1. SIF Status to ADC Co-Chairs
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa
Steve Browdy

2. SIF Accomplishments
Development and refinement of SIF workflow process.
Identification and deployment of open source workflow system.
Design of experts database and definition of requirements for its linkage to the workflow system.
Accepted request from GEOSec to be GEOSS interoperability “help desk”:
Worked with NASA ECHO services to have them registered properly.
Based upon discussions w/ NASA and GMU, researched and decided on terms for Standards register entry associations, based on ebRIM.
Formation of Regional Teams.
Design of SIF web presence.

3. SIF Goals 2009
Automate workflow system interoperability with registries.
Refine process for review of standards and special interoperability arrangements.
Engage the Regional Teams
Outreach to make GEOSS users and participants more aware of the SIF’s role.
INSPIRE query regarding catalog service descriptions went to AIP
Deploy SIF web presence.

4. Registry Submission Review Process
Initial Screening
All required fields populated properly
Adherence to GEOSS Interoperability Principles
Standard is non-proprietary;
Standard is “open” meaning is that the specification is accessible by anyone. This does not preclude costs to purchase the standard;
Profiles of the standard are provided where required to make the standard specific enough for implementation;
Standard is well documented; and
Standard has support within at least one user community.
Based on the above, either the item is accepted as submitted or submitter is informed that further work is required
1. General Review of Standards Registry fields as submitted
Verification that all the fields which comprise an item submitted to the Standards Registry are correctly completed., The initial reviewer may also insert additional comments raised in analysing the submitted information.
Additionally, requirements on the contributor exist:
Commitment to maintain and improve interoperability,
Commitment to provide additional information as necessary.

5. Registry Submission Review Process, p. 2
Contributes to the overall GEOSS mission?
Suitable for wider use within GEOSS? Would wider adoption present any impediments to GEOSS objectives?
Applicable to communities or SBAs other than those identified?
Should the proposed item be showcased?
Should the contributor be made aware of other/similar standards?
Recommend that Contributor and/or contributor organisation play a bridging function between GEOSS components and Societal Benefit areas (SBAs)?
Inform contributor of complementary organisations wherewith linkages/partnerships may be established?
Relationship to entries in the Service & Component Registry, e.g. is the item referenced by many components and services; are there components and/or services in a similar domain that do not use the item?

6. Conclusion of Review Process
Outputs of the Review Process:
Recommendation in status change of item,
Feedback to contributor,
A set of proposed actions (to be ratified by SIF),
Recommendations, notifications to GEO Community,
Any additional comments for the attention of the SIF.

7. SIF Challenges Getting a broader complement of committed volunteers.
Implementing a rating system for standards and special arrangements
Based on usage to indicate successful interoperability endeavors.
Making SIF the clearinghouse of interoperability issues for GEOSS.

8. Schedule November 2008 SIF workflow system operational
SIF website operational
Refinement of SIF review process
December 2008
Engage regional teams in SIF tasks
January 2009
Start of SIF outreach activities
February 2009
Complete SIF review of existing registry entries
March 2009
Automate workflow system with Standards Registry
dependent on available resources

9. IP3 Status to ADC Co-Chairs
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa
Stefano Nativi

10. Two-way discussion on interoperability in terms of GEOSS’ broad goals and practical aspects and issues exposed in AIP
How IP3 Fits In
Help w/ Interoperability
Implementation Experience
Review of Special Arrangements
AIP
SIF
Mediation Capability
Scenarios
Process Refinement
IP3
Registries

11. IP3 Accomplishments
Analysis of cross-discipline interoperability requirements based on 5 user scenarios
Implementation of a Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity user scenario offering
An Ecological Niche Modeling server
An Ajax based client to interface the ENM server
Access to Local, Regional and Global climate change datasets (e.g. IPCC and TOPS data)
CSW-based discovery service to GBIF Species Distribution data

12. IP3 Goals
Host, register and operate the IP3 Mediator component for AIP, including:
A community (IP3) clearinghouse Catalogue Service
Interfaces to numerous disciplinary services based upon interoperability arrangements
The IP3 Team will participate in interoperability testing of the IP3 Mediator with other registered components and services to assist in the realization of selected SBA scenarios
Develop and register model interoperability arrangements along with specific mediation solutions, advancing concept of “Model Web.”

13. Identifying Unmet Needs
IP3 will make recommendations where existing standards are not currently meeting the needs of the disciplines including
draft recommendations to appropriate standards developing organizations based upon the GEOSS "Special Arrangements“ and forward to SIF
Model interoperability is ripe area

14. IP3 Challenges Integrating with one or more existing portals
Engage other multidisciplinary science communities
Develop cross-disciplinary use scenarios
Implement mediation services to discover and access resources based on special arrangements
Experiment process interoperability
Workflow for scientific resources registering, discovery and access
Experiment model servers interoperability
Workflow for registering, discovering and accessing model components

15. Schedule
November 2008
New cross-disciplinary use scenarios are designed
New Model resources to be registered and interfaced are recognized
February 2009
IP3 Clearinghouse/Mediator fully operational
Demonstration of the new cross-disciplinary use scenarios
Demonstration of the new model servers usage
Process interoperability workflow for Scientific resources is described and demonstrated. This is provided as a contribution to the GCI.
June 2009
Additional cross-disciplinary use scenarios and mediation services

16. Thank You!