A PPARC funded project

PM Report

AstroGrid Project MeetingCambridge27-28 April 2004

27-Apr-2004 Project Meeting: Project Manager Report 2

FocusItn05 commentsItn06 goalsDevelopment Process

27-Apr-2004 Project Meeting: Project Manager Report 3

Iteration 05Feb-MarMain Goals Consolidate Itn04.1 code Add consistent and easy UI Deliver AVO Demo Produce comprehensive documentation

Still not completeUser impression Failed to deliver!

So what have we got? …

27-Apr-2004 Project Meeting: Project Manager Report 4

Itn05 ActualsComponents which work But don’t fully interoperate See demos later

Much better UI Eg Workflow, Micro-browser But still not intuitive (eg ‘append step’) Must get decent query builder

Code-level documentation But no easy ‘way in’, ‘how do I?’

So what do we do? …

27-Apr-2004 Project Meeting: Project Manager Report 5

Iteration 06Starts here! May-Aug Deliver Itn06 goals Deploy Itn05 system

Story-based development

27-Apr-2004 Project Meeting: Project Manager Report 6

Itn 06 Goals1. provide SIAP service (either by wrapping call to http-

based service or writing web service equivalent) deploy for WFS and GOODS images

2. provide access to EGSO Solar Event Catalogue

3. provide SIAP-like access to solar image files deploy for image archives: SOHO-EIT, TRACE, SOHO-

CDS, ?

4. provide generic means of wrapping SolarSoft IDL routines, in particular data access and moviemaker

5. wrap BPZ and AnnZ (in similar manner to HyperZ)

6. provide dataset access module to retrieve data from VizieR either with user having to manually enter tables and

columns or by retrieving metadata from VizieR and re-populating

registry after each harvest

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Itn06 ProcessStory based (-ish) More than a story, less than a use-case

Cumulative, incremental Build towards iteration goals

Design, build & integrate each story Don’t move on until it is finished

Stories: #1: Deliver AVO Demo – end-to-end! Basis of wg design ~1-2 weeks incl integration

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Itn06 Example StoriesUser selects point on sky and downloads associated image file (eg from WFS)User selects multiple images and feeds them into BPZDitto for AnnZUser selects solar event and retrieves imagesUser feeds solar image file into IDL routineUser concatenates images into movie