Andy Turner's SDI Technical Architecture Workshop 208-08-29 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- Web Page for organising information about the SDI Tech Architecture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 2008-08-29.
- Contents:
People
- Attendees
  - Ben Ben Butchart
  - Stuart Dunn
  - Chris Higgins
  - Phil James
  - Roger Longhorn (facilitator)
  - David Medyckyj-Scott
  - Jeremy Morley
  - Richard Sinnott
  - Kristin Stock
  - Andy Turner
  - Andrew Woolf
Documentation
- Some briefing documents for participants listed on SDI Tech Architecture Workshop Wiki Page
- Additional documentation refered to on the day
  - JISC Committee in Support of Research
    - JISC Support of Research Committee: Researching the Future
  - JISC Geospatial Working Group Vision: Executive Summary
  - National Data Strategy:
    - Initially developed by The ESRC as 'The National Data Strategy for Data Resources for the Social Sciences'
    - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/nds/developing_the_nds/
- Supplimentary material
Preparation
- Reading/advice from Peter Halfpenny 2008-07-22:
  - The ESRC has a National Data Strategy:
  - The ESRC are commissioning a Secure Data Service and an Administrative Data Liaison Service:
    - http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/current_funding_opportunities/ads_sds.aspx?ComponentId=25870&SourcePageId=5964
  - There has been talk of a Spatial Data Service too.
  - There was an NDS-NCeSS workshop on secure access to confidential data 2008-06-26.
  - The ESRC is developing an International Data Strategy.
  - The data strategies are part of the overall ESRC strategy:
    - http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/about/strategicplan/index.aspx
  - There is a useful ppt presentation about the resources part of the strategy:
    - http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/festival/programme/esrc2/broadfoot.ppt
  - The NCRM ADMIN Node has an emphasis on data:
    - http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/organisation/Nodes/ADMIN/
  - The NCeSS DAMES Node is relevant too:
    - http://www.dames.org.uk/
- Browsing:
Notes
- What is an SDI?
  - Is there such a thing as a UK academic type of SDI, or is it all part of the same thing?
  - My general definition of an SDI
    - Data infrastucture for producing models of reality, the past the present and the alternative futures.
  - Is an SDI standards compliant by definition?
  - Is there an SDI standard?
    - The SDI cookbook
      - A popular definition of SDI
      - Under revision
  - How geospatially relevent is this Data Infrastructure?
- Issues in the developement of SDI
  - Improving data management practices
  - Security
    - Role Based Access Control should take account of both who the user is and their declared use of a system.
    - Need for a security model that allows more liberal access to data, but with more control on publication?
  - Certification and quality control of Repositories
  - Need for appropriate data licenses.
  - Need for a critical mass of users.
  - Archiving
    - Result replicability and provenance
      - There are various levels.
    - There is a difference between a primary dataset and secondary datasets that needs to be recognised.
    - If some research generates some integrated data from existing sources then a decision needs to be made.
      - Is the result stored along with the provenance and executable to recreate it?
      - If the result is very heavy but it does not take a large amount of computational power to generate, it might be best to store the primary data and an automated method to recreate them.
      - If the results are light but take a large amount of computational power to generate, it might be best to store the primary data, results and an automated method to recreate them.
    - Derived data from multiple sources sometimes can't be stored or published, but the meta data and provenance for recreating it can be, so someone who gets access to the same data sources can replicate the data.
  - Metadata
    - Automated meta data creation tools
      - Metacarta
      - GeoCrossWalk
  - Intelligent federation of catalogs
- Miscellanea
  - JISC will not mandate the use of any standards
  - Google are interested in historical mapping?
  - Earth Systems Science Data: The Data Publishing Journal"
    - Is there a need for similar journals in all disciplines
  - There is dedicated curation at NERC
    - This helps depositors to the NERC data grid repository develop appropriate metadata.
  - Phil proposed a project to JISC that wasn't funded and was described in the meeting:
    - He said he would email it to me so I could put it online and refer to it :-)
    - It would be good if all good proposals submitted to funding agencies were available.
  - Centre for Information Quality Management (CIQM)
  - Key Metadata missing from the documentation list:
    - calibaration
    - location
  - Sensor Webs
    - Distinction between sensor networks (sensors communicating with each other in a device) and sensor webs (single entitiy sets of sensors)
    - Lots going on in the grid and OGC world...
  - JISC e-Research
  - COMPASS (Coastal Marine Perception Application for Scientific Scholarship)
- Next Steps:
  - Try to develop The JISC Geospatial Working Group?
    - JISC Geospatial Working Group Vision: Executive Summary
  - ...
- Actions
  - Email Roger Longhorn about coastline data.
References

Andy Turner's SDI Technical Architecture Workshop 2008-08-29 Web Page

Introduction

People

Documentation

Preparation

Notes

References

Validation and Metadata