From mar@roe.ac.uk Tue Dec 23 14:42:04 2014 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:20:21 +0000 From: Mike Read To: VDFS Science Archive Team -- Clive Davenhall , Dave Morris , Eckhard Sutorius , Mark Holliman , Nicholas Cross , Nigel Hambly , Rob Blake , Ross Collins , Stelios Voutsinas Cc: CCs for VDFS -- Alastair Edge , Andrew Lawrence , Bob Mann , Dante Minniti , James Dunlop , Jim Emerson , Keith Noddle , Lorenzo Rimoldini , Maria-Rosa Cioni , matt.jarvis@astro.ox.ac.uk, Mike Irwin , Nigel Metcalfe , Norman Gray , Phil Lucas , Richard McMahon at IOA , Simon Dye , Stephen Warren , Tom Kerr , Tom Shanks Subject: WFAU VDFS Science Archives progress meeting minutes, 12 December 2014 WFAU VDFS Science Archives progress meeting minutes, 12 December 2014 Present: MAR, STV, NJC, ETWS, MSH, ACD, RPB Apologies: RSC, DM, NCH, KTN, AL, RGM DoNM: 10am Friday 9 January 2015 in the Villas meeting room, MAR in the chair (room is booked). Actions discharged this time: ---------------------------- ACTION RGM circulate documentation for the PDRs. Discharged. ACTION: MSH to ensure that a public announcement about the service disruption was issued and widely advertised. Discharged. ACTION NJC: send ACD a list of forthcoming conferences for 2015. Discharged. ACTION MSH: provide Andy Connolly with appropriate programmatic access to the WSA and VSA surveys. MSH had contacted Andy. Actions carried forward from 28/11/2014 meeting: ----------------------------------------------- ACTION: RPB (was MAR) to have a look at the status of non-survey releases for registered projects. Continues. MAR had compiled a list of non-survey projects that could be released and sent it to RPB. RPB had yet to make these data available. ACTION: RGM to investigate the size and content (how does it differ from DR9?) of SDSS DR10 to see if it is worth us hosting and whether it is necessary to keep all of the earlier releases. Continues. The first part had been done: the difference between DR9 and DR10 is largely the presence of additional spectra. The part of this action that continues is that RGM had not yet established which early releases could safely be scrapped. RGM also noted that DR11 would be available in January. The main difference would be the addition of more spectra, which WFAU should archive. For further details see the WFAU SDSS strategy wiki page: http://apache.roe.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/WFAU/SDSSDRPlan ACTION: ETWS, with RPB, to develop an automated helper script to keep release DB files links updated. Continues: this action still has low priority. ACTION: All to finish off VVV brainstorming tasks by end of January at the latest. Continues. ACTION: ACD speak to HME about the possibility of IT support making nightly backups of the SVN repository. Continues. ACTION: RPB write a chron job to make daily check-outs of all the WFAU Projects in the SVN repository in order to provide a backup snapshot of the current state. Continues. ACTION: ETWS/NCH purchase a new license for mxODBC. Continues. ACTION ETWS/NJC: develop an automated tool to monitor progress in ingesting and curating surveys. Continues Specific points and new actions: ------------------------------- Project management: PDRs would be carried out in the next couple of weeks. WFCAM, VISTA and VST updates: No news. Networking: Everything appeared to be working satisfactorily, currently transferring OSA data. WSA/VSA/OSA/GES Operations: VVV tile/pawprint association was running with an ETA of February. ETWS noted that the illumination correction updates for VST ATLAS were proceeding. ACD noted that he was checking through the latest set of GES files. Hardware and Systems: Blackout Friday had gone well and the new network was now in operation. A few of the windows machines had insisted on caching old network connection information but these had been fixed. Unas (memory?) and Neferefre (disks?) required attention. Software: NJC reported: 1) For the Matched Aperture pipeline, I have added a MapApertureID table and a MapSurveyTables to generalise the input master list, so it can come from the existing sourceTable, external surveys, a dual image master frame or a user supplied list. 2) For the proper motion, I have got the frame matching working for relative astrometry, and I have planned how to incorporate this into cu6. Review of Deadlines: The meeting went through the upcoming deadlines. The Twiki pages would be updated to reflect the discussion. In terms of VISTA P93 release deadlines it was hard to estimate until we knew when the data would be available from CASU. Survey Data Release: Tom Shanks had been in contact with regard to sending band merged catalogues to ESO. It was agreed that we could do this from the existing frameset set-up but a bit of development was required and an OSA ATLAS release for the date range required by ESO needed to be produced first. Non-survey Data Release: None Astrogrid deployment, VO & Data Analysis services: Nothing for the minutes. Miscellaneous: There would be a GES telecon next week. Merry Christmas!