1. WIS Project Office WMO wis-help@wmo.int
Managing WIS
WIS Project Office
WMO

2. Managing WIS (WMO Information System)
Manuals
Guidance material
Changing the rules for WIS 2

3. Manual on WIS Manual on GTS Manual on Codes
Manuals
Manual on WIS
Manual on GTS
Manual on Codes

4. Manual on WIS Organization and responsibilities Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
WIS Discovery Metadata

5. Manual on WIS Organization and responsibilities Designation procedures
1.1 GISC, DCPC, NC 1.2 Comply with requirements 1.3 WIS Core Network & AMDCNs 1.4 Part A and Part B 1.5 Discovery, Access Retrieval 1.6 Robust and reliable 1.7 Collect and disseminate
Organization and responsibilities
Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
WIS Discovery Metadata

6. Manual on WIS Organization and responsibilities Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
WIS Discovery Metadata
2.1 General 2.2 Designating GISC 2.3 Designating DCPC 2.4 Designating NC 6

7. Manual on WIS Organization and responsibilities Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
3.1 General
3.2 Procedure for GISC
formal tests
3.3 Procedure for DCPC
demonstration
3.4 Procedure for NC
PR notification

8. Manual on WIS Introduction Organization and responsibilities
Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
GISC
Receive information
Exchange with GISCs
24h Cache (global)
Metadata catalogue
Networks (AMDCN)
Recovery
Performance monitoring

9. Manual on WIS Introduction Organization and responsibilities
Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
DCPC – for Programme
Collect/produce data
Data - global exchange
Disseminate - Prog
Request/reply
Metadata
Recovery
Performance monitoring

10. Manual on WIS Introduction Organization and responsibilities
Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
WIS Discovery Metadata
NC – Programme role
Collect data, Products
Produce information
Provide data, Products
Create Metadata
Performance monitoring

11. Manual on WIS Introduction Organization and responsibilities
Data and products should be handled as specified in the Manual on the Global Telecommunication System (WMO-No. 386), Volume I, Part I, 1.3, Design principles of the GTS, and other WMO manuals, specific to the relevant programme See also (Disseminate information to the GISC area) and (Provide information intended for global exchange).
Introduction
Organization and responsibilities
Designation procedures
Functions of WIS
Technical Specifications
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e.g. WIS-Tech-Spec-12
This specification requires that data
or products downloaded shall be represented
and communicated in a manner appropriate to
the relevant programme.

12. Manual on WIS 2013 edition added
Section 5 – WIS Discovery Metadata (v1.3)
Rules for managing metadata standard
Rules for metadata content and format
Cg-17 approved CBS Ext 2014 addition of many further sections

13. Manual on Codes Defines Traditional Alphanumeric Codes (discouraged)
Table Driven Code Forms
GRIB
BUFR
CREX
Code tables to support these
Recently:
Logical Data Model, XML representations …

14. GTS as Part A of WIS
GTS - continued consolidation and further improvements for data and products delivery
Time-critical and operation-critical delivery based on real-time “push” via dedicated telecommunications
Timely delivery based on delayed mode “push” via combination dedicated + public networks

15. Relevance of Manual on WIS
Rules for operating WIS Part A
Conventions used in WIS
File naming
Abbreviated Header Lines

16. Formal Guides and WIS wiki WIS help
Guidance material
Formal Guides and WIS wiki
WIS help

17. Guidance material - http://www.wmo.int/wis
WIS
GTS
…/GTS-manual
…/GTS-security
…/GTS-VPN
Tech Reg 49
…/TechReg49

18. WIS help Each GISC offers a help desk Exeter/Toulouse: from “help” tab
Offenbach: from “You need help?” at bottom of page
Tokyo:
Beijing: under “user registration”
Questions on implementing WIS can be sent to the WMO team using

19. Changing the rules for WIS
Operational information
Developing changes to WIS
Approving changes to WIS

20. Operational Information
Now: WMO No 9, Vol C1 (bulletins)
RTH tells WMO of planned changes
Discovery metadata records must be updated
Planned:
Information in Vol C1 extracted from discovery metadata
Responsibility passes to data originators to notify changes by updating discovery metadata

21. Developing changes to WIS
Requirements assessed by OPAG-ISS and its expert teams
Expert Team develop and test solutions
Proposals recommended by
ICT-ISS
CBS-Management Group
CBS
Approved by EC (for changes to Manuals)
“Fast track” for codes and metadata changes
Fast track approved by Cg-17 for all CBS tech regs

22. Exercise
You are responsible for implementing a WIS NC at your centre. What do you have to put in place? Consider both equipment and work procedures.

23. Sources of information
Manual on WIS
Guide to WIS

24. Topics you may have discussed

25. Implementing a National Centre
Agree DCPC/GISC
Metadata
Describe all data to be published
Procedures, including authorisation, for maintaining metadata
Metadata editing tool
Data
Production
Formats
Delivery
Training
Staff
Users
Publicity
Internal
External

26. Summary Formal documentation of WIS Guidance and support material
Making changes to WIS standards