# Presentation: 749933

## ESDS Reuse Working Group

- Oct. 2005 Meeting in Baltimore, MD
- Breakout Session Report Back
- Robert Wolfe

## Chairs

- Robert Wolfe
- 301-614-5508, _[robert.e.wolfe.1@gsfc.nasa.gov](mailto:robert.e.wolfe.1@gsfc.nasa.gov)__ _
- Vic Delnore
- 757-864-1812, _[v.e.delnore@nasa.gov](mailto:v.e.delnore@nasa.gov)__ _

## Reuse Breakout Summary

- Survey report
- discussed initial findings; additional analysis is needed of this very valuable data set; reports/papers will be published over the next year
- Enablement system trade study
- reworked conclusion to recommend the next step be an architecture study, not to recommend a specific architecture approach
- reaffirmed system requirements: additional requirements for licensing and incentives; will examine current requirements to generalize some implementation specific ones
- Portal planning
- detailed discussion of method/process for updating portal and keeping it current
- will add more areas where general users can submit content
- Poster/demo session
- Future plans

## Plan for FY06 – Tasks (1 of 2)

- Reuse enablement system
***Submit trade study and get HQ’s feedback***
***Architecture study***
- Implementation planning
- Reuse portal
***Provide more content and keep up to date***
- Promote portal to community
- Add guidelines for reuse and making assets reusable (top 10 things to do)
- Provide incentives for reuse
***Follow up on policy recommendations for HQ to provide special consideration to proposals that include providing reusable components to community***
- Recognition of examples of reuse (develop Peer recognition process)
- Work on recommendation/justification for HQ to develop a funding opportunity to make assets/components reusable

***Higher priority***

## Plan for FY06 – Tasks (2 of 2)

- Metrics/measurements
***Generate/analyze statistics for portal web site***
- Develop measurement systems that can be used by the community to report project reuse effectiveness (work with metrics group)?
- Develop 1 or more questions (for metrics reporting tool)
- Work logistics with Metrics group to collect data
- Assess effort required to package assets for reuse
- Work with ECHO, S4PM to determine how much effort it took to release systems on Open Source web site
- Rationale: to develop a baseline for amount of reuse
- Promote reuse
***Continue publications in journals and presentations at conferences***
***Continue analysis of survey and publish results***
- Hold a special session at the AGU
- Policy
***Continue working with Office of Technology Transfer to facilitate software release process***

***Higher priority***

## Plan for FY06 – WG Partnerships

- Focus on areas of cooperation and collaboration with other WGs
- Use Technology Infusion capability vision/roadmap as a framework
- Interoperable Information (Web) Services
- Help with metadata definition – XML tagging
- Identifying reusable assets for categories of web services components
- HDF product content standards (e.g., atmospheric chemistry)?
- Identifying reuseable assets for implementing a possible standard

## FY06 Challenges

- Involving more participants (getting more participants to make contributions)
- Identifying and reaching out to decision makers at the NASA **Center** level
- NASA’s **dynamic** organizational structure (combined or separate Earth and Space Sciences?)
- Need to reach out to other ES domains (e.g., modeling community – ESMF, National Forum for Geoscience Information Tech. – FGIT)

## Websites or other contacts

- Reuse Portal
- http://softwarereuse.nasa.gov
- Collaboration Web Site
- _[http://www.sciencedatasystems.org/seeds/wg/reuse/default.aspx](http://www.sciencedatasystems.org/seeds/wg/reuse/default.aspx)__  _
- Mailing List
- http://lists.sciencedatasystems.org/mailman/listinfo/reuse_lists.sciencedatasystems.org
- Monthly Telecons
- Third Wednesday of the month @ 2 pm EST
- Support Contacts
- Steve Olding – solding@everware.com
- Jim Marshall – james.marshall@gsfc.nasa.gov
- Ryan Gerard -  ryan.gerard@gsfc.nasa.gov