1. CEOS Technology and Services Subgroup, Hanoi May 2007. 1 GCMD Science Users’ Working Group (SUWG) Wyn Cudlip BNSC/QinetiQ wcudlip@qinetiq.com Presentation to Technology & Services Subgroup Hanoi May 2007

2. CEOS Technology and Services Subgroup, Hanoi May 2007. 2 SUWG Terms of Reference o To provide guidance on the future direction of the GCMD and provide discipline-specific assistance… o Composed of: n A chairperson n A Lead Scientist n A CEOS representative (Wyn Cudlip) n Four additional members o Meet once per year for a two-day progress meeting. o Next meeting is on 19/20 th June, 2007.

3. CEOS Technology and Services Subgroup, Hanoi May 2007. 3 Report from last meeting (May,2004) o Strategic Recommendations covering n Vision for the GCMD n Alignment with NASA ESA science & application themes n Connecting to the space science community n Who are the Users? n Partnerships with the Science community n Directory versus Catalog n Keyword brokering n Community contribution and maintenance of metadata n Semantic web and common metadata standards n Connecting to DLESE, NSDL and other outreach and education programs n NASA data first, and current data first n Advisory board?

4. CEOS Technology and Services Subgroup, Hanoi May 2007. 4 Report from last meeting (contd.) o Operational Recommendations covering n Robots and search engines n Tracking individuals responsible for data n Searching by lat/lon and polygons n Refining spatial and temporal search capabilities n Private and restricted data access n Scientific models n GCMD calendar service n Copyright of metadata n Open source software and migrating to PostgreSQL n GCMD webpages n Fixing dead links n Policy for retiring old DIFs n Technical detail of the UWG meeting

5. CEOS Technology and Services Subgroup, Hanoi May 2007. 5 Conclusions o Last meeting produced comprehensive report on recommendations. o GCMD produced equally comprehensive report on its responses. o Both available from GCMD website. o Please let me know (wcudlip@qinetiq.com) if there are any CEOS issues that you would like raised (by 12 th June, 2007).wcudlip@qinetiq.com o I feel sure that interaction with GEO will be one of the issues discussed!