UCD-Tech-Board-1

From: Andrea Preite Martinez <andrea.preitemartinez-at-rm.iasf.cnr.it>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:03:42 +0200


Dear colleagues,

this first message is for setting up our roadmap and organizing the Board and our work on the definition of tools concerning UCDs.

  1. Roadmap. Time is very short not only for the Sci-Board. The Tech-Board has also an urgent work to do: define tools that can ease the use of UCDs and make simple (or even transparent) the transfer from applications/services already using the old UCD1 to the new IVOA standard UCD1+. A number of tools (designed and written by Sébastien and myself) exist already, but sometimes (e.g. assign) not robust and not 100% reliable. They can be found at

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/tools.htx (as interactive tools) http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws/ucdClient.gml (as web services)

Our first draft milestone could be to define a list of "functionalities" that we would like to have when dealing with UCDs. The deadline could be end of June. This at the level of requirements. Actual coding is NOT in our mission, but volunteers are welcome!

B. The Board
1. Duration.
There will be a Tech-Board as long as UCDs will be in use in the VO, in order to design and maintain tools. The mission of the board is described in the main UCD document, that you can find at

http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/UCD.html

now under minor revisions as suggested during the Exec Meeting in Kyoto.

2. Participation.
Participation is on a voluntary basis. Colleagues can ask the chair of the Board to be inserted in (or deleted from) the mailing list of the Board.

3. Chair
For the transition period required to set up the Board and let it run, I will act as chair person of the Board. I propose to go for an election of the chairman of the Board in a month from now.

C. Organization (What, How, When)
1. What
I propose to start from the list of tools/services already drafted at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/tools.htx , revise that list and propose other tools.

2. How
Through the Board's mailing list. Always "reply to all". The chair will record all messages.
Please answer within the given deadlines. We won't wait for late messages.

3. When
FIRST ACTION: please comment on the above organization within Thursday the 9th of June.

This message is sent (for the last time) also to the wider interop-at-ivoa.net community to ask the laziest to join in.

Best regards

Andrea Received on 2005-05-31Z19:59:26