From nch@roe.ac.uk Mon May 17 08:57:31 2004 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:47:06 +0100 (BST) From: Nigel Hambly To: WFCAM Science Archive Team -- Eckhard Sutorius , Harvey MacGillivray , Ian Bond , Mike Read , Nigel Hambly , Bob Mann Cc: CCs for WSA weekly meeting minutes distribution -- Clive Davenhall , Andrew Lawrence , Andy Adamson , Peter Shillan , John Taylor , Jim Emerson , Martin Hill , Mike Irwin , Peredur Williams Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes, 14th May 2004 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 14th May 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Present: NCH, IAB, PMW, MAR, ETWS, RGM Apologies: MCH, JPE, HMG, AL, GPS, JMS, JDT DONM: 10am, Friday 21st May 2004, plate library. Actions discharged: ------------------- None this week. Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- ACTION: MAR to look at Java code documenting/summarising facilities and to implement useage of the same in science archive java application code within the CVS. CONTINUES: JavaDoc will be used. ACTION: ALL to review risk register and think of any new internal or external risks that should be documented in the risk register. Defered until top level plan is explicitly defined. PMW tabled the VISTA risk register as an example. ACTION: JPE to design and set up centralised VDFS web pages. Progressing. (there is now a link to it from our WSA Twiki). - continuing; thanks for progressing these. Actions carried forward from 30/04/04 meeting: ----------------------------------------------- None this week. Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: NCH noted that the Vista DFS User Committee had met at Cambridge on 7th May. This was a most constructive meeting (a new TWiki page will be established and the minutes put up there). The main emphasis was on the procedure for reviewing WFCAM requirements and for establishing those for Vista. A number of actions and a forward plan have been established (see the minutes). ACTION: NCH to put the VDUC minutes on a new TWiki topic. NCH noted also that a UKIDSS Consortium Survey Heads meeting had taken place in Oxford on May 10th. NCH had emphasised to the Survey Scientist and Science Verifier (Steve Warren and Simon Dye) those aspects of the SSA that should now be scrutinised closely re: WSA functionality. NCH & PMW had attended the VDMT monthly meeting on May 4th; progress was reviewed and found to be satisfactory. NCH & MJI have been asked to attend the UKIRT Board meeting to present progress on pipeline & archive and to answer any questions the Board may have concerning WFCAM data handling. PMW noted that JPE has nudged PPARC concerning "letters of intent" etc with respect to recruitment of another bod in October to work on the project (as allocated in the last eScience round). Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: No new minutes this week. Networking: Nothing new this week. Hardware: No update from Eclipse this week. Software: IAB reported: "The multi-pairing function in the pairing module has been modified to accept null files that may want to be used as place fillers. Also included a new function "merge", which generates a merge table from a list of pair pointer files." ETWS reported: "the latest version of the parsing script now sorts alphabetically, gives out the latest revision number and date in the database objects overview tables, and has the -- bug in the tables fixed." MAR reported: "UI - pixel extraction: Worked on reading WCS from FITS files and keywords. Initially using Fortran as a fallback position but then got JNIAST working with Java servlets." NCH & IAB have been continuing development of the DB-driven source merging software (CU7); NCH has been refining the top-level data model and database schemas to simplify and streamline. SSA: NCH noted that several people were now using the SSA and were promising feedback. MAR has added service downtime information to the website (the service has been on continuously since launch, with no system errors logged). There is a planned power outage in C1 this weekend for 3 hours, and this has been logged on the website. Miscellaneous: Via NCH, AL noted that a mini-questionaire is circulating from the Astrogrid Deployment Number 1 (hereafter AGD1) working group. The team discussed the responses to the various questions, and NCH has forwarded a reply and sent to AL, indicating that the SSA, 6dF, RAVE, and Halpha blocked-down pixel images were available for deployment testing, along with an indication of the level of hardware infrastructure that may be available and the staff effort we envisage using in the current quarter. RGM noted that Keith Noddle (AG Technical Lead) will be in Edinburgh on the 8-10th June, and that he plans to spend around half a week per month in Edinburgh from now on.