NDG2 Project Board meeting via VC to RAL and BODC
18 June 2007
PML Actions
- E-mail around NEODAAS banner to NDG list + Kay and Richard at BODC.
- Bryan ready for PML DataGranules as soon as we get them into our MOLES, e.g. 2 weeks?
- Need granule names in CSML - minor change.
Finance
- All OK.
Staffing
- Fabio - leaving 31 July, handing over and documenting.
Highlight report
- Some issues on Discovery look and feel, rotating banner for various environmental images.
- Browse progressing - PML and NOCS. Firewall issues.
- Bryan using AJAX e.g. for calling vocab server.
- CSML2 good progress, parser, NetCDF, PML Images, QXF.
- Steve's Vis via OGC but found CSML bugs.
- BODC MOLES has been made available.
- CSML populated everywhere except NOCS.
- Everything due for completion! Discovery will just be a bit prettier than Glue version. Icons, banner, colour scheme. Need shopping cart and cookies, with same framework as Steve.
- Thursday showing Discovery etc. to ISG.
- Security - hopefully simple installation, then role mapping and back-end integration at each DP. So nothing stopping roll out to all DP...?
- NOCS need to generate DIF from MOLES rather than independently from DB.
- National all-hands e-Science meeting in early Sep., Phil/Bryan? giving NDG Security paper. Also Steven going.
- Oct. NERC Data Centres conference, so everything must be working then, Leamington Spa. Bryan/Roy? giving keynote talks.
- Bryan giving talk at Royal Society (+ paper in Phil. Trans.) in Feb 2008, so that should be the everything working time.
- Agt
Issues
- Discovery/browse performance - times out. Will have to leave as is, eXist problems so could use another: Torino? SleepyCat? Or improve schema.
Project planning
Extension
- PML contract ends 31 Oct. (NOCS ends 30 Sep.), Bryan will be asking for no-cost extension until 31 Dec. 2007, for all partners.
NDG3?
- ENDGAIM not funded under EO Mission Support. Problems related to lack of deployment/usage of NDG2, e.g. website still showing 'new' icon on NDG1 Alpha.
- Security stuff - Phil got funding from OMIC for 14 months, repackaging from Twisted to Whiskey(?) plus more stuff.
- Interim proposal for 5 FTE to continue development/deployment of NDG2 technology. E-Science mtg discussions. But no interim money for BADC (as DP), BODC, PML, NOCS, etc. Possibly BAS and BGS next instead. Clear water between NDG and BADC.
- ISG/SISB paper ask for interim funding, long term goals inc. NDG.
- Ned E-Science - 'medium-sized initiative', possibly CSML and Vocab.
- NERC KT proposal round - Andrew Woolf - CSML + Met Office, NCOF? Operational met forecasting, etc.
- Helen - front-end dev, e.g. including ESSC Godiva to design interface, maybe with security attached.
- Bryan - NDG 'company' with licencing from Data Providers?
Final phase timetable
- End Aug: Finish technical stuff.
- End Sep: Finish documentation.
Deliverables, product defn
- Single python stack - easyInstall ndg (if you have fastCGI already). easyInstall csml.
- Plus all the docs, etc. In a ticket already.
Documentation
- Deadline end Sep..? Kev do MOLES.
- Format - any, e.g. Word doc, Openoffice. Will eventually go out as PDF. Stick with old NDG template. But probably replace with the new discovery logo.
NERC Liason event
- See above, Oct in Leamington Spa.
Risks review
AOB
- Bryan - recent DMAG meeting on metadata requirements, improving discovery content for NDG Discovery. Try to pull other parties to NDG line and standards.
- Final project board + all hands (+party!) in November. Abingdon by the river, Cosyness house?