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EVN TOG Meeting - Torun, October 2000

Logistics Report and Suggestions

There have been no major logistics issues over the past six months.
If anyone has any points to discuss please bring them up during
"any other business". The following report makes some further
suggestions for experimenht naming conventions which should be discussed
at the TOG meeting.

Logistics at JIVE are automated and therefore require correct, unique
and standardised experiment file names. JIVE has therefore asked the
TOG to set and adhere to a set of logical naming conventions.

Scheduled experiment names and NME experiments are currently named
conventionally and present no problems. However, more control of names
for fringe test experiments, recorder tests, correlator tests, network
(e.g. new hardware) tests and tests performed by individual stations
(but still finding their way onto a JIVE playback unit) is required.  

The following recommendations should be considered by the TOG.

(a) That a single individual or group of individuals be responsible
    for assigning test experiment names (JIVE?)

(b) That observatory personnel ALWAYS seek confirmation from JIVE of
    an experiment name when scheduling their own tests (that will be
    sent to JIVE)

(c) That the block schedule should list ALL experiment names, including
    ALL forms of test experiment

(d) The TOG should consider the following two suggestions for a system
    of experiment naming conventions;

    (1) "C"<year><code><sequence><sub-sequence> where
            year = two digit year e.g. "00"
            code = type of experiment: R = recorder test
                                       F = fringe test
                                       N = network test
                                       J = JIVE correlator test
                                       S = station test
            sequence = number of experiment in <year>
            sub-sequence = letter for multiple tests e.g. A, B etc

            Examples: recorder tests C00R4, fringe test C00F4,
                      network tests C00N4A, correlator test C00J4A etc
 
    (2) <code><year><band><sequence><sub-sequence> where
            code = type of experiment: R = recorder test
                                       F = fringe test
                                       N = network test
                                       J = JIVE correlator test
                                       S = station test
            year = two digit year e.g. "00"
            band = C, L, K etc
            sequence = number of experiment in <year>
            sub-sequence = letter for multiple tests e.g. A, B etc

            Examples: recorder tests R00C3, fringe test F00L4,
                      network tests N00C4A, correlator test J00L4A etc

(e) Some consideration to the names of ad hoc experiments has been
    requested. The current system uses "E" and "U" for European and US
    projects plus "AH" for ad hoc and a sequence number. A suggestion
    has been made to use experiments of the formk "EE001" and "EU003" etc.