MW-E2ED Conference Call
May 7, 2008
**Attending**
Chas DiFatta, Carnegie Mellon University (chair)
Mark Poepping, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Gettes, MIT
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
**Action Items**
[AI] (Chas) will list proposed command line options for the eddy-grep command and send them to the email list.
[AI] (Chas) will develop manual pages for the recommended input and output for eddy-grep and send them to the email list.
**Carryover Action Items**
[AI] (Chas) will distribute the user requirement document to the list for comment.
[AI] (Chas) will email instructions on the workflow for changed documents, as well as the conventions for renaming files
**EDDY GREP**
The purpose of the call was to discuss the input and output options for the eddy-grep. eddy-grep would allow a user to search for specific values in an EDDY record. The grep would allow users to search for certain fields with input from either a file or by piping together a series of requests.
There would be three options for output:
1) CER, which would include all of the XML.
2) tag/value pairs – This output would have no XML and would be appropriate for someone to use with their own Perl scripts.
3) comma-separated and 3b) a record in which the first line is a header – the comma-separated tags – and the rest of the records are comma-separated values. This would be appropriate to use with Excel or some type of graphing software.
Chas will do a manual page for the output options and provide sample outputs and inputs.
There was also discussion about the potential for creating an “EDDY print” package to allow a user to specify the fields to be printed.
**Next Meeting – June 4, 2008 (5 p.m. EDT)**