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METAFOR Meetings Page

1. Launch Meeting, Feb 13-14th 2008, Reading, UK

  • Agenda (attachement:agenda.doc):
    • 13th 9-12: Project organisation and administration WP1, WP7 (scope, structure, appointments, dissemination activities, practical issues, etc...)
    • 13th 14-17: Review work from each WP (special emphasis on CIM definition) WP2, WP3
    • 14th 9-12: continued from 13th (WP4, WP5, WP6)
    • 14th 12:00: end official kickoff meeting
    • other points to cover:
  • Room reservations: contact Julia De Faveri <j.defaveri [AT] reading.ac.uk>
  • Present: Lois Steenman-Clark, Ian Henderson, Ros Hatcher, Eric Guilyardi (Reading), Bryan Lawrence, Sue Ballard, Charlotte Pascoe (BADC), Sophie Valcke (CERFACS), Rupert Ford, Graham Riley (UNIMAN), Laurent Fairhead (IPSL), Allyn Treshansky, Philip Bentley (Met Office), Roxana Bojaru (ANM), Antoinette Alias (Meteo France), Balaji (GFDL), Richard Inwood (RES, Reading)
  • Excused: Harilaos Loukos (CLIMPACT), Michael Lautenschlager (MPI-M/MaD)

Minutes Launch meeting

  • Presentations (to attach):
    • Eric: intro and management
    • Lois: WP2 CIM definition
    • Balaji: Curator news
    • Lois: EU dissemination
    • Laurent: WP3 CIM population and testing
    • Sophie: IS-ENES
    • Bryan: WP4 services deployment
    • Allyn: WP5 CIM manipulation tools
    • Michael (by Bryan): WP6 CIM creation tools
  • List of actions
    • Detailed work plan for all WPs for year 1, M1 on trac/wiki (tickets for tasks towards Ds and Ms) [ALL]
    • Work plan for Y2 and Y3, M1 on trac/wiki [ALL]
    • use cases [see below, mail iteration, led by Eric]
    • Organisation for discussions (meeting, telco, maillist with prefix in email subject, “issue” tickets which send emails...) [Support team to propose procedure]
    • Consortium Agreement: send comments/agreement to Richard Inwood ASAP [ALL]
    • wiki/trac IDs and guidelines [Ros & Katherine]
    • email lists (metafor_admin@ incl. legal people ask for names) more people on metafor@ ? archiving (to check), all to provide other names (send the command) [Eric]
    • STAB appointments [Eric]
    • formalise CMIP/ESG links (Luca Cinquini, Karl, Bob or Dean) identify points of contact (KB ?) [Eric]
    • CF proposal (“CF common concepts”): BL to send to all [Bryan]
    • next meetings:
      • training session (see below)
      • GO-ESSP june 08: presentation Curator/METAFOR (Lois,... CF day)
      • project M6, September or later (Toulouse ?)
  • Uses cases slide from meeting:
    • “which datasets will be populated and tested in WP3”
    • “will provide requirements to the other WPs”
    • distinguish data and model description
    • AR4, CCMVal, ENSEMBLES (+ regional scenarios)
    • scope of “completeness” of data and model description in CIM tbd
    • impacts requirements (identify who to involve/talk to) links with IS ENES / CECILIA / CLAVIER
    • list of specific tests/queries (suitcase)
    • AR5 metrics and associated processing
    • translate existing metadata (CERA,...) to CIM
  • Training:
    • Goals:
      • training on tools and technology
      • explore what has Curator achieved (schemas + tools)
      • D2.1 gap analysis
    • Phase one: preparation/documentations [coordinated by project team]
      • detail on RDF, OWL, (XML), other ?
      • brief info on all schemas in proposal
      • identify who for each schema/tools (next 2 weeks, Rocky should be involved from Curator side)
      • wiki, documents, slides, telcos to discuss/ask questions
    • Phase two: CIM discussion
  • Deliverables until M6:
    • D1.1 web site (URead), M3
    • D2.1 Metadata gap analysis (URead), M3
    • M2.1 Prototype CIM XML impl. (URead,all), M6
    • M3.1 Dataset identification (CNRS, all), M6
    • D7.1 use cases (Uread, all), M3
    • D7.2 Dissemination plan (URead), M3.
    • D7.3 EC presentation material (URead), M3
    • D7.4 Leaflet presenting METAFOR goals (Uread), M3