NB the files in the tarball need the corect URL for the schema inserting. Attatchment resource schemas templates030611.tar contains: identity.xsd and .xml (template ...
Probaby have to do one image (reddest, ie F850W?) first with its correct zeropoint, then use this as the template image to extract the others. AnitaRichards 13 ...
AstroGrid Data Exploration Facility This page is for discussing ideas related to inclusion of a data exploration facility in the AstroGrid II proposal. Appended is ...
AstroGrid 2 LIFETIME PLAN May 2005 Part A : cover note This is the top level Lifetime Plan for the AstroGrid 2 project. It is part of the AstroGrid 2 Planning ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan May 2005 Part J : Budget Plan Summary This is a summary of the current (as at 09 May 2005) operating budget but is based on salary estimates ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan May 2005 Part C : Goals Our overall goals remain those of the original AstroGrid project, but AstroGrid 2 also has specific additional ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan May 2005 Part G : Governance, Management and Oversight The AstroGrid Lead Investigators (AGLI) The AGLI is the ultimate authority ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan May 2005 Part H : International Obligations The only formal obligation concerns the VOTECH project. This is discussed in detail below ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan June 2005 Draft 3 June 8 Part F : Roadmap Here is a summary of the key milestones on the Roadmap. The logic behind these is explained ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan May 2005 Part B : Vision The Virtual Observatory (VO) vision The power of the World Wide Web is its transparency it feels as if ...
ASTROGRID 2 : Lifetime Plan May 2005 Part E : Work Areas The project recognises several broad areas for planning work. These are not "workpackages" in the traditional ...
AstroGrid Phase 0 Tool I have created this page on behalf of Alan Bridger and Andy Vick at the ATC. The ATC software team have been considering a variety of proposals ...
AG3 at RAL Telecon 1 2008/01/11 Present: Ian Mccrea (IM), Peter Allan (PA), Silvia Dalla (SD) and Matthew Wild (MW) Aims Agree on a plan of work for AG3 ...
AG3 at RAL Telecon 2 2008/02/04 Present: Ian Mccrea (IM), Peter Allan (PA), Paul Gallop (PG), Silvia Dalla (SD) and Matthew Wild (MW) Agenda update on RAL ...
AG3 at RAL Telecon 3 2008/02/29 Present: Ian Mccrea (IM), Peter Allan (PA), Silvia Dalla (SD) and Matthew Wild (MW) Agenda update on RAL datasets actions ...
AG3 at RAL Telecon 4 2008/03/25 Present: Ian Mccrea (IM), Peter Allan (PA), Silvia Dalla (SD) and Matthew Wild (MW) Agenda update on RAL datasets actions ...
AG3 at RAL Telecon 5 2008/04/25 Present: Ian Mccrea (IM), Peter Allan (PA), Silvia Dalla (SD) and Matthew Wild (MW) Agenda update on RAL datasets actions ...
AG3 at RAL Telecon 7 2008/06/13 Present: Matthew Wild (MW), Silvia Dalla (SD), Ian Mccrea (IM) and Peter Allan (PA) Agenda update on RAL datasets actions ...
nop AstroGrid Critical Service Review Date and Location: Imperial College London: Mon 3 March 2008, 741 Blackett, 10.00 16.00 and travel directions. Purpose ...
nop JES and Datacenter Report Week Ending 01/08/2003 Tasks this week: 1 The last aspects of refactoring producing nop TogetherJ models. Very quick but ...
MySpace This Week: 1 ACD Monday holiday 1 CLQ from Monday afternoon to Thursday Nottingham all hands meeting 1 ACD Implementing publish and file transfer ...
Work Group teleconf meeting, 31 July 2003 Attendees Name Email Brian McIlwrath bkm #64;starNOSPAM.rl.ac.uk or McIlwrath #64;rlNOSPAM.ac.uk Catherine ...
Archived Notes The links and note herein are preserved for posterity (and amusement) only... Issue 0.1 Use Cases (text format) Use Case Diagrams Sequence ...
nop MySpace Design Documents Design Decisions As the design has evolved, it has become clear that external consumers of nop MySpace services need only interface ...
File Transfer Mechanisms This brief note reports on my preliminary investigations into the file transfer mechanisms which could be used to import and export files ...
nop MySpaceExplore User Interface Mock Up Back Ground: Iteration 2's MSExplore was the the foundation and has most of the basic functionalities user requires ...
nop MySpace Sequence Diagrams (Back to MySpace page) Request storage space: Save Data Item request: Lookup data item request: Delete data item request ...
nop MySpace Use Cases The following Use Cases define the functionality to be provided by nop MySpace in Iteration 2. Where the Alternative scenarios are obvious the ...
AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group The Deployment Advisory Group has been constituted to advise the project on deployment and operational priorities as AstroGrid ...
nop AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group, Meeting #1 Where/When 15 Dec 2005, Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester Directions Maps You can find ...
nop AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group, Meeting #2 Where/When 1 Mar 2006, Liverpool John Moores Directions Maps You can find general visitor information at ...
FM2 March 2006 Liverpool John Moore Attendees Iain Steele Tony Linde Nuria Lorente Matthew Wild Peter Oliver Steve Marple Richard Stamper Nic Walton Keith Noddle ...
nop AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group, Meeting #3 Where/When 14 Sep 2006 at the IoA, Cambridge Directions Maps The meeting will be held in the Hoyle Committee ...
nop AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group, Meeting #4 Where/When 7 March 2007, Room B5, Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester Directions Maps You ...
nop AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group, Meeting #5 Where/When 19 September 2007, Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester Directions Maps You can ...
AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group Membership The members of the AG DAG are (from Dec 2005 until the end of Dec 2007 in the first instance) Name Institute ...
AstroGrid echo service The package containing this README is the source code for version 1 of AstroGrid's "echo" grid service, which is the pilot service in our ...
This is a discussion of v2 of the Astrogrid echo service presented as an example of how to build a grid service using v4 of the OGSA technology preview. Annotated ...
AstroGrid Interface Meeting: Friday 25th May 2007 at UCL Notes from meeting These notes (written by Andy just after the meeting) summarise the key ideas that came ...
Meeting on Feb. 3rd to 6th This page is dedicated on areas of discussion to bring up during the Asrogrid meetings on Feb 3rd to the 6th. And then to give a quick ...
Notes from the first break out group at AstroGrid project meeting PM12 This addressed: C6 01: Prepare for Operational Support C6 02: Metadata quality review ...
Notes from the third break out group at AstroGrid project meeting PM12 This addressed: C6 06: Science Cases, Reports and Documentation C6 08: VOTECH Commitments ...
Notes from the second break out group at AstroGrid project meeting 12, ROE, June 2007 Upgrade strategy We have great upheavals ahead. Given the registry, VOSpace ...
PM13 Breakout session ONE: AG3 User Support This group will look at (these all being AG3 Cycle 1 goals): Help Desk Identify and deploy suitable Trouble ...
PM13 Breakout session THREE: AG3 VO Engineering Plan for introducing registry v1.0 schemata and the VOSpace/MySpace component (As copied from the whiteboard by KeithNoddle ...
PM13 Breakout session TWO: AG3 VO Operations On line: C1 : Web sites C1 : Help Desk Separate ticketing systems for Users and Deployers (email list help for ...
AGPM9: AG Support for the Astronomer Introduction Brief During the second day of AstroGridProjectMeeting9, two breakout groups each tackled the issue of how Support ...
AGPM9: AG Usability for the Astronomer Introduction Brief During the second day of AstroGridProjectMeeting9, two breakout groups each tackled the issue of how ...
AGPM9: AG Support for the Technician Introduction Brief During the second day of AstroGridProjectMeeting9, two breakout groups each tackled the issue of how Support ...
AGPM9: AG Usability for the Technician Introduction Brief During the second day of AstroGridProjectMeeting9, two breakout groups each tackled the issue of how ...
AGPM9: AG Breakout Usability and Support Group 1 Introduction Brief During the second day of AstroGridProjectMeeting9, two breakout groups (consisting of both astronomers ...
AGPM9: AG Breakout Usability and Support Group 2 Introduction Brief During the second day of AstroGridProjectMeeting9, two breakout groups (consisting of both astronomers ...
The AstroGrid Science Advisory Group The Science Advisory Group has been constituted to advise the project on scientific priorities as AstroGrid progresses through ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #12 Date and Location: Imperial College, London: 12 June 2007, 10.00 16.00, 630 Blackett Laboratory Supporting Paperwork: Technical highlights ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #13 Date and Location: University of Southampton: 5 November 2007, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: Project Scientist Slides .pdf ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #15 Date and Location: nop Imperial College London: Weds 17 Sept 2008, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: Project Scientist Slides ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #2 University of Birmingham, 9 Sept 2003, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: Current resources to test are linked from the BetaTesting ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #3 Imperial College London, 12 Feb 2004, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: Current resources to test are linked from the BetaTesting ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #7 Date and Location: Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, 08 Sep 2005, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #8 Date and Location: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, 02 Feb 2006, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: What ...
AG SAG Full Meeting #9 Date and Location: British Antartic Survey, Cambridge, 12 Jun 2006, 10.00 16.00 Supporting Paperwork: What? Link to Resource ...
Questions and Answers session / feedback Q : How easy will it be for data centers to update DSA installations and how frequently will this happen? A : The ...
The nop Astrophysical Virtual Observatory The Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) Project is a Phase A, three year study for the design and implementation of a ...
/image002.jpg /image004.jpg The University of Manchester Department of Physics and Astronomy Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Astronomer for Jodrell Bank Observatory ...
The University of Manchester Department of Physics and Astronomy Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Astronomer for Jodrell Bank Observatory Background The Astrophysical ...
ACE (Astronomical Catalogue Extractor) Design Martin Hill mch #64;roeNOSPAM.ac.uk The Astronomical Catalogue Extractor is the Astrogrid team's contribution to the ...
ACE Working Plan A very very rough draft framework... Staff Organisation Working Team Implementers: MartinHill (Edin), KonaAndrews (Cambridge), Reporting ...
Requirements for the Astronomical Catalogue Extractor (ACE) Martin Hill mch #64;roeNOSPAM.ac.uk The Astronomical Catalogue Extractor is the Astrogrid team's contribution ...
This is part of the AngloAustralianDemoModel. Package structure The classes for the model all have names beginning with org.astrogrid.aad . Below that level, the ...
This is part of the AngloAustralianDemoModel. concept.gif: The domain model is quite sparse for this system. There are few significant entities. I have sketched ...
This is part of the AngloAustralianDemoModel. I propose one jar file per package in the model, excluding the jsp package and the concept package. This means that ...
This is part of the AngloAustralianDemoModel. There is basically one use case which can be divided into four separate sub cases. Usecase.gif: The division into four ...
A use case from the AngloAustralianDemoModel. Preconditions User has selected a data cube at a data centre. Postconditions A selected sub cube is cached at the data ...
A use case from the AngloAustralianDemoModel. Preconditions Data source services are registered and on line. Postconditions User has selected on data cube to work ...
A use case from the AngloAustralianDemoModel. Preconditions Visualization services are registered in the system. Postconditions User has selected one visualization ...
A use case from the AngloAustralianDemoModel. Preconditions Data source, registry and visualization services are all on line. Data cubes are on line at data centres ...
A use case for the AngloAustralianDemoModel. Preconditions User has selected a visualization service and a sub cube (cached at a data centre) to visualize. Normal ...
Avoid using abbreviated forms of code The generally accepted rule is to avoid one line if statements unless they are clear and aid readability. if (x 10) println ...
Access Library Function Introduction Inside the Determine Program use case, the user can choose 'astrogrid library function' as a source for a program or model. Library ...
Access Web Service Introduction Inside the Determine Program use case, the user can choose 'web service' as a source for a program or model. A web service is a program ...
SIAP style access references translated to WS Resource This is a preliminary document. It's not finished yet. SIAP as it now exists SIAP is the Simple Image Access ...
Vizier Proxy Refactoring I believe that simple refactoring of the Vizier Proxy is now complete. Standard queries can be used perform a cone search on Vizier catalogues ...
Installing ACE client Check your Java version ACE requires Java (1.4 ) installed on your machine. For linux running Red Hat you need the linux RPM SDK version, j2sdk ...
This page is for building the dictionary of what the SExtractor terms mean, and how they should be represented as UCDs. The important set is the output columns, although ...
GridService: ActivityLogService WSDL Description: type here Summary: type here Methods: type here Actors: type here Astrogrid Concepts: type here Other ...
List of small bits of research carried out to test some idea, technique or technology Person Wiki Page Description TimGoodwin BoardProposal Proposal ...
ADQL Astronomy Database Query Language. The syntax is based on SQL. There are two formats sql like string and XML. ADQL/SQL: SELECT ALL FROM Table t, Anothertable ...
nop Adql Parser. Reference Version Run Time and Source Overview Tar files for the run time and source are attached to this page. These are being made available ahead ...
Results of meeting held in Leicester on 19th July 2006 to discuss responses to recent proposals on ADQL and SkyNode. Participants .KonaAndrews .JeffLusted ...
The first release of nop AdqlStoX, a compiler for turning Adql/s into Adql/x is imminent. I have placed some details in plone. Please follow this link http://www2 ...
A class representing the VO's central lists of which groups, institutions and projects "affiliations" each using Party belongs to. Responsibilities: For each ...
A class representing a Facade for the AffiliationCatalogue of the VO. Responsibilities: When given a VoJobRequest, look up the requesting Party's affiliations ...
Meeting to align Astrogrid WP A3 with equivalent WP in AVO and to discuss ESO's NGAST experience 2002 01 11, at Leicester. Present: AVO WP3.2 Andreas Wicenec ...
AG3 Cycle 1 Plan Outline This page now deprecated, please see this page. Launch Beta Programme C1 : Announce Beta Programme DONE 28 Jan 2008 announcement of ...
Group A: Supernovae and massive stars Participants Stephen Smartt, Mark Crockett, Seppo Mattila, Andrea Pastorello, Dave Young, Carrie Trundle, John Eldridge, Rubina ...
SNe and LBV outbursts (Seppo/Andrea to lead) What images are there available THAT INCLUDE THIS SKY POSITION ? i.e. not just near, or thereabouts, but actually ...
Group B: Solar System Participants Alan Fitzsimmons, Stephen Lowry, Sam Duddy Science Project Asteroids and comets in AG Much solar system science can be done ...
Group C: Solar Participants BB Ishak (Armagh) Eamon Scullion (Armagh) Aleksandra Andic (QUB) David Jess (QUB) Rhona Maclean (Armagh) David Perez Suarez (Armagh ...
nop AstroGrid / Queen's University of Belfast Workshop 29 30 March 2007 Contents nop AstroGrid and the Astrophysics Research Centre of the Queen's University of ...
nop AstroGrid Birmingham Workshop : 11 July 2008 postponed due to exceptional circumstances Workshop Aim This short workshop will allow participants to gain knowledge ...
Birmingham/Warwick Workshop Group A Extra Galactic Participants LouisaNolan, JesperRasmussen, Paul Russell, Abdul Alshino, TrevorPonman, AlastairSanderson, Graham ...
Birmingham/Warwick Workshop Group C Solar Participants Graham Verner, Anne Marie Broomhall, Andrew Inglis, David Pascoe, Bill Chaplin, Yvonne Elsworth; and Silvia ...
AstroGrid/ University of Birmingham Workshop 10 11 Oct 2006 Contents nop AstroGrid and the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Birmingham are holding ...
Cardiff Workshop: Group B Members AnitaRichards Science Problem Rory: Correlating Virgo galaxies found in the SDSS with 2MASS g i SDSS colours of globular clusters ...
AstroGrid/ University of Cardiff/Bristol Workshop 17 18 Jan 2007 Contents nop AstroGrid and the of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Cardiff are holding ...
nop AstroGrid Cardiff Workshop 27 June 2008 Workshop Aim This short workshop will allow participants to gain knowledge of using the nop AstroGrid Virtual Observatory ...
Iteration 3 Design Documents Use Cases Activity Diagrams Click picture for details Login, Register and Authorise Manage Users and Groups Manage Policy ...
nop Workflow User Interface Mock Up Back Ground The workflow aspect of Astrogrid is new for iteration 3, in iteration 2 only single jobs could be submiited ...
Job Control Design Documents The relevant nop TogetherJ model is to be found here. At present the design covers the nop SubmitJob usecase. Further additions will ...
Request and Response Schema Request Schema Notes (1) The opsChoice and opsSequence A B were inserted to ensure that an operation always finished (eventually ...
nop Job Control Use Cases The following Use Cases define the functionality to be provided by Job Control in Iteration 2. (Back to JobControl page) Job Submission ...
Registry Class Diagrams Registry Main Page AgCd06Registry RegistryIt02ClassDiagrams Class diagrams for Registry WG code, AG iteration 2 RegistryIt03ClassDiagrams ...
Iteration 3 Design Documents Please see the attachment "regAdminGUI.ppt" for a powerpoint mockup of the registry admin service GUI. Four states are shown: 1) start ...
Registry WG Documents Registry Main Page AgCd06Registry The registry documents page is reserved for reports and similar formal documents. Please put ...
Live Registry Online implementations of the registry can be found here: http://stargrid1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk:8080/cocoon/astrogrid/agregistry.html (must log in to Astrogrid ...
Registry Iteration 2 Links These pages were available in the "Quick links" section on the former AgCd06Registry page. QuickLinks Registry Forum RegistryContacts ...
Registry WG Schema Registry Main Page AgCd06Registry The following schemas are all actively in use with Astrogrid Registry WG code. Obsolete schemas ...
Registry Sequence Diagrams Registry Main Page AgCd06Registry RegistryIt02SequenceDiagrams Sequence diagrams for Registry WG code, AG iteration 2 RegistryIt03SequenceDiagrams ...
nop DataCentre Design Documents The relevant nop TogetherJ model is to be found here. At present the design covers the Run Query usecase. Introduction and Overview ...
Astrogrid Query Processing Overview This document presents what I think is the intended overall structure of Astrogrid (in the current iteration), with particular ...
nop DataCentre Use Cases The following Use Cases define the functionality to be provided by the Data Centre in Iteration 2. Run Query Use Case Text (Back to DataCentre ...
AgDemoDec2004 Extra Galactic Overview A general technique used in determinibg the distances to faint objects at high redshift from optical image surveys, is to ...
AgDemoDec2004 Solar Movies of TRACE images Summary: As described in the Itn06SolarCoronalWaves science case, we want to automate the generation of movies of solar ...
AG Demo Telecon 20041101 Present: NAW, SD, AMSR timelines dec consortium meeting agli meeting at the eurovo tech kickoff fri 19 nov cases galactic: minimum ...
AG Demo Dec 2004 Preparation Telecon 22 Nov 2004 1 Attendance Nic Silvia Kevin Anita (Paul apologies) 2 Portal pre demo for the AGLI aim for 6 Dec to ...
AG Demo Dec 2004 Preparation Telecon 25 Nov 2004 : 11.00 12.00 1 Attendance Silvia Anita Paul 2 solar demo workthrough discussed NicholasWalton 25 Nov ...
Demo Telecon 20041203 present: KMB, GTR, PAH, AMSR, SD, NAW, Solar Case SD: We can not yet link the workflow to the SEC SD: At the moment you can query the trace ...
AstroGrid Deployment And Operations These pages provide key links to deployment and operations of the AstroGrid System Deployment Advisory Group The AGDAG ...
nop AstroGrid / SALT Workshop 26 27 October 2007 see http://www.acru.ukzn.ac.za/salt workshop/index.php SALT Workshop Agenda (as of 26 Oct 2007) Date/Time ...
AgDurhamWorkshopJune06 Group A Particpants Mark Norris, Jaeil Cho, Ray Sharples, Anita Richards Problem Description Deriving Integrated Properies of Galactic GCs ...
AgDurhamWorkshopJune06 Group B Particpants James Mullaney, Jim Geach, John Stott, Allen Shone, Simon Morris, Richard Wilman, Jonathan Tedds Problem Descriptions ...
AgDurhamWorkshopJune06 Group C Particpants Nic Ross David Wake Tom Theuns John Helly Greg Davies Problem Description Using Application Launcher, SDSS query: ra ...
AstroGrid/ University of Durham Workshop 15 16 June 2006 Contents AstroGrid and the Department of Physics of the University of Durham are holding a two day workshop ...
Feedback Session Feedback from talk questions, comments, ... General Problems with proxy servers. Astroscope Filter out search services in Astroscope ...
nop AstroGrid Edinburgh Workshop 14 May 2008 Workshop Aim This short workshop will allow participants to gain knowledge of using the nop AstroGrid Virtual Observatory ...
This page is not complete yet. Please check back later for the full story. Context Service providers in a VO wish to publish handles for data sets that they make ...
Context A grid service is to be called from a client with limited scope for complex Java programming, such as a JSP. Problem A presentation tier client calling grid ...
AstroGrid Helpers: F.A.Q. / Glossary / Cookbook These elements are proposed as help sources within AstroGrid's portal, mostly oriented to users (astronomers) providing ...
AstroGrid/ Imperial /UCL Workshop 20 22 March 2006 Contents AstroGrid, Imperial College and UCL are holding a three day workshop to introduce the London astronomy ...
Imperial Mar 2006 Post Workshop Support This summarises the follow up provided by AstroGrid in response to the scientific and practical issues raised at the AgImperialWorkshopMar06 ...
Iteration 2 Focus Meeting(Day 2) Registry – Elizabeth Auden Registry and Astro MQ Overview Portal makes contact with 4 types of services: DataArchive ...
Overview Talks: Abstracts Contents #AbsScience 1. Science with nop AstroGrid This talk will explore the key science drivers which have been used to define the ...
Workshop Attendees and Workgroups Quick links to: AgJul05PreMeet, AgJul05SciCases Workgroups You have each been assigned to membership of a workgroup. This is given ...
CTIP model as CEA application with input parameters from RAL UKSSDC datasets This science case aims at having the UCL Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere (CTIP) model ...
Workgroup A Contents This group will meet in the Hoyle Building's Sackler Lecture Theatre. Portal to use: http://ag02.ast.cam.ac.uk:8081/astrogrid portal/ If ...
Workgroup B Contents Location and Logistics This group will meet in the Observatory Building's Meeting room, which is on the ground floor. Portal to use: http ...
Workgroup C Contents This group will meet in the Observatory Building's library room A, which is on the ground floor. Portal to use: http://ag03.ast.cam.ac.uk ...
Workgroup D Contents This group will meet in the Observatory Building's terminal room, which is on the 1st floor. Portal to use: http://ag03.ast.cam.ac.uk:8083 ...
PN in the IPHAS Survey IPHAS is a large survey programme obtaining observations of the northern galactic plane in the Halpha, r and i band filters. See http://astro ...
Post Meeting Support Contents There will be a limited amount of support available after the workshop for those participants wishing to further develop the work that ...
Pre Meeting Activities Contents Registering for the AstroGrid System It is recommended that attendees register for a username and password to provide access to ...
Science Cases This page provides links to the science cases that are addressed during the workshop by the delegates List of Cases Case Name Type Who ...
The Meeting Activities Contents During the meeting the participants split into four groups to address science topics in four broad areas Workgroup A: STP photo ...
Note that you may find the information here helpful in reconfiguring the workbench. For those of you having problems with the workbench: The probable cause of this ...
Workbench The workbench needs to be configured with the endpoint (url address) of the JES job server to connect to. By default, the workbench uses the production job ...
nop / XMM 2dF X ray Optical Correlations in WFS Abstract Find optical matches in WFS optical imaging to serendipitous X ray sources in 68 XMM pointings ...
JVO Science Case Goal: Find deep images of QSOS. Access QSO catalogue of Veron 2003 from Vizier and cross match with images from SuprimeCam. This is done ...
AstroGrid JVO Workshop nop IoA, Cambridge, UK, 20 23 February 2006 Contents Outline This visit by members of the JVO is to inform them of the current status ...
nop AstroGrid Leicester Workshop Wed 16th July 2008 Workshop Aim This short demo/workshop will give participants a brief overview of the nop AstroGrid Virtual ...
AstroGrid/ Liverpool John Moores Science Workshop Contents nop AstroGrid and the Liverpool John Moores University are holding a two day workshop to introduce ...
Liverpool Workshop Group A Extra Galactic Participants Possible extragalactic nop AstroGrid projects: RETRIEVE DATA FOR LISTS OF GALAXIES list of h alpha ...
Liverpool Workshop Group B Star formation Participants Jim Allsopp, Danae Polychroni, Stephen Fraser Existing observations: single dish map of W3 in various ...
Calendar of 2003 AstroGrid project meetings and telecons Please do not add entries to this page yourself. TonyLinde, KeithNoddle, NicholasWalton and AndyLawrence will ...
Calendar of 2004 AstroGrid project meetings and telecons Please do not add entries to this page yourself. TonyLinde, KeithNoddle, NicholasWalton and AndyLawrence will ...
Calendar of 2005 AstroGrid project meetings and telecons Please do not add entries to this page yourself. TonyLinde, KeithNoddle, NicholasWalton and AndyLawrence will ...
NAM/MIST 2006 Planning Meeting Leicester, Thur 30 Mar 2006 Time from 10.30 to ~15.30 in F10 Attendees NAW, AMSR, SD, JAT, CLQ, JL, PJN Notes WHo, Where, When ...
Planning Telecon for NAM and MIST 2006 20060316 @ 11.00 present: PJN, AMSR, SD, ECA, NAW, JAT, CLQ review of previous telecon see AgNamMist2006Tele20060223 ...
Catalogue publishing Participants Tim Garn Anton Smit Stewart Williams FLSGRT database I worked on creating a registry and publishing a database that ...
Pipelines design, implimentation, possible publishing to VO Please add your work plan, developments, criticisms, suggestions for enhancements etc. Participants Cormac ...
Publishing user steered pipelines and VO interfaces Please add your work plan, developments, criticisms, suggestions for enhancements etc. Participants Adriaan ...
AstroGrid Science Workshop and RadioNet/AstroGrid workshop for radio data providers Oxford w/c 4 December 2006 Contents Important Note This science workshop is ...
nop AstroGrid Oxford Workshop 9 June 2008 Workshop Aim This short workshop will allow participants to gain knowledge of using the nop AstroGrid Virtual Observatory ...
AstroGrid Science Workshop and RadioNet/AstroGrid workshop for radio data providers Oxford w/c 4 December 2006 Contents Objectives This linked pair of workshops ...
News and PR Links 2006 AG @IAU2006 see http://www.astronomy2006.com/img/gallery/08 exhibition/p1010555.jpg International Science Grid this week 22 Nov ...
AstroGrid Science Contents QuickLinks SAG Meeting #11: Feb 5, 2007, UCL, London These pages, aimed at the scientist, will link to resources outlining the ...
package org.astrogrid.myspace.delegate; // import java.util. ; / This class is a place holder for a class for holding an AGSL (AstroGrid Store point Locator ...
nop AstroGrid Southampton Workshop 23 May 2008 Post Workshop Survey If you attended the workshop can you take five minutes to fill in this quick questionnaire: ...
Sussex Workshop Group A Who Attendees: Heather Campell (Wednesday Only), Mark Hosmer, Nicola Mehtens, Kathy Romer, Laura Valkonen, Harpreet Singh, Helpers ...
Sussex Workshop Group B (Jon's group) Who Attendees: Robert Cumberland, Pratika Dayal, Celine Eminian, Diana Hanbury, Bruno Henriques, JonLoveday, AnthonySmith ...
Sussex Workshop Group C Who Attendees: Payam Davoodi, Seb Oliver, Natalie Onyett, Rich Savage, Ian Waddington, Lingyu Wang, Mark Frost Helpers: EduardoGonzalez ...
Sussex AstroGrid Workshop Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, UK. 1 3 February 2006 Contents Registration OPENS Weds 4 Jan 2006 Outline ...
Sussex Workshop Feb 2006: Feedback and After Workshop Support At the conclusion of the workshop, we'll capture the feedback arising on the meeting wiki pages. After ...
AstroGrid Tech Workshop #1 NeSC, Edinburgh, UK. 17 20 January 2006 Contents Outline Registration Please register using the registration link from the NeSC conference ...
Scratch Page for stuff for the AG Workshop Testing In the examples folder: tested: sh done on Ubuntu and cygwin python done on Ubuntu and XP cpp perl I couldn ...
Prep notes for AG Tech Workshop Jan 06 Some preliminary notes from Guy and Kona about what tech prep we need for the workshop. Components we need to have ...
Registry Workshop Session This is a page mainly dedicated for use during the registry workshop session and contains a new war file along with presentation and other ...
AG Tech Workshop Jan 06: Work Group One A MichaelGoad 20 Jan 2006 Wishlist (1) Using GCN automated messages to enable searching of multi wavelength catalogues ...
AG Tech Workshop Jan 06: Work Group Two A Project Develop a CEA app that converts from geographic to geomagnetic coordinates (based on RAL fortran program) ...
AstroGrid Technical Workshop #2 Contents AstroGrid a three day technical workshop location TBD Details to be made available. NicholasWalton 25 Sep 2006 ...
A list of user accounts for Astrog Grid Iteration 5 Testing andrewjaffe andylawrence anitarichards antholloway bobbentley bobmann carltonbaugh chrisperry daniellennon ...
AG2 Design Brainstorm Meeting 8 Feb 2005 (These are still in notes form as I type them) Key Wikki Pages: TechnicalStrategyDevelopersMeeting TechnicalStrategyMeeting ...
nop AstroGrid Warwick Workshop 23 June 2008 Workshop Aim This short workshop will allow participants to gain knowledge of using the nop AstroGrid Virtual Observatory ...
AstroGrid Workshop Jul 05: Planning Telecon 20050510: Present: Jonathan Tedds (JT), Silvia Dalla (SD), Anita Richards (AR), Nic Walton (NW), Kona Andrews (KA), Guy ...
AstroGrid Workshop Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. 12 14 July 2005 Contents Registration closed Mon 27 Jun 2005 It may be possible to accept ...
The AstroGrid Deployment Advisory Group (AG DAG) Draft: Terms of Reference 1. Provide independent and technically informed advice (based on experience of providing ...
Agent Technology AGENTS What is an agent? In his article "Web Services and Mobile Intelligent Agents", John Fou defines an agent as "... A piece of software that ...
The Astrogrid Lead Investigators have monthly telecons and also meet during the course of full consortium meetings. We don't keep full minutes but record key decisions ...
AstroGrid Lead Investigators (AGLI) Pages The AGLI acts as the "Board" for AstroGrid, representing the partner institutions, setting top level policy and strategy ...
Report to AstroGrid Oversight CommitteeJuly 7th 2003 Andy LawrenceAstroGrid Project LeaderUniversity of EdinburghE mail: al #64;roeNOSPAM.ac.uk Contents: Introduction ...
Contents: Project Manager Report to AGOC Meeting 04: 07 June 2003 Firstly my apologies for not being at the meeting: I will be driving to Heathrow early the following ...
Update to AGOC on Deliverables, Milestones and Risks submission to AGOC meeting, 30 Jan 2003 This is an update of section 10.7 of the AstroGrid PhaseAReport ...
The AstroGrid Science Advisory Group (AG SAG) Terms of Reference 1 Provide independent and scientifically informed advice to the AstroGrid Project on behalf of ...
eScience All Hands Meeting 2006: AG Planning Pages Presentation Materials A4 fliers: .pdf 12 sides A4 in total on 6 pages AstroGrid System Overview ...
Anita Richards JBO/AVO UK Mark Allen CDS/AVO France Simon Garrington JBO/MERLIN VLBI National Facility UK Paul Harrison JBO/AstroGrid UK Peter Lamb CSIRO Australia ...
Analysis of Cea Descriptions in the Registry. As part of designing and implementing an improved UI for launching CEA applications, I gathered some statistics from ...
Andy's comments on Itn05 deployment I had a play with the Itn05 release, with some added tutorial help from Martin Hill. I have some comments / lessons / suggestions ...
Andy's two pennyworth on the "Deep Review" What kind of project are we ? We are BOTH an infrastructure project AND an operations delivery project, and ALWAYS ...
This model is for the AngloAustralianGridDemo2003. The diagrams of the model are here displayed on wiki pages with annotation: AadModelUseCases: use case diagrams ...
This is part of the AngloAustralianDemoModel. I propose that each of the Java packages have its own jar file containing both client and service code. This simplifies ...
This is the detailed planning for the AngloAustralianGridDemo2003. This shows the position at the end of week 6. The Gantt chart breaks the project into one week ...
A demonstration of a service and data grid, prepared jointly by AstroGrid and Aus VO, is planned for the IAU meeting in Sydney in June 2003. The problem to be solved ...
Comments please! Enter below or email me. Thanks. AnitaRichards 04 Aug 2003 Many helpful comments received from Bob Hanisch and Tony Linde, gist of these entered ...
Another Approach to an Astronomical Query Language Note: this is work in progress not really ready for consumption yet Why do we need an AQL? Simple Interfaces ...
Looking at the options for application server, delivery of web services etc. Core technology here will be as web server, and http://xml.apache.org/axis/index.html ...
This is the component of AstroGrid that provides ApplicationsIntegration. It has been designed primarily so that JES can communicate with the different types of applications ...
Overall Scientific Workflow This a workflow that consists of 1 A flow with 4 arms that each run SExtractor on 4 different colour images of GOODS data 2 A step ...
GridService: ApplicationResourceService WSDL Description: type here Summary: type here Methods: 1 RunMethod 1 RunDblMethod Actors: type here Astrogrid ...
Application Wish This page list those applications that are in the 'pipeline' for incorporation into the AstroGrid system: Server Side Name Source information ...
This is concerned with integrating existing astronomical applications to do ScienceProblems with AstroGrid. Latest Build Page The snapshot files download ...
Description see http://aladin.u strasbg.fr/aladin.gml A Java Applet that displays images. Inputs needs to have a resource metadata tree set up to integrate ...
Description Page A neutral network for finding photometric redshifts Inputs Needs training data.... Outputs #IntegrationStatus Integration Status Under ...
Design of the Application integration Components discuss this on the forum at http://forum.astrogrid.org/read.php?TID 537 General Description The design has been ...
NB This is work in progress in iteration 5 Common Execution Architecture Schema The Common Execution Architecture will define an extension to the IVOA resource ...
ApplicationsIntegration Work for Iteration 5 253 is the tracker bug for my iteration 5 work some highlights are presented below Architecture for JES and ...
Descriptions of Milestones #MavenSetup Maven Compliance This milestone should really have been reached in the last iteration, but most groups did not achieve it. ...
Description Page A python front end for the IRAF suite of general image processing tasks. Inputs Outputs #IntegrationStatus Integration Status Deferred ...
Requirements for Application Integration General The application is capable of being run from a unix command line The application will run asynchronously ...
Description Page Extracts a source catalogue from a pixel image SExtractor Astrogrid page Inputs Outputs #IntegrationStatus Integration Status Under ...
Schema for Applications Integration Some of schema associated with Applications Integration are stored at http://www.astrogrid.org/viewcvs/astrogrid/applications ...
This page contains use cases focussed on the interactions of AstroGrid components for application integration rather than the more generic VO use cases We are aiming ...
Commentary on the example for SExtractor I am presenting a partially worked example of the file for the SExtractor application. Below are some observations on the ...
Workshop on Applications and Testbeds on the Grid 20th July, 2002 Hotel Glasgow Provisional Agenda Having broken my holiday in the Lake District a day early ...
You can also download the MS Word version from CoreDocs... AstroGrid Submission to PPARC e science AO April 2nd 2001 Peter Allan, Bob Bentley, Clive ...
Let's post docs here about AQL: Astronomical Query Language ProposedAQL: proposal from PatricioOrtiz AnotherAQL: proposal from ClivePage Earlier in ...
GridService: AqlTranslatorService WSDL Description: type here Summary: type here Methods: type here Actors: type here Astrogrid Concepts: type here ...
ASTROGRID ARCHITECTURE The Astrogrid project has focused on architecture development over the last 3 months. Evaluation of software, protocols, languages, etc have ...
Architect's Blog This page records decisions, by myself and others, that affect the AstroGrid architecture. I hope to capture the reasoning and detail of apparently ...
The following shows the state of play after an analysis initial session, followed by some tweaking. Note that the Domain Model shows the various important concepts ...
Following further discussions the Domain Model has been modified in a number of ways: ComputeResource has been added (including CPU, storage and Network resources ...
Two day meeting held in Leicester to: advance the AstroGrid architecture preview progress to date Documents produced by workgroups working within the meeting ...
See also UseCaseDesign and SystemReqs. UseCaseDesign: sequence and activity diagrams for science and technical use cases. SystemReqs: documents describing ...
AstroGrid Architecture: Thesis submission to AGOC meeting, 30 Jan 2003 Tony LindeAstroGrid Project Manager University of Leicester Preamble to AGOC AstroGrid ...
Are UCDs Metadata? This is a response to Guy's RefactoringUCDs and UCDAtomsPreliminaryList and Anita's WhatAreUCDsFor. I'm not sure how qualified I am to make this ...
In general terms for a component of the project named NAME there are two main artifacts that are used by other components 1 The webservice 1 A delegate jar used ...
Initial Investigation of Community Authorization Server What's this? I present some thoughts on using the Community Authorization Server (CAS) in AstroGrid. The ...
Tools for Large Astronomical Consortia Background Most current VO tools are targetted at individual astronomers using public services. Conversely, the infrastructure ...
nop AstroGrid 2 Planning Pages Current Cycle Deliverables The full text of the Cycle 6 plan along with the previous plans is attached below Here is the Table of Cycle ...
Possible refactorings of the iteration 6 system Version control for WSDL contracts Some AstroGrid sub systems generate a WSDL contract from Java code during compilation ...
AG@ROE AG@ROE consists of two networks: one managed by ITSupport and MarkHolliman and part of the main AstroGrid network, and a private, invitation only network managed ...
Simplifying the deployment of AstroGrid components Currently, the user who wishes to deploy an AG component has two options: Deploy the web archive to their container ...
nop AstroGrid Configuration Detailed instructions for configuring each nop AstroGrid component can be found in the INSTALL and RELEASE documents supplied with each ...
The institutes making up the AstroGrid Consortium are: of Computer Science, Queens University of Belfast of Astronomy, University of Cambridge for Astronomy ...
AstroGrid DSA/Catalog Developer Testing Whilst working on a code branch, I regularly deploy the current WAR artefact into a test tomcat and make sure the current ...
AstroGrid Deep Review Return to FitnessReview top page Preliminary Report Here is the preliminary report written following the meeting of Feb 28th. Free form ...
AstroGrid services served from Leicester will be unavailable from 1800 BST on 17 July until 0830 the next morning. The power supply to an adjacent building is being ...
Installing nop AstroGrid Detailed instructions for installing each nop AstroGrid component can be found in the INSTALL document supplied with each binary (also available ...
MyPipe: ideas for piping data between services Sometimes we want the output tables, images etc. from one service to go into semi permanent storage before being ...
On this page we will list all the web Portals running the AstroGrid system and the local contacts to use as front line support. We are still in the process of deploying ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting 1: The kickoff meeting. NicholasWalton 12 Feb 2002 Write protected to AstroGrid project group Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE AgManageGroup ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #10: 19 20 June 2006, Cosenor's House, Abingdon (RAL) AGENDA now Final Meeting Theme AstroGrid and the Euro VO: Providing ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #11: 14 15 Dec 2006, MSSL, Holmbury St Mary Meeting Theme Registration Agenda and Presentations All speakers please either ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #12: 21 22 June 2007, nop IfA, ROE, University of Edinburgh Meeting Theme The main aim of this meeting is to look towards the future ...
nop AstroGrid Project Meeting #13: Preparing for an operational VO 13 14 December 2007, Department of Physics Astronomy, University of Leicester Meeting ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #14: 30 Jun 01 Jul 2008, nop IfA, ROE, University of Edinburgh Meeting Theme The main aim of this meeting is to review the transition ...
Planning for Technical Issues in cycle 2 Assume that it all has to be "finished" and put away by Christmas 2008. Therefore, two major releases: 2008.2, end of ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #5: 3 4 November 2003, University of Leicester Please contact Pat Russell (par #64;starNOSPAM.le.ac.uk) to confirm your attendance and ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #6: 27 28 April 2004, University of Cambridge Registration Please email Nicholas Walton (naw #64;astNOSPAM.cam.ac.uk) (Subject: AG ...
TWiki . Astrogrid . AstroGridProjectMeeting7 AstroGrid Project Meeting #7 : 14 15 December 2004 at the National eScience Centre, 15, South College Street ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #8: 11 July 2005, IoA, University of Cambridge Registration Please email Nicholas Walton (naw #64;astNOSPAM.cam.ac.uk) (Subject: AG Meet ...
AstroGrid Project Meeting #9: 5 6 December 2005, Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester Registration Please email Anita Richards (amsr #64;jbNOSPAM ...
AstroGrid Project Meetings This page provides links to the minutes and associated documents of the the full AstroGrid Project meetings. AstroGrid Project Meeting1 ...
nop AstroGrid Publications List This page lists publications produced by the nop AstroGrid project. The main output of nop AstroGrid is of course our software and ...
nop AstroGrid Release Notes Release Notes each nop AstroGrid component can be found in the RELEASE document supplied with each binary (also available from CVS). This ...
AstroGrid: Meeting the User Science Challenge Nicholas A Walton, on behalf of the AstroGrid Project Abstract: The AstroGrid project (www.astrogrid.org) is implementing ...
Science Processes Through the project, a number of science processes will be addressed. Object Catalogue Extraction and Classification RedshiftDetermination ...
Intro This is now horribly out of date, and needs updating MCH Astrogrid code is being developed in java and xml. A central version control is being used see ...
The 'AstroGrid Ten' These are the ten key science problems which have been used to scope out the requirements of the AstroGrid Phase B project deliverables. Phase ...
User Review The nop AstroGriduser survey is here: this closes May 29, 2007 Some discussion has been targeted at AGSAG meeting 11 Bob Nichol did some user ...
Astrogrid Workbench Client side User interface to AstroGrid, implemented upon the AR Documentation and Download: http://www.astrogrid.org/desktop This page is Obsolete ...
Message Queue component of AstroGrid VO architecture. TonyLinde 09 Apr 2003 Attached is a small report which basically recommends a hybrid solution using OpenJMS ...
The ontology of astronomical topics and relationship types which is used in AstroGrid for various intelligence simulation by applications. TonyLinde 06 Aug 2002 ...
Table of Contents Children of this topic Astro Runtime (AR) Client side middleware that provides uniform access to all VO services, from all programming languages ...
AstroRuntime Bindings There are a number of bindings for the AstroRuntime besides the native Java binding. This page details the development efforts, and provides ...
Table of Contents Children of this topic AstroScope A UI application that aggregates DAL like VO services into a single queriable resource Part of DesktopAstroGrid ...
What more do you want Data returned to MySpace in useful form e.g. VOTable, FITS A single list of URLs which are direct data links Coverage, resolution ...
AstroScopeLite AstroScopeLite is now available in release from the workbench and provides a hyperlink to the existing NVO Datascope service together with instructions ...
AstroVirtel ASTROVIRTEL: Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes. A Project supported by the European Community Access to Research Infrastructures ...
A brief description of how the automatic builds work Well out of date JohnTaylor 15 Feb 2005 See also JDTIntegrationTestingNotes JDTMavenBestPractice JohnTaylor ...
TITLE : The AstroGrid Project : Powering the Virtual Observatory AUTHORS : Andy Lawrence (on behalf of the AstroGrid Consortium) Institute for Astronomy ...
Astrogrid Workbench User interface, implemented upon the AstroRuntime. Homepage: http://www.astrogrid.org/desktop Temporary Documentation Notes RegistryExplorer ...
Distance This can be catalogued as parallax (in arcsec etc), distance modulus (DM) (derived from flux density/magnitude and/or other assumptions e.g. nature of object ...
Frequency and related quantities Freq info required/desirable at Registry Resource metadata level or as UCDs plus the relevant errors and uncertainties. Frequency ...
Uncertainties in astronomical data All numerical quantities should have errors attatched AstroGrid must supply defaults where necessary (e.g. Epoch default between ...
Astroscope Multi cone proposal This is a facility I have felt the need for repeatedly. A typical example is when I was preparing an HST proposal. I had a list of 116 ...
Australian Virtual Observatory Workshop Melbourne, Nov 27 28 2002 This was a workshop which included active members of the Australian VO programme, other interested ...
Authentication implementation. This use case along with description of the methods is what is anticipated for being implemented in Iteration 3. Some slight changes ...
/ A token is created from username@localcommunity currenttimestamp / public String authenticateLogin(username,password) { //Queries the db for a particular user local ...
Authentication implementation. This use case along with description of the methods is what is anticipated for being implemented in Iteration 3. Some slight changes ...
A ValidToken means it is in the database and not expired and has been marked as USED. AuthenticateToken validates the token exists and is not expired and is NOT USED ...
Attempt at a db table "securitytokens" token varchar(50)/int? primarykey not null from varchar(50) not null/null? if it is null assume local community to varchar ...
Authorization: To try and not get to much into the db design, authorization is based around a user or a group with a particular permission or action for a resource ...
Date July 29, 2003 Description: This is what was decided in what will happen in the Authorization piece of the Community. And what will be implemented in Iteration ...
Instruction for Auto Integration (this instruction is based on the tested version on twmbarlwm.star.le.ac.uk, OS: nop Redhat Linux 9) Installation System requirements ...
Automated data publishing via VOSpace It is possible to associate a DAL service with a VOSpace container node such that data set stored in that container become searchable ...
AVODemo Project Review, 10 Sep 2002 Garching, Munich Notes See Nic Walton's minutes (ref?) for official minutes of the meeting. I shall go through this and 'reduce ...
AVODemo Technical Meeting ESO (Garching), 11 Sep 2002 Notes SED Plot WP2 WP5 (or WP4) This will be part of the baseline demo. The SED plot is a way of displaying ...
1.)Which version of Axis do we use? We are now heading towards the version 1.1 2.) Where do I get info on Axis? Axis website Click on User Guide when you get their ...
Axis v2 announced I got an email today announcing the first milestone release (some alpha version?) of Axis v2. The announcement said this about the architecture. ...
Notes on visit to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2002 May 13 14. Bob Mann and Clive Page arranged to visit JHU to see Alex Szalay, Ani Thakar and colleagues ...
Proposal Traditional web services support two styles of interface to their operations: RPC based , where the operation appears to the application programmer ...
These pages are valid for Iteration 5. For the previous iteration 3 release notes please refer to the Beta Testing in Iteration 3 pages. Please note that iteration ...
Beta Test Solar Movie Step by step details on how to create the solar movie. Log into portal (zhulumangma, currently with user frog) Step 1: get VOTable of datafiles ...
Beta Testing in Iteration 3 The Iteration 3 portal is available at: http://143.210.36.174:8080/cocoon/astrogrid/aglogin.html You need to get yourself a username ...
The AstroGrid Beta Test Resource Page For the impatient, jump directly to detailed instructions for the current iteration Beta testing now AstroGrid software ...
Binary XML Summary A way of describing the format and contents of a binary file with XML, developed by the pooter people at Edinburgh and at NeSC. Outline The rest ...
The XML based message board has a name: bamboo. It also has a design, please see the attached file. Please use forum topic to make comments on the proposal, which ...
Brown Dwarf Science Problem Ideas TonyLinde, AnitaRichards, and ElizabethAuden spoke with Roy Williams, Bob Mann, and Sean Bechhofer about constructing a "narrow slice ...
Brown Dwarf Science Problem Ideas Expanded TonyLinde, AnitaRichards, and ElizabethAuden spoke with Roy Williams, Bob Mann, and Sean Bechhofer about constructing a ...
Brown Dwarf Science Problem Ideas Revised TonyLinde, AnitaRichards, and ElizabethAuden spoke with Roy Williams, Bob Mann, and Sean Bechhofer about constructing a ...
Brown Dwarf Science Problem Ideas Expanded TonyLinde, AnitaRichards, and ElizabethAuden spoke with Roy Williams, Bob Mann, and Sean Bechhofer about constructing a ...
BrownDwarf Registry Requirements Science content ResourceMetadata Where values are strings, I have stated the options if specific values are needed. Otherwise ...
Questions arising from analysis of Brown Dwarf Science case This is a summary of what I said at the Iteration 5 GDW meeting at IoA on Feb 12th. 1 How to support ...
Examples of searching the Registry: For this example I consider only catalogues, not extraction of data from images, spectra etc. If we were doing the latter we would ...
Registry requirements for BrownDwarfIdeasRevised case This is based on Keith's RegistrySchema and my suggested ammendments in DataServiceSchema; this is mostly consistent ...
At present we can only access INT WFS through Itn05 portal, this covers the Pleiades. Start by selecting objects with z error Select o. From obj o where (o.ra between ...
Search for Brown Dwarf Stars in the Hyades The search for brown dwarf stars is one of the Astrogrid "Top 10" science cases, so I was interested to find recently that ...
ElizabethAuden 30 May 2002 Brown Dwarf Science Problem Introduction An astronomer exploring the lower end of the stellar mass function wants to conduct a census of ...
Brown Dwarf search in the Pleiades Colour Cut method This workflow is broken up into slightly more Sequences etc. than strictly necessary in order to make the main ...
BrownDwarfIdeasRevised is a revision of BrownDwarfIdeasExpanded to make it easier to extract information likely to be required in a Registry of scientific data, BrownDwarfRegistryRequirements ...
Build and Integration Test Procedure Iteration 8 A couple of definitions: build execute maven on the project, creating new local artifacts publish as ...
Building a query (the title was to catch the eye) In this document I intent to explain some of the thinking behind the design of the query builder in Iteration 06 ...
Building a Query The Query page provides a route to translate into the VO Query Language http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Support/HelpAdqlSql ADQL. Note that ...
Shell script commands to install and build the VOSpace 2008.2.02 release on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine. # # Need to run the package installs as root. sudo ...
Selecting one TestCase To look in more detail at one test case, TreeNodeTestCase, edit server/project.xml and make the following changes. vi ${VOSPACE BUILD}/server ...
Building a Workflow Workflows are used to send queries to datasets, to run applications (described in ToolDocumentation), and generally do user defined operations ...
Stories for Itn 6 Notes from lunchtime meeting 27 Apr 2004 Cambridge Kona Andrews, Kevin Benson, Jeff Lusted, Keith Noddle, Catherine Qin, Anita Richards, Guy Rixon ...
Use case: Look up user authority in Community Authorization Server Purpose A service (data service, compute service, storage service, whatever) attached to AstroGrid ...
CEA Configuration File Example My first attempt at a CEA configuration file is attached as "idlSolarMovieDefinitions.xml". I have put some answers in as a second ...
CEA Registry Extension Design Decisions The Common Execution Architecture (CEA) is an attempt to put together framework for executing applications within a web ...
Testing process for CEA server core and application servers These tests are for the astrogrid/applications group of Maven projects. They test the application servers ...
CNAP Meeting 2004 March 22 These are informal notes of items of possible importance for AstroGrid people arising from the meeting of PPARC's Computing and Networking ...
UK Astronomical Data Centre at http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ The Data Centre is part of the Astronomy Survey Unit in the of Astronomy, of Cambridge The UKADC is ...
Downloading a large file from MySpace using VOExplorer Motivation It appears that downloading files from MySpace takes an unreasonably long time Method A large ...
VOExplorer List Directory Motivation Simply listing MySpace directory contents in VOExplorer takes longer than seems reasonable. The aim is to try to isolate the ...
Capacity Planning This page presents the results of investigation into capacity planning for both the server side and client side AstroGrid components. The individual ...
Investigations of Astrogrid Performance MySpace There is a well founded general perception that MySpace is slow. Some of the reasons for this are thought to be known ...
GridService: CasServerService WSDL Description: type here Summary: type here Methods: CAS Query Port: 1 GetAuthorityByGridRoleMethod 1 GetAuthorityByPrivilegeMethod ...
Creating CEA Tools with IDL CEA Example with IDL ElizabethAuden, 27 June 2005 This tutorial will demonstrate installation of the CEA commandline software, creation ...
Making AstroGrid specialities attractive AstroGrid adds CEA, MySpace and workflow to the basic IVO. These features are unattractive to users in current circumstances ...
C binding to AstroRuntime At the moment At the moment AR has a RMI binding (only for JVM based languages) and an XMLRPC binding. The latter can be called from any ...
Guide to Celestial Coordinates, Cone search, etc. for Non astronomers This guide will start out with very basic information but will get steadily more complicated ...
The Party in a Grid that makes X.509 certificates capable of authentication by digitally signing them. There is generally one CA per virtual organization, but VOrgs ...
The Party in a Grid that makes X.509 IdCertificates capable of authentication by digitally signing them. There is generally one CA in each Grid, but VirtualOrganizations ...
AstroGrid X.509 certificates for the VOStore demonstration at ADASS 2005 The demonstration of VOStore prototypes at ADASS 2005 involves security: SOAP requests to ...
Change Management Scope The requirements for change appear at all stages during the project life cycle. This document provides the mechanisms for managing change ...
Typical characterisation for ground based radio interferometry data This is applicable to data using the Griessen/Calabretta/Valdez definitions, if there are any differences ...
Check list for accessing AstroGrid portal and facilities See especially http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/ReleaseV1Pages#Accessing AstroGrid V1 0 Accessing ...
Some notes and examples for the Chimera workshop. Digitising legacy data. Worry that non digital data may be 'left behind'. ESRC encourages publiation of raw data ...
Code Review Checklist Introduction The following are an amalgam of accepted code review guidelines and are not exclusively Java oriented. Generally however, all are ...
Initial check list for iteration 06 code reviews. Please add a link to the page describing each issue, with details of why you think it is important. DaveMorris ...
Aim If you need an incentive, see the last two paragraphs of Guy's GridQualityCrisis. These standards are intended to ensure: Consistency across the project ...
Coding Standards and Procedures Introduction This page consolidates existing ideas and practices into a coherent whole to be applied to nop AstroGrid development ...
Collaboration Diagrams can show the same information as SequenceDiagrams, but will be used here to bring out additional implementation details because the format can ...
Plot colour colour diagram for sample Select Brown Dwarf candidates within selected region of diagram (user supplied initially; eventually from web search for ...
ColourCutterComments Colour Cutter Summary: This Astrogrid science service allows the user to select IR and optical objects by region and by colour. It is available ...
Colour Cutter Comments Please add comments here or email the author. AnitaRichards 03 Nov 2005 RichardMcMahon 08 Feb 2005 might want to include option ...
Colour Cutter Details First draft of tool AnitaRichards 10 Oct 2005 Technical overview The ColourCutter is intended to make selections from two catalogues with ...
Comments on Forms AnitaRichards 07 Feb 2008 Thanks to everyone who has put this together, it is already miles easier than before. Most of what I have found is ...
Work in progress The Common Execution Architecture (CEA) is an abstraction of applications and the parameters needed to run them. It consists of the Common Execution ...
The CommonExecutionConnector is an interface for controlling the execution of applications, where an application is defined as anything that can manipulate or return ...
Use of Commons Logging The commons logging (by default configured for log4j) should be used for all log and debug messages. The pricipal advantage of this practice ...
Community Accounts Protocol version 1 Introduction The accounts protocol governs a web service giving access to certain aspects of a user account in the Virtual Observatory ...
Community Accounts Protocol Version 2 Introduction The accounts protocol governs a web service giving access to certain aspects of a user account in the Virtual Observatory ...
Community Accounts Protocol Version 3 Introduction The accounts protocol governs a web service giving access to certain aspects of a user account in the Virtual Observatory ...
Here are some authentication issues that I think that we should discuss (not yet exhaustive) User Identity what is the user handle need a globally unique ...
Okay well I will try to make up a nice use case tomorrow or late tonight of everything a user might want to do. But Keith is wanting a potential screen shots of the ...
The following description applies to the iteration 5 Community Ivorn resolvers. Community identifiers A Community service is identified by the authority ID in an ...
Information about Community to help with a Demo First some Information The “Portal Login” page is tied to a particular Community. Here new users may choose to hit ...
Db Design of Community Here is a look at the db tables being created. Resources Column Name Type size Allow Nulls Keyed identity int No Primary name varchar(50) ...
Community policy prototype This set of pages describe the steps involved in implementing JavaDataObjects using the Castor JDO toolkit and the Hsqldb database server ...
Community policy prototype This set of pages describe the steps involved in implementing JavaDataObjects using the Castor JDO toolkit and the Hsqldb database server ...
Community policy prototype This set of pages describe the steps involved in implementing JavaDataObjects using the Castor JDO toolkit and the Hsqldb database server ...
This is the list are things that was not completed in Iteration 3 and are hoped to be completed in this Iteration 4. If not then they will be carried over to Iteration ...
This page is for Research and Extension ideas for the Communjity area. All ideas should have some type of use case associated with them. These ideas should be carried ...
Plans for the Community Component Abstract A plan is presented for upgrading the Community component to support AstroGrid and EuroVO in routine operation. The revised ...
Complex Query Introduction A user wants to perform a complex query on one or more datasets. A complex query is currently defined by astrogrid as ?a query that can ...
Build Order of AstroGrid Components The correct build order of AstroGrid subcomponents, according to their dependencies is: Our processing order: Common classes ...
As part of the UnifiedProcess, it is necessary to assess the highest risks (ie, those aspects most likely to fail or prove difficult) for the project and address those ...
Previous versions: ComponentRisksR01 As part of the UnifiedProcess, it is necessary to assess the highest risks (ie, those aspects most likely to fail or prove ...
AstroGrid Component Testing Processes The links below describe the acceptance testing processes that a developer uses when certifying that a produced artifact (e.g ...
GridService: ComputeResourceService WSDL Description: type here Summary: type here Methods: 1 RunCodeMethod 1 UploadCodeMethod Actors: type here Astrogrid ...
This should contain a list of links to conference abstracts and papers that project team members have submitted. NOTE: This list now superseded by the list at MeetingsPresentations ...
nop Application Configuration, Messages and Exceptions nop Introduction First of all, it is said a picture speaks a thousand words, and an example runs pretty close ...
The current configuration scheme for AstroGrid uses a single properties file stored in Tomcat's $CATALINA HOME/conf directory. This works we can deploy and run services ...
This is a list of conferences that might be useful to AstroGrid, either in learning more about the type of work we're doing or in promoting the project and its goals ...
Calendar of 2005 conferences and meetings and who will attend on behalf of project: Please do not add entries to this page yourself. If there is a meeting you think ...
Calendar of 2006 conferences and meetings and who will attend on behalf of project: Please do not add entries to this page yourself. If there is a meeting you think ...
nop AstroGrid Consortium Meeting University of Leicester, 25/26 September 2003 Itinery 25th September Project Day Keynote Talks from Andy Lawrence, Tony Linde ...
External Astronomical Organisations which provide content (tools or data) for the VO DataCentres: centres providing data for inclusion into the VO DataProvidersFacilities ...
Converting the photometric system used by the INT WSF to the system used by Basri et al. and Dahn et al. Dahn et al. 2002 use I c z 1.4 (1) where I c ...
The CookBook. is just a feature found in many astronomical reduction packages, where the authors show users how to perform certain tasks and introduce the different ...
The HIJASS survey produces cubes at 8 degree intervals of Declination, appropriately spaced in RA, with a pixel size of 4 arcmin, approx. 200 pixels on a side, 1025 ...
This category of documents includes: Name When Link Format Talk at NAM by Andy Lawrence 2001 April nam.ppt MS Powerpoint Proposal submitted to PPARC 2001 ...
Coverage metadata in the Registry The Metadata IVOA Standard verbally describes coverage but this is not implimented (yet) in a globally agreed schema (if I understand ...
This is a first pass at a use case scenario for cross community policy checking. If you think that this is plausinble, then I'll have a go at implementing a prototype ...
Towards Easier Cross Matching with Astrogrid: nop AstroFederator Classes of Cross match there are a number of possibilities where we'll be cross matching tables ...
Cross Match Algorithms (updated) I wanted to put on record the fact that another algorithm for performing a spatial join (or catalogue cross match) has recently been ...
Note: work in progress please come back later. Report on Cross Matching Catalogues The main aims of the work undertaken during 2003 July to September were 1 ...
CTIP Data Format Here we take a look at the format of CTIP data files so you can get your CTIP data read in and plotted out correctly. Let's take a look at ...
CTIP Model The Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere model (CTIP) was developed at the Physics Laboratory, UCL. This page is now for notes relating to getting ...
CTIP Mode A This page provides notes on getting the CTIP Mode A to run on the new VODesktop. The old method was to use the parameterised workflow on the old Workbench ...
CTIP Mode A: Help CTIP Mode A: Help Summary This Astrogrid science service allows a user to run the Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere model (CTIP) in ...
CTIP Mode B The purpose of this page is to make notes with regards to implementing CTIP Mode B. How the service works (from George Millward) The aim of mode B was ...
This page details the Current Deployment status for AstroGrid Current Status iteration 8 released portal at http://zhumulangma.star.le.ac.uk:8080/astrogrid ...
Most of us shouldn't need to to any more with CVS than the few simple commands described in the CvsPrimer. However, there's a good deal of documentation for CVS ...
Concepts CVS is intended to be used in a cooperative environment, supporting a group of folk working reasonably closely on a project. It does not aim to impose a ...
GUI Brainstorm session points for discussion If you have points that you wish to raise with respect to the portal and workbench GUIs, please add them below. Please ...
Data and access Data In addition to Eduardo's points, many use cases, especially looking for very rare objects (need to search whole Universe) or Galactic objects ...
Cycle 4 Technical Review Management Summary Cycle 4 was a very busy 6 month and we were involved in a wide variety of events in addition to our engineering commitments ...
Cycle 6 Planning Meeting Where/When Location: Room F11, University of Leicester Time: Thursday 14 June 2007: 10.30 16.00 Present The following people ...
Cycle 3 Technical Review Management Summary The majority of the goals we set for Cycle 3 were achieved. In addition, due to the flexible nature of our planning and ...
Planning Meeting for Cycle Two Contents QuickLinks Where/ When: Meeting held 13 Jun 2005 in Leicester Attendees NicholasWalton, SilviaDalla, AnitaRichards ...
Cycle 2 Technical Planning Meeting 22 June 2005 Seminar Room, Space Research Centre, University campus Purpose of meeting To capture, discuss and prioritise high ...
H/W Requirements and Plan for AG2, Cycles 5 6 Key Services The AstroGrid project has reached a stage where certain key services already need to be regarded as operational ...
These are notes by Manred (who is leading the work at Hursley to make a protoype data service for relational data) on his visit to CASU on 2002 08 11. Notes From Meeting ...
DB2 Evaluation DB2 was tested under the following circumstances: Platform: Linux Red Hat 7.3, in a 1.7Ghz AMD processor PC DB2 requires some kernel modifications ...
DBMS Mathematical Functions This table lists the trigonometrical and mathematical functions available in the proposed Astronomical Data Query Language (ADQL) and compares ...
Databases to Evaluate. Our current list, with brief reasons is: MySQL public domain DBMS, used by many astronomical sites, reputed to be very fast (especially ...
DSA Test Results The DSA tests take the following form: The DSA is configured to run 5, 10, 25, 50 and 75 queries simultaneously. For each of these configurations ...
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML based, end to end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture ...