= 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 === === 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?