VOSpace Brainstorm Meeting

This is a set of notes made during a meeting to brainstorm ideas on VOSpace. Those present in the meeting were:

• WilliamOMullane, GuyRixon, KeithNoddle, Dave Morris, NoelWinstanley, TonyLinde

and on the following telecon:

• RoyWilliams, JohnGood, MatthewGraham

Presentations

We pretty much made up the agenda as we went along but included a couple of MySpace presentations from AstroGrid people:

• MySpace structure & scenarios (Dave Morris): FileStore.html, FileManager.html
• Security aspects (GuyRixon): [[][.ppt]]

Notes

Dave's FileStore presn

• in Export: MIME type allowed for data conversion (eg FITS to jpeg)
  • as yet no negotiation
• question of about how dumb is the VOStore
  • contains metadata per item but does not interpret them
  • but must do so to implement security
• MyDB vs MySpace:
  • MySpace returns exact file put in
  • MyDB will translate into database and back again
  • so need to include metadata that says 'store exactly'
    • or the MIME types to be stored
• VOSpace vs VOStore
  • Wil: implement only VOStore first
  • AG: FileStore is dumb and FileManager has all intelligence (incl who owns items)
• coffee discussion
  • need layer above FileStore to implement security
  • VOBroker
  • but AG could just plug this into its FileStore --> VOStore

Dave's FileManager presn

Guy's