SPASE - July 2007 Meeting
Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) Consortium
SPASE Face-toFace meeting; July 9-11, 2007
Hosted by RAL
Monday, 9th July, 2007

1000   Introductions and Logistics
1015   Goals for Afternoon Meeting
1030   Current Status of the Data Model

1115   Break

1130   Data Model Discussion

1230   Lunch

1330   General session - Welcome
1345   Status of SPASE (J. Thieman, NASA/GSFC)

1400   Applications of the Data Model within the VxO’s
     - Overview of NASA's VxO Efforts

     - The Virtual Space Physics Observatory (A. Roberts, NASA/GSFC)
     - The Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory (J. Merka, Univ Maryland/ T. King UCLA/IGPP)
     - The Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory (R.Weigel, GMU)

1515   Break

1530  Applications of the Data Model within the VxO’s (continued)
     - The Virtual Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Observatory (D. Morrison, JHU/APL)
     - The Global Auroral Imaging Access VO (S. Marple, Univ Lancaster)
     - TBC - EGSO (B. Bentley, MSSL)
     - Developments and projects of the CDPP in the VO perspectivives: AMDA, THEMIS, HELIO, EUROPLANET (C. Jacquey, CDPP)
     - Converting CAA to SPASE Metadata (P. Richards, RAL)

     - Discussion

1730   Adjourn


Tuesday, 10th July, 2007

0900   Technical Developments Related to SPASE
     - Registry Servers and Harvesting (T. King, UCLA)
     - Example of a SPASE Query Language (T. Narock, NASA/GSFC)
     - Querying a Relational Database of SPASE metadata (C. Nathe, Augsburg College)
     - Using SPASE with models and model data(D. De Zeeuw, UMICH)

     - Discussion

1030 Break

1045    Presentations from the Wider Community
     - UK AstroGrid (Title TBC), (S. Dalla, Univ Manchester)
     - THEMIS metadata and QSAS analysis software, (A. Allen, IC)

1115   Open Discussion

1230   Lunch

1330   Hands on SPASE data description session
(suggestions for example datasets are welcome)
         Bob Weigel suggested the following:
         (1) The data sets at http://www.srl.caltech.edu/sampex/DataCenter
         (2) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rdenton/solarwind.d

         Todd King also suggested:
         data from the World Data Centre for Geomagnetism.
         http://www.wdc.bgs.ac.uk/catalog/intro.html
         Especially the Abisko ground station data.

1500   Break

Telecon

1515   Review of Monday’s Data Model Discussion
1530   SPASE Framework Discussion -Use Cases and Specification

1730   Adjourn

1900   Group Dinner


Wednesday, 11th July, 2007

0900   Review of Plan of the Day
0915   SPASE Framework Discussion - Services and Technology
  
1045   Break

1100   SPASE Services and Technologies Discussion

        What's available, what we need (T. King)

1230   Lunch

1330   Review of Data Model and Framework Discussions

1445   Break

Telecon
1500   SPASE Outreach and Interactions with the Community
1530   SPASE Actions for the Future
1615   Review of Action Items
1645   Evaluation

1700   Adjourn