Votc Science Team Planning for Stage 06

Date: Weds 10 Oct 2007 : 14.00 - 15.30

Present: TBD

NAW, Anita Richards, Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares (tele), Matteo Guainazzi, Pepe Longo, Andreas Wicenec, Mark Allen, Evanthia H., Jonathan Tedds

Apologies:

Location: Edinburgh - SCEC - seminar room.

Agenda:

1 Review of DS plans for Stage 06

• SFD published at VotcSFD
• All Stage 06 plans look good.

2 Science Verification of VOTC services and apps

• Server side focus for stage 6.
  • aim at expanding the Extragalactic workflow. Look at access to SDSS and UKIDSS, cross match, then VOneural to generate redshifts
  • create a workflow to support this
  • will test use of a large application running on the Italian Grid - thus ability to pass user certificates from e.g. a Taverna workflow to the application running on a Grid
  • timescale: coordination between Italy/UK on certificate work
• Pointers to key services/ apps
  • Existing: Aladin, TopCat^?, VOSpec, Visivo
  • Emerging: VOExtractor (Naples), VONeural, multicone searches (stiltsxmatch),
  • Interfaces: VODesktop, VirGO
  • Workflow: python scripts, taverna workflows, jlow workflows
  • Other: Paperscope
• Test cases:
  • common fields - CDFS, GOODS, LMC, Orion, 30Dor, M13
  • standard query, and display result (image/table) to a plastic tool

3 Input to Euro-VO DCA workshop - Summer 08

• Focus of the DCA workshop (23-27 Jun 2007) will be on publishing data - thus there will be limited science input. Thus only a few examples of how astronomers use some typical VO functionality.

4 AOB

• Need for an acknowledgement statement of use of Euro-VO developed tools.

Telecon dial in:

• Use powwownow - see access numbers - room as advised by email

-- NicholasWalton - 02 Oct 2007