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WP5 service activities for higher education and outreach

Enable the general public, school teachers, higher education students, and amateur astronomers to investigate the universe using simplified professional tools and concepts. Identify and translate VO tools, gather data from best data centers, develop outreach materials, and collaborate with EU-funded programs.

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WP5 service activities for higher education and outreach

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  1. Public to be targeted WP5 service activities for higher education and outreach • Higher education • School teachers of 14-18 kids • General public • Amateur astronomers Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

  2. What we want to do: Enable Public to investigate the Universe using professional but simplified tools and concepts Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

  3. How we want to do it: • Identify VO tools • Translate into languages of AIDA partners • Identify data centres w/ best data for Public • Survey outreach tools: contact and suggest/ promote Vobs compatibility Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

  4. How we want to do it: • Identify and share outreach material produced by partners (e.g. posters, video, etc) • Produce suitable documentation (primers, userguides, examples,etc) • Contact EU-funded outreach programs (e.g. Hands-On Universe, HOU) Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

  5. WP5 Work Programme Phase A: • Requirements on outreach interfaces (Aladin / Stellarium / VirGO) • Production and/or modification of existing software • Translation of outreach interface • Basic documentation with use cases (in relevant languages) Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

  6. WP5 Work Programme Phase B: • Identify testers and design appealing test projects • Test tools • Gather, translate and organize feed-back for tools revisions • Contact HOU & Co Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

  7. WP5 Work Programme Phase C: • Produce final version of outreach tools w/ basic outreach content (short description of relevant objects, instruments) • Gather/produce outreach material and promote tools Massimo Ramella WP5 meeting @ IVOA Interop Wrokshop Trieste May 21, 2008

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