Supercell conference call: May 7th

Present: Amit, Stan, Matt, Martin, Bill, John, Steve, Catherine

To do by DH2007 list:

Analytics cell to flesh out all the current use cases, from a technical point of view. In the course of doing this, two important questions to keep an eye on for the interface group: "Do we require a count of everything, and do we always need a sparse matrix?"

Data cell to flesh out the Data Cell Topics currently outlined.

Uses and Users: JMU to ask Tim Cole to flesh out the Curator use case. At the June meeting, Catherine to hold some small meetings to draft some storyboards for at least some of these use cases, to walk through the actual process imagined for using these tools to do a particular use case, all the way through analytics.

Collaboration cell: Go over the use cases from the collaborative point of view, elaborate their collaborative aspects and possibilities.

Interface group: Make a recommendations on development environment, make recommendations on how data gets passed for visualizations (sparse matrix, graphs, trees, or objects that get interpreted by a smarter client), contribute a list of visualizations implied by use cases.

JMU and Loretta to host a conversation on the list about teragrid resources, so that we arrive at the June meeting with a clear idea of whether and how we use these machines, or other machines.

To do at DH2007:

Schedule: Thursday afternoon use-case specific work sessions, Friday morning is cell meetings, Friday afternoon is plenary.

Coming out of June meeting:

A selection of use cases to start with, and with an understanding of what computing resources we will use to build those, consensus on the first demos, minimal agreed-upon data model (object properties), agreement on development environment (or, if the environment is a basket of technologies, what's in the basket).

To do after DH2007:

Based on what we've decided at the June meeting, what functionalities are core to MONK at this point?

Other points discussed:

Martin to make it clear in the Monk user manual that there's a difference between the testbed collection and the deployment scenario.

JMU to speak to Michael Welge and Loretta about possibility of using SEASR funding for additional interface developer time, either Canadians working with Stan or NCSA personnel detailed to do so.

Amit to investigate password-protecting access to the mailing list archive on the wiki, or removing it (replacing it with a link to a password-protected mailman archive). No objections to having the wiki public, but there were concerns about having the list discussions available, partly because we use the list to mail around passwords, non-public URLs, etc.