Bookkeeping Working Group

This working group is composed of:

• Olivier Callot (commissioning)
• Philippe Charpentier (Computing project, chair)
• Carmine Cioffi (BKDB developer)
• Olivier Deschamps (sub-detector)
• Markus Frank (Online, DB expert)
• Andrew Maier (Ganga)
• Niko Neufeld (Online)
• Michael Schmelling (physics WG)

Mandate

The group should understand the requirement of LHCb for provenance & metadata to allow dataset characterisation of real data. The group should address the requirements of physics analysis & sub-detectors. It should consider as well the implementation issues associated with its recommendation.

Issues to consider:

• Metadata/data quality requirements for raw data (from online)
• Metadata/data quality requirements for processed real data (rDST, DST)
• Query requirements from interested parties
  • physics analysts
  • sub-detector experts
• Considerations of implementation
  • is current BK implementation suitable?
  • schema changes
  • use of views
  • provenance vs other metadata
• Access needs: GANGA GUI, web access, Gaudi application,...

Meetings

• March 19 (minutes)
• March 23 (minutes)
• March 30 (minutes)
• April 20 (minutes)
• April 27 (minutes)
• May 25 (minutes)

Material

• Access to the BK web interface
• CHEP 04 presentation

• Bookkeeping for Atlas/CMS
  • Atlas
    • Introduction to distributed analysis in Atlas (PDF)
    • Data access and data management (PDF)
  • CMS
    • CMS data management Schema (PDF)
    • Wiki Link to the CMS Dataset Bookkeeping System
    • data managment organisation in CMS (PDF)
• Presentation at the May 2007 SW week (PDF)

Bookkeeping documents

We attach here any documentation available on the current version of the bookkeeping as well as proposals/work documents on its re-engineering.

• Documentation on the AMGA-bookkeeping from Carmine

-- Main.phicharp - 13 Mar 2007