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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. IMExec Report-back Action Items: –1 Form a committee to develop data submission best practices that must address How to use services to submit data. How to deal with exceptional cases in light of new requirements Codifying 5 essential content features of metadata –2 Begin experimenting with existing search capabilities on our own using PASTA’s web services –3 Develop IMC Communications Committee IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ

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

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