Metafor All Partners Month 36 meeting

The year 3 meeting will be held at the Cosener's House in Abingdon UK from Tuesday 15th to Wednesday 16th March 2011
There will also be a dissemination workshop on Monday 14th March 2011

Bed and breakfast accommodation at the Cosener's House costs 
£55.20 per night for a single room
£75.20 per night for a double room

Suggested topics:

• Hand over from Metafor to ISENES
• Governance of Controlled Vocabularies
• Discuss issues surrounding configured and unconfigured models - and make a proposal

Draft Agenda

Agenda Day 1: Tuesday 15th March

10:00 – 13:00 Morning Session: Report from WP

• Welcome, project status and highlights - Eric, 15 min
• WP2 - “Defining the CIM” status - Lois / Allyn, 15 min
• WP3 - “Testing the CIM” status - Sébastien / Mark,15 min
• WP4 - “Metafor services” status - Bryan / Mark, 15 min

11:30 – 12:00 Tea / Coffee break

• WP5 “CIM manipulation tools” status - Allyn,15 min
• WP6 “CIM creation tools” status - Michael, 15 min
• Project management & dissemination (WP1+7) report - Sarah, 15 min
• Year 3 reporting

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Session 1: Report from other related projects

• IS-ENES - Sophie, 15 min
• US scene news (Curator, Gridspecs, NUOPC,...) - Balaji,15 min
• CMIP5 status - Karl, 15 min
• ESG status - Sylvia, 15 min

15:30 – 16:00 Tea / Coffee break & Group Picture

15:30 – 18:00 Afternoon Session 2:

• CMIP5 metadata questionnaire and pipeline - Gerry, Charlotte et al. 15 min
• Discussion on configured and unconfigured models
• Validation (questionnaire and CIM)
• Other topics identified during the day
• Refine agenda day 2

18:15 – 19:00 Closed Steering Board session

19:30 Dinner

Agenda Day 2: Wednesday 16th March

09:00 – 09:30 Steering Board Recommendations

09:30 – 12:30 Morning Session: Governance and METAFOR legacy

• Governing the CIM - Bryan et al. 20 min
• Overview of controlled vocabularies - Sebastien, 15 mins
• Governing the CV - tbd, 15 min
• Other governance issues, including tools and next steps
• Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee break

• Discussion cont'd

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 Afternoon Session: Hand over from Metafor to ISENES

• which parts to hand over (documentation, tools, portals, CIM, ...)
• Discussion

15:00 – 15:30 Tea / Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 Wrap up, project next steps & list of actions