DAL discussions in Pune

[Wil O'Mullane]

Doug,
there is only one VOQL session.
The agenda is posted. The second topic is the virtual table topic 
which indeed relates to DAL. If we need further discussion we
should do that in DAL-2. Masatoshi and I had assumed that those from VOQL 
interested in the overlap with DAL would go to a DAL session with that topic on it. 
Likewise that DAL people would come to VOQL - we asked that they not overlap.

So it may be good to at least put a 15 min session on VOQL/DAL in the DAL2 
we could recap anything coming out of VOQL then.

wil
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:30:49PM -0600, Doug Tody wrote:
> IVOA DAL Working Group
> Pune, India 27-29 Sept 2004
> 
> 
> Hi DAL Folks -
> 
> Here is a draft agenda for the DAL sessions in Pune.
> 
> 
> DAL-1  Monday, Sept 27  14:00 - 15:30
> 
>     SSA data model V0.9 update (J. McDowell)
> 	- Includes new data model serializations
>     SSA query (M. Dolensky)
> 	- Formatting the query response VOTable, which is based on
> 	  mapping elements of the SSA data model into VOTable
> 
> 
> DAL-2  Tuesday, Sept 28  11:00 - 12:30
> 
>     VOSpec tool demo (P. Osuna)
> 	- Includes issue of dealing with flux unit conversions in
> 	  the spectral data model
>     SIA extension (P. Fernique for F. Bonnarrel, P. Osuna, et. al.)
> 	- Metadata extension scheme for adding arbitrary dataset
> 	  metadata to the DAL query respone (not just for SIA)
>     Data Staging in SIA (D. Tody - if there is time)
> 	- We need to start looking at long-running data access operations
> 	  and how to manage batch processes in DAL interfaces using
> 	  asynchronous messaging, polling, data staging, and so forth.
> 
> 
> We could also discuss SkyNode and ADQL integration into DAL, however
> since the sessions don't overlap this might be better done in the VOQL
> session, which immediately follows DAL-1.
> 
> A related discussion of data characterization will take place in DM-1,
> immediately before DAL-1.  This is an essential element of both SSA and
> the next version of SIA.
> 
> 	- Doug