From nch@roe.ac.uk Mon May 24 19:55:37 2004 Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:48:43 +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, 21st May 2004 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 21st May 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Present: NCH, IAB, ETWS, RGM, AL, JDT, JMS Apologies: MCH, JPE, HMG, GPS, PMW, MAR DONM: 10am, Friday 28th May 2004, plate library. Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: NCH to put the VDUC minutes on a new TWiki topic. Discharged - meeting minutes can be found under the VDFS topic. 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 14/05/04 meeting: ----------------------------------------------- None this week. Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: The main news this week was that IAB will be handing in his notice today having accepted an offer of a lecturing job in a Auckland. The team offered their congratulations to Ian on this appointment. Clearly, the priority now is to get the most out of Ian before he leaves, including finishing off work and consolidating all CVS code and documentation. ACTION: NCH & IAB to meet before the next meeting to make a "to do" list. AL & NCH noted that this changes things as regards recruitment of a new bod for the team; some thought now needs to go into a combined recruitment process, and the job descriptions for the same. This process will be started when PMW returns from holiday. Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: The team noted the minutes of the CASU meeting of 18/5/2004; there were no comments. Networking: ETWS noted that there is a networking workshop at UCL in London in July that could be very useful; ETWS will attend. Hardware: No update from Eclipse this week. NCH noted that despite promises from Eclipse for weekly updates, no update has been received for over a fortnight now. ACTION: NCH to chase up Eclipse to find out the latest news concerning the U320 disk system. Software: IAB reported: "Tested CSV generation procedures with image metadata using the new multiframe and clibration schemas. Worked OK for processed and stacked images. Added a method for determining the frame type, although it is just a place filler for now until the implementation details can be worked out. Also wrote new --/Q and --/F tags for the multiframe and calibration schemas." ETWS has updated the catalogue schemas according to a new prescription for source merging in the UKIDSS LAS; all changes have been checked into the CVS. MAR has been working on the pixel image access modes for the WSA; NCH has done no work on coding this week owing to preparations of an SPIE paper (see below). SSA: Nothing new this week; quick usage update: SSA has 451 logged queries, PSSA has 345. Miscellaneous: AL raised the issue of a write-up plan for the WSA in the light of discussions with SJW over the UKIDSS publication plan. Some discussion ensued concerning the viability of a technical paper containing no science results in a peer-reviewed, high impact journal like MNRAS. NCH suggested a more instrument-oriented, but still refereed journal along the lines of PASP or A&A; IAB suggested A&A no longer seem to encourage the use of their instrumentation section. NCH & RGM pointed out that the SDSS JHU folks don't seem to have published refereed papers on their system other than small sections in, for example, the Stoughton et al. EDR paper. NCH suggested that if conference proceedings such as ADASS and SPIE were not considered to be sufficient for reporting the technical side of the archiving work, then perhaps the thing to do would be to look at the current SPIE contribution (which NCH has been writing this week) and think how this may be expanded/altered or otherwise changed in emphasis for an MN-like refereed paper. ACTION: ALL to read and comment on the SPIE contribution paper distributed by NCH, and to think how this may be transmogrified into a write-up for a refereed astronomy journal like MNRAS.