Wikimedia/OSCAR Integration Pilot Project Charter

Name

Wikimedia/OSCAR Integration Pilot Project Charter

Description

(from https://public.wmo.int/en/about-us/vision-mission-strategic-priorities/wmo-information-system-wis):

The WMO Information System (WIS) acts as a one-stop shop for all activities related to data management. Users with access privileges can easily find and retrieve all the weather, climate and water data and products they need in one place. Data and products that are of worldwide interest remain available in the 24-hour Global Information System Centre (GISC) cache. Authorized users can gain immediate access to data without waiting for requests to be routed through various Global Telecommunication System (GTS) hubs before the data can be delivered. Furthermore, they can easily modify their data subscription and maintain their discovery metadata as needed.

WIS enables discovery of authoritative meteorological and hydrological data and supports the collection of data and its exchange between WMO Centres and their users. The "WIS Catalogue" describes the data and products available across WMO. Data and products are registered with the WIS by submitting a metadata record to the WIS Catalogue that describes the content, structure and access mechanisms for the associated data or product.

OSCAR/Surface is the official repository of metadata on surface-based meteorological and climatological observations that are required for international exchange. These observing systems are integrated under the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) framework. OSCAR/Surface is one of the components of the WIGOS Information Resources (WIR).

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.

In 2019, Wikimedia Canada recently made available Canadian weather observations on their platform in order to maximize dissemination and reuse of authoritative weather observations.

Following on from this work, this project will test the harvesting of OSCAR/Surface station metadata into Wikimedia infrastructure as a first step into maximizing the reuse of WMO data and metadata.

Value proposition

Making WMO data more accessible to mass market platforms such as Wikimedia extends the reach of weather/climate/water data from WMO members.

Governance

Project managers

• TT-WISMD: TBD
• Wikimedia: TBD

Project board/sponsors

• SC-IMT/ET-Metadata

Project goal

The goal of the project is to automate harvesting of OSCAR/Surface station metadata onto Wikimedia infrastructure.

Clients and Benefits

Clients

Primary clients are all station metadata publishers to OSCAR/Surface as well as users of Wikimedia.

Benefits

• integration and dissemination of existing WMO data/services into mass market platforms

Scope

In

• OSCAR/Surface station metadata

Out

• observations (for now)

Stakeholders

• ET-Metadata (TT-WIGOSMD/TT-WISMD): oversight and OSCAR/Surface user/developer support
• ET-ACDM: representing managers of WMO GAW and related data archives
• Wikimedia: tooling/integration into Wikimedia

Assumptions and Constraints

Assumptions

• existing OSCAR/Surface station API and harvest endpoint (OAI-PMH) will be operational and available
• Wikimedia has the appropriate disk space/capacity and computing environment to perform/execute the integration
• all code and workflow is documented and reproducible

Constraints

• resources
• priorities

Risks and Issues

• resources/timing
• availability of OSCAR/Surface harvest endpoint

Project Deliverables

• Wikimedia and OSCAR/Surface integration
  • Software/tooling
  • configuration management
• Project control documents
  • Design documentation
  • Execution plan
  • Operations and maintenance plan

Milestones and Timelines

Milestone	Delivery Date	Description
Design	YYYY-MM-DD	design documentataion
Implementation	YYYY-MM-DD	tooling
Testing	YYYY-MM-DD	testing/validation,execution plan
Deployment	YYYY-MM-DD	operations and maintenance plan
Documentation	YYYY-MM-DD	project documentation
Retrospection/closure	YYYY-MM-DD	project retrospection

Resource Estimates

Role	Name(s)	Level of Effort
project leads	TBD	TBD
implementation/tooling	TBD	TBD
testing	TBD	TBD
documenattion	TBD	TBD

Project Control

• Monthly project meetings