2022 05 25

CoverageJSON Task Team Meeting 2022-05-25

14:00 UTC (08:00 MDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 22:00 CST, Thursday 00:01 AEST)

Agenda

• Agree Agenda and IPR Call
• Minutes/Notes of previous meetings ( recordings on the Portal )

Status: CoverageJSON

Progress in the last month:

• CoverageJSON Specification
  • Specification publication status
  • JSON schema publication status
• Outstanding Issues:
  • automation of building and publishing drafts
• Outstanding Pull Requests:
• Compliance Test Suite:
  • covjson.org sandbox
  • JSON schema tool implementation
• CoverageSWG coordination:
  • perhaps advertise nDArray?
• Update other Documentation on GitHub:

Plans for next month:

• Corrections: Version 1.0.x nothing planned
• Outreach:

Longer Term Plans:

• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.x: see Tag V1.1 in this repo.

• Detailed comparison with Coverage standards/crosswalk

• Version 2.x - nothing planned

Risks: alienating existing communities of users by changing spec in incompatible ways. Mitigate by postponing such proposed change to next versions.

Any Other Business:

Date of Next Meeting: 2022-06-01 ??

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Attendees

• Chris Little
• Jon Blower
• Gobe Hobona
• Steve Olson

Agenda

• Agree Agenda and IPR Call: done
• Minutes/Notes of previous meetings ( recordings on the Portal ): agreed

Status: CoverageJSON

Progress in the last month:

• CoverageJSON Specification
  • Specification publication status: on Portal, working draft linked from README
  • JSON schema publication status: PR to be created to link spec to schema and sandbox
• Outstanding Issues:
  • automation of building and publishing drafts - fixed
  • formal control of PRs and Master/Main branch agreed
  • automatic publication to community website agreed
  • agreed to add Maik Riechert as editor of spec
  • agreed to simpler repo folder structures
• Outstanding Pull Requests: none
• Compliance Test Suite:
  • covjson.org sandbox linked to spec
  • JSON schema tool implementation discussed. Python preferred to Java. OGC agreed as future OGC CITE test
• CoverageSWG coordination:
  • perhaps advertise nDArray?
• Update other Documentation on GitHub:

Plans for next month:

• Corrections: Version 1.0.x nothing planned
• Outreach:
  • discuss use of nDArray with COverages SWG
  • meet with GeoVolumes SWG who are interested

Longer Term Plans:

• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.x: see Tag V1.1 in this repo.

• Detailed comparison with Coverage standards/crosswalk

• Version 2.x - nothing planned

Risks: alienating existing communities of users by changing spec in incompatible ways. Mitigate by postponing such proposed change to next versions.

Any Other Business: none

Date of Next Meeting: 2022-06-08 if people are available