1. GEOSS Future Products Workshop Session 5 Introduction & Agenda
Steven F. Browdy
OMS Tech, Inc.
IEEE
March 26-28, 2013

2. Introduction
This session is brought to you by the GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF).
Three previous interoperability workshops conducted.
Participating in this workshop in support of GEO Task IN-05.
Purpose: The SIF provides advice, expertise and impartial guidance
on issues relating to standards and interoperability for GEOSS.
Goal: Enabling ever greater degrees of interoperability among GEOSS
components through facilitation, technical analysis, advocacy and
education.
March 26-28, 2013

3. Agenda and BIOs
Vision on GEOSS Evolution: Towards a GEOSS for all stakeholders
Roberto Cossu (ESA, GEOWOW)
Working on several projects dealing with EO applications and related innovation technologies with the overall aim of providing users with “easy” access to heterogeneous EO data and related processing services for their exploitation.
Has acted as  Project Director of GENESI-DEC.
Currently Technical Director of GEOWOW.
March 26-28, 2013

4. Agenda and BIOs Linked Data: Another strategy for discovery and access
William Sonntag (US EPA)
Office of International & Tribal Affairs.
Office of Global Affairs and Policy.
Member of SIF Core team.
March 26-28, 2013

5. Agenda and BIOs Unique Identifiers within Systems of Systems
Joan Maso (CREAF, GeoViQua)
Co-developer of the OGC WMS, WFS and WCS server and client MiraMon technology, and the MiraMon metadata profile.
Active member of the OGC TC since 2003.
Spanish representative for the current ISO revision process.
Coordinator of the EC FP7 GeoViQua project.
President elect of the Earth and Space Science Informatics division of the EGU.
March 26-28, 2013

6. Agenda and BIOs
Brokering for Multi-Disciplinary Interopera-bility: An EarthCube perspective
Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa (NSIDC)
Performs research on remote sensing of the cryosphere.
Supports NASA's Earth Observing System.
Helped establish IEEE's Committee on Earth Observations, which serves as IEEE's representative to the Group on Earth Observation, GEO.
Was the original lead of the SIF and supports standards work in various domains.
March 26-28, 2013

7. Agenda and BIOs
Authentication, Single Sign-On, and User Management for GEOSS
Steven F. Browdy (OMS Tech, IEEE)
Works in EO data acquisition, processing, analysis, and metadata (primarily ocean and met data)
Member of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation
Co-Chair of the SIF
Works with the DSWG on data documentation and the GCI implementation of the Data Sharing Principles
Standards Registry representative to the GCI Providers group
March 26-28, 2013