March 2010 - dais-wg - lists.ogf.org

Minutes from Today's Call.
by Mario Antonioletti 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Attendees please send me any corrections. DAIS Call - 30th March 2010 =========================== Present: Mario Antonioletti, EPCC Isao Kojima, AIST Steven Lynden, AIST Oscar Corcho, UPM Carlos Buil Aranda, UPM Agenda: o Oscar Corcho to become new DAIS chair o Steven Lynden to become new DAIS secretary o Feedback from OGF o Progress with GFD.74 and GFD.76 updates o Future Plans o AOB Actions: None --- o Oscar Corcho to become new DAIS chair No objection so Oscar is to become the new DAIS chair. o Steven Lynden to become new DAIS secretary No objection so Steven is the new DAIS secretary. o Feedback from OGF The session was a bit disappointing because no new people turned up to the meeting. Should try to get new people on board or move to finishing the work as quickly as possible and closing the group. Managed to do some DAIS planning at OGF though. o Progress with GFD.74 and GFD.76 updates MAA has started making the modifications to GFD.74. Still have to do points 5, 11, 12 and 13 from GFD.160. Not started looking at GFD.76 yet. Poking the reviewer to complete his review for OGF. Hope to finish GFD.74 by the end of the week and complete GFD.76 by next week. Steven and Mike to sanity check changes after that. o Future Plans Plan: - Once GFD.74 is through complete the Query spec. - Put the query spec on to public comment. - Get AIST and UPM implementations to do interop. - Write experimental document to take the query spec to full recommendation status. UPM want to evaluate the zeroth profile for the ontology part of the RDF work. If it's worth going on with then the group will try to quickly complete the spec. AIST willing to do an implementation as long as the work can be completed by March 2011. o AOB Skype call did not work too well this time round but unless someone suggests an alternative the next call will be a Skype one on the 20th April 7am GMT. Isao/Oscar will chair and Steven will take minutes. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Skype Call.
by Mario Antonioletti 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi, Just to confirm. The skype call will take place at 8am BST (GMT+1) on Tuesday 30th of April. Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Skype Call next week?
by Mario Antonioletti 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi, Any chance that we can have a skype call next week? My suggestion would be to have at 8am GMT any day of next week. Things that need to be discussed: - Ascendency of Oscar Corcho to DAIS chair, removal of Mario. No one in the group has objected to this so it looks as though it can go ahead in conjunction with the removal of Mario Antonioletti as DAIS WG chair. - Steven Lynden to become DAIS WG secretary. Again, noe one has objected to this so we should probably go ahead with this. - Feedback from OGF. - Progress with the finalisation of GFD.74 and GFD.76. - Future plans. - Anything else? Skype calls are a new feature for us all - have used them in the past and they have worked ok but we shall see if it works for this group. I think I have the skype id of all the potential attendees (usual suspects). If you want to attend and you do not have my skype id let me know yours and I can add you to the call on the chose day. Let me know about suitable times - it would be important to have Oscar, Mario, Isao and Steven on this call at least. Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Deadline Approaching - Call for Chapter - Springer Book on "Grid and Cloud database management"
by Sandro Fiore 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Dear Colleague, we would like to invite you to contribute to the book for SPRINGER titled "Grid and Cloud Database Management". If you are interested in participating in this initiative, please let us know just your *** expression of interest ***, sending us the chapter title and the topic/subtopics you would like to discuss. Deadline for expression of interest is March 25, 2010. Please let us know if you need few days more to submit your expression of interest. Accepted proposals will have 4 months (up to July 30) to prepare the book chapter contribution. Enclosed the Call for Book Chapter. Best Regards, G. Aloisio and S. Fiore ("Grid and Cloud Database Management" Guest Editors) ************************************************ Sandro Fiore, PhD Scientific Computing & Operations Division Euro Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC) Via Augusto Imperatore 16 - 73100 Lecce (Italy) http://www.cmcc.it/ office/mobile: +39 0832 297371 fax: +39 0832.298173 website: http://sara.unile.it/~fiore/ email: sandro.fiore(a)cmcc.it ************************************************

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Standing Down as DAIS chair
by Mario Antonioletti 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Folks, I'm sad to say that I will be stepping down as one of the DAIS chairs as I am changing projects. Oscar Corcho from UPM is willing to stand as a DAIS chair with the help of Carlos Buil Aranda also from UPM. If anyone would object to Oscar taking on this role or would like to offer themselves as a DAIS chair then if they announce it to the group then we can discuss the possibilities otherwise Oscar can take over the role at the end of March. I would like to see the WS-DAI and WS-DAIR proposed recommendations reach full recommendation status before the end of the month. We have discussed how to proceed with the group at OGF28 and there is a definite set of tasks that can be carried out over the near future. I hope the group all success in the future and thanks to all those folks that have helped carry the group forward whilst I've been a chair of the DAIS group. Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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DAIS-WG OGF 28 Session Meeting Minutes
by Steven Lynden 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

DAIS-WG OGF 28 Session, 15th March 2010 Present: Erwin Laure Carlos Buil Aranda Mario Antonioletti Mike Jackson Isao Kojima Steven Lynden Mario introduces the session, full spec introduction omitted because everyone is from the WG. - Background of the group explained. - WS-DAIO dead and files out of scope - We have three proposed realisations - We have an interoperability testing document - We have done interoperability with WS-DAI and WS-DAIR - The RDF ontology and querying specifications are in preparation - 17 WS-DAI and 32 WS-DAIR changes have been recommended as a result of interoperability process. - Waiting for Neil Chue Hong to review the interoperability testing report. - The published PDF spec documents is not the same as the latest gridforge version. Need the MS-Word source. - WS-DAI and WS-DAIR specs changes need to be checked by multiple parties. - Mario will step down as chair, Oscar Corcho willing to step up (subject to group agreement) - WS-DAI-RDF query spec will undergo interoperability testing between AIST and UPM. - A question mark about WS-DAIX as there is only one implementation. Carlos says the ontology spec will continue. Isao Kojima presents WS-DAI-RDF - Progress since OGF 27 - Motivational doc containing use cases and agreed terms published - Journal paper has also been published - Use-cases described - Background described - Demo some RDF querying implementation presented Mario and Carlos discuss whether there are too many operations in the RDF ontology specification. Carlos says that some of them can be optional. The group agrees the following process: - Get the review from Neil. - Make the changes to WS-DAI and WS-DAIR, with some double-checking to filter out any typos. - Take the RDF querying specification through interoperability testing. - Determine what will happen with the ontology specification. - Erwin points out that after this the group has the following options: could go dormant, can break-up, can turn into a community group - talking to people implementing the specs. - The aim for the next OGF is to have completed WS-DAI and WS-DAIX and have started the RDF query interoperability testing - Erwin points out that a WS-DAIS implementation was presented as the Grid Interoperability Now session (D-Grid Monitoring Interface)

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