1. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 HP VxO Gathering of the Tribes: pre-VOiG Meeting for the Virtual Heliophysics Great Observatory (HGO) Bob Weigel 11 June 2007 Denver, Colorado Tribe = ViRBO

2. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 People Involved PI * Bob Weigel (George Mason University) Data * Dan Baker (CU/LASP, Data and metadata) * Sebastian Boudier (Onera, Data calibration) * Janet Green (NOAA/SEC, Data and metadata) * Shri Kanekal (CU/LASP, Data and metadata) * Reiner Friedel (LANL, Data and calibration) * Paul O'Brien (Aerospace, Data and metadata) Software * Eric Kihn (NOAA/NGDC, ViRBO Web and API) * Mikhail Zhizhin (RFO, ViRBO Web and API) * Jeremy Faden (Cottage Systems, ViRBO Software)

3. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 Brief reminder of science How are particles accelerated and lost? Instrument data Reanalysis Calibration Prediction Simulation

4. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 Status of implementation –Our first major public release will not be until the Fall AGU –Our development efforts will be kept as public as possible (through wiki, http://virbo.org/wiki). Code, information, and metadata is added to this page as I get it.http://virbo.org/wiki –Familiar enough with SPASE and Metadata requirements to start assigning tasks to scientists (prior to ViRBO All-Hands meeting the week of July 23) –25% of data in archaic forms converted to CDF –Tested a number of server technologies. Settled on DODS/THREDDS. Integrated this into VxOware codebase –Plotting software is 80% feature complete. Metadata reading and interpreting software is in the process of being developed (hold-up is the completion of Metadata records) –VxOware2LiveCD is in development this summer. Goal is for a developer to boot, inject some of their own data, and evaluate if it is a project they want to build upon or use –Primary effort for this summer and fall is to prepare metadata and put 100% of data into CDF so that it is available from DODS server

5. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 Metrics Audience: Initially RB Scientists. Eventually, I want to target people interested in real-time data Expected use: –Initially a “portal” for radiation belt scientists. This is why I think it is important to have a page that states what data that may be of interest to them that is not available through ViRBO. –A set of software for building a VxO. Feedback; what is success? At least 1 “independent” submission of a data set. That is, someone who I don’t know well says, without prompting, “can I use ViRBO to store my data set and communicate it with the community”. Continued requests to be on proposals (three so far).

6. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 Status of inter-VxO collaborations How we have collaborated –With VMO on who will deal with what What we have to offer –Eventually VxOware, but I only expect pieces of this to be of interest to this group (epscially the plotting functionality and SPASE parsing Java code, and possibly our LiveCD scripts) Where we could use help –CDF backend for DODS/THREDDS –Fix Matlab CDF readers (done) –Make SPASE email list available to public and search engines –Layout and organization of SPASE web page

7. VxO submeeting of VOiG, June 11, 2007 Fall AGU meeting demonstration DODS/THREDDS/VxOware/Autoplot access to 80% of our data. Ability for users to correct “typos” in metadata for such things as powerpoints, software, etc. Ability for a user to “inject” data Ability to easily archive a conference that was hosted on MediaWiki. VxOWare2LiveCD Shopping Cart features of saving and sharing both data queries and data views generated by VxOware Autoplot.