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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

WP2 status and plans

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

WP2 objectives

• Define the project programme• Oversee the project development and monitor the progress

of WP2-WP6• Oversee the scientific aspects of the project (WP2-2)• Define a medium term strategic plan for the Euro-VO

DCA• Ensure visibility of EuroVO-DCA in IVOA

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Define the project programme

Milestones and deliverables:– Kick-off: first Board meeting, 2 & 3 October 2006

• Presentation of the partners

• Discussion of the WP work program, agreement on the possibility for the WPs to convene specific Workshops

– End of kick-off:• Preliminary project plan: email discussion, delivered on time

– Additional Board meeting: FP7 strategy, 1 & 2 February 2007, Garching (also, status of the WP3 Workshops)

– End of Cycle one: Revised project plan (October 2007)

Joint Board/PCT meeting?

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Data Centres: the project target

• Definition of a Data Centre in the VObs contexthttp://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/DataCentresinVO

• Preliminary census at the end of the kick-off phase, based on the partners’ presentations at the Board kick-off + additional information

• Census presentation and content: specific item of the meeting

• Updated and maintained by the PM with help from PCT• The Census of European data centres is a final product of

the project (November 2008)

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Oversee the project development and monitor progress

• This meeting• Tool (required by Brussels, take advantage of it

for real monitoring of the project!) : self-evaluation matrix, maintained by the PM/PCT

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Oversee the scientific aspects (1)

• Euro-VO SAC: high level science requirement • IST, led by Mark Allen• First telecon, 16 November 2006

Charter: maintains the global scientific coherence of DCA activities– Highlighting Scientific Drivers to motivate DCA take-up – Providing real science examples for use in the tutorials and

workshops and to test and use the services – Identify science linkage across work packages – Pursure strategies and priorities defined by the Science Advisory

Committee.

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Oversee the scientific aspects (2)

• Face-to-face meeting (23 March 2007, ESAC)– Discussion of the Census– Input for the workshop

• High level goal for Euro-VO scientists: prepare a set of science cases/tutorials to be used as examples in VO talks

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Medium term strategy

• Find a way to get funds for the whole Euro-VO

• FP7 calls: Scientific Data repositories (yesterday)Euro-VO Astronomical Infrastructure for Data AccessEuroVO-AIDA

• Transition to operations after VO-TECH, EuroVO-DCA and the present VOFC activities

• Includes support to data centres, support to users, R&D on standards and new technologies, outreach

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WP2 status and plans First PMT meeting, May 3-4 2007, Strasbourg

Visibility in IVOA

• Feedback from implementation (WP3-2)

>>> all IVOA WGs• « Pre-standardisation » activities in WP4

>>> Theory Interest Group, Registry, DM, …• WP5 Grid

>>> Astro-RG Interest Group, Grid & Web services