VALD development workshop

Vienna, 15-19 Sep 2008

VALD-Wiki front page

Participants

Confirmed:

• Christian 15-18 Sep: Mon morning, Tue afternoon, Wed, Thu
• Denis
• Eric
• Fritz 15-17 Sep 15.00
• Luca
• Marlene
• Nicole except Tue 16 Sep
• Nik 15-17 Sep
• Oleg
• Tanya
• Theresa except Thu afternoon
• Ulli 15-18 Sep
• Werner 15-18 Sep

Cannot come:

• Bertrand (may be contacted during workshop by mail or phone: +33 467 144 891)
• Paul
• Rimma

Daily schedule (guideline)

• We will all meet every day at 10.00 in the morning (for the morning session or a 5-minute greeting) and at 15.30 for the coffee break in the afternoon. Morning coffee break and lunch are optional.

• Monday:
  10.00-12.30 Morning session with 11.00 Coffee break

  • VALD general status, updates, news (Ulli)
  • Round of statements (all)
  • Confirm schedule and work plan

  12.30 Lunch
  14.00-18.30 Afternoon session (see work plan) with
  15.30 Coffee break

• Tuesday:
  10.00-12.30 Morning session with 11.00 Coffee break

  • test wiki and svn (read the VALD svn guide)

  12.30 Lunch
  14.00-18.30 Afternoon session (see work plan) with
  15.30 Coffee break
  Evening: dinner at Stiegl-Ambulanz

• Wednesday:
  10.00-12.30 Morning session (see work plan) with 11.00 Coffee break 12.30 Lunch
  14.00-15.30 Afternoon session 1
  

  • Brief presentation of VAMDC EU-proposal

  • Report from groups, before Nik and Fritz leave
  • Adjustment of work plan for rest of week

  15.30 Coffee
  16.00-18.30 Afternoon session 2 (see work plan)

• Thursday:
  10.00-12.30 Morning session (see work plan) with 11.00 Coffee break 12.30 Lunch
  14.00-18.30 Afternoon session (see work plan) with
  15.30 Coffee break

Work plan

• VALD development tool - svn (Eric, all)

  • Monday write VALD svn user's guide (Eric, after example from Gaia - see GAIA-C1-TN-ESAC-JSH-011-1-Subversion_User_Guide_for_DPAC.pdf , GAIA-C1-TN-ESAC-JSH-011-svn-guide.tex , VALD_svn_Users_Guide.txt )

  • Tuesday, 10.00 test svn (all, following VALD svn guide)

• VALD communication tool - wiki (Ulli, all) Tuesday, 10.00

  • show (Ulli)

  • practice (all)

• Tools (Nik, Christian, Fritz) Monday to Wednesday

  1. conversion tools (fortran "filter" program by Christian, IDL code by Nik)

     • which ones to use? both? -> svn!
       frippe:/h11/piskunov/VALD3/PRESELECT/vald3_ascii2bin.pro
       jan:/home/vald/tools/vald-filter.0.4.5

  2. extraction tools
  3. merge different versions (Vienna/Uppsala) and produce final VALD3 version

  4. put all software under svn ( Tuesday afternoon )

  5. implement reference list
  6. discuss implementation of tools for extraction of predicted line lists
  7. update documentation (also under svn!)

• Database testing (Nicole, Theresa, Marlene) whole week

  1. make software test plan (for extraction tools, web interface, EMS,

     • starting from Nik's list, see test.map, preselect3 documentation, see preselect3.txt and valdadmin e-mails), including test files, e.g. configuration files, documentation

  2. run tests, document, save (correct) output -> benchmark tests

• Atomic line lists (Tanya, Luca) whole week

  • verification
  • VALD-3 format

• Molecular line lists (Ulli, Oleg) Monday to Thursday

  • select (TiO, H2O), prepare, include, test, verify

• VALD web page (Eric, Christian) Thursday and Friday (Nik and Fritz have left)

  • check documentation
  • update for VALD-3
  • update web interface (if necessary)
• Papers

  • Tanya and Nik - make schedule for work on papers!

  • REE data - Tanya et al.

  • Fe-peak and other elements (Lund etc.) - Tanya et al.

  • Molecular data, including technical description of VALD-3 - Nik et al.

Preliminary results

• Subversion instructions specific for VALD

• Tools to convert VALD line lists