2022 04 28

Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG Meeting 75

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

Agenda

• Agree Agenda and IPR Call
• Minutes/Notes of previous meeting

Status: EDR

Progress in the last month:

• EDR API Specification:
  • Version 1.0.1 finalised and approved by TC meeting - ready to pass to Gobe.
  • What to delay to V1.0.2 - agreed to fold 1.0.2 editorial improvements into V1.1
• Outstanding Issues:
• Outstanding Pull Requests:
• Compliance Test Suite:
• API coordination:
  • Voted in favour of API Common Part 2 Geodata
  • API Coverages and Common considering aggregation over different dimensions
  • Need to advertise EDR Custom dimensions
• Update other Documentation on GitHub:

Plans for next month:

• Corrections: V1.0.1 to be published
• Outreach:
  • Sprints Met Office CLimate SPint, OGC spatial partitioning hackathon

Longer Term Plans:

• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.1
  • HTTP POST, Categorical/Custom dimensions agreed
• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.2
  • nothing agreed
• Version 2.x: Not envisaged

Risks:

Any Other Business:

Date of Next Meeting: 2022-05-12? 14:00 - 15:00 UTC

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Minutes

Attendees:

• Chris Little
• Dave Blodgett
• Mark Burgoyne

Agenda: agreed

IPR Call: done

Minutes/Notes of previous meeting: agreed

Progress in the last month:

• EDR API Specification:
  • Version 1.0.1 finalised and approved by TC meeting - ready to pass to Gobe.
  • What to delay to V1.0.2 - agreed to fold 1.0.2 editorial improvements into V1.1
• Outstanding issues closed: #323, #356, #360
  • Reviewed issues created since last meeting, focusing on the proposal to add functionality to the API for generating summary aggregations
• Outstanding Pull Requests: #355, #357, #358, #361, discussed and agreed to merge the following to baseline the v1.0.1 release:
  • #355 Change parameter-name required to false
  • #357 Fix errors in the cube requirements
  • #358 Fix geometry examples
  • #361 Remove coords property from Collections metadata

Compliance Test Suite:

• API coordination:
  • Voted in favour of API Common Part 2 Geodata
  • API Coverages and Common considering aggregation over different dimensions
  • Need to advertise EDR Custom dimensions
• Update other Documentation on GitHub:
  • David Blodgett proposed creating a best practice for EDR for server response times, with respect to how long queries should be handled (see issue #363). The attendees agreed that this would be a good idea and it was proposed that this should be raised as a cross SWG issue.

Plans for next month:

• Corrections: V1.0.1 to be published
• Outreach:
  • Sprints Met Office Climate Sprint, OGC spatial partitioning hackathon

Longer Term Plans:

• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.1
  • HTTP POST, Categorical/Custom dimensions agreed
• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.2
  • nothing agreed
• Version 2.x: Not envisaged

Risks:

Any Other Business:

Next meeting: 12th May 2022 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT)