SESSION: S5 The Sun Today

SESSION ORGANIZERS: DeRosa/Gurman/Bush

SUMMARY: This session addres the needs and plans for daily summary data
products, event recognition and logs, near real-time and quick-look data
products.  There are four primary user groups who might want such data: (1)
scientists, (2) ops people, (3) forecasters, and (4) general public and media.

SCHEDULE: Mainly a moderated discussion session.  DeRosa will start off by
putting up demo web pages, and explain how they will work, and what they will
link to.  Then the floor will be opened up to the audience for discussion.

DEMO WEB PAGE:  http://www.lmsal.com/~derosa/thesuntoday/thesuntodaydemo.html

SPEAKERS: Marc DeRosa: initial presentation and moderator

WHAT HAPPENED: This session addressed the needs and plans for daily summary
data products, event recognition and logs, near real-time and quick-look data
products.  DeRosa showed his prototype "The Sun Today" web pages to the
audience, and received a lot of feedback.  The main points were: (1) More than
one web page is likely needed to satisfy the various groups of users.  For
example, the web pages that accommodate the curious scientist should be
different than the ones the public/media sees.  (The prototype was decided to
be a reasonably good example of the webpages for scientists.)  (2) Long
discussion about what the E/PO-type webpage should consist of, people with
strong ideas were Tom Anderson and Barbara Thompson.  (3) Joe Gurman thought
that the derived data products bar (containing the light curves, field models,
thermal maps, etc.) didn't belong on the same page as the raw data, but
instead should exist on their own page.  Unclear who agrees/disagrees with
this statement.  (4) An easy-to-use browsable, interface such as the prototype
web pages are needed to browse the data for any day in the mission, given the
volume of data.  (5) It is less clear what the forecasters need or want on a
NRT basis, and likely the instrument team should ask the forecasting crowd
(SEC primarily?) to find out at some point.

ATTENDEES: DeRosa, Lemen, Gurman, Thompson, Anderson, Eparvier, Hurlburt,
Hoeksema, Biesecker, and a few others who I'm sure I've left out.