T1-DCA-IST Telecon November 16, 2006, 1500 CET


Present:
Mark ALLEN (Chair) 
Matteo GUAINAZZI   
Piero ROSATI       
Santi CASSISI      
Enrique SOLANO  (standing in for Eduardo MARTIN)
Niv DRORY
Gijs VERDOES KLEIJN  
Jonathan TEDDS     

Appologies: 
Eduardo MARTIN

Agenda:
- Welcome and introductions
- DCA project plan
- What is a data centre?
- Role of the IST
 - Charter
 - Meetings - face to face meeting (March 2007?)
 - DCA workshops - IST involvement
 - Data Centre visits - IST involvement
 - Promoting DCA at national meetings
- IST on the wiki : http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/WebHome
- Relationship of DCA-IST to the EuroVO Science Advisory Committee (SAC)
- Reports of partner scientific priorities
- Data Centre Census


*** Charter

IST maintains the global scientific coherence of DCA activities:

- Highlighting Scientific Drivers to motivate DCA take-up
- Providing real science examples for use in the tutorials and workshops
  and to test and use the services
- Identify science linkage across work packages
- Pursure strategies and priorities defined by the Science Advisory Committee.


*** Meetings

Face-to-face meeting probably associated with VO spectra workshop at ESAC.

There will be a number of smaller meetings/workshops throughout the project
so we'll probably try to coordinate IST meetings to coincide with those
for efficiency. 


*** DCA workshops

Such examples, or science themes could come from our own ideas, or 
science priorities of the DCA partners - or via the Euro-VO Science Advisory 
Committee. 

*** Tutorials

I think it's worth putting effort in here because the workshops, and also the
online materials will be the sort of public face of the DCA, and I think we
want that to be as comprehensive as possible.


Comments, or ideas on that ?

It's one of those fairly difficult things where we as scientists have to 
put some effort into bridging the gap between the science side, and the
more technical aspects.

I'd like to propose that when the tutorial subjects are decided (hopefully
early 2007) that we look at the possibility of assigning one or two IST
members to each tutorial to participate in the development of the 
tutorial, and get some science examples in there.


*** Data Centre Visits

There may be a role for IST members to get involved with visits to data
centres.


*** Promoting DCA at National Meetings

all to consider giving a talk about DCA (and Euro-VO in general)
at your natioanl astronomy meetings. The DCA partners are meant to represent
their national communities, so talking at a national meeting about DCA
would help get the word out.

This will become easier i the second cycle of the project, after we've 
acheived something.


*** IST on the wiki

- IST members to register


*** Relationship pf DCA-IST to the SAC.

The SAC is made up of about 22 'leading' scientists who are not directly
involved with VO projects, and who provide high-level science requirements
to Euro-VO as a whole.

Info about the SAC is on the  Euro-VO pages, including their terms of 
reference and goals.

There will be a SAC meeting next week.


*** Reports of Partner scientific Priorities

Particular themes from partners ?


*** Data Centre Census

Is one of the main deliverables of the project. There will be an 
initial census very soon, with contributions from each partner.
Each partner IST member to take a look at the census 
being done by their partner. 



Actions:

All- Get up to speed with the project plan
All- Write down the scientific priorities of your partner.
All- Look ahead to possible national meeting where you can 
     give a talk about DCA