IT Working Group Report Moderators: Barbara Benson Fang-Pang Lin

Action Items Data Integration –Create technical document for XML-based data integration (Hsiu-Mei) –Get more GLEON data into GLEON Central Database XML path: UMBS (Kyle) Deployment package QA/QC Subgroup created (Hsiu-Mei, Matt Williamson, Kuo-Tai, and others (Corrina Gries, etc.) –Database should have both raw and cleaned data –Metadata in database that gives level of QA/QC –Annotation (flags) & versioning issues –Best practices document (Fang-Pang) Database expansion (design) and Role of standards Subgroup (Corinna Gries, Matt Willamson, Fang-Pang) + others –Ancillary info re: sites, sensors –Spatially distributed data –Sites metadata

Action Items continued … Statistics of data usage –Log of data use in GLEON data access web interface Post Luke transition –NCHC will take on maintenance of GLEON central database; new sites can contact NCHC delegation to include data into GLEON database –Expanded buoy data services: generate knowledge DataTurbine additional test sites –Kentucky L., others( UMBS Kyle, YYL)