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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)