[ESIP-AQ] For input (slides) by 8 Sept - Presentation for ISPRS TCVIII WG2 Symposium

[Rudolf Husar]

Hi Masami.

Sorry you could not make it the Solta workshop. The workshop was quite
technical on data servers, catalogs and clients, but we could have benefited
from additional GEO perspectives, like: Data sharing Infrastructure is just
a first step.. GEOSS is about serving the users, users, users..

Thank you for asking how the workshop turned out. With clear and complete
impartiality :), I would say the workshop turned out quite well, largely due
to the meeting participants, especially to co-organizer Martin Schultz from
FZ Juelich for the focused discussions on turning the network 'from virtual
to real'.

Below is a mini-report to you at GEO and also to others interested in the AQ
CoP activities activities. As you requested, part of this workshop summary
will also be included in the AQ CoP description in the GEO 2012-15 Workplan
as well as in the report to the November GEO Plenary.

Best regards,

Rudy


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Topical Workshop organized by the GEO Air Quality Community of PracticeAug
23-25, 2011, Stomorska, Solta, Croatia.
[edit<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Mini_Workshop_Report_to_GEO_and_Others&action=edit&section=1>
] Networking Air Quality Observations and Models: From Virtual to
Real<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Air_Quality_Data_Network_Solta_2011>

This was the first in-person meeting of GEO AQ CoP members involved with
data networking. The tree-day workshop was attended by 26 participants, 6 by
telecon. The group included specialists in interoperability and standards,
software engineers (and or supervisors). The managers and programmers
represented major air quality data hubs in Europe and US. This mix of
expertise made the group was well positioned to address the practical issues
of building an AQ data network.

The face-to-face meeting and social interactions allowed the participants to
learn about each other's data systems and general perspectives. This was a
necessary step toward a shared understanding and for building trust for
future inter-dependent data networking. As a consequence, during the open
discussion-oriented sessions, the participants were willing and able to
articulate the key impediments to networked AQ data systems at their
respective organizations. With this, remedies for those impediments can be
pursued.

At the end of the meeting the managers and programmers of the major data
hubs made a remarkable set of commitments toward making the AQ Data
Network<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Air_Quality_Data_Network>
happen
by expanding the network from the current 7 WCS data servers-distributors to
10-12; adding more datasets to the shared data pool; broadening the metadata
support and linking the AQ Community
Catalog<http://webapps.datafed.net/CORE.uFIND> to
other catalogs. But it was also recognized that the real work starts now!
The follow-though.
The next steps for the GEO AQ CoP include informing and harmonizing these AQ
CoP activities with the GEO 2012-15 workplan, interacting with stakeholder
agencies as well as with other integrating initiatives. As always, a key
facet of the AQ CoP activities will be to support and complement (not to
compete with) other integrating initiatives.


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Masami Onoda <monoda at geosec.org> wrote:

> Thanks Rudy!
>
> I missed the Croatia workshop, I hope it went well?
>
> Masami
>
>
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