From nch@roe.ac.uk Fri Mar  4 15:12:36 2005
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:07:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Nigel Hambly <nch@roe.ac.uk>
To: WFCAM Science Archive Team -- Eckhard Sutorius <etws@roe.ac.uk>,
     Mike Read <mar@roe.ac.uk>, Nigel Hambly <nch@roe.ac.uk>,
     Nicholas Cross <njc@roe.ac.uk>, Bob Mann <rgm@roe.ac.uk>
Cc: CCs for WSA weekly meeting minutes distribution -- Andrew Lawrence
    <al@roe.ac.uk>, Andy Adamson <a.adamson@jach.hawaii.edu>,
     John Taylor <jdt@roe.ac.uk>, Jim Emerson <j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk>,
     Malcolm Stewart <jms@roe.ac.uk>, Martin Hill <mch@roe.ac.uk>,
     Mike Irwin <mike@ast.cam.ac.uk>, Peredur Williams <pmw@roe.ac.uk>,
     Stephen Warren <s.j.warren@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes, 4 March 2005

Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting:      4th March 2005
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Present:       NCH, PMW, ETWS, NJC, MAR
Apologies:     MCH, JPE, JMS, JDT, AL, RGM

DONM: 10am, Friday 11th March 2005, plate library


Actions discharged:
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None this week


Actions partly discharged but continuing:
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ACTION: MAR & NCH to check out SQL Server networked server functionality
        for cross-server querying.
Continues; NCH suggested we should do some experiments with the linked
SQL Servers ahmose & amenhotep once the dust has settled on their
reorganisation over the next couple of weeks.

- all continuing; thanks for progressing these.


Actions carried forward from 25/02/05 meeting:
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ACTION: NCH & ETWS to take a look at the latest raw MEF headers and send
        any comments back to MR at CASU.

- CONTINUES


Specific points and new actions:
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Project management:

NCH noted the VDMT meeting immediately after this meeting.


WFCAM update:

Nothing new this week.


Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes:

The team noted the minutes of the meeting of 17 February; there were no
comments.


Networking:

80-parameter catalogues have been received from JRL, and ETWS and NCH are
looking into ingest issues raised by them.


Hardware:

Online archive hardware continues to function normally.


Software:

MAR reported:
"Implemented basic authorization scheme, access to  FITS files
from image listing is now restricted. Forms show whether a user is logged
in or not. Login page written.

Worked with Eckhard (who did the real work) in implementing the asinh
scaling of the FITS2jpeg for thumbnail extraction. Also worked
on getting corrcet rotation angle from WCS headers."

NCH has finished off CU9 as far as is possible at the moment (i.e. without
real data to test). NJC has continued to look at proof of concept issues
related to CU8, while ETWS has continued to push forward on final
deployment of the ingestion CUs (2-4). CU3 is ready to go; CU2 nearly done
and CU4 is being worked on (e.g. as above).


SSA:

No news this week.


Astrogrid deployment:

MAR noted that at the previous day's GAG telecon, there are no new
requirements on WFAU to deploy any further AG components for the NAM demos.
MAR also reported that it now seems that the AG community software is
unlikely to fully meet WSA requirements on the required timescale, so he
is proceeding with an ad-hoc community-like database system for WSA access.


Miscellaneous:

Nothing else this week.