1. A PPARC funded project Tony Linde Programme Manager AG-SAG FM6 Programme Manager Report Wed 25-May, 2005 UCL

2. 2 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 Topics Current status Technical development Deployment Other projects/orgs VOTech IVOA Other VObs projects AG-TAG interaction

3. 3 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 Technical Status (from KTN) V1.1 will be a working, installable, configurable and reliable version of V1.0 Currently integrating refactored DSA component which includes better access to Solar/STP data Bug fixes being added continuously (V1.0.1 imminent) Documentation template complete … and real docs starting to appear Need to radically simplify software.astrogrid.org before V1.1 release User docs needed starting to appear (on Wiki)

4. 4 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 Technical Priorities for Cycle02 (from KTN) Complete automated installation and configuration tool 80% done already, needs completing Add IVOA compliant Single Signon capability to components including Authentication passing Add IVOA-compliant VOStore interface to our FileManager and FileStore layers in time for ADASS and interoperability demo Raise ACR to "fully deployable" status Add complex clientside "applets" to Workbench Drag and Drop capability Query Builder Workflow Builder Add support for IVOA compliant "VO Support Interfaces" to as many components as possible

5. 5 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 Deployment Status Limited ‘live’ deployment No ‘live’ site in NAM demo Starting dev-live separation  Development grid  UK-VO grid Complete by v1.1  V1.1 will not complete until separate UK-VO Issues: Site-specific hacks OS / Java / version / … specificity Installation documentation Ease of installation

6. 6 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 VOTech Status #1 http://wiki.eurovotech.org/bin/view/VOTech/WebHome Timeslip: Jan-Jun slipped to Apr-Sep Deadlines now end Sept AG-SAG can prepare own input for AstroGrid submission to Design Review Personnel: Portsmouth & Leeds: 18 mth ea Exeter: 12 mth from 2006 Edinburgh: transfer from AstroGrid: 33 mth Cambridge & Leicester: 30 mth ea  Recruitment underway

7. 7 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 VOTech Status #2 Current priorities DS3: Infrastructure  Single signon  VOStore trial/implementation  VOSpace research DS4: Tools  As listed on wiki: http://wiki.eurovotech.org/bin/view/VOTech/DS4Plan01 http://wiki.eurovotech.org/bin/view/VOTech/DS4Plan01 T1: multi-waveband image tool T2: best fitting T3: SED builder from archival data T4: positional cross matcher T5: access to theoretical data T6: robotic telescope interface T7: generic source extraction

8. 8 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 VOTech Status #3 Current priorities (cont) DS5: Intelligent Resource Discovery  Investigate what is out there…  Preliminary ontology DS6: Data Exploration  Tools investigation  Access to grid resources  KDE algorithm Issues for AG-SAG Targets for contributed personnel Ideas for funded personnel (esp DS3/DS4)  need to persuade partners

9. 9 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 IVOA: post Interop meeting Technical pov: the VObs is now real Seeing tools on top of working components Development of novel interfaces AstroGrid is leader in couple of key areas VOSpace (MySpace) Security (design for SSO & access control) UWS (generic CEA) & other web service stds Registry (XQuery interface, full & ext-capable)

10. 10 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 IVOA: AstroGrid involvement AstroGrid lags in all other areas No input to standards processes No reference developments Not much recent involvement of AstroGrid scientists Not enough AstroGrid technicians involved Science questions: E.g. ‘scientists will never want to fire off queries to other than known and pre-selected datasets’  Bob Hanisch in VOQL workgroup  Rejected idea of one query to many databases  Had to back down so feature will not be included in design of ADQL v1.0+  BUT: this was a key requirement of early AstroGrid science cases – is it needed or not?

11. 11 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 IVOA: Cycle02 + priorities Design SSO, VOStore Standards Registry: schema & interface DM: catalogue GWS: UWS Reference implementations DAL: SSA, SIA, SLA (possibly via DSA) DM: catalogue (via VODaX in JES) VOQL: full ADQL 1.0 (incl Units) in DSA GWS: refactor CEA as UWS VOEvent: whatever is developed

12. 12 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 Other VObs projects Rollout software to other VObs projects Base their own developments on AstroGrid Contribute to AstroGrid developments  Add-ons  Code branches Take over aspects of AstroGrid?  E.g. Portal development Definite Russia VO (possibly August for dev grid) Science links (later)? Likely China VO Target Japan & ‘small projects’: India, Korea, …

13. 13 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 AG-TAG interaction Make-up of TAG Data providers / curators Application writers  Infrastructure (ex Starlink)  Pipeline  Tools  Simulation, other theory Grid involvement Software management Later… External projects: VObs & non-astro What about interaction with AG-SAG?

14. 14 Tony Linde 25-May-2005AG-SAG FM6 Questions?