From nch@roe.ac.uk Wed Mar 30 21:28:22 2005 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:09:39 +0100 (BST) From: Nigel Hambly To: WFCAM Science Archive Team -- Eckhard Sutorius , Mike Read , Nigel Hambly , Nicholas Cross , Bob Mann Cc: CCs for WSA weekly meeting minutes distribution -- Andrew Lawrence , Andy Adamson , John Taylor , Jim Emerson , Malcolm Stewart , Martin Hill , Mike Irwin , Peredur Williams , Stephen Warren Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes: 30 March 2005 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 30th March 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Present: NCH, PMW, JDT, MAR Apologies: MCH, JPE, ETWS, NJC, AL, JMS, RGM DONM: 10am, Friday 8th April 2005, plate library Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: NCH to report back to CASU on issues raised by the current batch of 80-paramater fits binary tables. Discharged; two emails sent to CASU with itemised lists of questions and comments. Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- 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. Continues: RGM noted that JHU have been doing some experiments with individual DBs distributed across several instances of SQL Server. - all continuing; thanks for progressing these. Actions carried forward from 11/03/05 meeting: ---------------------------------------------- None this week. Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: NCH noted the UKIDSS science verification meeting this week on Friday 1st April. NCH will attend, and give updates to the assembled survey heads and others on WSA deployment, registration and the commissioning data release. After an emergency conflab and communication with the other shortlisted candidates for the archive developer post, it is now clear that the position will have to be readvertised. PMW has redrafted the advert in consultation with RGM & NCH, and this is now with the University for release to the uni jobs network. It will additionally be placed in the AAS jobs register at the next issue (mid April); MCH has advised of suitable web sites where the ad can be placed to reach a wide developer audience. All the usual free distribution methods (Starlink News, AG jobs listings, etc) will also be used. WFCAM update: WFCAM will be back "on sky" tomorrow (31st March) after completion of focal plane tilt adjustments. JAC anticipate fresh engineering info over the next week; science verification starts at the end of next week. Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: No new minutes as of this week. Networking: Nothing new to report this week. Hardware: Online archive hardware continues to function normally. Software: NCH has done a lot of testing of source merging using the WFCAM commissioning data, several bugs and enhancements have been made to the core source merging code. ETWS & NCH have shaken down the ingest procedure as far as possible based on processed commissioning data provided by CASU, and a release of those data has been prepared for limited perusal by UKIDSS survey heads. Data Release: As noted above, a commissioning data products release has been prepared for perusal by a limited number of UKIDSS (mainly survey heads). A UKIDSS tester community has been set up to facilitate this. NCH asked the available team members if we are happy to "go live" (in a very limited sense) with these data and the interface as it stands; MAR suggested that a little more work needs to be done on the on-line documentation but this can be done over the next week and updated as and when. This needs the web docs to be under concurrent version control. ACTION: MAR to check into the CVS the website docs, and all to update the online documentation as necessary over the next week. NCH also noted that our ad hoc username policy (currently we will use email addresses as usernames) may go against an already agreed policy within AstroGrid, and asked JDT if there was an officially agreed policy in AG. JDT said he would look into this. ACTION: JDT to look into the Astrogrid community username policy (if there is such a thing). SSA: No news this week. Astrogrid deployment: No news this week. Miscellaneous: Nothing else this week.