19th-21st June 2006
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA
Go-ESSP is a collaboration designed to develop a new generation of software infrastructure that will provide distributed access to observational and simulated da ta from climate and weather communities.
The talks at the meeting were broadly categorised into presentations from the data consumer and the data provider viewpoint. However under both themes metadata was a key element in the discussion. The PRISM community were represented by:
- Lois Steenman-Clark, who presented an update report on "PRISM Metadata
Issues"
- Katherine Bouton, who presented an update report on "NMM - Numerical
Model Metadata"
- Michael Lautenschlager, who presented a report on "World Data Centre
Climate:
Status and Portal Integration"
The key metadata issues discussed were
CF - management, which will be easier now structures and people have been put in place, development with respect to community needs and requirements and its future and sustainability.
Gridspec - the development of a common description mechanism and metadata for numerical grids by Balaji, its integration into other metadata schemas like CF and NMM, management and useability in frameworks.
Discovery metadata - what is required and mechanisms for extracting and concatinating metadata
Metadata management - the mechanisms for quality control, producing controlled vocabularies, ontologies and mapping different metadata schemas as well as interoperability.
Model metadata - the need for integration and further development of collaboration between NMM, Curator, CERA and discovery metadata.
This last outcome has led to the organisation of the
First Earth System Curator Workshop at GFDL on 3-4th October 2006
where attendees will present progress towards defining common vocabularies and schemas between various related projects, especially on model and grid metadata. The workshop will spend a lot of the time in detailed work on reconciling schema structure to meet the needs of modelling groups, modelling framework developers, and data framework builders.