AstroGrid-JVO Workshop

IoA, Cambridge, UK, 20-23 February 2006

Outline

This visit by members of the JVO is to inform them of the current status of AstroGrid, and to discuss possible areas of future collaborative work.

Programme and Supporting Material

The workshop agenda is as follows:

Attendees

• JVO
  • MasatoshiOhishi (NAOJ)
  • YujiShirasaki (NAOJ)
  • Masahiro Tanaka (NAOJ)
  • Satoshi Kawanomoto (NAOJ)
• AstroGrid
  • AndyLawrence (Edinburgh) (via webcam for Mon)
  • TonyLinde (Leicester)
  • NicholasWalton (Cambridge) (M,W,Th)
  • KeithNoddle (Leicester)
  • RichardMcMahon (Cambridge)
  • GuyRixon (Cambridge)
  • DaveMorris (Cambridge) (Tu,W,Th)
  • EduardoGonzalezSolares (Cambridge) (M,Tu)
  • KonaAndrews (Cambridge)
  • NoelWinstanley (JBO, Manchester)

Logistics

The meeting will be held in the Hoyle Committee Room in the Hoyle Building at the IoA. Directions and map can be found at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/map/

Lunch will be taken at West's - a short walk from the IoA

Science Links

• UKIDSS IR Survey - see http://www.ukidss.org
  • WSA at http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/wsa/
• Subaru - see http://www.naoj.org/
  • SMOKA at http://smoka.nao.ac.jp/
  • SXDS at http://www.naoj.org/Science/SubaruProject/SDS/

Tech links

• AG workshop script(s)
• Prefuse: the toolkit which AstroScope is based on

Collaboration

Workflow

• main contact: NoelWinstanley
• JVO Note
• Get SExtractor Java classes: Ass to CEA [Action: GTR/YS]
• Workflow Builder: Code to YS [Action: NW]
• Workflow Description Language
  • JVO Note
  • AG Note
  • Compare

UWS

• main contact: GuyRixon
• Rewrite IVOA Specification (note: this is a pattern). Copy to JVO [Action: GTR, MO, YS]
• AG CEA2 to be UWS compliant
• JVO review UWS spec [Action: JVO]
• JVO write example service [Action: JVO]

Single Sign On

• main contact: GuyRixon
• JVO: Not urgent
• Supply new version of Community [Action: AG]

MySpace

• main contact: DaveMorris
• Install on JVO server(s) [Action: JVO] (April?)

ACR/ASR

• main contact: NoelWinstanley
• Prototype [Action: NW]
• IVOA Note [Action: NW]
• Useful for JVO to access all CEA/UWS compliant services
• In time for April [Action: NW]

Data Access

• main contact: KonaAndrews
• Bundle sources for ADQL/s parser, send to AG [Action: JVO, KEA]
• Bundle sources for SkyNode implementation, send to AG [Action: JVO, KEA]

QSO Science Case

• main contact: EduardoGonzalezSolares
• Complete and document. Send to YS [Action: EGS,YS]

Feedback

• AEL: need to get cut/paste working in script editor
• AEL: (idea) create 'user' with MySpace where script segments can be stored
  : add feature to workflow editor that allows browsing and pasting of such segments
• EGS: add error-trapping/try-catch facilities to scripting (eg to only continue if returned votable is non-empty)
• ...