Coordination Group FGDC Business Report

1. May 5, 2009 Coordination GroupFGDC Business Report Ken Shaffer FGDC Deputy Staff Director 703-648-5740 kmshaffer@fgdc.gov

2. Topics • Georecovery.gov Team Update • Annual Report • 2010 Cooperative Agreements Program • Standards Update • FGDC Collaboration Site • Server Upgrades

3. GeoRecovery.gov • Supporting the development of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, Recovery.gov site • Transparency and accountability • Georecovery.gov Team • FGDC member agencies • Providing geo-enabling guidance to recovery.gov developers

4. GeoRecovery.gov Activities • 2 use cases were submitted to the development team 4/30/09 • Developing 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

5. Use Case 1 – Visualizing state-level AARA spending by program area

6. Use Case 2 – Visualizing AARA spending with user defined layers

7. GeoRecovery.gov Next Steps • Continue discussion with the developers and continue to refine the use cases • Formalizing the document’s content areas • Folding in information/issues collected to date • Developing the rest of the content

8. FGDC 2009 Annual Report • Follow 2008 Report Outline • Accomplishments, Goals, Challenges • Identify 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 Robinson mrobinson@fgdc.gov

9. 2010 NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program • Overall budget same as FY2009 • $1.3 million • Announcement schedule same as FY2009 • Final announcement text due no later than August 14 • Will open for proposal submittals early October • Economy stimulus package grants could impact schedule

10. 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 (burbanma@fgdc.gov)

11. 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

12. NSDI CAP More information: http://www.fgdc.gov/grants/ Contact: Gita Urban-Mathieux burbanma@fgdc.gov

13. Standards Update • The 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

14. 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

15. 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 standards • Examples, materials, and issues to focus on the Transportation Theme of the NSDI Framework Data Content Standard • Private Investigator: Philip Dibner, OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii) • Contact Julie Binder Maitra, jmaitra@fgdc.gov

16. FGDC Collaboration Site • https://my.usgs.gov • Collaboration site for FGDC Committees, subcommittees, work groups, initiatives • Shared space for document sharing, development • Discussion forums options • Not intended for document storage

17. FGDC Collaboration Site • Granted login access (need a my.usgs.gov account) • Restricted access to ExCom working directory • Access to Federal users only directories • Access to shared Federal/non-federal directories • Currently setting up permissions to allow access • Information on accessing and joining will be sent to the members

18. FGDC Collaboration Site • Replacing with Community of Interest (COI) page • Links/directions to my.usgs.gov and other Federal geospatial collaboration sites

19. Server Upgrades • The Secretariat is upgrading the infrastructure that is hosting the FGDC website • Significant changes to both the hardware and software infrastructure • Benefit - significant improvement in website load-capacity, response-times and redundancy • Timeline • Currently testing the new infrastructure on staging server and undergoing Certification & Accreditation. • Will go live as soon as C & A is completed.