From roy.williams at ligo.org Wed Oct 5 08:50:12 2011 From: roy.williams at ligo.org (Roy Williams) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:50:12 -0700 Subject: LIGO open data survey Message-ID: <4E8C7CB4.7010204@ligo.org> Dear Astronomer Gravitational wave astronomy is coming, thanks to the LIGO and Virgo advanced detectors that will be online at or after 2015. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration will release open data to the broader community, including rapid alerts for follow-up observation, and the detected strain corresponding to astrophysical detections. In order to make the open data program most useful to astronomers, LIGO is asking you to fill in a survey about what you see as most important for us to support. Please take a few minutes to fill in the survey on LIGO Open Data at the link below. You don't have to answer all the questions. We really appreciate your time and thoughts. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFJuS1d4UlNiLW9Wdm5OQTJKWFE4ekE6MQ Thank you Roy Williams LIGO Caltech From akk at iucaa.ernet.in Fri Oct 7 00:46:21 2011 From: akk at iucaa.ernet.in (Ajit Kembhavi) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 13:16:21 +0530 (IST) Subject: LIGO open data survey In-Reply-To: <4E8C7CB4.7010204@ligo.org> References: <4E8C7CB4.7010204@ligo.org> Message-ID: Dear Roy, Your message comes at an amazing time. There is a discussion going on between India and the USA about the possibility of installing an advanced LIGO detector in India,a s a collaboration between the two countries. I am in fact making a presentation to the NSF this evening (our time), and people from the LIGO project will be making presentations too. Regardless of whether or not the project is accepted by the NSF and Indian agencies, IUCAA will have a LIGO data and analysis centre. So LIGO data will be of particular relevance to VOI, and perhaps we can all work together. I will eb in Pasadena on Nov 1--12, but that will eb for TMT meeting. Regards, Ajit On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Roy Williams wrote: > Dear Astronomer > > Gravitational wave astronomy is coming, thanks to the LIGO and Virgo advanced > detectors that will be online at or after 2015. The LIGO Scientific > Collaboration will release open data to the broader community, including > rapid alerts for follow-up observation, and the detected strain corresponding > to astrophysical detections. In order to make the open data program most > useful to astronomers, LIGO is asking you to fill in a survey about what you > see as most important for us to support. > > Please take a few minutes to fill in the survey on LIGO Open Data at the link > below. You don't have to answer all the questions. We really appreciate your > time and thoughts. > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFJuS1d4UlNiLW9Wdm5OQTJKWFE4ekE6MQ > > Thank you > Roy Williams > LIGO Caltech > From pasian at oats.inaf.it Mon Oct 17 02:48:54 2011 From: pasian at oats.inaf.it (Fabio Pasian) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:48:54 +0200 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum Message-ID: Dear All, at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data processing environments: the main goal is to achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LG will report regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA Interoperability Meetings. The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG. I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could organise a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session 16, 16:00-17:30). Fabio --- Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 skype: fabio.pasian e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it URL: http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From David.Schade at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Mon Oct 17 03:02:51 2011 From: David.Schade at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (David Schade) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:02:51 -0700 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E9BFD4B.4060809@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> Dear Fabio, I have an interest in this subject. In Canada I have been serving for 18 months or so I have effectively been the astronomy liason with Compute Canada (our national HPC grid). In that time we've achieved a lot in terms of cloud processing and storage. I'd like to undrstand the global situation better. David On 11-10-17 2:48 AM, Fabio Pasian wrote: > Dear All, > at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an > IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of > this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of > promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of > Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data > processing environments: the main goal is to > achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LGwill report > regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA > Interoperability Meetings. > The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded > two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware > that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of > defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group > following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible > technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG. > I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for > the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, > and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft > ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could organise > a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session > 16, 16:00-17:30). > Fabio > --- > Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit > INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste > Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY > phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 > skype: fabio.pasian > e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it > URL: > http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 > > --- -- Dr. David Schade Scientist and Group Leader Canadian Astronomy Data Centre Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics National Research Council Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valentyn at astro.rug.nl Mon Oct 17 06:30:45 2011 From: valentyn at astro.rug.nl (Edwin A. Valentijn) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:30:45 +0200 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E9C2E05.3020302@astro.rug.nl> Dear Fabio, thanks for the invitation. Our group is certainly interested in futher persuing the Grid connections we deployed in the past. kind regards Edwin Op 17-10-2011 11:48, Fabio Pasian schreef: > Dear All, > at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an > IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of > this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of > promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of > Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data > processing environments: the main goal is to > achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LGwill report > regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA > Interoperability Meetings. > The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded > two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware > that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of > defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group > following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible > technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG. > I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for > the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, > and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft > ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could organise > a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session > 16, 16:00-17:30). > Fabio > --- > Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit > INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste > Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY > phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 > skype: fabio.pasian > e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it > URL: > http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 > > --- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Edwin A. Valentijn University of Groningen Coordinator Target www : www.rug.nl/target Head OmegaCEN www : www.astro.rug.nl/omegacen Kapteyn Astronomical Institute tel : +31 (0)50 3634011/4036 (secr) P.O.Box 800 mobile: +31 (0)6 48276416 NL-9700 AV Groningen e-mail: valentyn at astro.rug.nl The Netherlands www : www.astro.rug.nl/~valentyn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.katz at ieee.org Mon Oct 17 06:33:05 2011 From: d.katz at ieee.org (Daniel S. Katz) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:33:05 -0500 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44B75F32-F3DF-483D-BA9E-CE43BAD363C8@ieee.org> For what it's worth, I'm the Area Co-Director for Applications at OGF, and while applications isn't really applications, but rather interfaces to grids/clouds that applications can use, I would still be happy to help out as needed here. Dan On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Fabio Pasian wrote: > Dear All, > > at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data processing environments: the main goal is to achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LG will report regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA Interoperability Meetings. > > The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG. > > I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could organise a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session 16, 16:00-17:30). > > Fabio > > --- > Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit > INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste > Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY > phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 > skype: fabio.pasian > e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it > URL: http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 > --- -- Daniel S. 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URL: From naw at ast.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 17 06:55:27 2011 From: naw at ast.cam.ac.uk (Nicholas A Walton) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:55:27 +0100 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum In-Reply-To: <44B75F32-F3DF-483D-BA9E-CE43BAD363C8@ieee.org> References: <44B75F32-F3DF-483D-BA9E-CE43BAD363C8@ieee.org> Message-ID: <4E9C33CF.406@ast.cam.ac.uk> Dear All, I was the last co-chair of the Astronomy Applications RG at the GGF/OGF where a number of useful interactions were developed - see e.g. a workshop we organised at OGF20 (http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/GgfIvoaMay07WorkShop - and http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?id=774) However, activity did tail off as OGF moved to concentrate on its core standards activities - and the reorganisation into the current split of Standards and Community. Thus, OGF moved away from the idea of domain specific research groups. From the IVOA side - there was I think a lack of technical effort to devote to the general area of distributed computing - hence the demise of the specific Interest Group of the IVOA in this area. That may be changing now as it is politically and technically of interest for some in the Astronomy domain to re-engage with the OGF. Thus, I would of course still be interested to be involved in the proposed IVOA Liaison Group. Yours, Nic Walton Daniel S. Katz wrote, on 17/10/2011 14:33: > For what it's worth, I'm the Area Co-Director for Applications at OGF, > and while applications isn't really applications, but rather > interfaces to grids/clouds that applications can use, I would still be > happy to help out as needed here. > > Dan > > > On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Fabio Pasian wrote: > >> Dear All, >> at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an >> IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of >> this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of >> promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of >> Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data >> processing environments: the main goal is to >> achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LGwill >> report regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA >> Interoperability Meetings. >> The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded >> two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware >> that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of >> defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group >> following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible >> technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS >> WG. >> I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for >> the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, >> and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft >> ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could >> organise a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon >> (session 16, 16:00-17:30). >> Fabio >> --- >> Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit >> INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste >> Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY >> phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 >> skype: fabio.pasian >> e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it >> URL: >> http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 >> >> --- > > -- > Daniel S. Katz > University of Chicago > (773) 834-7186 (voice) > (773) 834-6818 (fax) > d.katz at ieee.org or dsk at ci.uchicago.edu > > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/ > -- ======================================================================== Dr Nicholas A. Walton Institute of Astronomy Tel: +44 1223 337503 University of Cambridge Fax: +44 1223 337523 Madingley Road WWW: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~naw Cambridge, CB3 0HA email: naw at ast.cam.ac.uk ======================================================================== > For what it's worth, I'm the Area Co-Director for Applications at OGF, > and while applications isn't really applications, but rather > interfaces to grids/clouds that applications can use, I would still be > happy to help out as needed here. > Dan > On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Fabio Pasian wrote: >> Dear All, >> at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an >> IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of >> this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of >> promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of >> Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data >> processing environments: the main goal is to >> achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LGwill >> report regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA >> Interoperability Meetings. >> The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded >> two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware >> that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of >> defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group >> following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible >> technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS >> WG. >> I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for >> the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, >> and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft >> ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could >> organise a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon >> (session 16, 16:00-17:30). >> Fabio >> --- Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit INAF - >> Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 >> Trieste - ITALY phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 skype: >> fabio.pasian e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it >> URL: >> http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 >> >> --- > -- > Daniel S. Katz > University of Chicago > (773) 834-7186 (voice) > (773) 834-6818 (fax) > d.katz at ieee.org or dsk at ci.uchicago.edu > > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/ -- ======================================================================== Dr Nicholas A. Walton Institute of Astronomy Tel: +44 1223 337503 University of Cambridge Fax: +44 1223 337523 Madingley Road WWW: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~naw Cambridge, CB3 0HA email: naw at ast.cam.ac.uk ======================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarah.emery at caltech.edu Mon Oct 17 08:51:43 2011 From: sarah.emery at caltech.edu (Sarah Emery Bunn) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:51:43 -0700 Subject: IVOA Newsletter: October 2011 Message-ID: <4E9C4F0F.4030402@caltech.edu> The October 2011 issue of the IVOA Newsletter is now available at http://ivoa.net/newsletter, and via a link on the IVOA home page. Subscribers to ivoa-news at ivoa.net will have received email notification of the new issue. This biannual newsletter for astronomers is intended to highlight new capabilities of VO tools and technologies for doing astronomy research. It also lists recent papers and upcoming events. Thanks to those who have helped in the preparation of this issue. The editors will be looking for short articles for the next issue later in the year, with next issue around May 2012. Comments are welcome, and you may contact the editors directly via ivoa-news-editors at ivoa.net. Thank you, the IVOA Newsletter editors Mark G. Allen Sarah Emery Bunn Chenzhou Cui Evanthia Hatziminaoglou Thomas. A. McGlynn Christopher J. Miller Jonathan Tedds From andre.schaaff at astro.unistra.fr Mon Oct 17 21:38:02 2011 From: andre.schaaff at astro.unistra.fr (Andre Schaaff) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:38:02 +0200 Subject: IVOA Note about Scientific Workflows in the VO - draft Message-ID: <4E9D02AA.9080103@astro.unistra.fr> Hello, The first version of the IVOA Note called "Scientific Workflows in the VO" is available for comments. We will have a discussion during the first GWS session on Wednesday afternoon. We will also have the opportunity to discuss with people outside the VO community during the next ADASS (Wednesday evening BoF session). As this note should cover several WGs and IGs we send this document on the interop list. (a workflow at ivoa.net list is available if you want to follow the next discussions) Comments, suggestions, questions,... welcome. Jose Enrique Ruiz and Andre Schaaff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IVOA-Scientific-Workflows.pdf Type: =?windows-1252?q?application/pdf Size: 190140 bytes Desc: not available URL: From pasian at oats.inaf.it Mon Oct 17 21:48:37 2011 From: pasian at oats.inaf.it (Fabio Pasian) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:48:37 +0200 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum In-Reply-To: <2A32067A-8681-4B43-BB54-97D34C371146@ci.uchicago.edu> References: <2A32067A-8681-4B43-BB54-97D34C371146@ci.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: Dear Daniel, thank you for your offer. You will be precious in this context, it will be great to take advantage of your role and experience. Best wishes, Fabio --- Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 skype: fabio.pasian e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it URL: http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 --- From: Daniel S. Katz Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:32 PM To: Fabio Pasian Cc: interop at ivoa.net ; taffoni at iasfbo.inaf.it ; vuerli at oats.inaf.it Subject: Re: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum For what it's worth, I'm the Area Co-Director for Applications at OGF, and while applications isn't really applications, but rather interfaces to grids/clouds that applications can use, I would still be happy to help out as needed here. Dan On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Fabio Pasian wrote: Dear All, at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data processing environments: the main goal is to achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LG will report regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA Interoperability Meetings. The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG. I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could organise a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session 16, 16:00-17:30). Fabio --- Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 skype: fabio.pasian e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it URL: http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 --- -- Daniel S. Katz University of Chicago (773) 834-7186 (voice) (773) 834-6818 (fax) d.katz at ieee.org or dsk at ci.uchicago.edu http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(a workflow at ivoa.net list is available if you want to follow the next discussions) Comments, suggestions, questions,... welcome. Jose Enrique Ruiz and Andre Schaaff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IVOA-Scientific-Workflows.pdf Type: document/pdf Size: 190140 bytes Desc: not available URL: From herve.wozniak at astro.unistra.fr Tue Oct 18 00:46:32 2011 From: herve.wozniak at astro.unistra.fr (=?UTF-8?B?SGVydsOpIFdvem5pYWs=?=) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:46:32 +0200 Subject: IVOA Note about Scientific Workflows in the VO - draft In-Reply-To: <4E9D2A22.2040700@astro.unistra.fr> References: <4E9D2A22.2040700@astro.unistra.fr> Message-ID: <4E9D2ED8.4030403@astro.unistra.fr> Hi all, save the file on your hard disk and then you can open it with your preferred reader. That's a well-known mailer issue... Cheers, Herve Le 18/10/2011 09:26, Andre Schaaff ?crivait : > It seems that the pdf is not valid. > > The file is valid on our side, but if you have the same problem you can > download it from the IVOA wiki at : > > http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpOct2011GWS/IVOA-Scientific-Workflows.pdf > > > Sorry for these multiple mails. > > > Hello, > > The first version of the IVOA Note called "Scientific Workflows in the > VO" is available for comments. > We will have a discussion during the first GWS session on Wednesday > afternoon. > We will also have the opportunity to discuss with people outside the VO > community during the next ADASS (Wednesday evening BoF session). > > As this note should cover several WGs and IGs we send this document on > the interop list. > > (a workflow at ivoa.net list is available if you want to follow the next > discussions) > > Comments, suggestions, questions,... welcome. > > > Jose Enrique Ruiz and Andre Schaaff -- Herve WOZNIAK Directeur Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg UMR 7550 Universite de Strasbourg - CNRS 11, rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg Tel/Phone : +33 3 68 85 24 45 Fax : +33 3 68 85 24 32 mel/mail : herve.wozniak at astro.unistra.fr skype : herve.wozniak http://herve.wozniak.fr/ From jer at iaa.es Tue Oct 18 20:48:19 2011 From: jer at iaa.es (Jose Enrique Ruiz) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:48:19 +0200 Subject: IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Fabio, all as you may have noticed an IVOA Note about workflows is in preparation, you are very welcome to participate. In the Interop that is taking place in Pune this week, there is a GWS session planned for this afternoon where we should discuss how to face workflows from the VO perspective. In this context, I am very much interested in this IVOA Liason Group, please keep me in the loop. Regards -- Jose Enrique Ruiz Instituto Astrofisica Andalucia - CSIC 2011/10/17 Fabio Pasian > ** > Dear All, > > at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an IVOA Liaison > Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of this group (OGF LG) > is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of promoting discussion and > analysis of topics connected to the use of Grid and Cloud technologies in > support of astronomical data and data processing environments: the main goal > is to achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LG will > report regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA > Interoperability Meetings. > > The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded two > years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware that this > will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of defining new > requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group following technical > evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible technical impact on IVOA > standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG. > > I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for the OGF > LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, and I'll put you > on an interim mailing list and send you the draft ToR. For those in Pune, > please get in touch with me: we could organise a splinter meeting to discuss > the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session 16, 16:00-17:30). > > Fabio > > --- > Fabio Pasian - Head, INAF Information Systems Unit > INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste > Via G.B.Tiepolo 11 - I 34143 Trieste - ITALY > phone: +39 040 3199180 - fax: +39 040 309418 > skype: fabio.pasian > e-mail: pasian at oats.inaf.it > URL: > http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=99 > --- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From longo at na.infn.it Wed Oct 19 12:10:44 2011 From: longo at na.infn.it (Giuseppe Longo) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:10:44 +0200 Subject: R: IVOA Note about Scientific Workflows in the VO - draft In-Reply-To: <4E9D02AA.9080103@astro.unistra.fr> References: <4E9D02AA.9080103@astro.unistra.fr> Message-ID: <001201cc8e92$cd47dcb0$67d79610$@na.infn.it> Dear colleagues, please find attached some notes about Workflows and KDD which I hope will be taken into account for the final document. Giuseppe Longo and Massimo Brescia -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: workflow_DM.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 19305 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Jesus.Salgado at sciops.esa.int Thu Oct 20 02:11:05 2011 From: Jesus.Salgado at sciops.esa.int (Jesus Salgado) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:11:05 +0200 Subject: SimDM 1.0 enters into the TCG review phase Message-ID: <8875_1319101863_4E9FE5A7_8875_37040_2_4E9FE5A9.7010607@sciops.esa.int> Dear all, After latest updated version uploaded by Herv? today and a verification that this version covers the main issues found during the RFC, SimDM 1.0 enters officially into TCG review phase. RFC page can be found here: http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SimRFC All the documents can be found there: http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IVOATheorySimDMspec The review will be opened from Oct 20th to Nov 20th. 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Cheers . =================================================== Web Semantics Computer Scientist Workflows for Ever Project (Wf4Ever) http://amiga.iaa.es/p/233-recruiting-web-semantics.htm ==================================================== The AMIGA group is recruiting a Web Semantics Computer Scientist to work in the context of the Workflows for Ever Project (Wf4Ever) This is an offer for a contract of 2 years, starting as soon as possible, and based at the Instituto de Astrof?sica de Andaluc?a - CSIC, Granada, Spain. The candidate will work with an interdisciplinary team of national and international researchers, and be a key member of the Workflows for Ever AMIGA working group. The main activities of the work are focused on research and development of interoperable workflow models for Astronomy taking into account several aspects as provenance, information quality, integrity and authenticity. e.g., development and analysis of scientific use cases of provenance; study and comparison of existing and emerging models for content aggregation; research to develop effective and efficient methods for evaluation of integrity and authenticity, provenance capture, storage, and querying. This work will take into account vocabularies, ontologies and standards in the domain (IVOA), those developed in the Workflows for Ever Project as well as others existing and approved standards. Interested candidates should send a CV to Jose Enrique Ruiz (jer at iaa.es) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Mon Oct 24 09:55:43 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:55:43 +0100 (BST) Subject: Proposed changes to VOTable Message-ID: Dear IVOA members, As decided by the TCG, a special session was scheduled at the Pune Interop, coordinated within the Applications WG, to discuss recently raised issues with VOTable. These arose from concerns voiced initially by Tom McGlynn in relation to use of VOTable for TAP result output, and summarised on the VOTableIssues wiki page. The presentations are visible near the bottom of the InterOpOct2011Applications wiki page. Following discussion by those present, we came up with some recommendations for a VOTable 1.3. The problems being addressed and proposed solutions are summarised in final three slides of the Apps WG closing plenary presentation, at http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/PlenarySessionsOctober2011/apps-review.pdf To summarise the summary: + There should be a VOTable 1.3, incorporating the following changes: - For the TABLEDATA encoding: * Empty TD element permitted in integer columns to represent NULL (previously was illegal) * Empty TD element in floating point columns to represent NULL (previously meant NaN) - A new BINARY2 encoding: * Like BINARY, but with an additional per-row bitmask header indicating whether each cell is NULL or not. - A new optional "serialization" parameter to the VOTable MIME type to distinguish between the (now) 4 encodings: TABLEDATA, BINARY, BINARY2, FITS. (Parameters, optional or not, are a standard MIME type feature - see RFC2046). + Since the BINARY2 encoding will not be comprehensible to existing VOTable parsers, VO services will not deliver it except to clients which explicitly request it. The mechanism for such a request will be service-dependent, but will likely make use of the newly parameterised MIME type. Opinions on these recommendations are solicited now from anyone not present at the Pune Interop. Given the history of this issue, in particular the opinions of Tom McGlynn, who raised this in the first place, and Francois Ochsenbein, as last chair of the currently dormant VOTable WG, are welcome. This message was posted on the interop mailing list in view of the wide effect that a change to the VOTable standard would have across the IVOA standards. Followups however should be made to the votable at ivoa.net mailing list. If/when conclusions are reached, as summary will be posted to the interop list. If consensus is achieved the TCG will consider how best to move towards a VOTable 1.3. Mark Taylor (Applications WG Chair) -- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/