[Esip-drone] [EXTERNAL] [dronedata] RDA Best practices working group and more

[Adams, Josip]

As always Jane, thank you for everything you are doing.

This is wonderful work and I hope we can all help you move this forward.

Joe

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Joe Adams
US Geological Survey (USGS)
National Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Project Office
https://uas.usgs.gov



On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:20 PM jwyngaard via Small Unmanned Aircraft
Systems’ Data IG <dronedata at rda-groups.org> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> At last, the follow up from P14! This email contains:
> *1. Draft WG charter and plans*: Input and chairs wanted, draft open
> until *13 December*
> *2. Fellows*:  Support them, comment on their projects, contribute via
> issues and PRs
> *3. P15 and IG*:  Looking for input and support in planning both the
> plenary session and co-located events.
>
> Read on for details:
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> *1. WG charter and post P14*
> First off, again many thanks to everyone who gave input during the
> session!  I've finally digitised it all and created a WG charter draft
> accordingly.  On reflection the results were interesting, when grouped by
> themes and ranked votes we get the following.  Full details on the session
> and plans are in this it repo
> <https://github.com/rd-alliance/sUAS-Data-WG>, PR and issues welcome.
> Linked from it is the Gdoc WG Charter
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WXppdfJ5SGojf-0BcxjXtaEu8bh3hfCoQNIi54v6xyI/edit#>
> draft that is based on the session results.   Interestingly, if themed
> topics are summed the most votes were for (1) Legal and ethical topics,
> (2) Standards/ best practices (6 votes), and Infrastructure (5 votes)
>
> In the case of Standards 4/6 were for ontologies.  I've tentatively
> skipped over this,  however, as we're already working on that within LANDRS
> (but am definitely open to discussion!).  There were also 5 votes total for
> applications but for a range of different applications making that
> difficult to pursue.  So I'm proposing we pursue:
>
>    - A recommendation regarding legal and ethical best practice as
>    regards capturing, publishing, and using sUAS for data capture.
>    - A technical recommendation regarding the cyberinfrastructure
>    requirements for supporting sUAS data capture in a research environment.
>
>
>
> *2. Fellowships*As we've reached the end of the design stage of LANDRS,
> we're just about to kickoff a number of development efforts.  4 of these
> are going to be carried out by 4 interns.  We'll have them introduce
> themselves on this list in the next few weeks but here are their projects
> in brief.  We'd welcome PRs, comments, and general support for them.  The
> easiest way to keep in touch on this front if directly via the LANDRS
> Slack Channel
> <https://join.slack.com/t/landrsworkspace/shared_invite/enQtODI5MjkwMzQ4NTY0LTE3MzQ4YmVmMzRlYzY4N2ViOTBmNGJlOTVhYjc2OTllYzZkOTFkNTU4OGYwN2E0ODFhYzJmOTYzNmRkY2MzODQ>.
> Topics and repos are:
> 1. PySOSA <https://github.com/landrs-toolkit/PySOSA>: A python module for
> building SOSA based RDF graphs
> 2. PySTEP <https://github.com/landrs-toolkit/PySTEP/blob/master/README.md>:  A
> python module for building SOSA based RDF graphs
> 3. Autopilot babblefish
> <https://github.com/landrs-toolkit/LANDRS_Babelfish>: A python module for
> converting flightlogs into geojsonLD.  Initially this will be for
> converting Ardupilot logs but ideally will be expanded to support more
> autopilots as interest grows.
> 4. Drone ontology modeling (Mapping VSSO to the drone ontology we've been
> developing)
>
> Lastly, for those interested, we're in the midst of building a prototype
> onboard data support service application that will demo the use of an
> OpenAPI spec.  Our in house programmers are building this but as always we
> collaborators are very welcome and if you have interested students we have
> limited support for adhoc fellowships.
>
> *3. IG and P15:  *First off, P15 is 18-20 March in Australia where there
> is a very active and mature drone community!  If anyone is interested to
> work with us on planning either/or the plenary session or a co-located
> event please just re ach out.   I'm thinking it could be a great
> opportunity particularly to invite key Ardupilot/HEX/RFD developers who are
> based relatively locally perhaps even.
>
> With Bar finishing up her Phd we're also actively looking for new IG and
> WG chairs.  In the immediate there is limited travel support for such.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
>
> Jane
> ++++++++++++++++
> Jane Wyngaard, PhD
>
> Embedded Systems Engineer & Data Technologist
> Center for Research Computing
> University of Notre Dame
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