DataWiki

1. Status of IGSN e.V.
   1. Info: Signatures
   2. Info: Registration of IGSN e.V.
   3. Action: Improvements to web site: provide ideas
   4. Action: Agree on Logo
2. IGSN e.V. outreach events
   1. Info: EGU 2012
      1. SP1.20, April 22, 2012, 19-20h
   2. Info: IGC 2012
   3. Action: Decide on activities at AGU 2012
   4. Action: identify others outreach opportunities
3. Membership
   1. Action: Define & approve procedure & schedule of new member approval
   2. Action: Address issues of national agencies: Contracts with members rather than membership?
   3. Action: Identify potential affiliate members that will help promote the IGSN
4. Architecture
   1. Action: Establish process to develop technical and procedural components of the IGSN architecture components that will be recommended to the assembly for approval
      1. Top-level registry metadata: Changes to the proposed schema from the 2011 workshop: http://dokuwiki.gfz-potsdam.de/datawiki/doku.php?id=igsn:earth_science_metadata
      2. IGSN syntax & Name spaces: _How many name spaces will each registration agent receive? How flexible will the IGSN syntax be?_
5. Action: Set date for next telecon

To 1.: Status of IGSN e.V.

1. We are in the process of collecting one more signature from the University of Minnesota, and then the e.V. can be registered in Germany, and accounts for the e.V. will be set up.
2. The website, [http://www.igsn.org] , was presented and KL asked for feedback on what further content should be placed on it.
3. The logo for the IGSN e.V. was discussed. The old logo of the IGSN will be sent around. We will try to integrate the creation of the logo with efforts to have arts classes design a brochure for the IGSN e.V. (see below).

To 2.: Outreach activities:

1. EGU Splinter meeting: announcement should go to various mailing lists: paloemag, volcano, EarthRef, CZEN, Marine Curators.
2. IGC 2012: Kerstin Lehnert and Lesley Wyborn will need to decide if a Town hall meeting or workshop is feasible.
3. AGU 2012: Session proposal deadline is April 20, 2012. Idea to propose a session for AGU for the general topic of unique identification and registration of resources. Discussion if IGSN e.V. should have a booth for outreach at AGU FM, but due to the cost (monetary and human time) due to the costs and effort to man the booth it might not be worth it, though a good way to reach individuals. Michael Piasecki emphasizes the relevance of advertising the IGSN to individuals. Perhaps we can achieve this by making sample registration an issue of NSF data compliance/data management plans.
4. Other outreach activities:
5. Michael Piasecki suggested to hold a webinar or similar presentation to EPA and USGS, Rick Hooper from CUAHSI may know contacts
6. Kerstin Lehnert suggested to try to reach out to NASA via ESIP.
7. Anders Noren suggested to generate an official one-two paragraph long statement about IGSN e.V. that can be copied and pasted to various list-servs and communities, as well as to generate a brochure. The brochure should be generated in next 2 months, send out for comments. It was suggested that the brochure and logo could be made part of a class project. Sky might be able to get people from his team at USGS or from the Art Institute in Denver.

To 3.: Membership

1. Sky Bristol gave an update on the membership process for the USGS. Kerstin Lehnert reported that the Executive Board suggested that a possible solution for national agencies to participate would be a cooperative agreement or contract with an academic members. This idea should be proposed to the other government agencies (GA, BGR), and feedback should be collected.
2. Kerstin Lehnert asked for feedback about the new 'Membership' page on the web site after the call. A process still needs to be established for handling and approving membership application, but there is no urgency now as no applications for membership have been received since the founding event.
3. Discussion of possible affiliate members
   1. Elsevier - who is interested in using SESAR and the IGSNs
   2. Open Geospatial Consortium
   3. Cathy Constable proposes inviting AGU as an affiliate member and then discussing with their editorial process, Cathy will find out since she served on their publications committee
   4. Walter will look in to that for GSA as well
4. Architecture
5. Jens discussed the proposal at [http://dokuwiki.gfz-potsdam.de/datawiki/doku.php?id=igsn:earth_science_metadata], suggests that is is discussed on the igsn-members list after the call
6. Changes to the top level metadata: Fields that are no longer there:
   1. timestamp (what is the purpose of it? if one can be defined, it can go back in)
   2. status (it is unclear what that means)
   3. resource URI (because if the URL is transmitted in the registration process, there is a potential for a mismatch in the handle record and the metadata)
7. The development of the top level registry is nearly complete, just waiting for the metadata profile to be finalized.
8. Question: is the IGSN always public? Jens: not necessarily, it does not need to be accessible.
   1. SESAR samples can be private, the IGSN is registered but the metadata is not public
   2. Cathy: it is a good idea to have the private option if there is a period after the metadata are uploaded that they are likely to be updated
   3. Kerstin mentioned other reasons to keep metadata private (location of a valuable outcrop, etc.)
   4. These considerations may lie with the allocation agent though, and they don't push metadata to the top level registry yet if not ready
   5. Answer: the top level registry just registers what they get, because they refer back to the allocating agent
9. Cathy suggests there is a two week comment period on the metadata profile, the comments should be written, a sub-group should look at the comments.
   1. Metadata Subgroup - Sky, Anthony Koppers (suggested by Cathy), Jens, (Steve Richards suggested by Sky)
   2. Namespace Sugroup - Anders, Cathy, (nominated: Ronald K (ICDP)), Kerstin, Jens
10. Set the date for the next meeting
11. May 31st, 10a EDT

1. Kerstin send old IGSN logo around
2. Identify possible conveners for the AGU session on UIDs and sample registries
3. Everyone - identify more places to send EGU announcement
   1. Kerstin will draft a paragraph to advertise EGU splinter group for sending around to mailing list
4. Brochure
   1. Make progress before the next call
5. Cathy will look in to inviting AGU as an affiliate member (for publication/editorial process)
6. Walt will look in to inviting GSA as affiliate member (for publication/editorial process)
7. Everyone: Look at the metadata profile and comment back on the igsn-members list.
8. Jens will ask Ronald Konze if he is interested in being in the Namespace subgroup
9. Create category on the wiki for the minutes
10. Write email to full list that the minutes have been posted
    1. Ask all to comment in next 2 weeks on the new top level metadata profile
    2. Let the group know know if you want to join the subgroups (Metadata or Namespace)

This is the current members email list: igsn-members@gfz-potsdam.de

• Ulrich Harms
• Stephen Miller
• Kerstin Lehnert
• Dirk Fleischer
• Walter Snyder
• Mike Piasecki
• Nick Arndt
• Simon Cox
• Jens Klump
• Catherine Constable
• Anthony Koppers
• Lee Allison
• Anders Noren
• Sky Bristol
• Linda C Gundersen
• Lesley Wyborn
• Leslie Hsu
• Daniella Morgos

Register for an account for the IGSN wiki by clicking “Log in” at the bottom of the wiki start page: [http://dokuwiki.gfz-potsdam.de/datawiki/doku.php?id=igsn:start]