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The Web 2.0 and the NOAO NVO Portal

The Web 2.0 and the NOAO NVO Portal. Christopher J. Miller Data Products Program CTIO/NOAO. The Web 2.0 Defined. Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly. Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices;

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The Web 2.0 and the NOAO NVO Portal

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  1. The Web 2.0 and the NOAO NVO Portal Christopher J. Miller Data Products Program CTIO/NOAO

  2. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it • consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users • while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation” and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.

  3. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices;

  4. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices;

  5. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices;

  6. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices;

  7. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform:

  8. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it.

  9. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users

  10. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation”

  11. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform. and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.

  12. The Web 2.0 Defined Direct Quote from Tim O’Reilly • Web 2.0 is the network as a platform, spanning all connected devices; • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences. • The Web 1.0 was about connecting computers and making technology more efficient for computers. • The Web 1.0: The web PAGE, HTTP/FTP, etc.

  13. The NOAO NVO Portal www.nvo.noao.edu

  14. The NOAO NVO Portal www.nvo.noao.edu

  15. The NOAO NVO Portal www.nvo.noao.edu

  16. The NOAO NVO Portal www.nvo.noao.edu

  17. The NOAO NVO Portal • Features: • Provides visual discovery to VO imaging data • Via NOAOSky (a Google-maps type interface) • And NOAOTime (the Simile timeline) • Provides non-proprietary access to VO imaging data • Stages data from VO SIA servers • Pushes data to user and to VO Analysis tools (WESIX) • Provides proprietary access to NOAO PI MOSAIC and NEWFIRM data • Provide safe and secure proprietary access via NVO SSO. • Stages data from the new NOAO Science Archive VO Client

  18. The NOAO NVO Portal • Architecture • Ruby-on-Rails codestack (Web 2.0) • Low overhead, quick turn around, clean • Javascript (Web 2.0) • High overhead, slow turn around, messy • Dojo libraries, GSV, Simile • Postgres with pgSphere • Very fast spatial indexing on the sky • Shape objects embedded (Circles, Polygons, etc.)

  19. The NOAO NVO Portal • VO Integration • Portal Cached DB • SIA archives are “scraped” • CCD wireframes (footprints) taken from WCS • Additional information sometimes needed: • Chandra orientation on the sky • Chandra ACIS footprint • Science metadata not always readily available • VORuby (http://rubyforge.org/projects/voruby/) • Provides uniform access to VO resources • Ruby is (not) just another scripting language (e.g., IDL, Python are other scripting languages with libraries to work with the VO). • NOAO Science Archive VO Client • Provides uniform access to the NSA that is VO friendly

  20. The NOAO NVO Portal Web 2.0 • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • Leverage the Virtual Observatory • delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it • VORuby on RubyForge: opensource and allows for “crowd-sourcing” • The perpetual beta? No: But frequent updates of a browser-based app. • “Skins” and APIs

  21. The NOAO NVO Portal Web 2.0 • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • Consumes and Re-mixes data from multiple sources. • Uses an internal database based on “scraping” SIA servers. • Each user query is a re-mix • Combine personal PI data with public VO data

  22. The NOAO NVO Portal Web 2.0 • Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: • while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation” • Enhancing the value of the data • WESIX and VO analysis services • REST/SOAP APIs • Participation in Single-Sign-On • Shopping carts and VOSpace • Reaching out to the community

  23. The NOAO NVO Portal Web 2.0 • The Web 2.0 and Astronomy • The Astronomical Community is an ideal Web 2.0 audience. • We collaborate • We are technologically capable • We are beginning to play nice and share • Web 2.0 is about enabling participation • The Virtual Observatory is our foundation • There is no single “killer app” • Things move fast • Use code-stacks which enable fast and efficient development • Stay current; look forward

  24. Special Thanks • The NOAO NVO Portal development team: Exequiel Fuentes (CTIO) and David Gasson (NOAO) • The NVO SSO project (Ray Plante and NCSA) • The NOAO Archive development team (Sonya Lowry and DPP) • The IVOA

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