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Data Preservation Workshop recap - Amber
This was the fifth meeting of a group of people who are interested in the topic of long term data preservation in HEP as input to an ICFA study group. A roadmap for ICFA is in preparation-and the case for the importance of curation is getting stronger and the issues are better articulated as a few people try out test cases of doing analysis on (for example) old LEP data. Since the last workshop, there has progress in the technical issues shown by BaBar, the HERA experiments and others. CMS, prompted by the requirement that the National Science Foundation is now requiring data management plans has started thinking about the idea of curating their data for the long haul. But no technical work yet.about formalizing policies and practiced needed to curate their data-as they are at the beginning, not the end. There was also a talk about the information gathering exercise on current practices by a HEPAP subpanel prompted by a DOE Office of Science request. There is a similar request from NSF and the reports are due in June.
The meeting talks can be found at : http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=116485
Forum rollout - Imre
The Forum tool is live, but not humming with activity yet. It was suggested that Amber encourage Lance Nakata to start an vendor-list discussion. We need to encourage the forum use somehow! (Action: Amber Passed on to Lance)
Licence policy discussion - Richard
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This should partially get covered in our planned M&S review in the late summer.
Action: Amber will ask Teri what licences come due in the next three months. Status: Teri confirms that the licenses that will come due in the next three months (HPSS, AFS and Totalview) are not controversial.
Miscellany
LCLS may choose their next disk vendor before 5/24. They believe they are not tied to any particular vendor and can expand with other vendors.
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