ICESTAR Data Portal Workshop

09:00 Welcome and Introduction to ICESTAR - Al Weatherwax 
09:10 ICESTAR and IPY - Kirsti Kauristie
09:30 Introduction to the need for a Data Portal - Aaron Ridley 
09:50 VGMO - Vladimir Papitashvili 
10:10 Madrigal - John Holt 
10:30 CARISMA - Jonny Rae 
10:50 SPIDR – Susan McLean 
11:10 UK Astrogrid Virtual Observatory  - Mervyn  Freeman 
11:30 Virtual Observatories in Canada - Eric Donovan
11:50 Earth’s Electric Field Database – Edgar Bering
12:10 Group Discussion – Aaron Ridley
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Discussion of what we actually want.

PRELIMINARY MEETING NOTES

ICESTAR Data Portal Workshop 2005-07-23

1. VGMO - one of the tasks would be to define the VxO NETwork architecture providing description on how to get metadata on data locations, local directories structure, formats, and computer access (machine-to-machine).
2. VGMO (Ridley)/SuperMAG/DMI – check with data providers if they would agree that their data can be de-spiked, baselines removed, and converted to the common formats… and then provide these data products via NET.
3. GAIA – work on the optical data summary format… then address the NET infrastructure issues.
4. To work between VGMO, MADRIGAL, CARISMA, and IMAGE making these systems talk to each either electronically.

Contact Information: 

VGMO – Valeriy Petrov

GAIA – Eric Donovan

ICESTAR TAG on Data Portal – Aaron Ridley

 Task Force Groups:

1. Passive imaging/optic network – Eric Donovan
2. Magnetometer network – Volodya Papitashvili
3. ISR network – John Holt (MADRIGAL)
4. ULF/VLF ground-based network – Marc Lessard
5. Magnetospheric/IMF/SW satellite network – Aaron Roberts (GSFC)
6. SuperDARN and digisondes network – Mervyn Freeman(Mark Lester)
7. Users Community Feed to Needed Data Product Tools  - Aaron Ridley

Action Item - These people should form their task force groups (add people) ASAP and run a few telecons.