EuroVO-DCA WP6: Support to data centres from other European Countries

1. EuroVO-DCAWP6: Support to data centres from other European Countries Enrique Solano, LAEFF / SVO

2. WP6:Participants • Lead contractor: INTA. 8/18 man-months devoted to support the WP6-related activities.

3. WP6: overall aims • Increased awareness about the VOs framework in the whole European Data Centre community. • Inclusion of European data centres from other countries in the VO framework.

4. WP6: milestones • # Cycle-1 • Initial list of data centres. (Month2  end Oct06). • Report to PCT on new Data Centres in other countries. (Month7  26-03-2007). • Mid-term report. (Month 14 / 02-10-2007). • # Cycle-2 • Report to PCT on new Data Centres in other countries. (Month19  26-03-2008). • Final report. (Month 26  (20/10/2008)  Deliverable 14.

5. WP6 in three steps Advertise Identify Support

6. WP6: advertise • Presence (through posters, talks, special sessions,…) of the DCA/WP6 in meetings with a high participation of people from potential candidate centres (IAU GA, JENAM, National Astronomical Societies, ADASS,…).

7. WP6: identify • Identification of data centres interested in joining the VO initiative in Europe. • From centres: • Contact point. • Letter of interest to the WP6 leader indicating their objectives, specific needs and added value to the DCA projects and the VObs in general. • From WP6: • Study and approval of the proposals. Give priorities (if needed). • Letter of agreement stating the terms (activities to support, duration,…) of the collaboration.

8. WP6: support • Support to the take-up and implementation. • Documentation: • Doc. on user and technical requirements. • Guide: “How to become a VO-compliant data centre. Step by step”. In collab. with WP3. • Visits: • To/from the data centres. • Follow-up plans: after the visit. • Participation in workshops (DCA & IVOA). • Feedback from data centres (at the end of the collaboration).

9. Initial list of Data Centres • Konkoly Obs. / Budapest, Hungary • Andreas Holl’s e-mail to F. Genova in Nov05. • Contact point OK • Letter of interest OK • Data • - Catalogues: (stellar variability, sunspots) • - Images (plate collections, CCDs, robotic telescopes) • - Theory: stellar pulsation models • Services • - Time series analysis • Publications:IBVS (Vo-compliant!), CoKon

10. Initial list of Data Centres • Astronomical Inst. / Czech Rep. • Contact point OK (Petr Skoda) • Letter of interest NO

11. Initial list of Data Centres • Inst. fur Astronomie/Wien (Austria) • Contact point NO • Letter of interest NO • Data ● Services - WEBDA- VALD: atomic data database.

12. Dpt. of Astronomy. • Univ. of Athens., Greece Who else?

13. Who else? • Russia & Armenia. • Activities conducted through their respectives VOs.

14. Who else? • Bulgary. • 2 100 000 wide-field (>1°) photographic observations from 345 archives. • Only descriptive information of the plates. An object catalogue does not exist.

15. eContentplus • Objective: “to make digital content in Europe more accesible, usable and exploitable, facilitating the creation and diffusion of information, in areas of public intesrest, at Community level” • Scientific contents is one of the four target areas • Not easy: Only 19 proposals out 238 (Call 2005) • BUT What about the very first steps?: Digitization • Valuable plate archives in Eastern countries are waiting for their digitization due to the lack of funds. • Digitisation or creation of contents is not funded (primarily a responsibility of the Member States).

16. Who else?

17. To the rest of WP6 participants • How to organize the collaboration in WP6? • No face-to-face meeting are required. • e-mail & distribution lists (who? 1 per partner (INTA, CNRS, ESA, ESO, LU) + MD+FG.?) • What are your aims, lines of work,…, to develop in WP6?  By Oct 9th. • Ideas, suggestions, etc, etc, are welcome.  By Oct 9th.