Announcement about Workflow future plans

[Christophe Arviset]

Andre

Carlos Gabriel and Aitor Ibarra from the XMM-Newton SAS team would be 
happy to collaborate, so you can count with them.

Cheers

Christophe

On 01/07/2011 15:30, Andre Schaaff wrote:
>
> 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-301008.pdf
> Trieste GWS session, 
> http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices/GWS-Charac-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-schaaff-final.pdf
> ADASS London, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..394..273J
>

-- 
Thanks in advance

Cheers

Christophe


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