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EuroVO-DCA WP6: Support to data centres from other European Countries Enrique Solano LAEFF-SVO

Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007. EuroVO-DCA WP6: Support to data centres from other European Countries Enrique Solano LAEFF-SVO. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007. WP6: overall aims. Increased awareness about the VOs in the whole European Data Centre community.

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EuroVO-DCA WP6: Support to data centres from other European Countries Enrique Solano LAEFF-SVO

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  1. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 EuroVO-DCAWP6: Support to data centres from other European CountriesEnrique Solano LAEFF-SVO

  2. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 WP6: overall aims • Increased awareness about the VOs in the whole European Data Centre community. And as a result… • Inclusion of European data centres from other countries in the VO framework.

  3. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 WP6: first step • Identification of data centres interested in publishing their data in the VObs in European countries beyond the partners’ countries •  Census of European Data Centres outside the project. http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/WP6Newcountries • 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.

  4. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 WP6: second step • Supportto the take-up and implementation. • Visits: • To/from data centres • Technical, info-days,… • After the visit: • Follow-up plans • Feedback • Participation in workshops (DCA & IVOA).

  5. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Portugal • University of Lisbon /SIM (Laboratory of Systems, Instrumentations and Modelling). • Contact pointAndré Moitinho • The project: “Development of a VO service to provide access to a catalog containing UBVRI photometric information of open star clusters”. • The goal: Multiwavelength analysis of these sources. • Technical Visits: • - Lígia Amorin visited LAEFF on March 2007. • - Participation in the EuroVO-DCA workshop (June07): André Moitinho, Lígia Amorin, Sonia Anton

  6. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Portugal (II) • Roadmap: • - Database ready • - Web interface (almost) ready: lack of contents, documentation. • - VO service with a public dataset available beginning 2008.

  7. VO dissemination • André Moitinho is acting as a VO-coordinator in Portugal: • - Collaboration with Coimbra University • Solar data with a time line of 100 years. • Stellar evolution models • Libraries of stellar spectra. • - Presentation of the VO service to the stellar community (foreseen beginning 2008). • - DCA Info-day in Lisbon for the Portuguese astronomical community (possibly). Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Portugal (III) • Also interest in participating in WP5.

  8. Hungary • Konkoly Observatory. Hungarian Academy of Sciences • Contact pointAndrás Holl • Data • - Catalogues: (stellar variability, sunspots) • - Images (plate collections, CCDs, robotic telescopes) • - Theory: stellar pulsation models • Services • - Time series analysis • Publications:VO compliance of IBVS Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007

  9. Hungary (II) UCDs provided by IBVS staff • Conversion of ASCII tabular data from IBVS papers to VOTable. • Data will appear in the HTML paper as a link. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007

  10. Hungary (III) • By clicking on it, Aladin is launched and the data displayed. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007

  11. Hungary (IV) • Foreseen • First half of 2008: Technical visit to CDS. • VO dissemination in Hungary is poor so far. •  DCA info-day in Budapest for the Hungarian community in the first half of 2008. • Major drawback • Critical situation of the Academy of Sciences: On-going projects suspended, planned projects postponed. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 • Participation in the EuroVO-DCA workshop (June 2007) • IBVS VO compliance: preliminary roadmap agreed.

  12. The Rozhen Observatory: spectra, photometry and imaging. •  At present, the archive is only a wish… Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Bulgaria • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences • Contact point: Milcho Tsvetkov • WFPDB contains descriptive information for 524169 wide-field photographic plates (23% of the existing ones all over the world). • On-line previews as well as row data of scanned plates (FITS,TIFF) for a much smaller subset are also available.

  13. Bulgaria (II) Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007

  14. Bulgaria (III) Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 • Participation in the EuroVO-DCA workshop (June 2007) • Participation in JENAM (1 invited talk+ 1 oral + 5 posters). • Foreseen • Before Spring 2008: Info-day in Sofia for the Bulgarian community.

  15. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Czech Republic • Ondrejov Observatory. Astronomical Institute • Contact point: Petr Skoda

  16. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Czech Republic (II)

  17. Czech Republic (III) • Very active participation in the definition of requirements for a proper handling of optical spectra from ground-based observatories.  impact on SSAP and Spectrum DM. • Technical visit: Lyon (P. Prugniel). July07 • Use of Pleinpot for the Ondrejov archive. • Participation: • EURO-VO DCA Workshop “Spectroscopy and VO”. March07 • Póster+ invited talk+roundtable co-chair • EURO-VO DCA Workshop “Spectroscopy and VO”. June07 • Poster • ADASS. September07 • Poster “the VO-compatible spectra archives for small observatories” • IVOA Interop. September07 • “VO for ground-based optical spectroscopy” (DAL session)

  18. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Czech Republic (IV) • Peter Skoda acts as (non-official) VO-contact point in the Czech Republic. • Contacts with the solar community. • University lectures in Prague and Brno. • Conferences for amateur astronomers. • Specific materials for teachers and students of secondary school.

  19. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other centres: the Vatican Observatory • Contact point: • Alessandro Omizzolo • The project: “VO-compliance of the Vatican Plate Archive”. • Well preserved and ordered archive. 9815 plates • For every plate there is a detailed description of the characteristics, the plate constants to do astrometry, and information concerning exposure time and weather conditions.

  20. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other centres: the Vatican Observatory (II) • Status: • 2/3 of the Schmitz plates (~ 1600) already scanned. • Storage: 330 GB on DVDs. • Problems: • Interest but the Vatican is not considered by Brussels an EU (or associated) country  only marginal support can be provided. • VO-Italy will be asked for advice / support.

  21. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other centres: Institut für Astronomie. Wien (Austria) • Contact point Ernst Paunzen • Data ● Theory Services - WEBDA: stellar clusters- VALD: atomic parameters

  22. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other centres: Institut für Astronomie. Wien (Austria) • Problems: • Participation in the VALD Workshop (Feb 2007) •  VALD’s responsibles not very enthusiastic… - “If EuroVO-DCA cannot provide resources, who will pay the cost (computational resources & manpower) associated to the hypothetical increment of users when VALD becomes a VO-compliant service?”

  23. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other centres: Institut für Astronomie. Wien (Austria) • Problems: •  … and regarding WEBDA… - “If Austria is one of these countries which is not participating, why even care about WEBDA?” - “WEBDA will survive without Euro-VO, for sure, more than 70 refereed publications each year acknowledge its use.” - “WEBDA is _the_ data base about open clusters of theMilky Way and the SMC. Not more or less.”

  24. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other centres: University of Athens • Contact point: Mary Kontizas • The project: “VO-compliance of a library of synthetic spectra (7149) of galaxies for the GAIA project”. • Problem:No interest/manpower to become a Data Centre. They will published the library in the VO via Vizier/CDS.

  25. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 Other activities • Other EU calls • Computational resources / manpower is a major concern / limitation for most of the projects.  “I have the plates but I cannot scan them.” • In the WP6 framework we have provided information about other initiatives /calls of the e-Infrastructures Programme. •  e-Contentplus: some movements in Hungary and Bulgaria.

  26. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 The budget • WP3 Workshops: 10912 / 19200 euros (57%) • WP4/WP5 Workshops: 0 /2880 euros • Technical visits: 2550 / 7680 euros (33 %)

  27. Board-PCT Meeting, Trieste, Sep 2007 What’s next? • On-going projects • Clear definition of the objectives to be achieved at the end of the project. • Project not yet started (University of Helsinki, Finland). • Roadmap definition. Extension of support to AIDA? • Start process for new participants (Lithuania?) • Advertisement • Presence in meetings with a high participation of potential newcomers (IAU GA, JENAM, National Astronomical Societies, ADASS,…).

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