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Coordination GroupFGDC Business Report
Ken ShafferFGDC Deputy Staff Director
May 5, 2009
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TopicsGeorecovery.gov Team UpdateAnnual Report2010 Cooperative Agreements ProgramStandards UpdateFGDC Collaboration SiteServer Upgrades
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GeoRecovery.govSupporting the development of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, Recovery.gov siteTransparency and accountabilityGeorecovery.gov Team FGDC member agencies Providing geo-enabling guidance to
recovery.gov developers
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GeoRecovery.gov Activities
2 use cases were submitted to the development team 4/30/09Developing a guidance document based on high-level process flow steps Parallels architecture document approach Focuses on the capture, coding, flow,
validation, reporting, rendering of geospatial information
Does not attempt to address broader recovery.gov reporting issues, such as financial roll-ups
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Use Case 1 – Visualizing state-level AARA spending by program area
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Use Case 2 – Visualizing AARA spending with user defined layers
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GeoRecovery.gov Next Steps
Continue discussion with the developers and continue to refine the use casesFormalizing the document’s content areasFolding in information/issues collected to dateDeveloping the rest of the content
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FGDC 2009 Annual ReportFollow 2008 Report OutlineAccomplishments, Goals, ChallengesIdentify Theme
Example: Geo-enabling Economic Recovery
Suggestions due by June 1, 2009
Date of Completion – Nov. 1, 2009 Data call will go out June 1
Submit input to Milo [email protected]
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2010 NSDI Cooperative Agreements
ProgramOverall budget same as FY2009 $1.3 millionAnnouncement schedule same as FY2009 Final announcement text due no later than
August 14 Will open for proposal submittals early OctoberEconomy stimulus package grants could impact schedule
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2010 NSDI CAP
Action for Coordination Group Members
By May 22, 2009 provide a synopsis of funding category and suggested deliverables, budget, and number of awards to Gita Urban-Mathieux ([email protected])
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The NSDI CAP is intended to: support NSDI outreach & communications market NSDI concepts seed small efforts reach new organizations & disciplines initiate tool implementations create points of contact build goodwill for NSDI concept serve as the impetus for institutionalizing
NSDI provide a model for international Spatial
Data Infrastructure development
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Standards UpdateThe ISO TC 211 Secretariat has received the list of U.S. delegates to its 28th plenary and meetings, scheduled for May 25-29, 2009.The U.S. Delegation includes personnel from the FGDC and FGDC member agencies
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Geological Survey
The U.S. Delegation also include Non-Federal personnel: Bentley Systems, Inc. Northrop Grumman Information Technology/TASC Lockheed Martin ESRI George Mason University Oracle
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Standards Update cont’d
Key ISO/TC 211 meetings are: New work item for Revision of ISO 19115:2003,
Geographic information - Metadata New work item for Data quality Editing committees for:
ISO 19144-2, Geographic information - Classification Systems – Part 2: Land Cover Classification System LCCS
ISO 19103, Geographic information - Conceptual Schema Language (Revision of ISO/TS 19103:2005)
ISO 19148, Geographic information - Linear Referencing Systems
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Standards Update cont’d
Kick-off meeting for CAP 2009 Category 6 held 2009-04-28 (standards development except metadata)Topic: Development of training materials for web services standardsExamples, materials, and issues to focus on the Transportation Theme of the NSDI Framework Data Content StandardPrivate Investigator: Philip Dibner, OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii)Contact Julie Binder Maitra, [email protected]
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FGDC Collaboration Site https://my.usgs.govCollaboration site for FGDC Committees, subcommittees, work groups, initiativesShared space for document sharing, developmentDiscussion forums optionsNot intended for document storage
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FGDC Collaboration SiteGranted login access (need a my.usgs.gov account)Restricted access to ExCom working directoryAccess to Federal users only directoriesAccess to shared Federal/non-federal directoriesCurrently setting up permissions to allow accessInformation on accessing and joining will be sent to the members
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FGDC Collaboration Site
•Replacing with Community of Interest (COI) page
•Links/directions to my.usgs.gov and other Federal geospatial collaboration sites
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Server UpgradesThe Secretariat is upgrading the infrastructure that is hosting the FGDC websiteSignificant changes to both the hardware and software infrastructureBenefit - significant improvement in website load-capacity, response-times and redundancyTimeline
Currently testing the new infrastructure on staging server and undergoing Certification & Accreditation.
Will go live as soon as C & A is completed.