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ENV.2010.4.1.2-2
Integrating new data visualisation approaches of
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FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development Table of Contents
1. Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................5 2. Cooperation with other relevant projects and initiatives ....................................................................5 2.1 Cooperation with other FP7 projects.................................................................................................5 2.1.1 UncertWeb ....................................................................................................................................5 2.1.2 EGIDA ...........................................................................................................................................6 2.1.3 EuroGEOSS..................................................................................................................................9 2.1.4 GEOWOW ....................................................................................................................................9 2.1.5 EO2HEAVEN ................................................................................................................................9 2.1.6 COBWEB ....................................................................................................................................10 2.1.7 CharMe. ......................................................................................................................................11 2.1.8 GEO Balkans ..............................................................................................................................11 2.1.9 New proposal: OpenDataGEOSS...............................................................................................12 2.1.10 New proposal: ECOPotential..................................................................................................12 2.1.11 New proposal: ConnectinGEO ...............................................................................................13 2.2 Cooperation with standardization organizations .............................................................................13 2.2.1 OGC OWS-9 ...............................................................................................................................13 2.2.2 OGC OWS-10 .............................................................................................................................15 2.2.3 OGC Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group Charter (OGC 14-020). February
21, 2014 ...................................................................................................................................................16 2.2.4 IEEE standardization of the GEO label ......................................................................................20 2.2.5 CEN ............................................................................................................................................21 2.2.5.1 Joint CEN/TC 287 and OGC Workshop (ESA – ESRIN, 30/9/2013) .................................21 2.2.5.2 Inclusion of the GeoViQua Results and deliverables into the CEN repository. .................23 2.2.6 ISO ..............................................................................................................................................23 2.3 Cooperation with European and GEO initiatives ............................................................................27 2.3.1 INSPIRE conference (23rd - 27th June 2013, Florence, Italy) ...................................................27 2.3.2 GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Network ............................................................29 2.3.2.1 1rt GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop ............................................29 2.3.2.2 2nd GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop ..........................................29 2.3.3 GEOSS EUROPEAN PROJECTS WORKSHOP (GEPW) ........................................................30 2.3.3.1 GEPW-5 .............................................................................................................................30 2.3.3.2 GEPW-6 .............................................................................................................................31 2.3.3.3 GEPW-7 .............................................................................................................................31 2.4 Cooperation with other international institutions .............................................................................42 2.4.1 IGARSS 2012 .............................................................................................................................42 2.4.2 EARSC general assembly ..........................................................................................................42 2.4.3 European Geospatial Union........................................................................................................43 2.4.4 Earthcube....................................................................................................................................43 2.4.4.1 Earthcube meeting in Bremen Germany (21/9/2012) ........................................................43 2.4.4.2 EarthCube Session at the OGC Quarterly Meeting in DC (March 2014) ..........................44 2.5 Cooperation with local initiatives .....................................................................................................45 2.5.1 Catalan Cartographic Institute (ICC) ..........................................................................................45 3. Conclusions ...........................................................................................................................................45 4. Annex A. Scientific Publication Citation, Contribution from GeoViQua to this task ......................47 4.1 Introduction .....................................................................................................................................47 4.2 Dataset-Publication Relationship ....................................................................................................49 4.2.1 Examples of publications sorted by data reference purpose ......................................................49 4.2.2 Some thoughts on the design .....................................................................................................50 FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development 5. Annex B. Letter on GeoViQua Project application for “project liaison” with CEN/TC 287 ............53 6. Annex D. Complete comments on ISO/CD 19115-1............................................................................36 7. Annex D. Letter of the EC requesting the organization of the GEPW7 ............................................41 8. Annex E. Amendment request letter to incorporate OGC to the project .........................................42 9. Annex F. Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group Charter (OGC 14-020)................45 Figures
Figure 1: Presentation of the results of the OWS-10 testbed in Cristal City USA in March
2014 .................................................................................................................................. 15 Figure 2: Motion to approve the creation of the Geospatial User Feedaback .................... 20 Figure 3: CEN meeting in Frascati in September 2013 ..................................................... 23 Figure 4: A picture of the INSPIRE 2013 Workshop organized by GeoViQua: “Quality
Information Workshop: from dataset quality to individual sample” ..................................... 28 Figure 5: Agenda of the GEPW-6 ...................................................................................... 31 Figure 6: Map of the venue entrance to the GEPW7 ......................................................... 32 Figure 7: Details of the building for the GEPW7 ................................................................ 32 Figure 8: Plenary room (left) and split session room (right) for the GEPW7 ...................... 33 Figure 9: Split session rooms for the GEPW7 ................................................................... 33 Figure 10: GEPW7 website ............................................................................................... 34 Figure 11: Picture with some of the GEPW-7 assistants ................................................... 34 Figure 12 Social dinner place ............................................................................................ 40 Figure 13: Pictures of the GEPW7 event. .......................................................................... 41 Figure 14: A video about the GEPW7. ............................................................................... 41 Figure 15: Relation of main participants in IGARSS 2012 ................................................. 42 Figure 16 GeoViQua in the EarthCube parallel event in the lat OGC TC slide. ................. 44 Figure 17 First slide of the GeoViQua presentation to the PCC technical committee. ....... 45 FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development 1. Introduction
The objective of this deliverable is to enumerate and describe the cooperation with other
relevant projects and initiatives, including other FP7 project, new possible h2020
projects, cooperation with standardization organizations, cooperation with European and
GEO initiatives and cooperation with other institutions.
Cooperation with OGC standards process is partially described because more details
about OGC participation from the beginning of the project to 31/07/2013 can be found in
D8.1 OGC, ISO standards participation and contributions report.
Cooperation with GEO components, task and boards is not described in this deliverable
because they are reported in D8.6 GEO tasks (STC, SIF and UIC) participation results.
Participation in the AIP experiments are not described here because it is included in
D8.4 Second annual report on AIP participation (AIP6) and D8.3 First annual report on
AIP participation (AIP4-5).
This deliverable includes all content in Deliverable 1.7 and adds the relevant
cooperation actions produced after August 2012.
2. Cooperation with other relevant projects and initiatives
During the execution of the GeoViQua project several other projects have been
developing simultaneously. Some of these projects are the UncertWeb, EGIDA,
EUROGEOSS, GEOWOW, EO2HEAVEN, GEOBalkans, COBWeb and CharMe. We
also collaborate with other initiatives such as the IGARSS-2012 conference, EARSC
general assembly, the OGC OWS-9, the OGC AIP5, CEN European normalization
organization, ISO and we have participated in the GEPW 5 in London and the GEPW 6
in Rome. A very important initiative to contribute to the spreading of the GeoViQua
activities and results with other European projects is the organization of GEPW7 next
year. The European Commission have just confirmed that GEPW7 will be held in
Barcelona and organized by CREAF.
This has allowed building synergies and sharing the knowledge gather while elaborating
the GeoViQua project and the other initiatives. In this deliverable we are going to
describe the projects with which some kind of cooperation has been done, as well as the
specific contributions of GeoViQua to the different projects.
2.1
2.1.1
Cooperation with other FP7 projects
UncertWeb
UncertWeb is an EC funded research project running from February 2010 to January
2013 developing the uncertainty enabled model web. The model Web concept,
formulated within the Global Earth Observation System of Systems activity envisages
the integration of complex resources, such as data and models, to construct complex
models, composed of chains of model and data components exposed as web services.
This offers exciting opportunities for model development in a more loosely coupled,
component oriented manner, encouraging sharing, re-use and easy access.
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FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development UncertWeb builds on the Model Web concept and contribute to it by supporting
accountable uncertainty representation and propagation. A range of different tools and
extended standards are necessary to uncertainty-enable web services. First of all
UncertWeb further develops UncertML(www.uncertml.org), which is an XML (Extensible
MarkupLanguage) encoding designed for encapsulating probabilistic uncertainties. This
encoding is necessary for interoperable communication of uncertainty between web
services. The flexibility of XML encodings is high, but for larger datasets such as spatial
grids, UncertWeb will also contribute to extended standards for netCDF (network
Common Data Form). NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software
libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the
creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
NetCDF-U is based on a generic mechanism for annotating netCDF variables according
to the UncertML conceptual model. NetCDF-U is convention-neutral, in particular it
integrates with the netCDF Climate and Forecast Conventions.
Within GeoViQua UncertWeb, it is proposed the UncertML as a means of improving the
treatment of data quality in GEOSS, alongside QA4EO.
2.1.2
EGIDA
EGIDA prepares a sustainable process promoting coordination of activities carried out
by: the GEO Science & Technology (S&T) Committee; S&T national and European
initiatives; and other S&T Communities. Even though, GEOSS committees have been
transformed into Boards (GEO Work Plan 12-15). This is done by supporting broader
implementation and effectiveness of the GEOSS S&T Roadmap and the GEOSS
mission through coherent and interoperable networking of National and European
projects, as well as other international initiatives.
EGIDA delivers evaluation processes, tests and assessment indexes, expertise
databases, a “GEO Label” concept, surveys, and other instruments that link relevant
European S&T communities to GEOSS while ensuring that it is built using state-of-theart science and technology. Through co-ordination with the GEOSS S&T Committee
(five co-chairs are involved in EGIDA), these deliverables strongly contribute to the GEO
S&T Roadmap implementation. For European countries, EGIDA delivers the EGIDA
Methodology, a sustainable mechanism based on the GEO S&T approach at national
and regional level, to coordinate national multi-disciplinary “System of Systems”. This
builds on existing national initiatives and European projects, and facilitates the
European S&T Community contributions to and interactions with GEOSS. The EGIDA
Methodology improves development and management of S&T infrastructures (i.e.
sensors, data, processing services, and environmental modelling infrastructures),
supporting mobilization of the resources needed to contribute effectively to GEOSS.
EGIDA involves developing countries by transferring the EGIDA S&T methodology to
them and implementing three specific use cases: two regional use-cases (Balkan
region, Mediterranean region) and a pan-European thematic use-case (Air Quality and
Health). EGIDA is embedded within a wide Network of Stakeholders selected to
represent the various actors (science teams and institutions, S&T programmes, GEO
components) and the scientific fields relevant to the nine GEOSS SBAs.
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FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development As stated in the first EGIDA deliverable (EGIDA 2010), the initial framework for the
implementation of the GEO S&T Roadmap is provided by two S&T Tasks in the GEO
Work Plan 2009-2011, Tasks ST-09-01 “Catalyzing Research and Development (R&D)
Funding for GEOSS”, and ST-09-02 “Promoting Awareness and Benefits of GEO in the
Science and Technology Community”. Recently, the GEO Work Plan 2012-2015
establishes new four tasks, amongst which we find: “Institutions and Development” Task
ID-03 on “Science and Technology in GEOSS” (GEO 2011).
Many of the activities in Task ID-03 (Science and Technology in GEOSS) are
continuations of the activities started by ST-09-02.
GeoViQua collaboration in the tasks
According to the GEO tasks EGIDA have to contribute to the next tasks (Plag 2011), on
our side; GeoViQua is also contributing to the achievement of them.
 Facilitate the science and the technology needed to utilize the benefits of Earth
observations:
o Respond to the needs of science and research;
o Support the development of decision support tools.

The GEO S&T Road Map details two Activities:
o Actively engage and incorporate S&T participants in developing GEOSS;
o Create incentives and promote GEO in S&T Communities
o Facilitate the science and technology required to utilize the societal
benefits of GEOSS and Earth observations

Actively engage and incorporate S&T communities in developing GEOSS

Create incentives and promote GEO in S&T communities

Facilitate the R&D required to utilize GEOSS and Earth observations for decision
support
In order to accomplish the previous tasks, different GeoViQua partners are contributing
to the ID-03 GEO Task group, in which monthly teleconferences are scheduled. Bellow,
it is presented an abstract list of commitments that GeoViQua is developing with other
EGIDA partners.
 Sub-Activity 2.1. GEOSS citation standard (See Annex B)
GeoViQua Producer Quality model includes a way to cite publications that talk
about data. This is the inverse problem but it is deeply related to the GEOSS
citation standard.

Sub-Activity 2.2. GEO Label (See Annex A)
Geo Label activity is one of the main objectives of the GeoViQua project. This
effort is lead by Aston and will be tested by UAB in GeoViQua.
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Sub-Activity 3.2. Inform organizations about GEO and GEOSS.
CREAF have been working on resurfacing the GEO Spain national initiatives. We
also have been pushing for creating an S&T section on it.

Sub-Activity 3.3. Establish a dialog and foster cooperation between GEO and
maily CREAF have also done that at the Spanish national level in EGIDA.

Sub-Activity 5.1. Enhancing registration of relevant scientific data sets (Roadmap
Activity 2e).
All pilot cases in GeoviQua are being registered in CSR and we will stimulate this
process in GeoViQua advisory board.

Sub-Activity 5.4. The GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Network.
GeoViQua has participated in previous meetings and is willing to continue
collaborating on this. After EGIDA project concludes (September 2012),
GeoViQua could increment the commitment on this for a year and a half more.
GeoViQua collaboration in dissemination
Also, both EGIDA and GeoViQua projects have been collaborating in dissemination
activities; following, the list of past and future events are listed.
Past activities:
 Earth Observations for the Social Benefit of the Balkans Post-GEO Workshop;
Istanbul, November 2011. EGIDA jointly organized a Workshop with the
OBSERVE and BalkanGeoNet FP7 projects to discuss about "Earth
Observations for the Social Benefit of the Balkans". This was a good opportunity
to present both EGIDA and GeoViQua progress and to establish the collaboration
between the two projects.

EGU; Vienna April 2012. GeoViQua, in collaboration with EGIDA, prepared and
submitted an extended abstract on the GEO label and its development progress
to the EGU 2012 conference. The submission was accepted as a poster
presentation and both GeoViQua and EGIDA presented posters on the GEO
label concept, its development process, first GEO label study results, and further
plans of development. EGIDA also organised a splinter meeting which included
two GEO label presentations given by GeoViQua and EGIDA projects. The EGU
splinter meeting also included an active discussion about further steps in the
GEO label development.

IGARSS; Munich July 2012. GeoViQua, EGIDA and MiraMon share a stand in
IGARSS 2012. The poster: "Emerging data quality from GEOSS integrated
clearinghouses" was presented. See section 2.5 IGARSS2012 of this document
for the extended explanation.
Coming activities in 2012
Science and Technology Stakeholders and Communities of Practice Workshop.
- August 28-31, 2012, Bonn, Germany
- Topic: GEOSS: a utility for Earth sciences in service of society
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EuroGEOSS
EuroGEOSS is a large scale integrated project in the Seventh Framework programme of
the European Commission. It is part of the thematic area: "ENV.2008.4.1.1.1: European
environment Earth observation system supporting INSPIRE and compatible with
GEOSS.
GeoViQua has participated in the EuroGEOSS 2012 conference (Advancing the vision
for GEOSS) in Madrid on January 25-27th. There, 2 presentations were presented:
- Analysis of the Quality Metadata in GEOSS Clearinghouse. E. Sevillano, P. Díaz, M.
Ninyerola, J. Masó, A. Zabala, X. Pons
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2.1.4
GeoViQua: the quality challenges for GEOSS. X. Yang, J. Blower, D. Cornford,
V. Lush,
J. Masó, A. Zabala, D. Nüst
GEOWOW
GEOWOW is a project, co-funded under the European Community's Seventh
Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement nº 282915 in response
to call ENV.2011.4.1.3-1 “Interoperable integration of Shared Earth Observations in the
Global Context”. It is implemented by a consortium of 15 partners from Europe, Brazil
and Japan and is coordinated by the Italian establishment of the European Space
Agency (ESA-ESRIN) in Frascati. The project’s kick-off date was 1st September 2011
and its duration is 3 years.
GEOWOW will benefit by the advances and solutions that GeoViQua will propose on
data quality search and visualization. Quality-aware search functionality, user-rating
capability following the web 2.0 trend, metadata standards enhancements, low
bandwidth and quality visualisation techniques are a few of GeoViQua’s objectives that
should be considered for in the forthcoming architectural design of GEOWOW.
The collaboration between the two projects will be possible by the participation in the
AIP initiatives where GeoViQua will regularly introduce and share its components and
results, especially regarding the Unique and Universal identifier for the GEOSS tutorial;
or by direct communication.
2.1.5
EO2HEAVEN
Through the GeoViQua partner 52°North a link to the European FP7 project
EO2HEAVEN was established. Within EO2HEAVEN the complex relationships between
health and environmental influences are investigated. Of the three use case scenarios
covered by EO2HEAVEN, especially the activities regarding the link between air quality
and respiratory as well as cardio-vascular diseases are of interest to GeoViQua.
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FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development An important subject for the cooperation with EO2HEAVEN is the so called Air Quality
Egg, a low-cost air quality sensing device. Within EO2HEAVEN project the use of this
device is investigated in order to increase the density of air quality observations so that
a better coverage is achieved. A continuous exchange regarding the Air Quality Egg
was established with EO2HEAVEN.
2.1.6
COBWEB
COBWEB brings together expertise from 13 partners and 5 countries. The main context
for the project is the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and the
UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). Concentrating on Biosphere
Reserves in Wales, Germany and Greece, the main aim is to create a testbed
environment which will enable citizens living within Biosphere Reserves to collect
environmental data using mobile devices. Information of use for policy formation and
delivery will be generated by quality controlling the crowdsourced data and aggregating
with Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) type reference data from authoritative sources. In
the process the project aims to build up shared expertise in these new and developing
technologies and understand how crowdsourcing/citizen science techniques combined
with SDI-like initiatives can deliver both societal and commercial benefits.
Chris Higgins, the COBWeb coordinator, offered the possibility to organize one of the
project meetings in the in EDINA facilities in Edinburgh, September 9th and 10th. The
meeting was co-located with a COBWEB project meeting in a way that project members
of both projects could talk during the coffee and lunch breaks. In the afternoon of both
days, both project meet together and exchange presentations. In the first afternoon, the
presentations where focussed on CobWeb activities and needs. In second afternoon,
GeoViQua partners presented what GeoViQua could offer to CobWeb. These are the
agendas of both meeting parts.
15:50- 18:00
GeoViQua and COBWeb
meeting
Presentations about COBWeb quality
needs
15:50 - 16:10
Chris Higgins
General overview of the COBWeb project
16:10 - 15:30
Joan Masó
General overview of the GeoViQua topics
15:40 - 17:15
Didier Leibovici, James Reid
COBWEB Project Activities and quality
needs
17:15 - 18:00
All
Discussion
15:50 - 18:00
GeoViQua and COBWeb
meeting
GeoViQua topics relevant for COBWeb
15:50 - 16:10
Lucy Bastin
Introduction to uncertainty and soft
knowledge
16:10 - 16:30
Maud van den Broek
GeoViQua User Feedback system
16:30 - 16:45
Jon Blower
Quality visualization at the pixel/feature
level
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Miquel Ninyerola
Uncertainty interpolation
17:05 - 17:20
Joan Maso
Provenance information
17:20 - 18:00
All
Other topics and discussion
After this meeting, emails were exchanged between projects and some of the GeoViQua
components were tested by CobWeb people. Since CobWeb is still under development,
it is still difficult to see how fruitful this contact has been. The coordinator and some
partners will continue working to guarantee the maximum possible outreach to CobWeb.
2.1.7
CharMe.
The CHARMe project aims to allow users to view or create annotations that describe
how climate data has been used and what has been learned. This information can
include:
 Citations that reference a particular dataset;
 Results of assessments - reanalysis, quantitative error assessments;
 Provenance - processing algorithms and chain data source;
 External events that may affect the data - volcanic eruptions, El Nino, sensor
failure;
 Supplementary dataset quality information - maturity, discontinuity, updates.
Some of these items were already addressed by the GeoViQua model. The coordinator
of CharMe is the University of Reading that at the same time is partner in GeoViQua.
The intentions of the University of Reading and Jon Blower is to take advantage and use
of the GeoViQua developments and continue in the same direction extending the
GeoViQua model when needed.
2.1.8
GEO Balkans
It has been found that the Balkan countries do not have a coherent and continuous
approach towards the challenge of implementing integrated Earth Observation (EO)
applications in environmental monitoring and management. The defect in the
implementation of EO applications and their use in the environmental decision making,
are manifested through the limited synergies among national and regional institutions,
ineffective technological means and discontinuous record of participation to international
organizations and committees. On the other hand, the increasing importance of a
common approach towards effective environmental monitoring practices, for the benefit
of the societal web of the broader Balkan region, calls for immediate action, setting as a
starting point the built up of regional institutional capacity and spillage of technology
transfer.
GeoViQua has collaborated with the GEO Balkans local initiative, especially in the Earth
Observations for the Social Benefit of the Balkans Post-GEO Workshop
(http://www.postgeo-ws.itu.edu.tr) on 18-19/11/2011. On that event, a presentation
about GeoViQua benefits on quality data information was made.
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FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development Figure 2. Agenda of the GEO Balkans programme
2.1.9
New proposal: OpenDataGEOSS
With the objective of continue part of the efforts and results after the GeoViQua project
finalization, CREAF has participated in a consortium scientifically lead by JRC in
response to the ENV.2013.6.5-3 topic call with the full title Open Data: Linking Science,
Citizens and GEOSS. In this proposal, there is a task dedicated to quality and trust,
where we hope some results of the GeoViQua project could be adapted to the open
data initiatives in GEOSS.
Unfortunately, the project got through the first stage but was not selected in the second
stage.
2.1.10 New proposal: ECOPotential
With the objective of the coordinator participation in the ECOPotential proposal is to
continue part of the efforts and results after the GeoViQua project finalization, CREAF
has participated in a consortium scientifically lead by CNR in response to the SC-162014 topic call with the full title Improving Future Ecosystem Benefits Through Earth
Observations. In this proposal, the CREAF is leading WP3 and it is going to apply
quality and uncertainty practices coming from GeoViQua into the Remote Sensing
production chain developed in the ECOPotential. The data will be integrated in GEOSS.
This is a two stages project and first stage proposal has just been submitted.
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With the objective of coordinating a new CSA about GEOSS, CREAF has included
CNR, 52N and S&T Corp in a new proposal for doing gap analysis in the EO networks
GEOSS and to create a network of earth observation networks. One of the aspects in
the gap analysis is the availability of good data quality information. This activity will help
to continue some of the GeoViQua objectives after the GeoViQua project finalization,
CREAF leading this proposal in response to the SC-18-2014a topic call with the full title
Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ
to fill the Gaps in European Observations. The results on the project can impact in new
funding activities in the future.
This is a one stage project and the proposal has just been submitted.
2.2
2.2.1
Cooperation with standardization organizations
OGC OWS-9
GeoViQua contribution to OWS-9 is structured in 4 main directions: OWS-Context (CCI);
Data provenance (CCI); WMTS harmonization (OWSI); and Data quality in map services
(OWSI). To make this collaboration more clear GeoViQua is negotiating with the
commission an amendment of the Grant Agreement to allow OGC to be partner in the
project and get some small budget to organize quality related activities in OWS-9.
Activities in WMS-Q and provenance are the ones that are results of this collaboration.
The proposed contribution impacts on the following deliverable list:
- CCI-9: OWS-9 CCI OWS Context evaluation Engineering Report,
- CCI-11: OWS Context encoding examples for CCI,
- CCI-15: CCI Integrated Client.
- OWSI-4 OWS-9 OWS Innovations Map Tiling Methods Harmonization
Engineering Report
- OWSI-6 WMTS Change Requests
- OWSI-7 WMTS Service (unfunded)
- OWSI-5 OWS-9 OWS Innovations Data Quality for Web Mapping Engineering
Report
OWS-Context (CCI)
GeoViQUa will continue developing the integrated OWS client (WMS, WCS, WFS and
WMTS) that incorporated WMTS OWS-6, by extending it to support the new version of
OWS Context. It is a HTML+Javascript client, so it is the right environment to test Atom,
JSON and HTML5 encodings. We also propose to test Atom in a desktop application
solution developed in C. We propose to define encoding example files, test them in the
client and report the lessons learned in an ER. These are the 3 work items where we
want to participate:
- CCI-9: OWS-9 CCI OWS Context evaluation Engineering Report,
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CCI-11: OWS Context encoding examples for CCI,
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CCI-15: CCI Integrated Client.
Data provenance (CCI)
The integrated OWS client (WMS, WCS, WFS and WMTS) presents layers metadata as
an HTML page that is a transformation of an ISO19139 XML file. We propose to
enhance this transformation to present provenance information in a tree style that can
link with the records of the previous datasets that were used to generate these ones.
We also propose to explode id, href (and eventually the uuid uuidref) that can be used to
reduce the length and redundancy of the provenance description by linking to the
provenance of the source instead of repeating it. This will be done in the context of the
following work item
- CCI-15: CCI Integrated Client.
But it is deeply related with Aviation-11: OWS-9 Aviation Metadata & Provenance ER
WMTS harmonization (OWSI)
In OWS-6 WMTS standard draft was tested and the lessons learned where incorporated
in WMTS 1.0. Several implementations of different standards are still competing with
WMTS. There are 2 different problems. On one hand we have standards that are similar
but can not be directly supported by WMTS (such as TileCache that orders the J axes in
the opposite direction; in fact TileCache can be configured to invert the J axe and
generate compatible WMTS tile indices), we also have new approaches to store tiles
directly in databases such as MBTiles and we have the mass market providers such
Google and Bing tiles that are influencing OpenStreetMap to adopt the same tile pattern
that actually is a WMTS RESTful pattern but they don’t recognize it (they just lack a
ServiceMetadata document!). A set of suggestions to harmonize the panorama has to
be collected in an ER and some modification on WMTS can be requested to better
support other implementations (such as supporting direct and reversed J ordering) in the
change request form. Some of these changes can also be tested in a WMTS service
and client. We propose to do this in the context of the:
- OWSI-4 OWS-9 OWS Innovations Map Tiling Methods Harmonization
Engineering Report
-
OWSI-6 WMTS Change Requests
-
OWSI-7 WMTS Service (unfunded)
Data quality in map services (OWSI)
With the proliferation of WMS services the need to be able to choose between different
products based on their quality metadata has increased. Also, each pixel in the data can
have associated a different uncertainty. There is a need to have an ER that can
eventually become a quality profile for WMS. We propose to work collaboratively with
others in this task and focus the results on this deliverable:
- OWSI-5 OWS-9 OWS Innovations Data Quality for Web Mapping Engineering
Report
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OGC OWS-10
GeoViQua coordinator has continued collaborating in the OWS-10 in topics that has
some interest form the GeoViQua point of view but also on other topics. CREAF
participation has in 3 main directions: OWS-Context (CCI); Data provenance (CCI);
Geospatial annotations (OMT). This time, OGCE is not involved in this activities as a
project partner.
The proposed contribution impacts on the following deliverable list:
- Context JSON Interoperability Engineering Report
- Provenance Engineering Report,
- Annotation Engineering Report,
OWS-Context (CCI)
CREAF has been the co-editor of the OWS-Context JSON encoding Engineering report,
validating the encoding the editor of the ER proposes.
Provenance (CCI)
This time we have been experimenting with ISO lineage to express not just dataset level
but also feature and attribute level provenance. We also tried to use RDF encoding and
the W3C Prov standards to describe the provenance information. CREAF will edit in
collaboration from the Yolanda Gil, provenance expert at USC's Information Sciences
Institute (ISI). The results of this discussion will be recorded in an ER.
Geospatial annotations (OMT)
CREAF has also been working releasing a simple model for annotations that can be
used in several encoding models in OGC. This model will be extendable and will allow
for data quality annotation. The results of this discussion will be recorded in an ER.
Figure 1: Presentation of the results of the OWS-10 testbed in Cristal City USA in March 2014
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(OGC 14-020). February 21, 2014
The OGC members listed below have proposed the OGC Geospatial User Feedback
SWG. The creation of a new OGC Standards Working Group has been approved in the
last OGC TC in Washington DC. Now the formation of the new group will soon start.
The SWG proposal has initially been written in a official charter. Technical discussions
may occur no sooner than the SWG's first meeting.
The Geospatial User Feedback SWG is established with the following proposed
activities:
1. Review the GeoViQua User Feedback Model (UFM; sometimes referred as
Consumer Quality Model or User Quality Model) UML and XML schema that
is currently included in the version 4 of the GeoViQua General Quality model
(http://schemas.geoviqua.org/GVQ/4.0/) and determine the best way to bring
it into the OGC process.
2. Reach out to experts in online collaboration (e.g. on the topic of wikis) and
scientific peer review processes to harvest existing research and experiences.
3. Refine which feedback items are more useful for users, producers and
distributors, and discern what concepts can be easily understood by users
and what others are less attractive as feedback items due to their descriptive
and technical complexity.
4. Investigate how to best incorporate the UFM into the OGC standards framework
(and the ISO 19115 Metadata model) including identifying places where there
may be common elements in existing standards. Identify required best
practices for data owner to allow users to comment on the metadata
accessible through OGC data services such as WFS, WCS, and SOS.
5. Develop a UFM standard.
6. Assist the current implementations of the GeoViQua Quality model in the
migration to the final agreed UFM standard.
7. Investigate the need for a revision of the OGC abstract model to include the User
Feedback concept for Geospatial information.
8. Consider the standardization of a User Feedback query API or service interface
and its relation to the CSW standards and impact on the GEO label concept.
9. Interact with other DWGs about challenges of globally identifying datasets and
multilingual metadata.
10. Support upcoming research projects and implementers in taking up the
GeoViQua UFM and the existing software implementations.
The work in the GeoViQua User Feedback Model was conducted by several OGC
members (such as: UAB-CREAF, Aston University, Fraunhofer Institute, 52°North, ESA
and CNR) that are also OGC members. OGCE is also partner of GeoViQua project.
During the GeoViQua project several implementations of the User Feedback Model
were developed by S&T Corp. (User feedback API and GUI interface for User Feedback
creation and database), CNR (Discovery and Access Broker integration and another
User Feedback creation database), ESA and 52°North (GEOSS Portal integration,
XMLBeans for GeoViQua Quality Model) and Aston University (GEO label API,
Feedback Model Encoding Schema) and this will be the bases for the SWG.
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The user feedback has been identified by GeoViQua interviews as one of the quality
components that users appreciate. It is only a small feature in the ISO 19115 Model
called MD_Usage with only 4 parameters. One of the problems to solve is gaining
consensus on a user feedback model that is simple enough for user to understand, easy
enough to implement for wide adoption, and powerful enough to allow experts to
carefully report. Existing user feedback models are found to be too simplistic and they
lack the geospatial component. The GeoViQua User Feedback Model is a starting point
for this discussion.
Most OGC standards are based on underlying conceptual models. These may either
exist as Abstract Specifications or as part of the standards themselves. As far as we
know, there is no mention to the user feedback concept in the OGC Abstract
specification and we can consider trying to include it or simply to create an abstract
representation of the User feedback Model in UML. Then there is a need for an
encoding. GeoViQua proposes an XML encoding, which can be easily combined with
the ISO 19139 metadata XML encoding, but also acknowledges requirements from
mainstream IT and the increasingly app-centric development to support encodings such
as JSON.
So the first step of the group is to create a conceptual model. This will serve the
purposes of creating encodings.
Because the OGC standard for modeling concepts is the Unified Modeling Language
(UML), it is proposed that the Geospatial User Feedback model is developed by this
SWG and is documented using UML.
User feedback catalogue
After the encoding is formalized, there is a need for being able to catalogue (create,
read, update, delete) the Geospatial User Feedback. In GeoViQua a specific User
Feedback RESTful API was designed and developed for easy deployment of a solution
and a solution was published as open source software on GitHub. In OGC, the common
way to do it seems to be as a CSW profile. This SWG will consider the possibility of
creating such a profile and to also adopt OWS common in the process.
We have to take into consideration the different lifetimes of producer metadata
(generated before or during a product release) and consumer user feedback (generated
after the dataset publication). In dead, a catalogue of user feedback case is a bit
different of a normal metadata catalogue because the first requires frequent updates
coming from small contributions by many users. Also, it seems important that the
catalogue is able to return summary statistics from the row feedback such as average
ratings, avoiding the need to do this on client side. Also in a user feedback database
security controls: user authentication and user moderation is paramount.
For that reason, this SWG will consider to start the work on catalogues when the
Geospatial User Feedback model is found mature enough.
Purpose of this Standards Working Group
The purpose of the Geospatial User Feedback SWG is to develop User Feedback
standards.
The SWG will ensure that all standards are consistent with the OGC standards baseline
and business plan.
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1. a conceptual model for Geospatial User Feedback,
2. a catalogue profile for Geospatial User Feedback,
3. subsequent potential user feedback and development implementation-specific
standards proposed by the Data Quality DWG or the Metadata DWG.
Business Value Proposition
User feedback has been identified by GeoViQua interviewees as one of the quality
components that GEOSS users appreciate during the project’s requirements gathering
phase. Quality information is often too abstract and difficult to understand alone and
users like to complement this information with how the dataset has to learn from other
people’s experiences, e.g. difficulties found. With the explosion of geospatial digital data
and particularly Earth observation data, there is a need for ranking and comparing
mechanisms. This concurs with a continuing move towards a social web, user reviews
as a generally accepted component of online shopping, and mainstream developments
such as “social search”. Including user-generated metadata into geospatial data
services has the potential to improve the available metadata, increase usability of
datasets, extend the appropriate usage/uptake/adoption of published datasets, give data
producers a chance to alter the data collection or publishing methods, and ultimately
improve the quality of the data as well as the quality of the analysis based on a dataset.
Currently only a small member in the ISO 19115 Model called MD_Usage allows for
reporting uses of the data but this approach is quite simplistic. The GEO community is
composed by a big Earth Observation community interested in several thematic areas
(Societal Benefit Areas). GEO’s current Members include 89 countries, the European
Commission and 77 Participating Organizations.
By OGC adopting a Geospatial User Feedback Model and Catalogue profile, the user
community will be assured of a formal process for maintaining, improving, documenting
and in fact, formalizing the standard. This will lead to a greater confidence in the use of
the standard and new opportunities for integration with other related OGC standards.
After the validation of the requirements for user feedback in the Quality.DWG and in the
Metadata.DWG, this SWG can start developing the model, the encoding and the
catalogue services for Geospatial User Feedback.
Scope of Work
The scope of work of this Geospatial User Feedback SWG shall include the following
activities:
1. Develop a conceptual model for Geospatial User Feedback using UML class
diagrams.
2. Develop Geospatial User Feedback encodings based on the conceptual model.
One encoding required is XML.
3. Develop a catalogue for Geospatial User Feedback (possibly a CSW profile).
Future work of the SWG will be to consider the revision of the OGC abstract
specification and other connections with other standards. The Geospatial User
Feedback SWG will work closely with the GeoViQua team and ensure harmony with
other Feedback systems in the web.
It is out of the scope of this group:
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The work on metadata covered in ISO 19115 and in ISO 19139
The development of a new version of CSW.
The definition of quality indicators and provenance metadata.
Collaborative editing of a metadata document (document history, change logs,
wikis).
Specific Contribution of Existing Work as a Starting Point
The work in the GeoViQua User Feedback Model was financed by the EC (European
Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2010-2013) under grant agreement no.
265178) and conducted by several OGC members (such as: UAB-CREAF, Aston
University, Fraunhofer Institute, 52°North, ESA and CNR) . OGCE is also partner of
GeoViQua project.
GeoViQua can bring a UML and XML schema that is currently included in the version 4
of the GeoViQua General Quality model (http://schemas.geoviqua.org/GVQ/4.0/). The
User Feedback API has been also formalized (http://geoviqua.stcorp.nl/home.html). The
feedback service and client is in a GitHub repository (https://github.com/mvdbroek/geouserfeedback). They can be used as a starting point.
During the GeoViQua project several implementations of the User Feedback Model
were developed by S&T Corp. (User feedback API and GUI interface for User Feedback
creation and database), CNR (Discovery and Access Broker integration and another
User Feedback creation database), ESA and 52°North (GEOSS Portal integration,
XMLBeans for GVQ Quality Model) and Aston University (GEO label API, Feedback
Model Encoding Schema). Some of these implementations were integrated in a
GeoViQua GEOSS portal mirror as a demonstration exercise that is now being
evaluated by the GEOSS boards.
The future
Once the group will start to work will decide how to proceed and which part of the work
can be used directly and which part will be adapted to the OGC membership needs.
This is part of the outreach activities that GeoViQua has started to continue the live of
the outcomes after the end of the project.
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• The Metadata DWG proposes to the TC the creation of the
Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group that
will adopt the charter document OGC14-020 Geospatial
User Feedback Standards Working Group Charter
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=57200&v
ersion=1
• Moved by: Joan Masó
• Second: Peter Baumann
• Unanimous
OGC
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Copyright © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium
Figure 2: Motion to approve the creation of the Geospatial User Feedaback
2.2.4
IEEE standardization of the GEO label
Geospatial data are becoming ever more important to research and policy making. At
the same time the sources of geospatial information are proliferating, as are the services
through which they can be obtained. The Group on Earth Observation (GEO) set out 10
years ago to establish the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), with
a goal of increasing access to data from observing systems around the world.
The deluge of data coming from observing systems means that users need guidance
when attempting to select from numerous apparently similar datasets. For this reason
the GEO label was established to portray the scientific relevance, quality, user
acceptance and appropriateness to societal needs of data sets.
The GEO Label, developed by the GeoViQua project, is both a graphical representation
of 8 facets of data quality, as well as an application that assess metadata completeness.
Mechanisms for capturing user feedback on data sets, and reflecting this in the label are
also part of the concept. More details on the GEO Label are available here.
The purpose of this process is to ask the SCC40 in IEEE to consider the GEO Label
concept suitable as potential standard to be developed by IEEE, and if we would be
willing to sponsor a project around it. Members of the GEOSS Standards and
Interoperability Forum will be asked to prepare a draft Project Authorization Request.
The IEEE-SA process is explained at http://standards.ieee.org/develop.
Moreover, this discussion will be included in the GEOSS IDIB position on GEO Label –
the Board as is part of the IEEE GEO WG. The IEEE standardization process of the
GEO label is being considered as a new ID-05-C1 activity and a new contribution of
IEEE and the SIF to GEOSS.
The future
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of the GEO label can be adopted or adapted in the IEEE geospatial label standard can
and which part will be changed to fulfill the requirements of the IEEE membership
needs. This is part of the outreach activities that GeoViQua has started to continue the
live of the outcomes after the end of the project.
2.2.5
CEN
GeoViQua and CEN (European Committee for Standardization) signed a Memorandum
of Understanding. GeoViQua has recently applied for “project liaison” with CEN/TC 287
"Geographic information". We strongly believe that by joining forces in this PanEuropean forum, GeoViQua Project efforts to create practical and effective standards
will benefit both the industry and the user. See Annex C, Letter of request.
2.2.5.1 Joint CEN/TC 287 and OGC Workshop (ESA – ESRIN, 30/9/2013)
Three Geospatial Information (GI) Standards-making organizations – ISO, CEN and the
OGC – each have specific roles to play in advancing technical interoperability to serve
institutional coordination in Europe. ISO/TC 211 produces International Standards,
OGC manages an industry consensus process to develop interoperability standards and
CEN/TC 287 deals with European-specific interoperability issues.. Through their efforts,
geospatial interoperability has advanced greatly in the last 20 years, and yet there are
gaps in the standards portfolio, which European initiatives such as INSPIRE fill by
producing their own specifications, which may be different from the ISO, CEN and OGC
standards. To optimize the standards making process, ISO, CEN and OGC are
proposing a workflow and mechanism for European Initiatives (like INSPIRE) to make it
easier for these initiatives to bring their findings and observations regarding GI back into
ISO, CEN and the OGC.
The purpose of the workshop was to bring together the major players to discuss this
communication and coordination activity. First, the organizations' various roles, product
sets and initiatives (Test beds, Pilot Projects, Interoperability Experiments) were
explained. Then implementers of the three organizations' standards who have
participated in a range of European initiatives described their experiences and identified
their requirements for future developments. Finally, there was a discussion on how
requirements discovered in future joint initiatives might be most efficiently gathered and
delivered to the organizations to further refine their collaboration workflows and
mechanisms.
The workshop was of benefit to those involved in determining the work programme of
ISO/TC 211, CEN/TC 287 and OGC, as well as those responsible for pan-European
initiatives and EU-funded projects with unfulfilled standardization requirements.
1.
Welcome
2.
Italian experience in GI Interoperability
3.
Is there life after FP7?
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Pier Giorgio Marchett.
ESA/ESRIN
Francesco Tortorelli.
Agenzia per l'Italia
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The work of CEN/TC 287
Publication process
Collaboration with ISO/TC 211
European-funded projects
TR 15449- Spatial Data Infrastructure
Best Practice Catalogue
Current developments
5.
The work of ISO/TC 211
‐ Work programme
‐ Standards maintenance
6.
Current and future work of OGC
‐ OGC Reference Model (JH)
‐ Interoperability programme (BdL)
‐ Compliance testing (JH/ BdL)
‐ Future aspirations in Europe (BdL/JH)
7.
European requirements for Standards
INSPIRE
‐ Perspectives from DG Environment
‐ Perspectives from Thematic Working Groups
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i-SCOPE
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Cobweb
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GeoViQua*
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Rob Walker
Chair CEN/TC 287
Morten Borrebaek.
ISO/TC 211
Bart de Lathouwer
And John Herring. OGC
Hugo de Groof
Andrea Giacomelli
Debbie Wilson
Bart de Lathouwer
Juan Maso
Giacomo Martirano
Guiseppe Conti
Future collaboration between CEN/TC 287 and OGC
«An interactive brainstorming session on hot topics»
for example
‐ Interoperablity issues
‐ Harmonization (eg INSPIRE modification to existing standards)
‐ Storage place for FP7 work
Next steps:
Possible interoperability test bed initiative for standard harmonization
issues, resulting in CENTC/287, and /or OGC adoption.
Panel of experts
Chair: Rob Walker
Hugo de Groof
Bart de Lathouwer
John Herring
Summary & wrap up
* GeoViQua presentation at the Joint CEN/TC 287 and OGC Workshop (ESA – ESRIN,
30/9/2013) can be found at:
http://twiki.geoviqua.org/twiki/pub/GeoViQua/DisseminationOportunities/CREAFGeoViQ
uaFrascati2013CENMeeting.ppt
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2.2.5.2 Inclusion of the GeoViQua Results and deliverables into the CEN
repository.
CREAF is willing to maintain the project website long after the end of the project.
Nevertheless, CEN offers a repository for FP7 results and documentation to all projectes
that had signed a MoU with them. This is the case of GeoViQua and we are using this
repository as a backup and to guarantee that no GeoViQua important results and
documentation is lost after the end of the GeoViQua project.
2.2.6
ISO
GeoViQua actively collaborates with ISO standard revision processes. The last ISO/TC
211 meetings took place in Toulouse from 4-8/6/2012. GeoViQua proposed 7 comments
over 20 total comments on ISO/CD 19115-1 Geographic Information – Metadata – Part
1: Fundamentals. From these t proposed comments, 5 were accepted to include in the
new version of the standard.
The overall comments presented by GeoViQua were:
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Additionally we could
also add “+ scope:
DQ_Scope [0..1]”
(the publication is
using only a part of
the resource) and “+
category:
GVQ_PublicationCat
egoryCode” (see
next comment).
Not accepted
Identifier and other
citationDetails
already present –
DOI is only the
flavour of the day.
10
ES
09
6.6.2
Figure 20
te
First paragraph
says: “This
package provides
a standardized
method for citing a
resource”. So it
could be used to
cite a publication
that is related to
the dataset
(resource)
described. Data
citation in scientific
publications (and
vice versa) is an
important problem
that is recognized
by several
organizations such
us GEO/GEOSS,
Datacite
(http://www.datacit
e.org/) and it is
already used by
Elsevier (see e.g.
Elsevier:
http://www.science
direct.com/science
/article/pii/S096706
3708001805. With
current CI_Citation
some attributes
are missing to
generate a
complete citation
of a publication.
You are explicitly
accepting this
approach by
including +
additionalDocume
ntation: CI_Citation
[0..*] in
MD_Identification
so I kindly ask you
to follow your own
path and to
complete the
process.
If you accepted the
inclusion of
GVQ_PublicationC
ategoryCode you
need to add the
definition of it.
The attributes are
deeply based on
ISO-690
Add
GVQ_PublicationCat
egoryCode with this
attributes:
bookChapter, book,
report, journalArticle,
magazineNewspape
r, atlasPaperMap.
applicationProgram,
conferenceProceedi
ngs, cdDvd,
blogWiki, website,
webpage,
onlineVideo.
Not accepted
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Clause Nº/
Subclause
Nº/
Annex
(e.g. 3.1)
Paragraph/
Figure/Tabl
e/Note
(e.g. Table
1)
Type of
com-ment2
Comment
(justification for
change) by the
MB
Proposed change
by the MB
Editing committee
and secretariat
observations
on each comment
submitted
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10
6.5.3.2
Figure 6
te
Allow to include
publications that
describe usage of
data in MD_Usage
Accepted
DD Done
Add to Data
Dictionary
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ES
11
6.5.3.2
Figure 6
te
Sometimes the
producer discovers
issues on the data
and can suggest
alternative
solutions.
13
ES
14
6.5.3.3 or
6.5.6
Figure 7 or
Figure 10
te
We have reviewed
"W3C provenance"
standard
(http://www.w3.org
/TR/2011/WDprov-dm20111018/) and
we find out that
almost any
element/attribute
that an equivalent
element in this
standard but a
relation between
entities called
"revisionOf" to say
that a resource is
the revision of
another resource.
We propose 2
alternatives to
include this here.
Please consider
the possibility of
including one.
Add:
additionalDocument
ation: CI_Citation
[0..*] (publications
that describe usage
of data)
Add a new
MD_DiscoveredIssu
e class to
MD_Usage with the
following attributes:
+ expectedFix:
CI_Date [0..1] (Date
when a solution is
expected)
+ fixedResource:
MD_Identification
[0..1] (Link to an
alternative resource
that has the problem
fixed)
+ knownProblem:
CharacterString
[0..1] (the issue that
is known to be
present)
+ workAround:
CharacterString
[0..1] (provisional
solution)
+
additionalDocument
ation: + CI_Citation
[0..*] (Publication
where the issue was
reported)
Alternative A: Add a
new code
"revisionOf" in the
DS_AssociationType
Code
Alternative B:
Include a new
element in
MD_MaintenanceInf
ormation called “+
previousVersion:
MD_Identifier” (or
CI_Citation) as a
way to link to the
previous version of
this dataset.
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Accepted in
principle
Add attribute
named “identifier:
MD_Identifier [0..1]
Joan will provide
definition and
explaination text
DD Done
Accepted
alternative A
DD_Done
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Clause Nº/
Subclause
Nº/
Annex
(e.g. 3.1)
Paragraph/
Figure/Tabl
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(e.g. Table
1)
Type of
com-ment2
Comment
(justification for
change) by the
MB
Proposed change
by the MB
Editing committee
and secretariat
observations
on each comment
submitted
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OG
C
85
6.5.5
Figure 9
te
Many more
detailed languages
are emerging for
describing details
of lineage. If such
descriptions are
available for a
dataset, the
metadata should
be able to
reference them.
Adding citation[0..*]:
CI_Citation to
LI_Lineage is a
general way to
address this need.
Accepted
Table 1. GeoViQua comments on ISO/CD 19115-1 Geographic Information – Metadata – Part 1:
Fundamentals. In blue the accepted ones. In orange the not accepted ones.
You can see the table with the complete comments on the Annex D.
The ISO 19157:2013 (Geographic information -- Data quality) was finally approved on
12-06-2013.
This standard establishes the principles for describing the quality of geographic data. It
defines components for describing data quality; specifies components and content
structure of a register for data quality measures; describes general procedures for
evaluating the quality of geographic data; and establishes principles for reporting data
quality.
The ISO 19157:2013 also defines a set of data quality measures for use in evaluating
and reporting data quality. It is applicable to data producers providing quality information
to describe and assess how well a data set conforms to its product specification and to
data users attempting to determine whether or not specific geographic data are of
sufficient quality for their particular application. It does not attempt to define minimum
acceptable levels of quality for geographic data.
The ISO 19115-1:2014 (Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 1: Fundamentals)
was finally approved on 19-03-2014.
This standard defines the schema required for describing geographic information and
services by means of metadata. It provides information about the identification, the
extent, the quality, the spatial and temporal aspects, the content, the spatial reference,
the portrayal, distribution, and other properties of digital geographic data and services.
ISO 19115-1:2014 is applicable to: the cataloguing of all types of resources,
clearinghouse activities, and the full description of datasets and services, and the
geographic services, geographic datasets, dataset series, and individual geographic
features and feature properties. It defines mandatory and conditional metadata sections,
metadata entities, and metadata elements; the minimum set of metadata required to
serve most metadata applications (data discovery, determining data fitness for use, data
access, data transfer, and use of digital data and services); optional metadata elements
to allow for a more extensive standard description of resources, if required; and a a
method for extending metadata to fit specialized needs.
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extended to many other types of resources such as maps, charts, and textual
documents as well as non-geographic data. Certain conditional metadata elements
might not apply to these other forms of data.
XML schemas are still lacking for the “19115-3 Geographic information - Metadata - Part
3: XML schema implementation of metadata fundamentals”
2.3
2.3.1
Cooperation with European and GEO initiatives
INSPIRE conference (23rd - 27th June 2013, Florence, Italy)
GeoViQua participated in the INSPIRE Conference 2013 organizing a “Quality
Information Workshop: from dataset quality to individual sample”.
Information about data quality is regularly created by official producers of geospatial
data and by scientists who process and derive new datasets. Unfortunately this
information takes a number of different forms (e.g., quality reports, scientific papers,
informal comments..) whose formats are inhomogeneous, making comparison difficult.
Current or extended standards for data quality descriptions (ISO19115, ISO19157, etc)
can be used or developed to define ‘quality indicators’, including quality measures and
provenance parameters but these become too verbose to represent sample-level
quality.
More tools are needed. From the producer side, there is a need to simplify the creation
of quality descriptions without compromising detail. From the user side, the identification
of datasets that fit the user’s purpose can be achieved by allowing metadata intercomparison, quality labels, data discovery using quality thresholds, refinement of search
results and common visualization techniques. Additionally, user experiences need to be
collected in a structured way so that comments, citations, discovered issues and ratings
are captured, aggregated and exposed.
This workshop discussed a INSPIRE perspective in the data quality by analyzing the
outcomes of the GeoViQua FP7 project which aims to add rigorous data quality
representations to existing search and visualization in the GEO Portal functionalities of
the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS):
1. A quality framework that enhances producer metadata, and proposes the addition
of user feedback. The producer model builds on existing ISO standards (19115
and 19157) adding reference dataset information, citations, traceability of quality
statements and discovered issues. The user model informs the database
structure for a feedback server from which comments, citations, discovered
issues, ratings and reports of usage may be stored and retrieved.
2. A quality-aware discovery service, namely a quality-aware extension of the OGC
Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW-Q), which could cope with qualityconstrained search. This will be included in the GEOSS Discovery and Access
Broker.
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information in 2D, developed using the OGC Web Map Service (WMS). This
extension reusing the concepts of UncertML in a ncWMS server implementation.
Extracted from:
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/schedule/submissions/194.
html
Agenda:
Time Topic
16:05 Introduction
16:20 Quality models
16:35 Producer Quality Model
16:50 User Feedback Model
17:00 KML-Q
17:10 WMS-Q
17:20 GeoLabel
17:30 GeoLabel demo
17:40 Discovery and Access Broker
The
Workshop
presentation
can
be
seen
at:
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/pdfs/23-06-2013_ROOM4_16.00%20-%2017.30_273-J%20Maso_J-Maso.pdf
Figure 4: A picture of the INSPIRE 2013 Workshop organized by GeoViQua: “Quality Information
Workshop: from dataset quality to individual sample”
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GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Network
GeoViQua has attended to both GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Network
that was originated in the EGIDA project (in which CREAF was also partner). In fact,
CREAF has elaborated in collaboration with some GeoViQua partners and many others
a proposal to a new H2020 project proposal in response to the topic code SC5-18a
called ConnectinGEO. Next meeting of the GEOSS Science and Technology
Stakeholder Network will be held soon in the USA. In the ConnectinGEO, the GEOSS
Science and Technology Stakeholder Network will be an embryo of a new European
Network of Earth Observation Networks and if the project is funded, it will stimulate the
continuation and extension of it. GeoViQua will continue in contact with this network to
increase the outreach of the project.
2.3.2.1 1rt GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop
GeoViQua participated in the 1st Joint Workshop of the EGIDA Stakeholder Network and
Advisory Board Connecting GEOSS and its Stakeholders in Science and Technology
held in Bonn, Germany, May 9-11, 2011. The workshop was open for all EGIDA project
members, members of the EGIDA Advisory Board, members of the EGIDA Stakeholder
network, the STC members, and, in general, stakeholders in S&T of GEOSS. All
members of the EGIDA Advisory Board and Stakeholder Network are in particular
invited to participate. Due to available room capacity, participation was limited to 80
persons.
More information can be obtained here:
http://www.geo-tasks.org/workshops/2011_Bonn/
2.3.2.2 2nd GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop
GeoViQua participated in the GEOSS: Supporting Science for the Millennium
Development Goals and Beyond workshop held in Bonn, Germany, August 28—
31, 2012
More information can be obtained here:
http://www.geo-tasks.org/workshops/2012_Bonn/
The goal of the workshop was to bring together representatives of the stakeholder
organization in international science and research, funding agencies providing
resources for sustainability research, and intergovernmental agencies defining and
maintaining frameworks relevant for global sustainability for a dialog on the support
provided by GEOSS for sustainability research and monitoring can by better aligned to
the needs of the stakeholders.
The output of the workshop included a goal document summarizing the research needs
associated with the eight MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and grand challenges
and detailing the strategy for a GEOSS that would ensure the availability of Earth
observations required for addressing these research needs. A road map describes the
steps necessary to ensure that the future development of GEOSS is aligned with the
needs arising from the current MDGs and post-2015 goals, as well as the Grand
Challenges and Belmont Challenges addressed by the Future Earth - research for
global sustainability Initiative.
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Stakeholder Network and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The workshop is
sponsored by the EGIDA Project and co-sponsored by a number of stakeholder
organizations and projects, including the Belmont Forum; DIVERSITAS; the European
Science Foundation (ESF); the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
(ESIP); EuroGeoSurveys; the Directorate Environment of the European Commission;
the International Council of Science (ICSU); the IEEE International Committee on Earth
Observations (IEEE/ICEO); the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP);
the International Human Dimension Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP);
the International Social Science Council (ISSC); the International Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics (IUGG) represented through the International Association of Hydrological
Sciences (IAHS); the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE);
the Global Change System for Analysis, Research, and Training (START); the United
Nations University Institute of Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); the World
Climate Research Programme (WCRP); and the World Data System (WDS) of ICSU.
Projects co-sponsoring the workshop are the projects GeoViQua, and GEOWOW, all
funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The
Communities of Practice (CoPs) of GEO are represented through the GEO Work Plan
Task ID-04.
2.3.3
GEOSS EUROPEAN PROJECTS WORKSHOP (GEPW)
“The GEO initiative was launched in 2005 with the objective of increasing the
accessibility and availability of Earth Observation data through the development of a
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to be delivered by 2015. It
includes 86 countries, the European Commission and 61 intergovernmental,
international, and regional participating organisations “. (GEO 2012)
GeoViQua has been continuously collaborating with the GEO European Projects’
Workshop since its beginning in 2011. During this time, GeoViQua has participated in
the following Workshops:
2.3.3.1 GEPW-5
The Fifth GEO European Projects Workshop took place in London on 8th and 9th
February 2011. This workshop was built on the outcomes of the GEO Plenary and the
GEO Ministerial meetings, which took place in Beijing in November 2010. The GEPW-5
was the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster European participation within
GEO and increase Co-ordination between existing or future Earth Observation projects
in Europe that contribute to the implementation of the GEOSS. The workshop had three
main points:



The preparation of the European input to the 2012-2015 GEO Work Plan
o The implementation the GEOSS Data Sharing Action Plan in Europe
o To discuss the future of GEO and GEOSS from a European viewpoint
In the GEPW-5 GeoViQua presented a poster about the objectives of the project.
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The principal theme of this workshop was assessing Europe's current and potential
contribution to the 20012-2015 GEO Work Plan. It was also discussed the future of GEO
beyond the current mandate, which runs until 6 2015. Rapporteurs noted the progress
that has been made and the gaps that still exist. The meeting was organised around a
series of keynote addresses covering a selection of the GEO Societal Benefit Areas.
These were followed by a number of individual splinter sessions with presentations by
representatives of GEO-related projects and organisations. In the GEPW-6 held in
Rome (7-8 May 2012), GeoViQua presented a poster and the presentation “GeoViQua:
Trustworthy Earth observation data”, which summarized some of the results obtained in
the first year of the project.
Figure 5: Agenda of the GEPW-6
2.3.3.3 GEPW-7
GeoViQua organized the last GEPW-7 in Barcelona on 8-9th April 2013.
The venue
The venue was held in the “Casa de la Convalescència” (Convalescence House), a
Modernist building (art noveau) built by the famous architect Domenech i Muntaner that
is currently a conference facility that our university restored at the Barcelona city centre
(close to Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia).
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More information about the history and the architecture of the building can be found at:
http://www.fundaciouab.com/casa/pdf/historia_arquitectura_eng.pdf
The building has a plenary room (up to 180 people) and other small rooms (up to 70
people each) next to the main room. Internet access is provided by WIFI connection.
Preparation of the rooms will be done by UAB staff. Corridors can host 30 poster panels
approximately.
Figure 7: Details of the building for the GEPW7
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Figure 9: Split session rooms for the GEPW7
Catering facilities
More pictures can be seen at:
http://www.fundaciouab.com/casa/ENG/galeria.asp?Id_CARPETA=1&Id_FOTO=62
The website
A website was created for this purpose: http://gepw7.creaf.cat with all the relevant
information on agendas, hotels, “how to get there” and so on.
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The workshop
Figure 11: Picture with some of the GEPW-7 assistants
This is the agenda of the 2-days event and with the hyperlinks to the presentations
given:
MONDAY 15TH APRIL
8:009:00
Registration
PLENARY (Magna room)
9:00 9:30
Opening Session and Introductory Statements European Commission - Andrea Tilche, AEMET Fernando Belda, Generalitat de Catalunya - Jordi Mas, CREAF - Javier Retana & UAB - Xavier
PonsChair= Joan Masó
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Spanish contributions to the GEOSS and other Earth Observations activitiesChair= Andrea
TilcheRapporteur=Joan Maso
9:30 9:42
The contribution and organization of the Spanish official representatives to GEO. A top-down approach -
9:42 9:54
Connecting Spanish National Plan for Land Observation (PNOT) to GEO/GEOSS -Antonio Arozarena
9:54 10:06
Connecting the Spanish Earth Observation network (RNOT) to GEOSS. -Jose Antonio Sobrino
Julio Gonzalez Breña (Statal Meteorological Agency - AEMET)
Villar (National Geographic Institute - IGN)
(University of Valencia - UV)
10:06
10:18
Applying the state of the art SDI research to GEOSS -Joaquin Huerta (University Jaume I - UJI)
10:18
10:30
Gfg2: an FP7 project for GEOSS. The experience of a Spanish SME
10:30
10:42
The Spanish representation in Environment FP7 projects (by telecon) - Carolina Rodríguez Rodríguez
- Anna Puig Centelles (Starlab)
(Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial - CDTI)
10:42
11:00
Q&A
11:0011:30
Coffee Break
11:30
13:30
11:30
11:50
SPLINTER SESSION (Aula
13)
SPLINTER SESSION (Magna
room)
SPLINTER SESSION (Aula
10.12)
SBA
Session:
Health,
Energy
and
Geological
ResourcesChair = Nicola
PirroneRapporteur = Kym
Watson
Session
on
Research
infrastructures
and
their
contribution to GEOSSChair
=Stefano NativiRapporteur =
Eleni Christia
Session on Copernicus and its
Downstream ProjectsChair =
Florence BeroudRapporteur =
Tim Jacobs
Towards
a
European
Geological Data Infrastructure -
Luca
De
(EuroGeoSurveys)
Micheli
Contributions
of
12:10
12:30
Copernicus
research infrastructures to GEOSS - Service:
Yannick Legre (CNRS - IdGC)
SeaDataNet
11:50
12:10
environmental The
-
present
Global
and
Land
future -
Roselyne Lacaze (HYGEOS)
EMODNet:
Copernicus/GMES
Initial
operations – global component
infrastructure for ocean & marine
and
possible
downstream
results and outlook - Martijn
data
management
and
its services in agriculture - Lieven
Schaap (TNO)
contribution
to
GEOSS -Dick Bydekerke (VITO)
Schaap (MARIS)
EnerGEO:
Overview,
main
Advancing Renewable Energy
with
Climate
Services -
Melanie Davis (IC3)
Developing
a
pan-European
Implementation of common solutions MACC-II, using Earth observation
for a cluster of ESFRI infrastructures systems to provide the Copernicus
in
the
Sciences"
field
of
"Environmental Atmosphere
(ENVRI) -
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Service -
Roberto Engele (ECMWF)
Richard
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Earth
12:30
12:50
Observation
and
Environmental Modelling for the
Mitigation
of
Health
Risks -
Jorge Lopez (Atos Spain)
Challenges
and
opportunities
in
developing an E-Infrastructure for Biodiversity
Marine Ecosystem Monitoring in the
Monitoring
SPACE -
Palma
Mediterranean - Gonzalo Malvarez (CNR_ISSIA)
(Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
from
Blonda
Assessment of Biomass for
Bioenergy and crop forecast
based on
12:50
13:10
Remote Sensing - experiences
gained
in
the
European
ASIMUTH
COOPEUS- Fostering transatlantic
links
for
environmental
(Applied
Simulations
and Integrated Modelling for the
research Understanding
of
Toxic
and
Christoph Harmful Algal Blooms): towards a
Waldmann
(University
of GMES-Copernicus
downstream
(FP7) and Geoland 2 (FP7) - Bremen/MARUM)
service - Luz García(Instituto
Martyna
Gatkowska
Español de Oceanografía)
(Institute of Geodesy and
Cartography, Poland)
Projects: CEUBIOM
infrastructures -
Coordinating
earth
observation
13:10
13:30
Scalable,
flexible,
and
EnerGEO Summer School - Standards-Based Data Services: data validation for RE-analysis for
Peter Zeil (Z_GIS University the EarthServer- Peter Baumann CLIMAte ServiceS – CORE(Jacobs University | rasdaman
of Salzburg)
CLIMAX - Yijian Zeng (ITC
GmbH)
Faculty, University of Twente)
13:3014:30
Lunch Break
SPLINTER SESSION (Aula
13)
14:30
16:30
SBA
Session:
Climate,
Water and WeatherChair
=Rick LawfordRapporteur =
Richard Engelen
SPLINTER SESSION (Magna
room)
SBA Session: Biodiversity,
Session
on
Capacity
Agriculture
and
BuildingChair
=
Lieven
EcosystemsChair
=
Rob
BydekerkeRapporteur = Roberto
JongmanRapporteur
=
Pastres
Giovanni Rum
EU
ICOS-INWIRE: a new project to
14:30
14:50
SPLINTER SESSION (Aula
10.12)
BON
-
Integration
of
biodiversity data for Europe enhance greenhouse gas in- AGRICAB Project - Tim Jacobs Christoph Haeuser (Museum
für Naturkunde - Leibniz
situ data provision - Jean (VITO)
Institute for Research
Evolution and Biodiversity)
Daniel Paris (CEA-LSCE)
on
Analysis and Experimentation on
European climate services at
14:50
15:10
seasonal
to
decadal
Ecosystems
(AnaEE):
A
new
time BalkanGEONet - Vesna Crnojevic- distributed research infrastructure
Francisco Doblas- Bengin (University of Novi Sad)
Reyes (IC3)
scales -
to forecast ecosystem responses
to disturbance - Abad Chab bi
(INRA)
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15:10
15:30
discharge
modeling
and
validation" - Stephanie Göbel
(University of Bonn)
Water
15:30
15:50
resources
Water
in Africa, Latin America and Asia -
monitoring
and
environment,
biodiversity
and
production-
EAMNET - Steve Groom (PML)
Laura Moreno
and Erwan Motte (Starlab
Barcelona S.L.)
observations and simulations of
-
Assessment
and
Monitoring of Forest Resources in
the Framework of the EU-Russia
Space
Dialogue Christian
Hüttich
(Friedrich-SchillerUniversity Jena)
EO for agriculture monitoring in
Web-based Permanent Networking
Ukraine
within
international
EU-FP7 BalkanGEONet- initiatives GLAM and JECAM Roko Andričević (University of Nataliia
Kussul
(Space
Plateau -Rogier
Van der Split)
Research
Insitute
NASUVelde (University of Twente)
SSAU)
soil moisture over the Tibetan
Facility
Coffee Break
SPLINTER SESSION (Magna
room)
SPLINTER SESSION (Aula
10.12)
SBA
Session:
Session on Infrastructure and SBA Session: DisastersChair =
EcosystemsChair
Data ManagementChair = Max Joaquin HuertaRapporteur =
=Christoph
Waldmann
CragliaRapporteur = Ivette Serral Chris Mannaerts
Rapporteur = Doug Cripe
access
ecosystem
to
ocean
data
via
The
GEO
Web
Portal
New Marmara Supersite Project -
Albert Fischer Interface - Guido Colangeli (ESA)
(IOC/UNESCO)
GEOWOW -
The MEDINA e-infrastructure:
17:40
18:00
research and monitoring of Arctic
ZAPÁS
prediction
system aimed at hydropower
Improving
17:20
17:40
INTERACT – building capacity for
ecosystems - Hannele Savela
Chris Mannaerts (University of
(Thule Institute, University of
Twente, ITC)
Oulu)
flow
SPLINTER SESSION (Aula
13)
17:00
17:20
for
Satellite Application Developments
16:3017:00
17:00
19:20
Toolbox
monitoring
Ground measurements, satellite
16:10
16:30
GEONETCast
Interoperable Smart Cities
with
Earth
Observation, The EGIDA approach to the GEOSS services through an Open
Platform for urban Ecosystems:
atmospheric and hydrologic sustainability Paolo Mazzetti the i-SCOPE perspective Raffaele
de
Amicis
modeling - Massimo Menenti (CNR-IIA)
(Fondazione Graphitech)
(TU Delft)
Integrated
15:50
16:10
ITC
indicators
and
models
Nurcan Meral Özel (KOERI
Bogazici University)
FUTUREVOLC:A
for
volcanological
The GEO DAB - Stefano Nativi supersite in Iceland - Freysteinn
marine ecosystem assessment- (CNR)
Sigmundsson (University of
Roberto Pastres (University
of Venice)
Participatory
environmental
science - Luigi Ceccaroni and
Iceland)
GEOWOW:evolving GEOSS and its Spaceborne,
Common Infrastructure for Societal
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real-time,
multi-
parameter, synoptical monitoring
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Digital Technology Centre)
of
erupting
volcanoes
at
continental scales: concepts and
demonstration -
Fabrizio
Ferrucci (Institut de Physique
du Globe de Paris)
18:00
18:20
ESA Ocean Colour Climate
Global Initiatives of Disaster
Change Initiative / UK Using quality data in Earth
Natassa
GloboLakes + links to Observation Systems - Joan Masó Management Antoniou
(Secure
World
GEOSS - Steve Groom (CREAF)
Foundation)
(PML)
18:20
18:40
Drought, Floods and Fires achievements and
Mike COBWEB, AIP-6 and Access experiences
in ESA-PECS
Marine Management Federations - Chris Projects and Marie CurieITNHiggins (University of Edinburgh) GIONET Project - Martyna
Gatkowska
(Institute
of
Geodesy and Cartography)
EC
FP7
OpEc
Grant (Plymouth
Laboratory)
PREFER:
Monitoring agricultural practices
18:40
19:00
for the conservation of wetlands
From
ecosystems.
towards Building of Global Mobile
decision
A
successful
system
with
EnviroGRIDS
BlackSee
SDI -
Information Support for Prevention
and REcovery of Forest Fires
Emergency in the MediteRranean
Karel Charvat (Czech
Area Giovanni
Laneve
uncertainty
visualization - Centre for Science and Society)
(University of Rome "La
Xavier Pons (UAB)
Sapienza")
Report from the GEOSS Future
Assessing water resources
in the Black Sea catchment Products Workshop 2013: The role
19:00under global changes - of Sensor web and Scientific Models
19:20
Anthony
Lehmann
in solving user queries - Joan Masó
(University of Geneva)
(CREAF)
20:30
Space-based
SUBCOAST: towards a Dynamic
DEM for coastal areas - Rob van
der Krogt (TNO - Geological
Survey of the Netherlands)
Dinner reception (provided by CREAF)
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL
PLENARY (Magna room)
8:30
10:00
Showcases demonstrating the added value of GEOSS and GEO (Sprint to Summit 2013) Chair =
Ezio BussolettiRapporteur = Max Craglia
8:30
8:45
Introduction to the Sprint To Summit 2013 - Alan Edwards (European Commission)
8:45
9:00
Interoperability plans and tests between GEODAB and the GEONETCast - Stefano Nativi (CNR)
9:00
9:15
Linking ChloroGIN with GEOSS - Mike Grant (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
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- 9:
30
Developing environmental indicators via GEOWOW: the ocean ecosystems example - Roberto Cossu
(ESA)
9:30
10:00
Discussion, Q & A
10:00
11:00
Session on Private Sector Engagement Chair = Alan EdwardsRapporteur =Giovanni Rum
10:00
10:15
Private Sector Engagement in GEOSS - Barbara Ryan (GEO Secretariat)
10:15
10:30
S & T Corp - Maud Van de Broek (S&T)
10:30
10:45
Institutional projects from a private sector perspective - Javier Duro and Fifame Koudogbo (Altamira
Information)
10:45
11:00
Discussion, Q & A
11:00
11:30
Coffee Break
11:30
13:30
Session on GEO Global Initiatives Chair =Gilles Ollier Rapporteur = Maria dalla Costa
11:30
11:50
GEO and the Blue Planet Initiative - Albert Fischer (IOC/UNESCO)
11:50
12:10
GEOGLAM - Joao Soares (Group on Earth Observations)
12:10
12:30
GEO BON - Rob Jongman (Wageningen UR, Alterra)
12:30
12:50
The Global Mercury Observation System: a GEO initiative to support the Global Treaty - Nicola Pirrone
(CNR-Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research)
12:50
13:10
GFOI -Giovanni Rum (GEO Secretariat)
13:10
13:30
GEO Carbon - Antonio Bombelli (CMCC)
13:30
14:45
Applicability of GeoViQua Quality Model to other GEO projects (Social event in the lunch room)
13:30
Lunch Break
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14:45
16:00
GEO Post 2015 Round Table with Gilles Ollier (EC), Ezio Bussoletti (IT), Fernando Belda (ES) Tiit
Kutser (EE), Ruth Kelman (UK),Carsten Dettmann (DE) Chair = Alan Edwards Rapporteur=Doug
Cripe
16:00
16:30
Coffee Break
16:30
18:00
Reports from Sessions and Concluding Remarks Chair = Gilles Ollier & Alan Edwards
18:00
Closing
18:00
19:00
2nd Scientific Division of GEO Spain Meeting (In Spanish)
The Social Dinner
The social dinner provided by CREAF was held held at the Restaurant Marina
Moncho's. It is located at the seaside of Barcelona Olimpic port.
Figure 12 Social dinner place
The media
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Some
of
the
pictures
of
http://gepw7.creaf.cat/Outcomes.htm
the
workshop
can
be
seen
here:
Figure 14: A video about the GEPW7.
The
video
of
the
workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_l7ySvDMmA
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can
be
seen
here:
FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development Parallel events
During the celebration of the GEPW-7 other events were held:
‐
‐
‐
2.4
2.4.1
European GEO Water Strategy Workshop April 17-18. Draft agenda:
http://gepw7.creaf.cat/The%20Barelona%20Water%20Strategy%20Workshop.pd
f
Ninth Annual Integrated Global Water Cycle Observations (IGWCO) Community
of Practice (COP) Meeting. April 18-19:
http://gepw7.creaf.cat/IGWCO%20Invite%20letter%20for%20GEPW7%20colleag
ues.pdf
GeoViQua Quality Model Workshop:
http://twiki.geoviqua.org/twiki/bin/view/GeoViQua/GEPW7GVQDemo
Cooperation with other international institutions
IGARSS 2012
GeoViQua collaborates in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium as an
exhibitor jointly with EGIDA FP7 project and MiraMon, a GIS and RS software
developed in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. GeoViQua also participates with a
scientific contribution with the paper Emerging data quality from GEOSS integrated
clearinghouses; I. Serral, P. Díaz, J. Masó and X. Pons. The event will take place from
22-27th July 2012 in Munich, Germany.
Figure 15: Relation of main participants in IGARSS 2012
2.4.2
EARSC general assembly
Involvement of the European association of remote sensing industry (EARSC). EARSC
set up a working group dedicated to certification. As observer to the EARSC, ESA
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GEO label activity. ESA made a presentation of project concept and achievements at
EARSC general assembly, and other EARSC meetings, including telecoms. The
EARSC Annual Meeting and General Assembly took place on June 30th in Brussels.
About 20 Members took part in the meeting and contributed to the familiar and
interesting event. Two invited lectures were presented Dr. Stefano Bruzzi, Head of the
ESA Coordination Office and co-leader of the GMES Programme Office and Dr. Steve
Coulson, Head of the ESA-EOMD Program. Both have informed us about ESA´s
strategy in Earth Observation, in particular in the GMES and EOEP activities and the
new opportunities to do business with ESA at the upcoming EOMD- Market
Development programme.
2.4.3
European Geospatial Union
GeoViQua have participated in several EGU General Assemblies from 2011 to 2013 by
presenting posters and oral sessions and will be also presented in 2014. EGU brings
together a large number of geo scientists at a meeting covering all disciplines of the
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.
The coordinator of the GeoViQua project was elected the new president of the section
Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI ) of the EGU during the duration of the
GeoViQua project.
2.4.4
Earthcube
2.4.4.1 Earthcube meeting in Bremen Germany (21/9/2012)
This one day meeting was held following the kickoff of the COOPEUS framework
project, which focuses on European and US collaboration. It had 20 attendees from a
variety of organizations. The list of attendees is:
The
presentations
have
been
uploaded
in
Googledocs
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B6ovZrDPKFGuWDRySzUweWQxRGc/edit .
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at
FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010.4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development Subsequent to the meeting, all attendees were asked to respond to a survey. A final
report will be posted including a summary of the meeting outcomes and an analysis of
the survey.
2.4.4.2 EarthCube Session at the OGC Quarterly Meeting in DC (March 2014)
To all interested in finding out what's going on with the US National Science
Foundation's (NSF) EarthCube initiative: Come to OGC's quarterly Technical Committee
meeting in the DC area on Tuesday, March 25, 1-5pm. A webcast of the session will be
available, and connection information will be distributed closer to the meeting.
This was the agenda:
1. Welcome and Introductions (David Arctur)
2. EarthCube Community Engagement (Erin Robinson)
3. EarthCube IT (George Percivall)
4. EarthCube Conceptual Designs
1. CD-1 (Ilya Zaslavsky, Steve Richards)
2. CD-2 (Phil Yang)
5. EarthCube Building Block – CINERGI (Ilya, Steve)
6. EarthCube BB – Integrating Discrete & Continuous Data (David Arctur)
7. EarthCube BB – OceanLink (Bob Arko)
8. ODM2 – Observation Data Model v2 (Anthony Aufdenkampe)
9. GeoViQua – User Feedback on Data Quality (Joan Masó)*
10. GeoVoCamp – Geo Vocabulary Workshops (Charles Vardeman)
This time the organizers of the meeting wanted a presentation about the user feedback
system developed in GeoViQua.
User feedback input
OGC
January 13, 2014
®
GEO Week. AIP6. Geneva
Page 10
Figure 16 GeoViQua in the EarthCube parallel event in the lat OGC TC slide.
The
GeoViQua
presentation
can
be
found
at
http://twiki.geoviqua.org/twiki/pub/GeoViQua/DisseminationOportunities/10GeoViQua%20%E2%80%93%20User%20Feedback%20on%20Data%20Quality.ppt
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2.5.1
Cooperation with local initiatives
Catalan Cartographic Institute (ICC)
After attending the Inspire conference GeoViQua workshop, some members of the ICC
present there requested to CREAF to have an internal presentation and discussion
about the topics of that presentation. The presentation was made in November 7th,2013
in the presence of the board of directors. There were creative discussions and the main
outcome that the ICC responsibles will analyze how to integrate some of the GeoViQua
components in the ICC systems. Particular interest was seen about the GeoViQua user
feedback system.
The presentation was repeated later for the members of the Technical Commission of
the Catalan Cartographic Plan (PCC) that also were interested in several aspects of the
GeoViQua work.
Presenting Quality Information :
From Dataset Quality to
Individual Sample.
GeoViQua project
Joan Masó (CREAF)
ICC
Wednesday 11th December
Figure 17 First slide of the GeoViQua presentation to the PCC technical committee.
3. Conclusions
Work package 8 of the GeoViQua project was responsible for the dissemination of the
project progress and results in close collaboration with the management structure in
work package 1. GeoViQua project has been actively engaged in GEOSS (as reported
in D 8.6) but has also cooperated with different initiatives. GeoViQua has directly
collaborated with a long list of FP7 projects and many more had heard about what
GeoViQua was doing and have the opportunity to use it. We are confident that new
projects in the Horizon 2020 will be able to reuse the project results and the consortium
will work in this direction beyond the end of the project. This deliverable also describes
some attempts to generate move new proposals into the H2020 project done by the
coordinator.
The coordinator takes very seriously the possibility of collaborating with standardization
bodies such as OGC, IEEE, CEN and ISO. Particularly important are the efforts done to
45
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and the GEO label into the IEEE process. We will also use the CEN repository to store
project deliverables and results.
The project has participated in all previous GEOSS European Project Workshop in
London and Rome and organized the last one in Barcelona. Everyone considered the
organization of the last one a complete success. Participation in European and
international activities such as INSPIRE (through the Inspire conferences participation in
several edition and particularly important in the last one) and Earthcube (though
participation in 2 workshops).
We have also participated in both GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder
meetings and we have also interacted with the European Association for Remote
Sensing Companies.
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GeoViQua to this task
4.1
Introduction
A scientific publication is usually applied to text, images, or other audio-visual content on
any medium, from paper (newspapers, magazines, catalogs, etc.) to electronic
publishing forms such as websites, wikies e-books, Compact Discs and MP3s.
Under the term of scientific publication we have evaluated all the categories
mentioned above, as well as its relationship with a dataset catalogue, all of this by
means of citation of publications.
It has been found that the relation between a dataset and a scientific publication is a 2
way link. In one had, a dataset can cite external publications that uses the dataset, and
on the other hand, a publication can cite a dataset that has been used while elaborating
the publication.
In many scientific studies, the data is produced by a scientist who is willing to find out
something. This could later lead to a publication in a scientific paper. The data and of
the paper publication can be simultaneous. In which case, Pangea proposes a workflow
to relate both, based on connecting the publication chains of both data and articles.
In GEOSS the situation is not so simple because main data producers release their
products with their metadata and then, scientist use this data and publish research on
these products in a disconnected way. It has not been approached the issue on how this
connection should be made in GEOSS.
During this task, we have focussed on the relationship between publication-dataset as
well as on how publications can be linked to a GEOSS dataset (the second scenario).
Initially, it was considered to use a reference to the data in the reference/bibliography
section of the document (with all the other normal references to other publication) as
suggested by the International Polar Year (IPY) citation standard. The former GEO task
ST-09-02 (also supported by the EGIDA project) did some work on how to build a
citation standard. This work is now being continued by the ID-03 group. When this work
is finished, they will also provide a univocal way on how a publication should cite data.
They are using the classical expanded approach, but currently they do not consider to
link unique identifier for publication with data identifiers. Through all this process
GeoViQua is collaborating with these groups. Parallel efforts to deal with this problem
are being undertaken by DataCite and Pangaea projects. In fact Elsevier has recently
adopted a way to cite data as can be seen in the following example:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063708001805.
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mechanisms to identify metadata records in the clearinghouse that are different from
this approach. Please, note that a metadata identifier is not necessarily a data identifier.
A thorough background on citation was performed, and it was found that citation has
been addressed for some time now through several initiatives, some projects such as
CLADDIER [CLADDIER, 2005] (aimed at establishing methodologies for data citation as
well as designing a system to link publications held in two repositories with datasets
hold in the British Atmospheric Data Centre), have been working on the importance of
data cir
tation and on how to link datasets and publications; other projects concentrate their
effort on establishing a unique number for identifying datasets and parts of it, such as
the DataCite organisation [DataCite,2009] (helping researchers to find, to access, and to
reuse data through internet in an easy way, by promoting and providing a Digital Object
Identifier [DOI] number for the datasets); there is also Centre for Environmental Data
Archival [CEDA, 2011] repository (which provides a unique identification number to
identify earth data acquired on field campaigns); and finally, some initiatives try to
address the issue on how to view publications that cite a particular dataset (OJDC,
which is a repository for grey literature). All of these are just mentioned as examples of
initiatives that have been taking place or that are still undergoing.
When gathering information on how to identify a particular dataset, it was found that the
existence of a unique identification value such as a DOI, a Uniform Resource Locator
(URL), an ISBN number or an ISSN number, which identifies a particular publication,
can be used to link a scientific publication to a specific dataset within a catalogue. The
DOI reference has been used for scientific publications since 1994, as well as the ISBN
and ISSN identification used for books back in the seventies, but recently, with the use
of the Internet, new categories of publications have appear (web-pages, wikis,…) which
require a unique identifier number. ISO 690-2010 interpretation on web publications,
states that URLs should be written in the same place where DOIs are. If the information
location changes from time to time, the URL also changes accordingly, and thus it can
be difficult to retrieve the resource. This is why accompanying the URL, it has to be
documented as much information as possible regarding the web. This can also be
solved by the use of persistent URL’s (PURL) redirectors.
Even though, this was found to be an optimum solution, not all scientific publications
have a unique identification number, in some cases a publication can be a manual, or
an article from a journal which is not indexed, or a CD/DVD from an official institution. All
of which are lacked of a unique identification number, and thus the need for a holistic
approach to link data and complete citations has to be solved.
In the GeoViQua project we need a corpus of publications that reference datasets for
different purposes in order to test the reference publication model that is going to be
included in the Producers Quality Metadata Model. Since this is a new topic in GEOSS,
it is not possible to extract publications form metadata about the data. Despite efforts
have been made to define a data citation standard for scientific publications, currently it
is not possible to automatically extract this information from the publications. In order to
have a small set of examples, we have manually extracted some publications that are
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developed for the producer quality metadata model (Task 6.1), as well as for the user
feedback system (task 3.5).
To that aim, a producer quality metadata model has been designed taking into
consideration all the guidelines stated in ISO 19115:2006, ISO 19115-2, ISO 19157,
ISO 690-2010 and from additions made by GeoViQua group based on the requirements
phase (deliverable 2.1). These additions have been introduced to meet the needs
observed, and thus to correctly link datasets to publication through the citation of the
publication.
4.2
Dataset-Publication Relationship
Efforts have been made to integrate all the ISOs relevant to the subject, such as ISO
19115:2006 which defines the elements that conform the entity “Citation and
responsible party information: CI_Citation” class that can be used for citing external
resources. When merging all this guidelines GeoViQua has found necessary to add
some more attributes to this class to be able to reuse it as a way to cite publications, this
is why a specialized class has been designed (GVQ_Publication) with some additional
attributes such as DOI, URL, volume, issue, pages, purpose, relatedResource, target,
scope and category. By doing this, any CI_Citation in the metadata model can be
substituted by a GVQ_Publication. Also, the possibility to add a GVQ_Publication has
been included in several different metadata classes that had no previous CI_citation
attribute depending on the purpose of the publication.
Publications have evolved from paper publications to an extended variety of sources,
having suffered a dramatic increase in number and sources on the last decades due to
the on-line access. During the development of this task, a lot of time was put into
gathering and studying all formats of publications in order to have a wide scope of the
different kind of publications now available, from paper map documents to articles and
wikis, among other, as well as defining the kind of information that is needed to reach a
particular publication.
4.2.1
Examples of publications sorted by data reference purpose
One of the needs detected has been to establish the purpose of each publication. With
the aim to provide as much information and as clear and easy to reach as possible, the
following purposes have been suggested. As we already stated, the purpose of the
publication depends on where the GVQ_publication element is used in the “tree” of
metadata classes.
<<CodeList>>
GVQ_PublicationPurposeCode
+
+
+
+
Descriptive
Methodology to get the resource (Algorithms, models,...)
Evaluation of performance
Validation/quality assessment
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+
+
+
Application (MD_usage)
Derivated products
Comparative (inter-comparison)
Datasets Combination
Figure 4. Purpose of the publication included in the GeoViQua producer metadata quality model.
Nevertheless, there is also a purpose attribute in the GVQ_Publication class that
includes in a codelist that is used as an attribute in the GVQ_Publication class.
<<CodeList>>
GVQ_PublicationCategoryCode
+
bookChapter
+
book
+
report
+
journalArticle
+
magazineNewspaper
+
atlasPaperMap
+
applicationProgram
+
conferenceProceedings
+
cdDvd
+
blogWiki
+
website
+
webpage
onlineVideo
Figure 5. Element proposed in the GeoViQua producer metadata quality model to group all citations
depending on the publication category.
A number of examples on this has been done and added to the deliverable 3.1 in order
to test the proposed classes. Examples on different purposes types, as well as on
different categories have been tested with the appropriate xsd schemas. Each example
refers to a publication and it is documented by a unique identifying number (when
existing), the title, the link to the dataset (or datasets) to which the publication cites, and
finally some information on Quality assessment when mentioned in the text. Some of the
links to the original data are no longer valid, and no redirection is given. This problem is
quite common at the moment.
Once the new producer quality metadata model is adopted, publications usually will cite
the dataset directly (that is outside of the GCI) while datasets are represented by
metadata records in the clearinghouse that will contain references to publications. For
that reason publications will continue not recognizing the GEOSS infrastructure.
4.2.2
Some thoughts on the design
While elaborating this section, some thoughts came up that need further consideration:
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Visualization: We propose that within the Geobroker/GEOcatalogue interface,
there could be a place referring to the publications/citations, providing a link to a
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page that contained the list of publications where the dataset has been
used/cited. The list of publications could be grouped into the publication
categories
defined
in
GeoViQua
Producer
Quality
Model
(GVQ_PublicationCategoryCode) in order to facilitate the access to the different
information that cite the data. From the publication lists it would be possible to
find other datasets related to this publication. This will be solved in tasks from the
Work Package 4.
Some publications use a unique identifier, sometimes in the form of “PII”
(Personally Identifiable Information), which has been encountered in few cases,
others in the form of DOI or ISBN. The PII is a concept which is quite old, and its
use in publications has been found to be scarce. In order to correctly identify a
publication, it should be stored the unique identifier number that it has. Even
though some of these identifier types are already contemplated in the ISOs,
identifier types have been found which do not correspond with those that are
actually on the ISOs. This is why we suggest having an Object Identifier (OI) that
could include DOI, PII, as well as any other unique identified number that has not
formally a place in the MODEL. Nevertheless, we recommend using a prefix to
categorize the identifier type (e.g.: all DOI number shall start with “doi:” and all PII
shall start with “pii:”) that correspond to that particular publication.
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In some cases the publication is related to more that one dataset. The first
dataset identifier is the one included in the metadata root element. The other
additional datasets are referenced to by using the relatedResources
(MD_Identifier type)
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Regarding embedded elements, it has to be noted that this has to be specified
(case of videos in youtube, ISO 690:2010), and the URL is thought as its unique
identification number, and therefore, may be it could be included under the Object
Identifier. An other option could be to open a new category for Online source.
We think that the second option should be considered as the best option. Then a
URL could be included in the producer quality metadata model as a URL, just
after the ISBN term, being the URL a form of uniquely identification for the Video
citation.
-
While elaborating this document, it has also been found that publications
sometimes may have two ISBN numbers that do not coincide, one for paper
publication and one for on-line publication of the same publication. This could
lead to errors when trying to reach the publication, so may be It should be
specified which one is being used on the registry, or may be to specify the user
which ISBN has to be edited.
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Also in the feedback model we suggest that there is a section where a person
that wants to use a particular dataset, and before the actual dataset download,
the user takes on a compromise that when ever this data is finally used in a
publication, it will be notified to the GEOSS community by filling in all the
information required to correctly link the dataset with the publication derived. And
therefore, it should always be notified the need of data citation and of reporting
it when citing.
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Fundamentals
Document:
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DGI
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Rearranging the definition of lineage will be more
appropriate.
Change the definition of lineage as follow:
lineage
provenance,
source(s)
and
production
process(es) used in producing a resource
Accepted
2.
DGI
WG
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6.5.5
Figure 9
te
The cardinality of the scope element should be zero or
one (0..1). Because lineage information applies maximum
only one scope.
Change the LI_Lineage diagram as follow and
update the other related sections according to this
change:
Not accepted in principle
+ scope: DQ_Scope [0..1]
Change MD_Scope to
MD_MetadataScope
Add new class MD_Scope
with same attributes as
DQ_Scope with extent *
Inform 19157
3.
ES
01
6.6.2,
title
ed
CI_ResponsibleParty or CI_ResponsiblePartyInfo do not
exist but are mentioned on the title
Change the title to: Citation and responsible party
information (CI_Citation, CI_Responsibility and
CI_Party) classes
Accepted
4.
ES
02
6.6.3
title
ed
CI_ResponsibleParty or CI_ResponsiblePartyInfo do not
exist but are mentioned on the title
Citation and responsible party information
(CI_Citation and CI_Responsibility) Data Types
and codelists
Accepted
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CI_ResponsiblePartyInfo cited in the UML model
The attribute has to be changed from “+
processor: CI_ResponsiblePartyInfo [0..*]" to “+
processor: CI_Responsibility [0..*]”·
Accepted
(the EAP UML model must be also fixed).
6.
ES
04
6.5.5
Figure 9
te
Too many ways of combining LI_Source and
LI_ProcessStep. are difficult to implement. Allowing
LI_Source only, LI_ProcessStep only, LI_ProcessStep+
LI_Source is fine but LI_Source+ LI_ProcessStep is a
combination that is not informative enough, because
when the process has more that one source involved, it
can not be express clearly.
Put an arrow pointing from LI_ProcessStep to
LI_Source.
Not accepted
7.
ES
05
6.5.5
Figure 9
te
Sometimes there is a publication that explains the whole
process to generate a dataset
Add “+ additionalDocumentation: CI_Citation” to
LI_Lineage. Description is: A resource (e.g. a
publication) that describes the whole process to
generate this resource (e.g. a dataset)
Accepted in principle see
OGC 85
Move contentType:
MD_CoverageContentTypeCode [1..*] and
processingLevelCode: MD_Identifier [0..1] from
MD_CoverageDescription to
MD_RangeDimension.
Accepted in principle
8.
ES
07
6.5.9
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te
contentType: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode [1..*] and
processingLevelCode: MD_Identifier [0..1] are at the
MD_CoverageDescription level but it can be different for
each MD_RangeDimension. This is particularly important
if you combine a data dimension with the per pixel
quality/uncertainty dimension description. In this cases
we need MD_CoverageContentTypeCode will be e.g.
“image” and the second will be “qualityInformation”.
This change has descendent compatibility.
DD_Done
Add new class
“MD_AttributeGroup” with
attribute
contentType (move from
CoverageDescription)
relationship from
CoverageDescription =
attributeGroup
“groupAttribute” from
MD_AttributeGroup to
MD_RangeDimension
See model diagram Steve
has
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6.6.2
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te
First paragraph says: “This package provides a
standardized method for citing a resource”. So it could be
used to cite a publication that is related to the dataset
(resource) described. Data citation in scientific
publications (and vice versa) is an important problem that
is recognized by several organizations such us
GEO/GEOSS, Datacite (http://www.datacite.org/) and it is
already used by Elsevier (see e.g. Elsevier:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096706
3708001805. With current CI_Citation some attributes are
missing to generate a complete citation of a publication.
You are explicitly accepting this approach by including +
additionalDocumentation: CI_Citation [0..*] in
MD_Identification so I kindly ask you to follow your own
path and to complete the process.
10.
ES
09
6.6.2
Figure 20
te
If you accepted the inclusion of
GVQ_PublicationCategoryCode you need to add the
definition of it.
The attributes are deeply based on ISO-690
11.
ES
10
6.5.3.2
Figure 6
te
Allow to include publications that describe usage of data
in MD_Usage
Add: “+ DOI: CharacterString” (data object
identifications. Used for datasets and for scientific
papers), “+ volume: CharacterString”, “+ issue:
CharacterString”, + “pages: CharacterString” (the
three very common in scientific literature), +
“otherRelatedResource: MD_Identifier [0..*]” (other
resources also covered by this publication)
Not accepted
Identifier and other
citationDetails already
present – DOI is only the
flavour of the day.
Additionally we could also add “+ scope:
DQ_Scope [0..1]” (the publication is using only a
part of the resource) and “+ category:
GVQ_PublicationCategoryCode” (see next
comment).
Add GVQ_PublicationCategoryCode with this
attributes: bookChapter, book, report,
journalArticle, magazineNewspaper,
atlasPaperMap. applicationProgram,
conferenceProceedings, cdDvd, blogWiki, website,
webpage, onlineVideo.
Not accepted
Add: additionalDocumentation: CI_Citation [0..*]
(publications that describe usage of data)
Accepted
See above
DD Done
Add to Data Dictionary
12.
ES
11
6.5.3.2
Figure 6
te
Sometimes the producer discovers issues on the data
and can suggest alternative solutions.
Add a new MD_DiscoveredIssue class to
MD_Usage with the following attributes:
+ expectedFix: CI_Date [0..1] (Date when a
solution is expected)
+ fixedResource: MD_Identification [0..1] (Link to
an alternative resource that has the problem fixed)
+ knownProblem: CharacterString [0..1] (the issue
that is known to be present)
+ workAround: CharacterString [0..1] (provisional
solution)
+ additionalDocumentation: + CI_Citation [0..*]
(Publication where the issue was reported)
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Accepted in principle
Add attribute named
“identifier: MD_Identifier
[0..1] Joan will provide
definition and explaination
text
DD Done
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6.5.3.3 or
6.5.6
Figure 7 or
Figure 10
te
We have reviewed "W3C provenance" standard
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111018/) and
we find out that almost any element/attribute that an
equivalent element in this standard but a relation between
entities called "revisionOf" to say that a resource is the
revision of another resource.
We propose 2 alternatives to include this here. Please
consider the possibility of including one.
14.
ES
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6.5.6
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OGC
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OGC
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«Union»
ge
Indicate the type of data equally to all fields
Alternative A: Add a new code "revisionOf" in the
DS_AssociationTypeCode
Accepted alternative A
DD_Done
Alternative B: Include a new element in
MD_MaintenanceInformation called “+
previousVersion: MD_Identifier” (or CI_Citation) as
a way to link to the previous version of this
dataset.
Change: Set<CharacterString>
Not accepted
By: CharacterString
Need (comma) separated list
MD_Metadata/fileIdentifier is a MD_Identifier and
MD_Metadata/parentMetadataIdentifier is a CI_Citation.
This is an oversight in the model
change parentIdentifier back to MD_Identifier
Accepted
Origin of MI_RangeElementDescription is not defined
Reference origin of MI_RangeElementDescription
( ISO 19115-2) in text in 6.5.9 and add it to the
class in the model in Figure 13
Accepted in principle
MD_ScopeD
escription
Remove attributes
referencing
MI_RangeDimension
(and MI_RangeDimension)
And ISO1915-2 from
Normative Reference
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seems an inconsistency in the meaning of "minValue",
"maxValue" and "units" ISO 19115:2003
minValue/maxValue/units were describing sensor
characteristics, while ISO 19115:2011
minValue/maxValue/units describe data characteristics
(See email from Martin Desruisseaux)
A possible fix would be to use different attribute
names, for example "minDataValue",
"maxDataValue" and "dataUnits".
Accepted in principle
To MD_Band add 3 attributes
boundmin
boundmax
boundUnits
with defintions from 19115
and units of UOMDistance
move bitPerValue to
MD_SampleDimension
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D and E
General
exactly where is “hierarchical metadata” defined in 191151? It only appears once, in passing, in the preamble to
Annex E. And then Annex E lays out an example in E.3
that I guess is the “operational definition” for this
concept? Seems like a pretty poor place to be
introducing something that seems “kinda important”,
particularly given all of the stuff crammed into Annex D
Reconcile the concept of MD_Scope, the concept
of hierarchal metadata in annex E and D
See email from Paul B dtd 3/2/2012
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OGC
85
6.5.5
Figure 9
te
Many more detailed languages are emerging for
describing details of lineage. If such descriptions are
available for a dataset, the metadata should be able to
reference them.
Adding citation[0..*]: CI_Citation to LI_Lineage is a
general way to address this need.
20.
US
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39
ed
logical grouping similar to previous version of ISO
Change order – put resourceLineage right before
or right after DQ_DataQuality
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Group Charter (OGC 14-020)
TITLE: Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group Charter (14-020)
Author Name(s): Joan Masó
Email: [email protected]
DATE: February 21, 2014
CATEGORY: SWG Charter
General Call for Participation Announcement.
To: OGC members & interested parties
A new OGC Standards Working Group is being formed. The OGC members listed below
have proposed the OGC Geospatial User Feedback SWG. The SWG proposal provided
in this document meets the requirements of the OGC TC Policies and Procedures.
The SWG name, statement of purpose, scope, list of deliverables, audience, and
language specified in the proposal will constitute the SWG's official charter. Technical
discussions may occur no sooner than the SWG's first meeting.
This SWG will operate under the OGC 2007 IPR Policy. The eligibility requirements for
becoming a participant in the SWG at the first meeting (see details below) are that:
 You must be an employee of an OGC member organization or an individual
member of OGC;

The OGC member must have signed the OGC Membership agreement;

You must notify the SWG chair of your intent to participate to the first meeting.
Members may do so by logging onto the OGC Portal and navigating to the
Observer page and clicking on the link for the SWG they wish to join and;

You must attend meetings of the SWG. The first meeting of this SWG is at the
time and date fixed below. Attendance may be by teleconference.
Of course, participants may also join the SWG at any time. The OGC and the SWG
welcomes all interested parties.
Non-OGC members who wish to participate may contact us about joining the OGC. In
addition, the public may access some of the resources maintained for each SWG: the
SWG public description, the SWG Charter, Change Requests, and public comments,
which will be linked from the SWG’s page.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate lists. The OGC
is an open standards organization; we encourage your feedback.
Geospatial User Feedback SWG
The Geospatial User Feedback SWG was established with the following proposed
activities:
1. Review the GeoViQua User Feedback Model (UFM; sometimes referred as
Consumer Quality Model or User Quality Model) UML and XML schema that is
currently included in the version 4 of the GeoViQua General Quality model
(http://schemas.geoviqua.org/GVQ/4.0/) and determine the best way to bring it
into the OGC process.
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scientific peer review processes to harvest existing research and experiences.
3. Refine which feedback items are more useful for users, producers and
distributors, and discern what concepts can be easily understood by users and
what others are less attractive as feedback items due to their descriptive and
technical complexity
4. Investigate how to best incorporate the UFM into the OGC standards framework
(and the ISO 19115 Metadata model) including identifying places where there
may be common elements in existing standards. Identify required best practices
for data owner to allow users to comment on the metadata accessible through
OGC data services such as WFS, WCS, and SOS.
5. Develop a UFM standard.
6. Assist the current implementations of the GeoViQua Quality model in the
migration to the final agreed UFM standard.
7. Investigate the need for a revision of the OGC abstract model to include the User
Feedback concept for Geospatial information.
8. Consider the standardization of a User Feedback query API or service interface
and its relation to the CSW standards and impact on the GEO label concept.
9. Interact with other DWGs about challenges of globally identifying datasets and
multilingual metadata.
10. Support upcoming research projects and implementers in taking up the
GeoViQua UFM and the existing software implementations.
The work in the GeoViQua User Feedback Model was financed by the EC (European
Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2010-2013) under grant agreement no.
265178) and conducted by several OGC members (such as: UAB-CREAF, Aston
University, Fraunhofer Institute, 52°North, ESA and CNR) . OGCE is also partner of
GeoViQua project. GeoViQua helped to finance provenance and quality activities in
OWS-9.
During the GeoViQua project several implementations of the User Feedback Model
were developed by S&T Corp. (User feedback API and GUI interface for User Feedback
creation and database), CNR (Discovery and Access Broker integration and another
User Feedback creation database), ESA and 52°North (GEOSS Portal integration,
XMLBeans for GeoViQua Quality Model) and Aston University (GEO label API,
Feedback Model Encoding Schema).
Conceptual Model and encodings
The user feedback has been identified by GeoViQua interviews as one of the quality
components that users appreciate. It is only a small feature in the ISO 19115 Model
called MD_Usage with only 4 parameters. One of the problems to solve is gaining
consensus on a user feedback model that is simple enough for user to understand, easy
enough to implement for wide adoption, and powerful enough to allow experts to
carefully report. Existing user feedback models are found to be too simplistic and they
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for this discussion.
Most OGC standards are based on underlying conceptual models. These may either
exist as Abstract Specifications or as part of the standards themselves. As far as we
know, there is no mention to the user feedback concept in the OGC Abstract
specification and we can consider trying to include it or simply to create an abstract
representation of the User feedback Model in UML. Then there is a need for an
encoding. GeoViQua proposes an XML encoding, which can be easily combined with
the ISO 19139 metadata XML encoding, but also acknowledges requirements from
mainstream IT and the increasingly app-centric development to support encodings such
as JSON.
So the first step of the group is to create a conceptual model. This will serve the
purposes of creating encodings.
Because the OGC standard for modeling concepts is the Unified Modeling Language
(UML), it is proposed that the Geospatial User Feedback model is developed by this
SWG and is documented using UML.
User feedback catalogue
After the encoding is formalized, there is a need for being able to catalogue (create,
read, update, delete) the Geospatial User Feedback. In GeoViQua a specific User
Feedback RESTful API was designed and developed for easy deployment of a solution
and a solution was published as open source software on GitHub. In OGC, the common
way to do it seems to be as a CSW profile. This SWG will consider the possibility of
creating such a profile and to also adopt OWS common in the process.
We have to take into consideration the different lifetimes of producer metadata
(generated before or during a product release) and consumer user feedback (generated
after the dataset publication). In dead, a catalogue of user feedback case is a bit
different of a normal metadata catalogue because the first requires frequent updates
coming from small contributions by many users. Also, it seems important that the
catalogue is able to return summary statistics from the row feedback such as average
ratings, avoiding the need to do this on client side. Also in a user feedback database
security controls: user authentication and user moderation is paramount.
For that reason, this SWG will consider to start the work on catalogues when the
Geospatial User Feedback model is found mature enough.
Purpose of this Standards Working Group
The purpose of the Geospatial User Feedback SWG is to develop User Feedback
standards.
The SWG will ensure that all standards are consistent with the OGC standards baseline
and business plan.
This SWG is a persistent SWG to enable it to work on:
1) a conceptual model for Geospatial User Feedback,
2) a catalogue profile for Geospatial User Feedback,
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standards proposed by the Data Quality DWG or the Metadata DWG.
Business Value Proposition
User feedback has been identified by GeoViQua interviewees as one of the quality
components that GEOSS users appreciate during the project’s requirements gathering
phase. Quality information is often too abstract and difficult to understand alone and
users like to complement this information with how the dataset has to learn from other
people’s experiences, e.g. difficulties found. With the explosion of geospatial digital data
and particularly Earth observation data, there is a need for ranking and comparing
mechanisms. This concurs with a continuing move towards a social web, user reviews
as a generally accepted component of online shopping, and mainstream developments
such as “social search”. Including user-generated metadata into geospatial data
services has the potential to improve the available metadata, increase usability of
datasets, extend the appropriate usage/uptake/adoption of published datasets, give data
producers a chance to alter the data collection or publishing methods, and ultimately
improve the quality of the data as well as the quality of the analysis based on a dataset.
Currently only a small member in the ISO 19115 Model called MD_Usage allows for
reporting uses of the data but this approach is quite simplistic. The GEO community is
composed by a big Earth Observation community interested in several thematic areas
(Societal Benefit Areas). GEO’s current Members include 89 countries, the European
Commission and 77 Participating Organizations.
By OGC adopting a Geospatial User Feedback Model and Catalogue profile, the user
community will be assured of a formal process for maintaining, improving, documenting
and in fact, formalizing the standard. This will lead to a greater confidence in the use of
the standard and new opportunities for integration with other related OGC standards.
After the validation of the requirements for user feedback in the Quality.DWG and in the
Metadata.DWG, this SWG can start developing the model, the encoding and the
catalogue services for Geospatial User Feedback.
Scope of Work
The scope of work of this Geospatial User Feedback SWG shall include the following
activities:
1) Develop a conceptual model for Geospatial User Feedback using UML class
diagrams.
2) Develop Geospatial User Feedback encodings based on the conceptual model.
One encoding required is XML.
3) Develop a catalogue for Geospatial User Feedback (possibly a CSW profile).
Future work of the SWG will be to consider the revision of the OGC abstract
specification and other connections with other standards.
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ensure harmony with other Feedback systems in the web.
What is Out of Scope?
It is out of the scope of this group:

The work on metadata covered in ISO 19115 and in ISO 19139

The development of a new version of CSW.

The definition of quality indicators and provenance metadata.

Collaborative editing of a metadata document (document history, changelogs,
wikis).
Specific Contribution of Existing Work as a Starting Point
The work in the GeoViQua User Feedback Model was financed by the EC (European
Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2010-2013) under grant agreement no.
265178) and conducted by several OGC members (such as: UAB-CREAF, Aston
University, Fraunhofer Institute, 52°North, ESA and CNR) . OGCE is also partner of
GeoViQua project.
GeoViQua can bring a UML and XML schema that is currently included in the version 4
of the GeoViQua General Quality model (http://schemas.geoviqua.org/GVQ/4.0/). The
User Feedback API has been also formalized (http://geoviqua.stcorp.nl/home.html). The
feedback service and client is in a GitHub repository (https://github.com/mvdbroek/geouserfeedback). They can be used as a starting point.
During the GeoViQua project several implementations of the User Feedback Model
were developed by S&T Corp. (User feedback API and GUI interface for User Feedback
creation and database), CNR (Discovery and Access Broker integration and another
User Feedback creation database), ESA and 52°North (GEOSS Portal integration,
XMLBeans for GVQ Quality Model) and Aston University (GEO label API, Feedback
Model Encoding Schema). Some of these implementations were integrated in a
GeoViQua GEOSS portal mirror as a demonstration exercise that is now being
evaluated by the GEOSS boards.
Determination of SWG Completion
The Geospatial User Feedback SWG will continue the work necessary to develop each
candidate Geospatial User Feedback standard until it has been approved by the OGC
Technical and Planning Committees as Adopted OGC standards.
As a persistent SWG, the voting members will have to vote to dissolve the SWG.
Description of Deliverables
The specific deliverables of this Geospatial User Feedback SWG shall include:
1) A conceptual model for Geospatial User Feedback using UML class diagrams.
a. Based on the initial work of GeoViQua and set of requirements but
incorporating requirements coming from Quality DWG and Metadata DWG.
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documented.
c. An attempt shall be made to partition the schema content into logical UML
packages, including documentation of package dependencies.
d. Relevant terms and definitions should also be documented in accordance
with OGC convention.
2) Geospatial User Feedback encodings based on the conceptual model.
a. It shall be consistent with the conceptual model.
b. Develop an XML encoding that can be easily used together with ISO
19139.
c. Based on the initial work of GeoViQua
3) A CSW profile for Geospatial User Feedback
a. Based on CSW version 2.0.2
b. Based on the User Feedback conceptual model and XML encoding
4) Concept for OpenSearch integration and extension to facilitate user feedback
discovery.
5) Evaluation report on best practices for integration of feedback into OGC
specifications.
The timetable for this work will vary greatly depending on the number of candidate
standards proposed, actions of the Quality DWG and Metadata DWG. However, the first
task listed is an immediate, crucial effort, which will start immediately.
IPR Policy for this SWG
 RAND-Royalty Free.
RAND for fee
Anticipated Participants
Those involved in metadata catalogues and discovery portals (generic or thematic) that
are interested in providing better relevant results and comparison capabilities based on
user feedback.
This is not meant as a limiting statement but instead is intended to provide guidance to
interested potential participants as to whether they wish to participate in this SWG.
Other Informative Remarks about this SWG
a. Similar or Applicable Standards Work (OGC and Elsewhere).
The following standards and projects may be relevant to the SWG's planned work:
 ISO 19115 and 19139
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OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata

OGC Catalogue Service for the Web

microformats hReview and hReview-aggregate draft specifications
(http://microformats.org/wiki/hReview)
The SWG intends to seek and if possible maintain liaison with each of the organizations
maintaining the above works.
b. Details of the First Meeting
The first meeting of the SWG will be held by telephone conference call as soon as the
SWG charter has been accepted. Call-in information will be provided to the SWG's email list and on the portal calendar in advance of the meeting
c. Projected On-going Meeting Schedule
The work of the SWG will be carried out primarily by email and conference calls,
possibly every two weeks, with face-to-face meetings at OGC TC meetings.
d. Supporters of the Proposal
The following people support this proposal and are committed to the Charter and
projected meeting schedule. These members are known as SWG Founding or Charter
members. Once the SWG is officially activated, these members have immediately
“opted-into” the SWG and have voting rights from the first day the SWG is officially
formed.
Name
Joan Masó
Lucy Bastin
Veronica Guidetti
Lorenzo Bigagli
Simon Thum
Daniel Nust
Organization
UAB-CREAF
Aston University
European Space Agency
CNR Institute for Atmospheric
Pollution Research
Fraunhofer Institute
52°North
e. Convener(s)
Dr. Joan Masó will act as initial convener of this Geospatial User Feedback SWG.
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