IMC Business Meeting Elections/Nominations 2014 IMC meeting (Corinna) Outside partnerships (time permitting) –SGS (Nicole) IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Elections/Nominations IMC co-Chair (3 year term) elect 1 –Philip Tarrant (elected by acclimation) IMexec (3 yr term) elect 2 – Dan Bahauddin 1 year (elected by acclimation) – James Conners 3 year (elected by acclimation) NISAC Nominations (3 yr term) elect 1 – Mary Martin (elected by acclimation) EB non-voting IM rep (3 yr term; begins May 2014) elect 1 – Wade Sheldon, Margaret O’Brien IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Databits Confirm upcoming editors –Fall 2013: ____, ____ –Spring 2014: –… IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

NSF Discussion Saran Twombly at 9:00 Topics –Pasta contributions IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

IMExec Report-back –PASTA has change how we do business. The recommended becomes the required. –No imperfect metadata –No data without metadata Provides new level of services for machine readable data use and exchange Must deal with implications –Search capabilities are critical –We need to explain and promote our accomplishments including our use of PASTA, but also all our new tools. IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Self-organizing WG IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ SlotThursday AGeoNIS BSensor Management BP CMetabase DDEIMS EveningDistributed File Systems

Self-organizing WG IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ SlotFriday Morning 1IM System Guidelines Morning 2Workflows

Action Items IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ The following slides list action items for these three groups: –Entire IMC –Specific working groups –IMExec All action items are based on notes in the word doc attached to the meeting’s agenda page (same page as this file)

Action Items – IMC #1 –1 Form a committee to develop data submission best practices. Address How to use services to submit data. How to deal with exceptional cases in light the fact that pasta accepts only data+metadata Codifying 5 essential content features of metadata WHO: linda, theresa, dan, eda, jonathan, margaret IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Action Items – IMC - #2 –2 Begin experimenting with possible search scenarios on our own, using PASTA’s web services, and existing tools such as eXist, solr WHO: inigo, gastil, john porter corinna, james, wade, emery, jamie IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Action Items – IMC - #3 –3 Develop IMC Communications Committee a) make sure internal communications are effective b) promote IMC accomplishments outside the IMC (but not with reporters!) –Their first task: promote the 5 essential features, e.g., before the bp group gets it in writing WHO: jonathan, eda, philip, inigo IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Action Items – IMC - #4 Contribute to the report on summary PASTA contributions. See notes – this is in response to Saran’s request to know the progress of sites on data contributions. WHO: All, facilitated by IMExec IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

Action Items – IMC WGs 2014 meeting at ESIP: –wg outlines requirements for LTER to join, report to IMExec –Who: Corinna, Wade, Nicole Guidelines for LTER sites’ IM systems –Meet and organize. –Who: Gastil, Linda, Kristin, Emery, Suzanne –See follow-up note #2, pdf doc

Action Items – IMExec page 1 of 2 1.Schedule VTCs with each of the 3 new working groups in the next 6 months –Data submissions BP, IMC communication, Data search 2.Per requests from Saran: Facilitate IMC action item #4, or assign task to the EML/pasta consultants –see notes and table in pdf-doc, follow-up #3 3.Per requests from Saran: Write abstract for the summary paper on site IM system pros/cons/risks –see Notes in pdf-doc, follow-up #1

Action Items – IMExec page 2 of 2 4.Proposal for workshop/meeting in Washington DC –outline the options, request feedback and time frame from Saran. See notes in pdf doc, follow-up #6 5.Be prepared to provide input to the McKnight panel investigating alternative LNO organization. –See notes in pdf doc, follow-up #7