Status Report: Outreach Activities
April 2017 - October 2017
Ethan Davis, Sean Arms, Jeff Weber, & Josh Young
Activities Since the Last Status Report
Continue to work with OGC to augment international CF-netCDF standards that have been established over the last several years and on phase 2 of ODIP.
Progress has been made on the following:
- Represent Unidata at OGC Technical Committee meetings
- Chair OGC NetCDF Standards Working Group
- Serve as UCAR business and technical representative to the OGC.
- Start transfer of responsibility to other staff for ongoing projects following Ben Domenico’s retirement
Dependencies, challenges, problems, and risks include:
- There is a question of what resources should be committed to these projects beyond the beginning of the 2017 calendar year when Ben retires from Unidata.
Collaborative project with George Mason University to make Unidata real time datasets available to researchers and educators in other disciplines
Progress has been made on the following:
- Maintained periodic contact with Liping Di, the GMU PI on the project.
- Did mid-course correction to objectives based on one year no cost extension to the project.
Dependencies, challenges, problems, and risks include:
- The one year extension enables us to use the remaining resources available in the project to accomplish tasks that are in line with the strategic goals for the new version of the TDS and to ensure that our data are available via standard interfaces such as those provided by the Data Discovery and Access Broker of the Italian CNR groupPython Workshop Notebooks on alternative platforms.
Due to reduced FTE commitment, no effort is being expended on cloud software developmen
Ongoing Activities
- Coordination and collaboration with NCAR GIS (e.g. advising the GIS Program on cloud workflows)- Josh Young and Jeff Weber
- Represent Unidata and UCAR in OGC - Ethan Davis
- Represent Unidata in ESIP - Ethan Davis
- Represent Unidata at CUASHI - Jeff Weber
- Continue as co-PI on Earthcube Cyberconnector project - Sean Arms
- Participate in ODIP 2 as resources allow - Mohan Ramamurthy
- Participate in the GOES-16, Pathfinder, and VIIRS data working groups at AWS - Jeff Weber
Note that the responsibility for these ongoing activities is being transferred to other staff.
New Activities
Explore CloudIDV product generation at the National Water Center
Participate in PREP (Partnership for Resilience and Preparation)
Areas for Committee Feedback
None at this time.
Strategic Focus Areas
We support the following goals described in Unidata Strategic Plan:
- Enable widespread, efficient access to geoscience data
Work with representatives of other disciplines and serve on their governing boards where appropriate, e.g., NCAR GIS for Geographic Information Systems, CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrological Science), ODIP (Ocean Data Interoperability Platform), etc. - Provide cyberinfrastructure leadership in data discovery, access, and use
Continue to work with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to augment international CF-netCDF standards that have been established over the last several years. - Build, support, and advocate for the diverse geoscience community
Serve as Co-Investigator on Earthcube Cyberconnector project which will make Unidata data available to a wide range of research and education communities beyond the traditional Unidata community.
Prepared April 2017