Third Session of the ICES-IOC SGXML, 6 - 7 May 2004 at the IODE Project Office in Oostende, Belgium

(A report of the session can be found HERE)

1. Preliminary Agenda for SGXML Meeting

Thursday  6 May
 
0900-1000 

• Opening greetings by Bob Gelfeld
• Welcome and local arrangements by Edward Vanden Berghe
• Review meeting schedule and items for discussion by Bob Gelfeld
• Review action items from last year=s meeting by Anthony Isenor/all participants

1000-1030 MarineXML (Greg Reed)

1030-1100 Coffee break

1100-1130 EDMED ISO-19115 XML Mappings  (Michele Fichaut)

1130-1230 Reference Common Data Model  (Nick Mikhailov)

1230-1345 Lunch

1345-1430  Practical testing of the common data model – distributed information system construction  (Sergey Belov)

1430-1500 XML and the NERC DataGrid (Roy Lowry)

1500-1530 Coffee break

1530-1615 Data Schema Standardization for Coastal Environment Data Set - Tools and Sample Data (Keita Furukawa and/or Tsuneki Sakakibara)

1615-1700 Donar XML Update (Pieter Haaring)

Friday 7 May

0900-0945 Discussion - Metadata Investigation Action Items (Introduced by Don Collins)

0945-1000 Time Series Data in Brick XML Structure (George Slesser and Anthony Isenor)

1000-1030 GML Structures based on Brick Content (Anthony Isenor)

1030-1100 Coffee break

1100-1130 Proposed Implementation of a Feature Type Catalogue (Greg Reed)

1130-1230    Break up into individual Working Groups on:

• · Parameter Dictionaries
• · Point Data Investigation
• · Metadata Investigation
•   We would like the working groups to:
  • · review, discuss, and summarize prior accomplishments of the Group with respect to the Working Group topic
  • · recommend future activities
    

We hope the output of the Working Groups with contribute directly to the final report of the SGXML.

1230-1345 Lunch

1345-1500 Continue Working Group Activities

1500-1530 Coffee Break

1530-1630 Working Group Presentations (10 minutes each) followed by open discussion

1630-1700 Closing and Summation of Meeting

2. Action Items resulting from the Second Meeting

1.  Parameter Dictionary

Action 1:  R. Lowry will post a version of the BODC dictionary on the marinexml.net site.  This will be used to establish mappings from BODC dictionary to the following dictionaries:
RNODC dictionary – N. Mikhailov
USNODC dictionary – B. Gelfeld
PANGAEA dictionary – R. Lowry
Canadian MEDS dictionary – J. Gagnon
USJGOFS dictionary – R. Lowry
DOD (German) dictionary – R. Schwabe
SMHI dictionary – J. Szaron
Netherlands dictionary – P. Haaring
GCMD dictionary – E. Vanden Berghe
IFREMER dictionary – M. Fichaut

Action 2: R. Cramer will construct a web interface for accessing the BODC dictionary.

Action 3: R. Cramer will compare and reconcile the parameter dictionary XML structures as defined by the DTD and schema.

2.  Point Data Investigation

Action 4: G. Reed will formally request to the EU Marine XML project that the bricks (not the XML structure) be reviewed in the standard review process.

Action 5: A. Isenor will determine which parts of the bricks can be substituted with components from OWS, GML and other accepted international standards.

Action 6: J. Gagnon will identify and construct the ocean cruise oriented bricks.

Action 7: A. Isenor and E. Vanden Berghe will attempt application of the brick / XML structure to 3-d data (e.g., net tow) and identify lacking bricks.
3.  Metadata Investigation

Action 8:  Define common terminology for metadata. (B. Starak and N. Mikhailov)

Action 9: Create a reference model for the abstraction of metadata (B. Starak and N. Mikhailov) 
 
Action 10:  Evaluate existing metadata standards by examining ISO19115 to identify elements specific to ocean community needs (B. Starak and N. Mikhailov)

Action 11: Complete a comparison mapping of CSR (M. Fichaut), MEDI (G. Reed), EDMED (L. Rickards), USNODC DDF (D. Collins) to the ISO 19115.  This is an update of the T. Sakakibara spreadsheet that listed ISO 19115 elements.

Action 12: Evaluate the catalogue standard ISO 19110 for application to ocean datasets (E. Vanden Berghe and D. Collins)

Action 13: Initiate development of an optimal metadata tag list. (G. Reed)

4.  Other Items

Action 14 : G. Reed will create categories on the marinexml.net site for the Working subgroups.

Action 15 : A. Isenor will check SGXML Yahoo site for content that should be moved to the marinexml.net site.  The marinexml.net site will now be used as the forum for communication.

Action 16 : G. Reed will identify proper procedures for adding new members to the SGXML within the IOC community of countries.

Action 17 : T. Sakakibara will provide G. Reed with the spreadsheet software for in?the?field water sample collection and data reporting in XML.