WLCG Data Steering Group

Mandate

The WLCG Data Steering Group has been requested by the WLCG Management Board to consider medium to long term Data Management strategy. It should track relevant technical themes and define priorities, on which basis it will make recommendations to the MB on priority issues and how they should be tackled.

In practise this means meeting periodically to decide how relevant issues should be handled, typically by instigating some mechanism to move forward, for example working groups, discussion at community meetings or MB escalation. The timescale of interest is strategic, but the group is more oriented to the Run3 timescale than to HL-LHC. The group can serve as a point of contact on data topics for other WLCG activities.

Publications

Summary of the group's action plan, including strategic directions and proposals - Action_Plan_v1.0.pdf

The group's work was presented at the WLCG Workshop in Manchester - https://indico.cern.ch/event/609911/contributions/2605027/

The group's work in progress can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B52Uzml-Io57dFZCN21GTkhudjA See the README file in the above Google Drive folder for more information.

Activities

Following the group's prioritisation, the following meetings have been organised:

• preGDB on object stores and archival storage : https://indico.cern.ch/event/578974/
  • Followup group on archival systems : https://indico.cern.ch/event/681096/
• Data discussion @ WLCG workshop : https://indico.cern.ch/event/609911/sessions/238310/#20170620

Meetings

Upcoming meetings

None scheduled.

Past meetings

Minutes are attached to the agenda.

• https://indico.cern.ch/event/640101/
• https://indico.cern.ch/event/626664/
• https://indico.cern.ch/event/616370/
• https://indico.cern.ch/event/607504/

Links

• MB Minutes : https://espace.cern.ch/WLCG-document-repository/Boards/MB/Minutes/2016/MB-Minutes-160920-v1.pdf
• MB Summary presentation : http://indico.cern.ch/event/467577/contributions/1976036/attachments/1339953/2017450/DataMBSummary.pdf

Contact

The group can be contacted at wlcg-data-steering-group@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch.

The membership list can be found by consulting the e-group: https://e-groups.cern.ch/e-groups/Egroup.do?egroupId=10236726