM sequence document & diagrams
91. tickets/180: notes for  ticket 180
92. tickets/181: notes for  ticket 181
93. tickets/182: The Wiki page for documenting progress on the ConCIM activity package: …
94. tickets/184: Existing Controlled Vocabulary lists
95. tickets/185: notes for  ticket 185
96. tickets/189: Use Cases for interacting with the UMUI Minutes from a meeting that …
97. tickets/191: Experiment relationships for CMIP5
98. tickets/192: CMIP5 Questionnaire
99. tickets/193: Extracting CIM metadata from code and verifying CIM metadata and code are …
100. tickets/214: Figure out how the Controlled Vocabulary should integrate with the CIM
101. tickets/215: tidy the CIM (as per the Y1 meeting)
102. tickets/226: restructure the wiki
103. tickets/232: create a widget for the thingie (sample ticket)
104. tickets/236: tidy the CIM (to make it less XML specific)
105. tickets/237: include sequencing info in the CIM
106. tickets/239: Outstanding CIM Issues
107. tickets/241: Implement Tree Navigation for the CMIP5 Questionnaire
108. tickets/244: Processing the mindmaps (bundled version) to create XML suitable for …
109. tickets/245: Work in progress
110. tickets/247: Ingest ESG metadata into mindmaps
111. tickets/248: CMIP5 Questionnaire Timeline
112. tickets/249: Questionnaire to CIM Conversion
113. tickets/250: CMIP5 Conformance wiki for ticket #250
114. tickets/253: Questionnaire Metadata Validation
115. tickets/254: Table 1: CMIP5 constraints not enforced by the Questionnaire
116. tickets/277: Proposed updates to the CIM Grid logical data model
117. tickets/280: add / revise definitions of terms used in the CIM
118. tickets/281: when should references use XPath and when should they embed documents …
119. tickets/31
120. tickets/326/aerosols
121. tickets/326/atmos
122. tickets/326/atmos_chem
123. tickets/326/land_ice
124. tickets/326/land_surf
125. tickets/326/ocean: Herafter is the previous version of definitions tables for Ocean, included …
126. tickets/326/ocean_biochem
127. tickets/326/sea_ice: Herafter is the previous version of definitions tables for Ocean, included …
128. tickets/485: CMIP5 Questionnaire
129. tickets/509: What Deployment/Hardware/Configuration? Information Should Be Recorded?
130. tickets/519
131. tickets/55: Metafor Governance
132. tickets/636: Wiki Page for Ticket #636 (Review of Grid Properties in MindMaps)
133. tickets/684: Discussion of Ensemble Handling Issues
134. tickets/707: THREDDS to CIM instances tool
135. tickets/709: CIM v1.5
136. tickets/715: METAFOR Success Criteria
137. tickets/778: Integrate Controlled Vocabularies with the CIM
138. tickets/78
139. tickets/79: CIM Differencing Tool Design Document
140. tickets/810
141. tickets/862: Required CIM Software Component Properties
142. tickets/868: Some Documentation of Issues associated with ticket:868
143. tickets/870: Moving towards CIM2.0
144. tickets/888: Definition of unconfigured vs configured model
145. tickets/92: Outstanding CIM Prototype Human GUI Issues
146. tickets/920: O&M
147. tickets/920/options4om1: Initial Step
148. tickets/920/sidl: Scientific Interface Definition Language (SIDL)
149. tickets/921
150. tickets/925: A Common Information Model paired with scientific Controlled Vocabularies …
151. tickets/926: EGU abstract - The CMIP5 questionnnaire: web-based metadata collection for …
152. tickets/927
153. tickets/986: CIM v1.7