Meeting Agenda/Minutes

• Day: Tuedsday, 21/3/06
• Time: 10am
• Room: Atlas 1

Katy, Pinar, Daniele, Stuart, Jun, Khalid, Stian, Antoon, James, Tom, Carole, John Brooke, Matthew.

Apologies

• David at Grid course

Actions from Previous Meeting

• Carole
  • Distribute document send by Malcolm Atkinson. Rollover continued.

• Stuart
  • Look into events.

Started on this with Daniele. Looks straight forward (creation, finish, iterations, and nested workflows).

Stian and Stuart have some experience of aspect-oriented code. This will be dicussed at the f2f. John Brooke also has a PhD^? student who works in this area.

• Katy
  • Ask Matthew Pocock to attend meeting by telecom to provide details of Dinosaur

Matthew will be here next week. He will joing in the meeting ans provide a presentation of Dinosaur.

• • Add GUI area to the twiki, and create a GUI mailing list

Do we really need another mailing list? Instead those posting should make clarify subject by the header of the message.Archiving the mailing lists would be beneficial.

• • Put Steve Pettifer, and James Marsh onto mailing lists, especially myGrid OMII

• Matthew
  • Write a GUI design document. Version 1.3 should be conservative, but usable. 2.0 will provide an opportunity to rethink. Ongoing.

Items

• Round-up of progress

Daniele's document on the wiki. Tom has added some stuff to this. Discussion of document and difficulties with separating language and architecture out. Dave deRoure is Southampton has offered assistance with this. Stuart must be involved in architecture activity as he is leading this at Manchester. Manchester will create a plan and timetable for these documents. Matthew Pocock and Stuart will meet to discuss.

Stian has been working on R. installed locally. Discussion of security issues. Stian will visit EBI next week. Paul was also volunteered to go in his absence.

Daniele noted details of SESAME provenance store. JAVA 5 noted. Might be problematic deploying things due to platforms. Tomcat discussed and need for use of 1 version only. Cannot deliver Taverna provenance managment and discovery until move to JAVA5. Must point this out to Steven Newhouse.

SWOT needs to be prepared. Carole will contact Anil concerning OGSA-DAI.

Tom noted he will be travelling a lot over the next few weeks.

Zoe Lacroix has asked us to provide a workshop in the U.S.

• BIRN

(Bioinformatics Research Network). Run my Mark Ellisman. Hardware/software environments controlled by the U.S. Two people are visiting from San Diego in April and providing training 6th & 7th in Edinburgh. The 7th will be ESRB training and it might be useful for file store activites. Daniele, Pinar, Stuart, and Katy will attend and inform John Brooke.

Stian and Alan Williams may attend on 6th.

James provided details of current activities; workflow, Utopia, graphs, Ambrosia, and integration with Taverna.

Antoon provided details of workflow repository activity. Extraction of workflows (information retrieval techniques). Next step will be the User day and ranking by users. Presentation discussed. Built Tom's repository and should be able to run this on other machines.

Pinar noted Sean's PhD^? student has been looking into ontologies (OWL noted).

Jun has a paper accepted at IPAW 2006 and an extended version has been asked for. Provenance, usability evaluation. Having provenance browser meetings with James. Hacking with Matts code.

• Japan - trip summary

Talk needs spell-checking and must upload with Carole's acknowledgement slide prior to publishing on wiki.

• Any other business

myTea. Jano van Hemert from NeSc is visiting next week and will meet with Carole Monday or Tuesday.

Tom will contact a graphic artisit concerning icons and costing of work.

All Hands in September. We will demo for OMII. Full papers due in June. No RAE credit for these. Carole will be attending the Grid technology days in Brussels at this time.

Everyone was asked to put papers and presentations onto publications site. Citation engineering must be considered when writing papers.

Minutes

Write minutes here see above (I'll get it right next time!)

New Actions

• Carole Distribute document send by Malcolm Atkinson. Rollover continued.

• New Action Katy. Archive mailing lists and make this web accessible.

• Action Carole. Raise issue of moving to JAVA5 at OMII meeting next week.

• Action Carole. Contact Anil/Neil (?) concerning SWAT and OGSA-DAI.

• Action Daniele, Pinar, Stuart, Katy. confirm attendance at ESRB training in Edinburgh (7th April) with John Brooke.

• Action Stian. Inform John Brooke if intend to attend BIRN training in Edinburgh 6th April.

• Action Matthew. Provide Carole with opinions of RELO.

Previous Meeting Minutes

• MeetingMarch142006^?