Meeting of the Steering Team of the META-T Pilot Project

16 - 17 September 2008,

World Meteorological Organization
7bis, avenue de la Paix
Case Postale 2300

1211 Geneva
Switzerland

Annotated Agenda

1 Welcome, call to order, meeting information, working arrangements
2 Agenda approval
3 Introduction and goal of the workshop
4 Update on the latest accomplishments of the META-T Pilot Project
5 Description of the META-T Servers at NMDIS and NDBC
6 Review of latest META-T Documentation and Edit
6.1 META-T Workplan and Schedule
6.2 Metadata categorization and requirements Matrix, v2
6.3 META-T Table for VOS
6.4 META-T Table for XBT
7 Development of additional documentation
7.1 META-T Table for Moored Buoys
7.2 META-T Table for Drifting Buoys
7.3 META-T Table for Floats
7.4 Other projects related to META-T
8.1 IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management
8.2 Quality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Data (QARTOD - USA)
8.3 QARTOD to Open Geospatial Consortium (Q2O - USA)
8.4 WIGOS Pilot Project for JCOMM
8.5 Additional Projects
9 Update on NMDIS ODAS Capabilities
10 Funding of required developments
11 Future membership of META-T Pilot Project
12 Pilot Project specifications, workshop's recommendations, and action plan