Workshops/National Meeting Recommendations Location Issues

1. Provide a web-based catalog that: [1,3,9,11,16,19,21,27,38]
• is searchable by keyword. [6,16,38]
• is searchable by geography. [6,10,16]
• lists all available datasets (not just DODS). [16,21]
• Contains regional datasets, model output, and products people are willing to serve. [6]
2. Provide a web browser interface that allows: [1,7,10,15,18]
   • location [1,10]
   • subsettng [1,10]
   • manipulation [??]
   • display [1,10]
   • data downloading [4,17]

3. Users needs to find the data they need: see 1 above.
4. Need a place for data quality flags [28 - user feedback re data quality,46]

5. Generic display [5]
6. Coordinate metadata efforts with FGDC (and GCMD -ed) [16]

Numbers refer to the items on the prioritized software task list.
Blue ==> issues that we propose addressing in the first year,
red ==> issues that we propose addressing in the 2nd year (if at all),
orange ==> issues for which we have already done some work, and
green issues that are complete.