20240416 Scientific Board Meeting Minutes

Owned by Hilde Orten
Aug 19, 2024
3 min read

Attendees:

Dan, Darren, Flavio, Hilde, Ingo, Jared, Wendy

Apologies:

Simon, Wolfgang

1. Admin info

 The DDI-CDI WG met for two full days at the CODATA offices in Paris, to focus on finalization of the second Candidate Release of the DDI-CDI 1.0 specification (CR2), and to work on related efforts for publication and support for adopters once the spec is released. 

Topics included: 

(1) preparing the draft specification for transfer to the Technical Committee for a final round of review and to start the approval process; Done

(2) organization of the Git repositories to be ready for the upcoming migration of DDI products from Bitbucket to Github; Done

(3) a revision and updating of the relevant DDI website pages; Done

(4) continuation of on-going work on additional syntax bindings; Turtle and XML done. Ontology Packages ready

(5) production of marketing collateral for the COSMOS and European Geosciences Union (EGU) meetings; Done

(6) planning for the resolution of namespaces for DDI-CDI resources In progress same platform as CVs + redirect to field level with possible publivation in summer

(7) preparation of a reference profile to help early adopters of DDI-CDI once released. In progress

-Production from model to representations

-Webinar presentation

 

      Slides are in the program. Proceedings will follow that include papers.

  • EB/SB meeting 2024-04-15

    • Funding requests for review and prioritization will be sent us asap after deadline April 22.

    • Priorities communicated to EB at latest by May 14th. 

    • Plan for SC meeting (see below)

  • Dan S. : Reach out to COSMOS about possible sponsorship? Dan S. to draft a proposal. 

Flavio and Arofan to keep Dan S. in the loop and decide on how coordinate? We need to work on a shared goal. Dan’s writeup can be a start. 

There is lot of interest of collaboration. 

2. Scientific Work Plan draft

The first draft of the plan was laid out by Darren, based on outcomes of the Bergen meeting, discussions at last year’s Annual SC Meeting, and recent work of Darren and Hilde in Paris.

Any thoughts and possible suggestions for changes are welcome.

The plan will allow us to focus on a specific priority at each SB meeting. 

Priority 3: To discuss with EB or Training?

3. Define work tasks to prepare for the Annual Meeting of the Scientific Community

Date and time Save the Dates + Registration: Virtual 2024 DDI Annual Meetings | Data Documentation Initiative

  • Program for a 2 hour time slot:

(1) Reporting 

  • from the work of the SB

  • from the working groups (all or some, invite speakers, who)?

(2) Plans

  • Strategic Plan? (Jon or Steve?)

  • Scientific Work Plan

  • WG plans (some or all?)

(3) Discussion

  • Prepare reports in advance for discussion.

  • One or two slides by each working group who is interested: 30 minutes

  • Working groups to raise questions - ask for engagement?

  • Make good use of the two hours

  • Website as a discussion topic? SC and Members - discuss what people need from this.

  • CDI intro and other SWP 2024 goals - discuss what people need from this.

4. Working groups

     Approved! Hilde will write to Hayley and Romain

5. Possible funding request(s) from the SB (deadline April 22)

  • Physical SB meeting in 2024 

  • Chur - 1 day before EDDI?

  • Darren and Hilde will put up a draft proposal this week. Wendy will need funding. Flavio will possibly not make it for EDDI. Will others need funding? 

 

6. DDI Alliance Website

Discussion will take place at the TC meeting tomorrow. Darren will write an email to the SB to sum up.