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Hello all XLDB Enthusiasts, I'm pleased to announce that the final report from the 3rd XLDB workshop has just been published on the xldb3 website. The direct link is: http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb09/xldb09_report.pdf As in the past, the report will be published in the CODATA Data Science Journal. It was a very successful workshop, and I hope we managed to reflect this in the final report. Thank you all who contributed to its success! Let me take this opportunity to give you a quick update regarding several ongoing xldb related activities... Next workshop ------------- As you will see in the report, we are tentatively planning to organize the next XLDB workshop back in the USA, in Silicon Valley around September/October of 2010. We will use this mailing list to kick off the coordination process. Science challenge ----------------- Great progress has been made in the area of defining the science challenge/benchmark. A paper summarizing this activity will be published in a month or so. Once it is done, we expect to start broadening the team working on the benchmark, and start expanding it beyond arrays. Use case collection ------------------- Up until now the usecase collection has been done mostly as a SciDB activity. Most of the collected use cases revolved around array data model and they were available exclusively from scidb.org. We are now planning to broaden this activity, involve domains with needs other than arrays, and publish all the use cases on the xldb wiki. In fact, we have already been promised several new use cases from the science domains present at the XLDB3, so this effort is well under way already. International ------------- The 3rd workshop was very successful in reaching out to our European colleagues and making them part of the xldb team. They already formed a strong group, led by Martin Kersten, and submitted a proposal to EA Commission requesting funding for activities such as XLDB and SciDB. So, welcome all the new faces! (we currently have 166 participants on this mailing list, quite a team already!) SciDB ----- As you probably know the SciDB team is planning to have the first release (alpha) of their software ready in late March 2010. You will hear more exciting news about SciDB shortly, so stay tuned. ----------- So, I hope the fact this mailing list has been somewhat quiet over the past few months didn't make you think we were inactive! This was partly due to the fact we moved some discussions about xldb3 workshop logistics to a separate list with just the xldb3 participants on it. Let me know if you have any questions. I'm looking forward to working with you in 2010 Happy Holidays to all of you! Best regards, Jacek -- Jacek Becla SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [log in to unmask] +1 650 926 8664