Attending: Theresa Valentine, Mark Klopsch, Sharon Clarke, Keith Olsen (great cookies), Kelly Christiansen, Dylan Keon, George Lienkaemper (Note Taker)
George reported on a meeting he attended in August, where Doug Nebert of FGDC discussed the status of FGDC metadata, from Clearinghouse to international geospatial metadata standard. George had a Powerpoint Presentation describing the ISO 19115, which looks very much like the FGDC metadata standard (with slightly more detail). FGDC advises metadata producers to continue to develop using the FGDC standard. Early in 2002 a crosswalk commissioned by FGDC should be ready to convert FGDC-compliant metadata to ISO19155.
George also reported that the FRESC NBII Metadata clearinghouse node will be moved from Seattle to Corvallis and registered with both the NBII and FGDC gateways. Anyone who wants their metadata available for international discovery should contact George to get records on to this node. Kelly C will look into moving CLAMS metadata to this node.
Through the new university site license agreement, users have free access to ESRI Virtual Campus courses. Because interest is expected to be quite high, there are several campus representatives who can provide access codes for these courses. To date the reps are: Chris Sennet, Greg Gaston, Sharon Clarke, Earlene Farris, Dawn Wright. George volunteered to be a virtual campus rep. Sharon will distribute a list of Virtual Campus courses.
OWEB will hire information specialist who will work closely with the Oregon Geospatial Clearinghouse and other state agencies to work on the Oregon salmon plan. Matt Gregory attended a meeting convened by Janine Salwasser to discuss the role of this position. Matt represented research interests in the planning for the job. Future meetings are expected to include research representatives.
A nearly full slate of presenters has been lined up for the Fall Seminar Series - Regional Analyses Innovative Geospatial Applications
Presenters include: John Sessions, Tom Spies, Tom Quigley, Chris Daly, and David Hulse. Someone from the group producing the Oregon Atlas may fill one final slot in the series. Sharon will contact Aileen Buckley.
Mark Klopsch reports that this software is here and new licenses will be deployed through a FlexLM license manager (much like ArcGIS). Keycodes will be necessary for access to the software. This is a campus wide license that will eventually be managed through Chris Stennet. Good news - still floating seats and 8.4 can coexist on the same machine (8.4 schema still needs to be run if you keep older version)
Theresa has ArcIMS 3.1 CDs but it is not yet installed. The current host of ArcIMS 3.0 will need an operating system upgrade for the 3.1 installation. Instead 3.1 will be installed on another server castenea. Theresa reports lots of bugginess in ArcIMS 3.0, but Dylan reports that porting the application from 3.0 to 3.1 is not trivial. Once all this is sorted out Theresa and Dylan will do an ArcIMS workshop coming in the fall.
Last year holding the Mid Willamette Valley User Group meeting in conjunction with GIS day brought some protests. Since attendance was not great last year, there was discussion of either doing better advertising or not having a GIS Day activity. Theresa and Sharon will check into such possibilities of MWVUG meeting or giving Virtual Oregon the lead on activities. Also well check with Dawn Wright for guidance.
Optical Jukebox Terralyn reminds us that the Jukebox is not backed up. If you have data on it you might consider its value and other archival possibilities.
NWESRI users meeting in Sun Valley group knows of no one who is going
Status of Rm 345 Theresa has been monitoring and has found limited use of workstations in the room. Swanson has been paying for floor space that is getting little use. Theresa and Terralyn have determined that a unix workstation connected to a digitizer and a plotter are the only GIS uses still needed in FSL345. Other workstations can be moved and still accessed as servers. UNIX workstation is also available in FSL231.
Plotter status a new HP5000 has been purchased and will be housed in FSL345 (replacing the HP650). The 5000 will be connected to the OSU network and will have such cool attributes as 54 paper, postscript drivers, hard disk for memory, UV resistant ink. Issues such as a possible new look for color palettes; ink expense and quality will be addressed once the plotter is installed.
Sharon reports that the 500+ Gbytes of storage needed for Oregon and Washington DOQs is likely to exceed $10K. Anyone with deep pockets is encouraged to speak up!
OSU Database and Web staffing OSU is considering hiring a database person, however, until we are understand more about ArcSDE it is unclear how this position will interface with the GIS community. Matt has expressed interest in going to ArcSDE training. COF may be able to provide training $$ with an appropriate justification. We agree that the database person should also attend.
Tips and tricks will alternate with ArcGIS presentations during Thursday fall GIS sessions. Theresa will develop a schedule and distribute to presenters.
Next meeting 10/16/2001
Notes geo
Cookies Theresa