RE: Workflow

... or Registry?

This is a more general point on authinetication. THere are (at least) two main categories

1. Data are restricted by date. Typically, a data set will be restricted to a specific list of named individuals for 1 yr, then open to all. This seems to me to be a relatively easy case, as long as the data ptovider specifies the correct date and list of people. Howver we would need a few standard elements for these terms
2. Data which are available only to people working in certain countries or institutes or even of certain nationalities (with or without a cut-off date). This seems a far more complicated case and maybe should be left on one side unless that is the specific situation which Elizabeth's science case produces.

As a further complication, data might be in a catalogue (e.g. an observing log) which is parly public and partly restricted. Do we need to ask data providers to produce separate catalogues/archives? To conform to a standard code for identifying public and private parts?

In the radio archive context, we will have to tackle some of these issues in the next year or so and I thnk that some standards are needed. However to me it seems more a Registry problem than a workflow problem, except that there would need to be some way of passing the identity of the user to a data provider, to decide whether to respond to a query.

cheers
a

• - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Anita M. S. Richards, AstroGrid Astronomer MERLIN/VLBI National Facility, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, U.K. tel +44 (0)1477 572683 (direct); 571321 (switchboard); 571618 (fax).

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Elizabeth Auden wrote:

> > I think it is more important at this stage to concentrate on a few more
> > issues such as:
> > Authentication
> > Community
> > Possibly Authorisation as well.
>
> There is a possible science case that would require authentication /
> authorization for propietary datasets. Silvia Dalla and I talked to some
> of the STP guys at RAL today, and Sarah James has some ideas involving the
> ground-based EISCAT data, part of which is propietary. I know that most
> (all?) of the NASA datasets are public, but do other members of IVOA have
> propietary datasets they'd like to work into workflows?
>
> cheers,
> Elizabeth
>
Received on 2005-01-20Z10:06:45