# Presentation: 351044

## Day 1 am - CF Standards, Governance, Support, and Future 

- 8:00 – 8:50 **Arrival time** – Host Jean-Yves Peterschmitt; Tea and Coffee – *(50 min)*
- 9:00 **Welcome** – logistics, and expectations for the meeting Dean Williams – *(5 min)*
- 9:05 **Day-1 Introduction** – Karl Taylor and Bryan Lawrence: “Introduction to CF issues to be addressed ” – *(10 min) *
- 9:15 **CF Governance** *(1 hr 15 min) *
- CF website – Dean Williams: ”Status and remaining issues for website” – *(5+5 min)*
- Standard Name Committee – Alison Pamment: “Status, improvements needed, and issues for discussion” – *(15+15 min)*
- Conventions Committee – Karl Taylor: “Support and governance issues” – *(10+25 min)*
- 10:30 **BREAK** (*20 min) *
- 10:50 **Convention changes & technical discussion** *(1 hr 20 min)*
- GridSpecs – V. Balaji: “Sub-grids & curvilinear Cartesian coordinates” – *(45+20 min)*
- Wording changes – Alison Pamment: “Ros Hatcher's wording change” – *(5 min)*
- Variable identification – Russ Rew: “Coordinate variable identification with the axis attribute” – (5+5 min)
- 12:10 **LUNCH** *(1 hr 5 min)*

## Day 1 pm - CF Standards, Governance, Support, and Future 

- 1:15 **CF technical discussion continued** *(1 hr 15 min )*
- CLIVAR WG – Anna Pirani: “Requirements of the seasonal prediction community” – *(10+5 min)*
- Issues concerning underlying principles of CF (e.g., differing needs of obs. vs. models; how much intelligence required of applications; advisability of "pointers" to information external to the netCDF file; standard names vs. other controlled vocabulary; aggregation and discovery files) – *(1 hr)*
- 2:30 **BREAK** *(20 min) *
- 2:50 **Miscellaneous technical issues** (e.g., forecast (valid) time and original (run) time; ensembles; subgrid variation; time & calendar for paleoclimate simulations) – *(1 hr)*
- 3:50 **Software in support of conventions** *(1 hr)*
- LibCF – Ed Harnett and Russ Rew: “The new NetCDF CF library and status” – *(20+5 min)*
- NetCDF-4 – Russ Rew: “Experiences with NetCDF-4 and implications for the new CF conventions” – *(15+5 min)*
- CMOR – Karl Taylor: “The future of CMOR” – (*10+5 min)*
- 4:50 **Completion of any discussions postponed from earlier in the day** *(20 min) *
- 5:10 **Day wrap-up discussion** *(20 min)* – Outstanding issues; synthesis of discussion; and action items; promotion of CF; What can we do to make the system work better?
- 5:30 **Adjourn**
*6:00**** Champagne and Food aggregation experiment (60 mn + 30 seconds ************)***

## Day 2 am -  AR5: Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData 

- 9:00 **Day-2 Introduction** – Karl Taylor: “Introduction to AR5 and its Timelines” – *(10 min) *
- 9:10 **Focus on AR5**. Session Chair TBD
- V. Balaji, Princeton University, “AR5 use cases” - *(20 + 5 min)*
- Michael Lautenschlager, WDC Climate/Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, “IPCC WG II+III Requirements for AR5 Data Management” - *(20 + 5 min)*
- Bryan Lawrence, NCAS/BADC “Technical and social requirements for a putative AR5 distributed database of simulation and other data” - *(20 + 5 min) *
- 10:25 **BREAK** *(20 min + 5 min)*
- Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL – “A proposed architecture for AR5 distributed model analysis and comparison” - *(20 + 5 min) *
- 10:50 **AR5 Panel Discussion** *(1 hr 20 min )*. Panel Moderator TBD
- 12:10 **LUNCH** *(1 hr 15 mins )*

## Day 2 pm -  AR5: Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData 

- 1:25 **Semantic Content of Metadata**. Session Chair TBD
- Jon Blower, University of Reading – “DEWS: Delivering CF-NetCDF marine data through OGC Map and Coverage Services” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Lois Steenman-Clark, University of Reading - “NMM - a draft standard semantic metadata” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Jeremy Tandy, Met Office – “Moving forward from the RAL Feature Workshop" – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Bert Jagers, Delft Hydraulics, Delft – “Storing data for integrated 1D, 2D, 3D models of rivers, estuaries, and seas “ – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Eric Guilyardi, NCAS/BADC – “METAFOR, a project for devising a Common Information Model for climate modelling data and models" – *(10 + 5 min) *
- 3:20 **BREAK** *(20 min) *
- 3:40 **Semantic Aggregation of Metadata**. Session Chair TBD
- Luca Cinquini, NCAR – “RDF/OWL triple stores”– *(20 + 5 min)*
- Rocky Dunlap, Georgia Tech - “Employing Semantics for Multi-Schema
- Aggregation” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Roy Lowry, British Oceanographic Data Centre - “Vocabulary management: a foundation for semantic interoperability through ontology development” – *(20 + 5 min) *
- 4:55 **Day Wrap-up Round-table Discussion** *(20 min)* – Outstanding issues, synthesis of discussion, and action items.
- 5:15 **Adjourn**
**Evening: dinner at restaurant *****Le Bec Rouge***** **

## Day 3 - Interoperability and User Experience 

- 9:00 **A Focus on User Experience**. Session Chair TBD
- Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire – Connecting large data bases to users through open-source, web-based tools - *(20 + 5 min)*
- Michael Burek, NCAR – “Experiences in using the Community Data Portal to support Scientific Data Workflows” - *(20 + 5 min)*
- Serguei Nikonov, GFDL – “The LASurator” - *(20 + 5 min)*
- 10:15 **BREAK** *(20 min)*
- 10:35** Interoperable Systems**. Session Chair TBD
- Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ, German Climate Computing Center – “Distributed data access and processing in the Collaborative Climate Community Grid (C3-Grid) Project” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Jai-Ho Oh, Pukyong National University – “Current Progress on the Weather/Climate Information System in Korea” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF – “The EU Funded BRIDGE Project” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- Michael Burek, NCAR – “Experiences with Metadata Federation using OAI and THREDDS” – *(20 + 5 min)*
- John Caron, UNIDATA – “Restricting Access to OPeNDAP, WCS Datasets with the THREDS Data Server” - *(20 + 5 min) *
- 12:40 **Wrapup**. Session Chair TBD *(30 mins) *
- 1:00 **Main Meeting Adjourns** – Safe Travels!