There are various tasks that have to be done at certain times (e.g., when something is scheduled), or under certain circumstances (e.g., when a detector is warming up). This is partly run through our `technical schedule', where we keep track of who is going up to the telescopes and what specific tasks we need to do, and our observing system data-base that contains data such as detector temperatures. From a practical point of view, but also from a safety point of view, the system should be integrated to provide more accurate knowledge of who should be at the telescope and what tasks they need to do. The general idea is to have a more detailed data base system of who might be up when, where warning or alarm systems use the data base to sent messages to the appropriate persons. Such a data base system would also make it easier to add or remove people that are away for extended periods. The main tasks at the moment is to define what the data base should contain, and provide a procedure that extracts the relevant information from the technical schedule and adds this to the data base.
Thomas Augusteijn 2013-12-02