R: Announcement about Workflow future plans

[Giuseppe Longo]

Dear André 

I believe this is a great and timely idea. I am very interested in
contributing (and I also volunteer Massimo Brescia who has a strong
Interest in it) in several aspects of the task. 
How do you intend to proceed?
Peppe

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: interop-bounces at ivoa.net [mailto:interop-bounces at ivoa.net] Per conto di
Andre Schaaff
Inviato: venerdì 1 luglio 2011 15:31
A: interop at ivoa.net
Oggetto: Announcement about Workflow future plans


Dear all,

As you know we will soon be facing a new generation of facilities and
archives dealing with huge amounts of data (ALMA, LSST, panSTARRS, LOFAR,
SKA pathfinders,..) where scientific Workflows will play an important role
in the working methodology of astronomers.  A detailed analysis about the
state of the art of workflows in the frame of the VO involves languages,
design tools, execution engines, use cases, etc. A major topic is also the
preservation of the workflows and the capability to replay a workflow
several years after its design and implementation. 
Several talks concerning these issues have been presented during the past
IVOA Interop meetings (see references below).

In order to undertake this task within our community we think that as a
first step a Note should be written. Participation is welcome, in
particular, we would like to collect experiences (including use cases,
tools, etc.), references, remarks, etc. We plan the Note to be published
around September and discussed at the Pune Interop meeting. We should then
decide on starting a working draft describing those aspects and possibly in
a new Interest Group on Workflows.

Best regards,


André Schaaff and Jose Enrique Ruiz


References (not exhaustive)

Some presentations in the VO

Naples DCP session,
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InteropMay2011DCP/Wf4EverNaples.pdf
Nara DCP session,
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpDec2010DCP/Wf4Ever.pdf
Garching GWS session,
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2009GWS/Garching-GWSWorkflow.pdf
Baltimore Application session,
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpOct2008Applications/GWS-DM-REG-3010
08.pdf
Trieste GWS session,
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices/GWS-Chara
c-Workflow-20May08.pdf

Some projects with a link to the VO

http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/Workflow
http://amiga.iaa.es/p/212-web-services-based-scientific-workflows.htm
http://www.wf4ever-project.org/web/guest/home

Euro-VO DCA Theory and Grid Workshops

http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt800209/PDF/559.pdf
http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt800209/PDF/574.pdf
http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt800209/PDF/578.pdf

ADASS

ADASS London,
http://www.adass.org:8080/Conferences/2007/Venue/talks/session4a/adass2007-s
chaaff-final.pdf
ADASS London, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..394..273J