**Schedule for the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal
(GO-ESSP) meeting to be held on June 6-8, 2005 at the British
Atmospheric Data Centre, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton,
Didcot, England.**

**Meeting Themes:**

-   Data Modelling and Interfaces.

-   Intra-Portal Subsystems (including Metadata Requirements and Access
    Control).

-   Inter-Portal Cataloguing and Discovery (including more Metadata).

-   Standardisation (especially with respect to CF conventions and OGC
    Web Services).

The meeting will also focus on coming up with working plans to:

-   Improve the process and methodology of the CF convention evolution.

-   Improve discovery between datasets held in different portals (across
    both discipline and

> geographic boundaries).

Presentations should be between 15-20 minutes long. All sessions will
conclude with 15 minutes for discussion.

**MONDAY**

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| **1100   | **INTRODUCTION**                                          |
| --       |                                                           |
| 1300**   | **[Session One]{.underline}: Institutional Reviews**      |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Bryan Lawrence (NCAS-BADC)** - An intro to the BADC,    |
|          | and how it will                                           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | interact with the NERC DataGrid.                          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Karl Taylor (PCMDI)** -- Serving the needs of Model     |
|          | Intercomparison                                           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | Projects and the IPCC.                                    |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Don Middleton (NCAR)** -- Emerging cyberinfrastructure  |
|          | for data at NCAR.                                         |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Steve Hankin (PMEL)** - Latest developments of the Live |
|          | Access Server.                                            |
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| **1300 - | **LUNCH**                                                 |
| 1400**   |                                                           |
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| **1400 - | **[Session Two]{.underline}: Institutional Reviews**      |
| 1530**   |                                                           |
|          | **Jeremy Tandy (UK Met Office)** -- Data discovery portal |
|          | implementation at                                         |
|          |                                                           |
|          | the UK Met Office.                                        |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Jordan Alpert (NCEP)** -- Progress of the real time     |
|          | NOMADS project at                                         |
|          |                                                           |
|          | NCEP.                                                     |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Frank Tousaint (World Data Centre)** -- The Model       |
|          | Output Data Center in                                     |
|          |                                                           |
|          | the CEOP Project - Interfaces for data and metadata.      |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Sergey Nikonov (GFDL)** -- GFDL Data Portal;            |
|          | achivements and current                                   |
|          |                                                           |
|          | status.                                                   |
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| **1530 - | **AFTERNOON TEA**                                         |
| 1600**   |                                                           |
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| **1600 - | **[Session Three]{.underline}: Intra Portal               |
| 1730**   | Technologies**                                            |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Lois Steenman-Clark (NCAS-CGAM)** -- Presentation of    |
|          | model metadata and                                        |
|          |                                                           |
|          | its automatic capture during a model experiment.          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Roy Lowry (BODC)** -- The BODC mark-up vocabulary       |
|          | semantic model.                                           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Kevin O'Brien and Steve Hankin (PMEL)** -- NOAA's       |
|          | Observing System                                          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | Monitoring Center.                                        |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Ag Stephens (NCAS-BADC, UK Met Office)** -- Reuse of    |
|          | portal components.                                        |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Annette Schloss (University of New Hampshire)** --      |
|          | Exploring Global Change                                   |
|          |                                                           |
|          | at UNH.                                                   |
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| **1800** | **DRINKS**                                                |
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# TUESDAY

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| **0930 - | **[Session Four]{.underline}: Data Structures and         |
| 1100**   | Modelling**                                               |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Bob Drach (PCMDI)** -- Overview of the IPCC 4AR model   |
|          | output database.                                          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Adityarajsingh Santokhee (University Reading )** --     |
|          | Storing and                                               |
|          |                                                           |
|          | manipulating gridded data using databases.                |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Russ Rew (NCAR)** -- The future of NetCDF.              |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Benno Blumenthal (IRI)** -- Data Interoperability at    |
|          | IRI.                                                      |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Andrew Woolf (BADC)** -- Data integration with the      |
|          | Climate Science                                           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | Modelling Language.                                       |
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| **1100 - | **COFFEE**                                                |
| 1130**   |                                                           |
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| **1130 - | **[Session Five]{.underline}: Standardisation and         |
| 1300**   | Processes**                                               |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Karl Taylor(PCMDI )** -- Metadata requirements beyond   |
|          | those provided                                            |
|          |                                                           |
|          | by the CF convention.                                     |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Jonathan Gregory ( University Reading)** - Future of CF |
|          | conventions and                                           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | standard names.                                           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **V. Balaji (Princeton University)** -- Model grid        |
|          | metadata.                                                 |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Steve Hankin (PMEL)** - Thoughts on the CF standards    |
|          | process and                                               |
|          |                                                           |
|          | potential NOAA and US IOOS contributions.                 |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Manuel Fuentes (ECMWF)** -- Experience with CF at       |
|          | ECMWF.                                                    |
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| **1300 - | **LUNCH**                                                 |
| 1400**   |                                                           |
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| **1400 - | **[Breakout One]{.underline}: CF Futures**                |
| 1530**   |                                                           |
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| **1530 - | **AFTERNOON TEA**                                         |
| 1600**   |                                                           |
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| **1600 - | **[Session Six]{.underline}: Inter Portal Technologies**  |
| 1730**   |                                                           |
|          | **Michael Burek (NCAR):** Experiences with Geoscience     |
|          | Metadata sharing                                          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | using OAI Protocol.                                       |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Melanie Meaux (GCMD)** - Edging Toward                  |
|          | Interoperability.                                         |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Luca Cinquini (NCAR)** -- Authentication and            |
|          | authorization system for NCAR                             |
|          |                                                           |
|          | web portals.                                              |
|          |                                                           |
|          | **Marta Gutierrez (NCAS-BADC)** -- Web Service Interfaces |
|          | to Discovery                                              |
|          |                                                           |
|          | Services.                                                 |
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| **1900** | **CONFERENCE DINNER**                                     |
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# WEDNESDAY

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| **0930 - | **[Breakout Two and Three]{.underline}: Global            |
| 1100**   | Interoperation/Model Metadata**                           |
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| **1100 - | **COFFEE**                                                |
| 1130**   |                                                           |
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| **1130 - | **[Session Seven]{.underline}: Directions for GO-ESSP**   |
| 1300**   | (Breakout summaries plus                                  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | discussion).                                              |
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| **1300 - | **LUNCH**                                                 |
| 1400**   |                                                           |
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