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     1= Mini Technical Meeting, 2004 AAS meeting in Denver = 
     2 
     3The following are various notes and reports from the 2004 AAS/SPD meeting in Denver, including a BoF session. 
     4 
     5{{{ 
     6Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 16:59:22 -0400 (EDT) 
     7From: Joseph Hourcle <oneiros@...> 
     8To: vso@... 
     9Subject: notes from the AAS meeting 
     10 
     11 
     12Before I forget, here are my notes on what I took from talking to people 
     13at the meeting: 
     14 
     15[these are just new things -- I'll try to merge this into the existing 
     16todo list in the coming week, but I have a feeling that I'll have my hands 
     17full on Monday, with an intern starting] 
     18 
     19-Joe 
     20 
     21 
     22 
     23Things to do: 
     24 
     25    Better distinction on 'Comments' and 'Feedback' links on 
     26    VSO webpage. 
     27 
     28    Aggregated data returned: 
     29        eg. MLSO's 'calendar' display. 
     30 
     31    Better organized initial search page -- 
     32        researchers didn't seem to care for the instrument listings 
     33        by data provider. 
     34 
     35    Explaination of the need for e-mail addr in data retrieval. 
     36        Possible inclusion of privacy statements? 
     37 
     38    Data retrieval -- ensure easy identification of datasets, 
     39        and prevent duplication of filenames between data providers 
     40        for non-identical data. 
     41 
     42    Perform user testing of the interfaces. 
     43 
     44 
     45Other sites to look at: 
     46    European Grid of Solar Observations: 
     47        http://www.egso.org/demo 
     48    Sun Earth Connector: 
     49        http://cosec.lmsal.com/ 
     50    Digital Library for Earth System Education: 
     51        http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp 
     52}}} 
     53 
     54{{{ 
     55Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:02:26 -0400 (EDT) 
     56From: Joseph Hourcle <oneiros@...> 
     57To: vso@... 
     58Subject: Re: notes from the AAS meeting 
     59 
     60 
     61 
     62I've attempted to update the priority list from April with the new items 
     63that came up last week. 
     64 
     65[of course, I just arbitrarily assigned priorities, and re-arranged things 
     66by my own personal opinion, somewhat to group things together] 
     67 
     68The only major item I see in the short term in the Data Provider's Kit -- 
     69the next two major events are the next programmer's meeting (which we 
     70haven't yet mentioned to Karen, but we'd like to have about 6-8 weeks 
     71after she delivers the baby, assuming no complications), and then the AGU 
     72meeting in December. 
     73 
     74Anyway, here's the list, as I see it: 
     75 
     76-Joe 
     77 
     78 
     79----- 
     80 
     81Key: 
     82 
     83# : item from the April Programmer's meeting 
     84@ : item from the June AAS meeting 
     85 
     86 
     87Completed Tasks: 
     88---------------- 
     89 
     90#   Redo all data providers using the new API 
     91        (Keiji, Igor, Karen, Joe H.) 
     92#   Update the VSO 'core' to use the new API 
     93        (Karen) 
     94#   Implement the new Registry 
     95        (Alisdair) 
     96#   WSDL description of new APIs 
     97        (Karen) 
     98 
     99 
     100Current Priority Tasks: 
     101----------------------- 
     102 
     103#   Data Provider's Kit 
     104        (Alisdair, et al.) 
     105@   Better distinction on 'Comments' and 'Feedback' links on 
     106        VSO webpage. 
     107        (Joe H. to provide modified page design) 
     108 
     109@   Get MLSO Data Provider into VSO 
     110        (Joe H. w/ 
     111 
     112#   Centralized Server (logging, store/retrieve queries) 
     113        (Joe H.) 
     114#   Monitoring of Data Providers 
     115        (Igor, Joe H.) 
     116 
     117#   Complex VSO queries 
     118        (Karen) 
     119    @   Aggregated data returned: 
     120            eg. MLSO's 'calendar' display. 
     121            (may require additional API info for passing data to 
     122            aggregate on ... deal with at the next Programmer's meeting) 
     123 
     124#   Updated Shopping Cart 
     125        (Igor; work in progress) 
     126    @   Explaination of the need for e-mail addr in data retrieval. 
     127            Possible inclusion of privacy statements? (need to link to 
     128            privacy statements for each data provider?) 
     129 
     130#   Nickname User Query Interface 
     131        (dependant on other task completion -- too early to 
     132        assign) 
     133 
     134 
     135For the future: 
     136--------------- 
     137( try to complete before Dec. AGU meeting? ) 
     138 
     139@   VSO Business Cards 
     140    (or some other handouts as reminders w/ VSO URLs) 
     141 
     142 
     143#   New User Query Interfaces (VOTable and other translations) 
     144        (dependant on other task completion -- too early to 
     145        assign) 
     146    @   Better organized initial search page -- 
     147            researchers didn't seem to care for the instrument listings 
     148            by data provider. 
     149            (I guess anyone's free to come up with User Interfaces, as 
     150            they have time  ... Joe H. to do something before the AGU 
     151            meeting in December) 
     152    @   Perform user testing of the interfaces. 
     153            (two parts -- find people to perform testing; run the 
     154            testing) 
     155 
     156#   'Get Data' prototype / proof of concept 
     157        (Joe H.) 
     158    @   Data retrieval -- ensure easy identification of datasets, 
     159            and prevent duplication of filenames between data providers 
     160            for non-identical data. 
     161            (Either save for brainstorming at the programmer's meeting, 
     162            and/or include with 'Get Data' prototype) 
     163}}} 
     164 
     165{{{ 
     166Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:43:28 -0700 
     167From: Igor Suarez-Sola <igor@...> 
     168To: vso@... 
     169Subject: Re: notes from the AAS meeting 
     170 
     171There are a couple of things I'd like to add to the list. 
     172 
     173@ Provide a unique VSO search interface as opposed to a list of href to  
     174search pages. 
     175    I think EGSO has taken notice of this and they already provide a one  
     176single point of entry, complex though. 
     177 
     178    I'm planning to have meetings with solar physicist here at NSO and  
     179get some input about how/what they would like to see in our input screen. 
     180 
     181 
     182@ The other is a self impose one. Here at NSO we would like to give a  
     183face lift to our Digital Library interface, but we would like it to be  
     184low cost!. So we thought that the VSO could well do it. If we make the  
     185VSO customizable, a provider could use it as a front end for their own  
     186products. The extra features will be added and coded by the provider  
     187using the VSO framework. 
     188    So additional features that the VSO should handle are: 
     189       @ the ability to pass non VSO standard parameters to the VSO core. 
     190                .- The VSO will pass this along to the provider without  
     191interpreting it (this might be the case already) 
     192       @ display of thumbnails 
     193       @ display of comments 
     194                This might include 
     195                .- Product quality information 
     196                .- Code version , location , etc 
     197                .- General comments 
     198}}} 
     199 
     200{{{ 
     201Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:56:27 -0700 
     202From: Igor Suarez-Sola <igor@...> 
     203To: vso@... 
     204Subject: Re: notes from the AAS meeting 
     205 
     206Actually I forgot to mentioned that the first point was raised by some  
     207people among them Jack Harvey. Their comments went along the way of us  
     208(VSO) providing a more refined one stop search interface. 
     209}}}