1. Task IN-05GEOSS Design and InteroperabilityGeorge Percivall, IN-05 Task FacilitatorSteve Browdy, IN-05 C1 Lead and SIF Co-ChairInputs fromBart de Lathouwer, AIP lead Ken McDonald, Communty PortalsIIB Meeting 13 January 2014

2. Task IN-05GEOSS Design and Interoperability Leadership of: • Architecture Implementation Pilot • Standards and Interoperability Forum • Future Products Workshop • Community Portals Contributed to • Workshop on Future Architecture of GEOSS Information System

3. AIP-6 Master Schedule

4. AIP-6 Status September - December 2013 • Water SBA • Firing on all cylinders • Energy SBA • Very good – need a bit more time to finish • Agriculture • Struggling • Health • Unknown • Capacity Building • Chile and South Africa • Data Sharing • Authentication: ¾ use cases done • Access Management Federation up and running amongst 5 orgs • System Design • All green • GCI Research • All good • FGDC Service Checker • Services to be registered

5. Ministerial Showcases and AIP Outputs • Showcases for Ministerial (Jan 17, 2014) • AIP leading Showcase #4 • Water, Energy & Agriculture • Blue Planet • AIP work also in Showcase #2, #3, #4 and #5 • AIP-6 Outputs • Working Group Engineering Reports • Overall Engineering report

6. Initial ideas for AIP-7 • Authentication • Further maturing • Solve SAML2 to OpenID • GCI Component Modification • Capacity Building • Authentication, Resource registration • Data Sharing • Use metrics • GCI Component Modification • Licensing • More testing needed • GCI Component Modification • Guidelines • Community Portals • Find and develop Best Practices • Preparation • Get to know GEOSS (Capacity Building - Tutorial) • Private sector involvement • Via AIP • In-situ • observations from crowd sourcing and citizen science • Continue SBA involvement

7. Standards and Interoperability Forum • 2013 Activities • Contributed to GEOSS Future Products Workshop. • Support Helper Applications in the GCI • ‘Request for Assistance’ form publicly available. • Supported DSWG DDQ subgroup. • Reviewed Data Citation paper for SIR • Updated GEOSS Data-CORE metadata guidance document from DSWG • 2014 Planned Activities • Continued tutorial development • Completed testing of mime-types with CSR • Continue whitepapers development (current and new)

8. IN-05 Design and Interoperability • GEOSS Future Products Workshop • 26-28 March 2013 • IIB Working Meeting for the vision and architecture ofGEOSS Information System • 20 September 2013 • Community Portals Recommendation Paper

9. GEO Task IN-05GEOSS Design and Interoperability Priority Actions • GEOSS Information System research and prototyping • SBA needs drive development • Encourage systems to interoperate with GCI     • Increase access to GEOSS Data-CORE   • Coordinate with IN-03 for GEOSS Evolution Recent Progress and Key Outputs for 2013 • Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) • Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF) • GEOSS Future Products Workshop