11.07.2013 ICIS and validation tools in iMarine

Conference details

• Date: 11/07/2013
• Where: Google Hangout
• Participants:
  • Yann Laurent (FAO)
  • Anton Ellenbroek (FAO)
  • Pasquale Pagano (CNR)
  • Leonardo Candela (CNR)
  • Luigi Fortunati (CNR)
• Topics: iMarine, VALID initiative, validation, statistical data

Agenda

1. ICIS new version presentation for CNR and discussion with FAO
2. DG-Mare VALID web service needs presentation by FAO and discussion with CNR
3. StatiCube bundle components discussion:
   1. Collect: presentation of DCF opportunity – presentation of data collection tool by CNR
   2. Process: ICIS – other needs ?
   3. Analyse: ICIS – other needs ?
   4. Disseminate: any planed tool ? StatBase (or StatBase like) as candidate for implementation in iMarine
   5. Archive: iMarine infrastructure

(the above phases are from UNECE Generic Statistical Business Process Model. We could also use as reference DDI v3 that might be more explicit as it talks about data collection instead of collect)

Notes

1. Presentation of TabularData features and architectures by Luigi
2. Requirements proposals for TabularData
   1. Capability to attach metadata/annotations to individual tuples
   2. Column merging can be done with simple transformation at first. A language can be defined later in order to give more flexibility to the user.
   3. Some transformations can trigger other transformations (e.g. dataset union -> deletion of duplicate lines). This aspect must be taken into account by the system.
3. Presentation of VALID initiative by Yann

Actions

Have another call next week before VALID meeting. Yann will send to CNR the presented document about VALID. CNR will read the document and provide feedback at the next call conference.