DataWiki

1. Review Action Items from Last time 11 July 2012, Wednesday, Telecon
   1. Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-Ls5KzdnPZ3kbLyKxt8fjIxGd-ofoJFi_vi31DHgsI/edit
2. Review events since last call
   1. IGC Brisbane
   2. Brochure: most edits incorporated, latest version at promotional_material
3. Find a date for the IGSN General Assembly at AGU (suggested breakfast meeting)
4. Membership of for-profit organizations
5. Namespace assignment (identified at the last call)
   1. Literature about Governance in Namespaces, Bechtold 2003, Available from: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol36/iss3/6

1. Report back from IGC Brisbane
   1. GNS (New Zealand Survey) would like to become a member of IGSN e.V but they are for-profit
   2. Kerstin spoke with Nick Mortimer from GNS
   3. CGI IUGS - we should tell them how they can best support the IGSN
      1. CGI = Commission on Geoscience Information, a group of IUGS www.iugs.org
      2. Check to see the parallels between IUGS and IUGG: the relationship between if CGI and AIGA
      3. Does IUGG have a similar sub-section? (David Fox (?) is the person to follow up on that.)
2. AGU 2012
   1. General Assembly: Proposed a breakfast meeting(7am PST) (did not choose the day yet due to peoples' meetings not yet set)
   2. Simon Cox won't be at AGU but would be happy to dial in
   3. Other activities:
      1. There are several sessions merged that are about Unique Identifiers, etc.
3. Group Discussion of the Google Doc with Recommended practices
   1. Jens presented the
   2. Simon Cox brings up a discussion from July, in an email thread called “PID Structure” - how to formalize the IGSN syntax (an example of the language used to formalize “Three plus at least six and be careful about other symbols used.” (this text is now at the bottom of the google doc)
4. Other
   1. Lee Allison: I'm planning on attending the Energistics-run National Data Repository meeting in Kuala Lumpur in late Oct and 'market' IGSN to the 30+ countries participating.

1. LH: Send brochures to Lee Allison for late Oct Meeting
2. KL: Check if IUGG has a similar subgroup as CGI of IUGS (http://www.cgi-iugs.org)

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