Cluster Mixer Meeting - 28 January 2026

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Opening - 2 min [0:00]

• Review and consent to agenda
• Roll call ESIP SOI - RollCall
• Confirm notetaker
  • Aaron Friesz | ESIP
• Confirm next meeting Calendar

Check-ins - 3 min [0:02]

How are you showing up? https://feelingswheel.com/excited, sick, tired, distracted,... No notes here please

Information - 5 min [0:05]

Anything new that you’ve heard related to this group that you would like to share? Celebrations, advertisements, publications, or other announcements

Popcorn

Long hello - 35 min [0:10]

• What do we call you? What is your affiliation?
• Why are you here?
• What are you excited about working on or getting started this year?
  • exchange on certain topics... topic pitches with followup discussions, updates, current status, or recommendations (un-conference structure)
• What is something boring about you?

If >6, breakout rooms of 3 for 10 minutes two rounds, otherwise round in main.

• Cory Levinson: @ben Craker FYI- this is the tool in oceans I was mentioning: [https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk]
• Ben Craker: https://agdatacoalition.org/ <-- farmer data repository I work on to help facilitate data exchange with researchers
• Ben Craker: ISO 7673-2 is in process, it is an agricultural implementation of ISO19156 of observations and measurements. Meant to capture a lot of the data for soil sensors etc. - https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#iso:std:iso:7673:-2:dis:ed-1:v1:en

Brainstorm/Decision - 5 min [0:45]

Does anyone want to present or have a draft for a 'half-baked' feedback session? Calendar

• practical hands-on applications
• aggregation of digital thesaurus examples...
• mingles to have 1-on-1 conversations. Prevent re-inventing the wheel
• updates to the soil data landscape
• machine readable transfer functions
• seminar from Luis Calisto, ISO28258 database model in Postgres
• tension between legacy data support and current practices / evolving agency priorities
• Cory Levinson interested in doing a half-baked talk...some time in the future when he gets to a point suitable to talk to
• nerc vocab server
• use of LLMs
• what's the next evolution of the Soil Data Landscape list?
• Tanja Williamson: maybe to add: Soil moisture | U.S. Geological Survey.
  • and these data are in NWIS / Water Data for the Nation. Parameter code: 72181
• seminar from Tom Caldwell(?)...soil moisture data publication(?)...“Soil moisture data in USGS times to publication standards”

Round

Check out - 5 min [0:50]

How are you leaving this meeting? [discovery, future work, feelings …]

Round

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Notes

Idea's for future format:

• Conversation Topic: Exchange on specific topic in an un-conference structure. Topic centric breakout rooms

Topics:

• Federated data governance
• Match historical data to ontologies
• Digitize thesaurus examples and how they are used
• Can we move the data landscape document into a more structured digital resource
• Keep mingle!
• Generate
• Seminar: IISO28258 database model in Postgres with OMS seminar (FvE's colleague later this year)
• Legacy data support vs emerging data practices at agency level, fit for purpose?
• LLM usage in ontology/knowledge graph generate
• Half baked: LLMs for knowledge extraction from primary literature for meta-analysis (CL's project)
• Seminar: Sensor data in USGS ties to open data standards (poc TW)

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Recap

We have a strong showing with 9 people on call today. We started with a brief orientation to the new git repository highlighting the calendar (see 4485273) , soil data landscape resource (see
e12fb84), and discussion section with agenda/notes/recaps. We then went into two 10-minute breakout rooms rotations to say hello and catch up. Afterwards we discussed possible topics for the next few months with emphasis on conversational exchanges.

Of particular note were the following seminars:

• ISO28258 database model (poc FvE)
• Sensor data driving open data standards at USGS (poc TW)

We also had several more conversational topic exchanges come up:

• Workflows for data digitization and rescues
• Application of semantic resources to databases
• Update of the soil data landscape resource (see e12fb84) including possible migration to structured data