Outstanding Action Items

AI Identifier

Person(s) Assigned / Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment

Person(s) Assigned: Ramona Traynor

Issue: Lead for WebEx ITAC presentations

Description of Action Item: Someone is needed to take the lead on coordinating ITAC sponsored Webex presentations.  Kym will provide support.

Correspondence to the Directors, Data chiefs, SA’s, Webmasters and Studies Chiefs and CC ITAC. The ITAC members will be responsible to send to their constituents.

Status of AI/Comment:

7/20/11 - ONGOING - The decision was made to move the list of webinars from the action items to SharePoint. A new webinar document will be created in SharePoint and kept up-to-date.

Discussed at F2F -

• SIMS Update - Gary Fisher (July/August)
• LAN optimization - Tim Lee (TBD)
• Google Analytics - Ramona Traynor (September/October)
• Geotagging photos (January)

6/15/11 - ONGOING - Webinar planning to be discussed at F2F.

6/6/11 - ONGOING - David McCulloch presents "ArcSDE Personal for geospatial data management" on June 8 and June 15.

5/18/11- ONGOING - Kim to post recording. Ramona will get in touch with David McCulloch to initiate next webinar. High interest in Google Analytics webinar.

4/20/11- ONGOING - David McCulloch will present a webinar this summer.

3/16/11 – ONGOING – The announcement for the “Latest Developments in Mobile Field Computing” webinar was sent out by OWI on 3/10/11. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 and on Thursday, March 31, 2011. Ramona noted that the first meeting is full.
Per email of 3/10/11, Katherine suggests a future webinar on cameras for geotagging photos. Ramona sent email noting that Sandy's presentation on geotagging photos is at http://internal.usgs.gov/gio/eweb/infoex/2010/geotagging.html. It included information on cameras.

There are also names - everyone who joined, and special marks by the folks who spoke up during the meeting with suggestions and examples. This may be a good place to start.
Suggestions for next webinars – flood alert, precipitation data / data mapping, Google Analytics, Stream View, SIMS enhancements.
Ramona will contact the IL WSC about presenting a webinar on their flood/precipitation data mapping efforts. Bob Lent recommended that Ramona contact Bob Holmes (IL WSC Director and National Flood Coordinator).
Bob Kimbrough suggested that a SIMS/RMS webinar would also be timely.

3/3/11 – Webinar is set according to Burl’s schedule. Burl will do an update. Burl has reviewed the announcement for the webinar. Ramona has asked Dave again if he is interested in presenting – remote sensing. Contact Dave Owens again. Burl would like 40 connections, Ramona will try and get as many as she can. The announcement will go out soon. Ramona will forward to Katherine.
Future webinars – discuss at F2F. Ramona suggested Google Analytics as a topic – What is Google Analytics and how to set it up for your site. Suggested for mid-April.

2/16/11 - Ramona was not on the call. Per email from Ramona, she is uncertain on next steps for getting the Webinar set up. Kim forwarded Ramona’s email to Katherine and Bob L. Katherine will respond to Ramona's email of 2/16/11 regarding next steps. Reminder that Katherine would like for Ramona to let ITAC know if she can keep up with this task.

1/19/11 - Come up with a long-term plan for webinars at the face-to-face. Bob Lent would like to have a plan – interface what ITAC does and how we get the information out.

Person(s) Assigned: Sandy Williamson

Issue: Stream View

Description of Action Item: Suggestion for USGS to develop Stream View.

Status:

7/20/11 - ONGOING - 2 conference calls are scheduled - 1) with Jason Alexander on USGS steps to host e.g. metadata and 2) with Jared Criscuolo to discuss possible collaboration. Will report out at the ND F2F.

Sandy was to have a breakfast meeting with Mr. Jared Criscuolo on June 23, 2011. Mr. Criscuolo did not show for the meeting.

6/15/11 - ONGOING -

6/3/11 - Email received, on 6/3/11, from Mr. Jared Criscuolo, Co-founder and Director of Explorations Below the Surface, contacted USGS regarding a "Riverview" project he is working on with the Surfrider Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, and Immersive Media to gather 360 degree, panoramic video of the 27 major rivers in the US from the perspective of someone paddling these rivers. He would like to work with USGS to integrate data we deliver into this project. Katherine has spoken briefly with Mr. Criscuolo, noting that USGS is working on a similar concept. Katherine forwarded email to GS-W ITAC with an executive summary of the Riverview project attached. Additionally, Katherine forwarded the email to Sandy Williamson. Further discussion after June 20.

5/18/11– ONGOING - Hold for discussion at F2F

4/20/11– ONGOING

3/16/11 – ONGOING– Sandy continues to work on the CRADA. Katherine provided Sandy with information on putting a CRADA together.

3/2/11 – ONGOING - Sandy will continue to work on CRADA. Katherine and Bob S. to locate WSCs interested in posting geotagged photos. Ramona suggested revisiting what cameras are available now compared to Sandy’s webinar. Boyce noted he may have access to some geotagged photos.

2/16/11 - ONGOING- Sandy will give demo at MS F2F.

1/19/11 -- Possible CRADA with Nag. Katherine will talk with Sandy about getting more information for the CRADA.

12/15/10 - Still in negotiations with contractor. Bob, Katherine, and Sandy will pursue this further.

11/3/10 - Contractor seems to be delayed and has not produced much. Sandy will contact the contractor to find out what they are committed to provide. Sandy will update the group.

10/12/10 – Update at F2F.

9/14/10 – Teleconference is set for Friday, September 17. Ramona will participate on the call. Contractor with Google is onboard. Pleased with write-up. Next step will be for Sandy to float the Colorado River.

6/24/10 - New project lead is Jason Alexander. Sandy is still active and is drafting a proposal to Google. Katherine will talk with Sandy about how to poll the science center for their level of interest in participating.

5/19/10 - Per email from Sandy, a project description document has been developed, and Sandy has contacted folks at Google, Microsoft and Yahoo with some interest. Looking for location ideas as well as help tagging photos with lat long to the closest NHD reach.

4/13/10 – Sandy will send email to Webinar participants to see if folks are interested in participating on such a project. Enlist volunteers. DONE. Sandy sent email and an initial call has taken place to discuss this proposal.

Person(s) Assigned: Dave Mueller

Issue: Archiving electronic data as original data

Description of Action Item: Follow up with technical offices regarding knowledge and positions on the legal status of electronic data for scientific records.  Contact Carol Wippich.

Status:

7/20/11– ONGOING - may have an update in ND

5/18/11– Waiting on response from Christina Bartlett. Tentative conf. call on 5/19/11.

4/20/11 – Waiting on review from Christina Bartlett.

3/16/11 – Dave had a meeting with Christina Bartlett on 3/4/11. The information presented was in good shape. Christina took action items and is to get in touch with Dave by the end of this week. Dave will be working on a second draft memo that will reach out to a wider audience. He has a 10-minute block of time on the Data Chiefs agenda at the upcoming Surface Water Meeting. Second draft will be close to finished by the meeting. Data input will be limited to field data – getting this data into NWIS will have met the obligation. The goal is to keep the focus narrow to get this out the door.

3/3/11 – Dave has conference call tomorrow. He will report back to ITAC on findings.

2/16/11 -To be discussed at F2F

1/19/11 - Discuss electronic data archiving issues at face-to-face. ITAC to come up with a position document that can be presented to Senior Staff in April 2011.

12/15/10 - Dave sent Ken information before Thanksgiving. Dave and Ken will be in contact soon – first of the year. In Progress.

11/3/10 - Dave Mueller will talk with Ken Skipper about archiving electronic documents. Dave will also contact different water offices to see how each is currently archiving their data.

10/12/10 – On agenda for F2F. Dave is making progress.

9/14/10 – Dave has talked with Christina Bartlett and will contact her again in the next week.

6/24/10 - Presented summary of recent discussions and existing (contradictory) documentation for data archiving.

Person(s) Assigned: Terri

Issue: Mobile Computing - work plan, charter

Description of Action Item: Update from Burl Goree on long-term plan for mobile computing unification. Gary Fisher to send out the work plan and charter for comment prior to Bob's team review.

Status:

7/20/11 - ONGOING - Charter is developed to present to the team. Meeting scheduled August 4th and 5th. Katherine to send out memo announcing the committee.

Discussed in Portland. Katherine and Bob Swanson have put together a Field Computer Program Review Committee - a quick turn around committee that needs to complete its' tasks by August 22, which is when OWI has their annual offsite meeting to discuss plans for the next year. The charter was sent to the committee for review.

5/18/11– Bob Swanson is taking this over. Bob Lent will send outline to Bob S. Discuss committee makeup at F2F. There is now a budget.

4/20/11 –Joel and Bob Dudley worked on the proposal, and Katherine has reviewed it. Have a work plan, the group would like an update.

3/16/11 – Bob Lent has started putting a committee together. He has talked with Burl, Joe Nielsen, and Joel Dudley. Bob hopes to get the proposal out next week to name the participants and for review. Gary to send the information out for review. Bob L. will contact Gary.

3/3/11 – ITAC ALL- Review the work plan. Bob Lent- develop strategic review of the mobile computing project.

2/16/11 - Burl will update the group during the F2F meeting in March.

1/19/11 -

12/15/10 - Katherine will ask Gary if Burl has sent the project plan for ITAC review. Gary will check and follow-up prior to next month’s call.

11/3/10 - Burl asked the ITAC to review FCIS project plan and provide feedback. Burl will look into historical measurement into SWAMI and report back to Bob Swanson. Burl will check with Dave for tracking bugs.

10/12/10 – Update at F2F

Person(s) Assigned: Terri

Issue: Tim Lee’s webinar

Description of Action Item: Terri will send out an announcement of when Tim Lee’s webinar will be held.

Status:

7/20/11 - ONGOING - Date TBD. Terri will continue to follow-up.

5/18/11 -Terri reported that Tim continues to work on this. Push this issue with Tim at Oregon meeting.

4/20/11 – Talked to Tim, and he is working on the webinar.

3/16/11 - ONGOING

Person(s) Assigned: Ramona

Issue: USGS Web re-engineering project

Description of Action Item: Ramona will send email to ITAC about the status of the Web re-engineering effort.

Status:

7/20/11–ONGOING - Per email from Karen Wood (7/11/11) - Scott Horvath, Jack Demmie, Nancy Sternberg (the new Karen Klima) and Karen Wood will be meeting with the ELT Sponsorship group on July 19 to bring them up to speed on the group’s recent activities, and to present the three options that discussed during the last meeting, including our pilot project with the Climate and Land Use Change mission area. The goal is to leave the meeting knowing what we can and can't move forward with in the near and long term. Karen will be sending out a note to let the team know how the meeting went, including a copy of the PowerPoint presentation and talk about next steps for the  group. 

6/6/11 - ONGOING - The Web Re-engineering Team met in May to discuss next steps. The group is meeting 6/15/11 to discuss and build a plan for a 6-month pilot project with Global Change.

5/18/11 - ONGOING - The Web Re-engineering Team will be meeting in Reston, May 24-25, 2011 to go over the draft project plans that the project subteams put together. Ramona will update ITAC in early June.

4/20/11 – ONGOING

3/16/11 - Reminder to Ramona to send the information out to the group. Current status is an estimated time line of tasks. Short-term efforts will be discussed in a meeting with Karen Wood and Karen Klima on March 22.

Person(s) Assigned: Katherine Lins

Issue: Google Picasa

Description of Action Item: Katherine will follow up with Scott Horvath to determine status of DOI use of Google Picasa. It is used by some staff to link pictures within the Station Information Management System (SIMS) database.

Status:

7/20/11 – ONGOING - Waiting for DOI response

6/16/11– Katherine asked Paul Exter via email on 6/16/11 about use of waivers for use of Picasa. Paul responded that this is being worked on.

6/3/11 - Kevin Housel sent email to Paul Exter requesting an update. Per email of 6/3, from, Paul reported that USGS is waiting on a response from DOI.

Person(s) Assigned: Gary Fisher

Issue: Inventory of geotagged photos across WRD and potentially all of USGS

Description of Action Item: Develop an inventory of geotagged photos across WRD. Determine if there are existing standardization guidelines.

Status:

• Shaun Wicklein has shown interest and is now on SMAC; may be an option for coordinating this effort.
• Gary will contact Shaun

Person(s) Assigned: Katherine and Terri

Issue: Desktop Contracts

Description of Action Item: Check on the status of the new desktop contracts and update IT Specialists.

Status:

Person(s) Assigned: Katherine and Terri

Issue: e-FTP

Description of Action Item: Charlene Fischer and Paul Exter will discuss e-FTP issues (availability of e-FTP) with Dru Burks.

Status:

Person(s) Assigned: Katherine and Terri

Issue: Oracle

Description of Action Item: Check on the status of Oracle and the ESRI contract.

Status:

Person(s) Assigned: Ramona Traynor and Kim Martz

Issue: ITAC SharePoint site

Description of Action Item: Ramona and Kim will work together to make the ITAC SharePoint site a more efficient communication tool.

Status:
7/20/11 – ONGOING

Person(s) Assigned: Bob Lent

Issue: Next Face-to-Face Meeting – North Dakota

Description of Action Item: Set up logistics for meeting in North Dakota during September

Status: