GDWG Meeting Summary 2016 and Work Plan 2016 / 2017 Peter Miu EUMETSAT Masaya Takahasi CMA, CNES, EUMETSAT, ISRO, IMD, JMA, KMA, NASA, NIST, NOAA, ROSHYDROMET, USGS, WMO

Overview and Purpose Summary of the GDWG breakout meeting. Work plan 2016 / 2017 Purpose For information to WGs & EP To identify if something is missing

GDWG Meeting Statistics Number of Contributing Members represented: 8 / 14 (57%) CMA, CNES, EUM, JAXA, JMA, KMA, NOAA, USGS Number of Agenda Items Discussed: 19 Number of Actions : 29 Number of Actions with Leads: 29 Number of Actions without Leads: 0

Actions Summary GSICS Website Updates GSICS Data Management Conventions Updates Roll out of the GSICS Wiki on a New Server Data Preservation Investigations GSICS Collaboration Server Updates; reorganisation Process for bringing the GIRO Deliverables to their Users Realising Collaboration Software Development.

Actions Summary Action Tracking Process Specification Action Tracking Automation Studies GCC Initiatives; Product Types Specification, Versioning, MW Standards Finalising the Instrument information for the OSCAR Database Specification and documentation (Wiki) of GEOLEOVISNIR Enhancement Data Model Study

Highlights, Decisions & Recommendations ISRO has provided a draft GSICS website for review. This has been reviewed and updates have been provided. New Meta-data, Conventions and template for existing and new GSICS Products Many decisions made to guide GSICS Data Management Activities e.g. Use of GitHub for collaboration developments. The GDWG chairs will inform the EP and seek endorsement if needed. Agreed decisions are documented in the Wiki to guide these activities. Recommendation: GSICS decisions should be presented to EP for information or endorsement if needed – AND DOCUMENTED and accessible from the Wiki for reference. New Wiki Server with relaxed security to replace existing NOAA Wiki Server

Highlights, Decisions & Recommendations A couple of approaches have been discussed to realise the Data Preservation requirement of the GSICS Collaboration Servers, these will be investigated. GSICS Product Generator is in development - 2016 New Wiki Server Q2 / 2016 (May - excellent work by NOAA) New Wiki Server with relaxed security to replace existing NOAA Wiki Server

Action Tracking Process

Automation of the Action Tracking Process

Resource Needs GSICS coordination identified for: Glob & Rolo; operations support. Data Management support is needed from contribution members: Time to get involved as we have operational products. No involvement means GDWG will make decisions without you on your behalf.

Unit Testing Suite for GSICS SNO (contact Manik - GCC) For Information Unit Testing Suite for GSICS SNO (contact Manik - GCC) DOI Usage for GSICS (contact Pete - EUM) Web Meetings - 2016

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