[IGS-DCWG-133] IGS XML project - call for use cases

[Fran Boler]

Dear Colleagues-

Here is a brief update on the IGS Site Log XML effort, and a request for 
your input. Several of us involved with this effort attended the IGS 
Workshop earlier this month in Sydney. The background and plans for this 
effort were described to the wider IGS community during the 
Infrastructure plenary and Infrastructure, RINEX, and Data Center 
splinter session.  A recommendation from the splinter session related to 
this effort was forwarded to the IGS Governing Board; the recommendation 
encourages implementation of the IGS XML System, and, to support the 
implementation, stakeholders are encouraged to submit use cases.

Going back to August of 2015, during the GGOS Metadata meeting that 
several of us were able to attend in Boulder, a set of milestones and an 
initial task list for this effort was developed. You can view these at 
this link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bUc8eCrQMZ-3Z-L8-EYNv783pOd5vLKurlybMLjegxU/edit

The team at Geoscience Australia is close to completing the first task, 
related to milestone 1, to take the decision document as the basis to 
define IGS Site Log XML Schema v1.0. While this task is being completed, 
we would like to request that participants in this effort contribute to 
our use case collection, item 4 on the milestones list. Use cases are a 
way to define requirements for systems, so that necessary functionality 
is described and documented. I would like to ask all to look at and 
contribute to the Use Case Collection Google Doc here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SSIXe3R5-7FZ6MT0nodmTtywEc6q35A4XzXhLk63YNQ/edit

I hope that the instructions are adequate and that all feel comfortable 
adding to the collection and commenting on use cases. I request that 
everyone aim for completing at least an initial phase of contributing to 
this document by the end of March. This is an important step as we hope 
to move later this year to begin implementing software and servers.

If you have questions about this process please reply to this e-mail (or 
add a question as a comment to the document). If necessary, we will hold 
a teleconference to further discuss use cases. The need for a 
teleconference will be determined based on response to this call.

As always, thanks for your continued interest and involvement with this 
effort.

Best,
Fran

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Fran Boler, Ph.D.
Data Center Manager
Geodetic Data Services
UNAVCO
303.381.7453
boler at unavco.org
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