unedited notes
M&V Workshop Notes
2008-10-23
• Organization
o Post workshop participants. person, email, affiliation. Specialty.
o Trac tickets
o VW: Intranet for sharing pre-publication materials amongst Census, ie within website.
EV: Discussing rich content with PlosOne. Helps with pre-publication.
o Terminal server clients: ArcGIS, Spatial Analyst (PN, CM)
o Online forum
• example analysis: JP: who’s good at what, and not ask same questions.
• BR: did this for Antarctica, SCAR-MARBIN discussion forum.
o With OBIS team
o Agree on Common Technologies. Mapping, multimedia. Distribute documents / session.
o Standardized products, maps. Expectation [Seamounts guy] PH: will be doing this with color ramps, look and feel, after this initial idea-building phase.
o Pedro: synthesis groups, like deep-sea program, have agreed to create maps, so where’s the M&V program? VW: yes.
o Site visits & workshops? Deep sea interested, [tree guy]. Charge projects with a simple task. CM: see lectures online. Webinar. PH: M-EBM webinar. Time? And post for review. KT: develop 1-2day trainings, available for fuller Google sessions. A lot of this training already online. And willing to make video/webpage/pdf for specific tasks. GE Pro with full license avail for edu/non-profit.
• E&O
o Map of Projects
• http://coml.org/project_map.html
• Stefan: better than spaghetti
• Email, and post on website with who’s lagging
o Web org. CK will make list and issues available. Launching new coml.org site. Maybe a partner sections.
o RSS feeds. E&O willing to help.
o Permissions. Stumbling with making it efficient.
o Multimedia
• Video. YouTube. CK: a lot going on, NG, media, etc.
• Pictures. Different usage rights per image.
• Web org. CK will make list and issues available. Launching new coml.org site. Maybe a partner sections.
• Product Types
o Data: Pedro’s ETOPO2 contours
• Commercial databases: landcover, human pop’n
o Desktop Tools
• Update BB tools for working with OBIS
• Include data provider credit for all OBIS/GBIF.
o Web Tools
• Services: for desktop tools
• env sampling – interp pt to ice edge (BR), by polygon buffer (CM)
• Mappers
• Dist’n layers - ArcOD (Falk)
• with wiki (HMAP, Stefan)
• Nick interested in SEAMAP-like functionality. Would like to pick with affiliation. EV: will link data pts to project in metadata. BB: priority to work step-wise, demonstrate with Ei’s Google Mapper, then add OBIS WMS data by project metadata layer.
• Issues
o Metadata. BB and FH. Data distributed across institutions.
• Analysis
o PN: mapping pathways like genomic communities,
o PH: publication content by place, project. Already done with AIMS.
• Analytical Tools
o Sampling by point
o Sampling by buffer
o Oceanographic data
• climate change forecast scenarios
• socio-economic forecast
• contamination levels
HMAP with Stefan
• undersea features – GEBCO, so far points only, said to be updating to KML shapefiles, including polygons?
• Fishing Atlas, Global, starting with HMAP project areas, interviewing HMAP scientists (get video clips for posting), Gulf of Maine
o Baseline map. Historically productive “places” (not grids), with descriptive info. EBM, rebuilding fisheries, health, resilience, cumulative impacts. Cross-regional comparisons.
o PDF survey forms via email.
• Baseline. Initially to HMAP. Description, History, Principal Species [add links to FishBase / SEAMAP / ADW / etc]. Ideally polygon to link to icon.
• Fishing Ground, Bank or Area. Give em a map and draw [trace a place, extra motivation with other places there ]. Method of capture, species impact. [ many to one relationship here w/ species and methods]
• Extent of Impact. Time, space, frequency. Impact Assessment: high, med, low (categorical) -> bring in historical a la Halpern (2008). Can’t standardize too much with quantification. Data Availabity: like raw data of catch over time
o [Then and Now!]
• CREEFS. PhD. Compiled Rnetcdf with OPeNDAP access. Also played with web display. Job?
Suggestions:
– Synthesis tools / hypothesis
• Independent variables (oceanographic…)
– Scenarios: contamination…
• Forecasting tools
• Extraction tools / sample tools…(polygon, buffer…)
– Attribution / methods / metadata/ process…
• Quality control for data & metadata
• Network representation of data sources
– “hyper referenced” metadata in visualizations
– Georeferencing pubs -> aggregation of data streams
• GMD for each field project
– Deliver metadata as well as we deliver data
– Do field project have subproject with diff. metadata needs?
– Prepublication sharing of data & products (authenticated access)
• “staging area” collaboration before submitting to pub.
• Comment, discussion on comlmaps.org
Open computation servers CoML collabs.
Data purchases for specific projects
Improve public face of CoML projects
Better design, organization
Archive of images and video
- complicated by many different levels of rights/permissions
- when one provides vid or images to media, ask if census can use their results
Standardization/Common style issues
o Meet to create common style applications
• Speed programming session
o Are the common products expected from field project?
Participant list, send note about comlmaps.org capabilites
Adapting one project’s code for other projects
Next steps:
Charge each field group with simple task: create polygon of study area on GE
Webinars
Google has in-person visits (on site, or bring to Google)