Coordination Group FGDC Business Report Ken Shaffer FGDC Deputy Staff Director May 5, 2009

2 Topics Georecovery.gov Team Update Annual Report 2010 Cooperative Agreements Program Standards Update FGDC Collaboration Site Server Upgrades

3 GeoRecovery.gov Supporting the development of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, Recovery.gov site Transparency and accountability Georecovery.gov Team FGDC member agencies Providing geo-enabling guidance to recovery.gov developers

4 GeoRecovery.gov Activities 2 use cases were submitted to the development team 4/30/09 Developing a guidance document based on high-level process flow steps Parallels architecture document approach Focuses on the capture, coding, flow, validation, reporting, rendering of geospatial information Does not attempt to address broader recovery.gov reporting issues, such as financial roll-ups

5 Use Case 1 – Visualizing state-level AARA spending by program area

6 Use Case 2 – Visualizing AARA spending with user defined layers

7 GeoRecovery.gov Next Steps Continue discussion with the developers and continue to refine the use cases Formalizing the document’s content areas Folding in information/issues collected to date Developing the rest of the content

8 FGDC 2009 Annual Report Follow 2008 Report Outline Accomplishments, Goals, Challenges Identify Theme Example: Geo-enabling Economic Recovery Suggestions due by June 1, 2009 Date of Completion – Nov. 1, 2009 Data call will go out June 1 Submit input to Milo Robinson

NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program Overall budget same as FY2009 $1.3 million Announcement schedule same as FY2009 Final announcement text due no later than August 14 Will open for proposal submittals early October Economy stimulus package grants could impact schedule

NSDI CAP Action for Coordination Group Members By May 22, 2009 provide a synopsis of funding category and suggested deliverables, budget, and number of awards to Gita Urban-Mathieux

11 The NSDI CAP is intended to: support NSDI outreach & communications market NSDI concepts seed small efforts reach new organizations & disciplines initiate tool implementations create points of contact build goodwill for NSDI concept serve as the impetus for institutionalizing NSDI provide a model for international Spatial Data Infrastructure development

12 More information: Contact: Gita Urban-Mathieux NSDI CAP

13 Standards Update The ISO TC 211 Secretariat has received the list of U.S. delegates to its 28th plenary and meetings, scheduled for May 25-29, The U.S. Delegation includes personnel from the FGDC and FGDC member agencies National Geospatial Intelligence Agency U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Geological Survey The U.S. Delegation also include Non-Federal personnel: Bentley Systems, Inc. Northrop Grumman Information Technology/TASC Lockheed Martin ESRI George Mason University Oracle

14 Standards Update cont’d Key ISO/TC 211 meetings are: New work item for Revision of ISO 19115:2003, Geographic information - Metadata New work item for Data quality Editing committees for:  ISO , Geographic information - Classification Systems – Part 2: Land Cover Classification System LCCS  ISO 19103, Geographic information - Conceptual Schema Language (Revision of ISO/TS 19103:2005)  ISO 19148, Geographic information - Linear Referencing Systems

15 Standards Update cont’d Kick-off meeting for CAP 2009 Category 6 held (standards development except metadata) Topic: Development of training materials for web services standards Examples, materials, and issues to focus on the Transportation Theme of the NSDI Framework Data Content Standard Private Investigator: Philip Dibner, OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii) Contact Julie Binder Maitra,

16 FGDC Collaboration Site Collaboration site for FGDC Committees, subcommittees, work groups, initiatives Shared space for document sharing, development Discussion forums options Not intended for document storage

17 FGDC Collaboration Site Granted login access (need a my.usgs.gov account) Restricted access to ExCom working directory Access to Federal users only directories Access to shared Federal/non-federal directories Currently setting up permissions to allow access Information on accessing and joining will be sent to the members

18 FGDC Collaboration Site Replacing with Community of Interest (COI) page Links/directions to my.usgs.gov and other Federal geospatial collaboration sites

19 Server Upgrades The Secretariat is upgrading the infrastructure that is hosting the FGDC website Significant changes to both the hardware and software infrastructure Benefit - significant improvement in website load- capacity, response-times and redundancy Timeline Currently testing the new infrastructure on staging server and undergoing Certification & Accreditation. Will go live as soon as C & A is completed.