Conference Call Notes 20090427

REAP call April 27, 2009

Participants

Review of past action items

• Wang & Crawl - working on SST usecase in dist environment. Matlab actor presenting a problem right now: it has to be initialized for each token.
• Not an issue to be addressed until performance issues actually surface
• TODO: Bowers -- will post mockup on Kepler site for tagging system
• TODO: Jones -- budget for wokshops
• TODO: Barseghian: Engineering view usecase. Work w/ Seabloom to test McL data. Finish McL deployment. Post about needs for module communication

Ocean use case data discovery

• extension of the DAP system, uses NcML for metadata fragments that get converted via XSLT to EML for searching in a central catalog
• see James' overview page: http://docs.opendap.org/index.php/REAP_Cataloging_and_Searching
• see design figure in overview page
• http://docs.opendap.org/index.php/AIS_Using_NcML
• overview of risks of this approach
• main issue is lack of UI in Kepler , so this would need to be designed and implemented as well
• will discuss Kepler UI in subsequent project meeting, possibly ask someone more familiar with Kepler to do the UI
• TODO: James will create a project page that points at all of this content

Round the room

• no additional issues