1. Archive Task Team Opening Agenda Review WGISS – 22 Sep 11 – 15, 2006 Annapolis, USA

2. Archive Task Team (ATT)  Task Team Name: Archive Task Team  Task Team Lead Name and Contact Information: –Kengo Aizawa (JAXA) : aizawa.kengo@jaxa.jp  Task Team Members: –Gian Maria PinnaESA –Gus ShumberaNOAA/NCDC –Miguel Dragomir Zanic'Cuellar INPE –Kengo Aizawa JAXA –Stuart Doescher USGS/EDC Request additional participation from the WGISS members!!

3. Purpose/Rationale The ATT is responsible for promoting, encouraging exchange and communication of Archive and records management best practices between the members of WGISS. Appropriate guidelines and recommendations for long-term archive data management, preservation and exchange among Agencies will be developed and distributed.

4. As a result of membership survey and technology trends ATT initial focus will be on following categories.  technology, strategies –Long-Term Archive Strategies or Policies –Archive Media, Data Formats –Storage/Backup Strategies –New technology (storage virtualization)  Standard, Concept –ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) –ISO series –Environmental Storage Standards –Physical Security Standards  Case study, etc –Digital Data Preservation or Recovery –Agency Presentations on Data Migrations –Copyright Issues –Old Equipment Inventory –Analog/Film Data Preservation or Recovery

5. GEO task Contribution ATT nominated and reviewed following tasks DA-06-05 Develop a guidance document for a basic data (including format, precision, accuracy, etc),taking into account relevant national, regional and global initiatives. EC-06-06 will be merged into EC-07-P1 Conduct an inventory of archived data for ecosystem, identify data gaps, identify data data at risk, and evaluate cost of data rescue, conduct a workshop to define to define a data archiving strategy taking into account data types,processing levels and supporting media. DI-06-01 will be merged into DI-06-05 Encourage in-situ and space agencies to (i) systematically record data over coastal regioins to tsunami risk and (ii) archive data in a form easily accessible to all countries AR-07-P3 Advocate virtual constellation space observations following the “CEOS constellation concept” for better temporal, spatial, and spectral resolution and related data management and dissemination.

6. Archive Task Team (ATT)  Implementation Strategy –Stimulate discussion and dialog via occasional teleconference and email exchange –Realize that this is a collaborative effort and a sharing of experiences is need to succeed.  Approach / strategy: –Hold quarterly telecoms that able opportunity to share and exchange information.  Expected outcome/impact of the activity –Updated WGISS agencies format document. –Compendium of shared experiences in archiving.  Expected Duration of Task Team: –continues to serve at the will of WGISS  Listserv address: archive@wgiss.ceos.org  Project Web Site URL: http://wgiss.ceos.org/archive/

7. WGISS 22 - ATT Agenda Digital Data Preservation or Recovery Scientific Data Appraisal John Faundeen (10) Off Site Archiving John Faundeen (10) Landsat Archive Preservation Update Cheryl Greenhagen (5) Technology Strategy Update to Media Study Tom Bodoh (15) ATT Contribution to GEOKengo Aizawa (15)