eurovo-dca wp6: support to data centres from other european countries
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EuroVO-DCAEuroVO-DCA
WP6: Support to data centres from WP6: Support to data centres from other European Countriesother European Countries
Enrique Solano, LAEFF / SVOEnrique Solano, LAEFF / SVO
WP6:Participants
• Lead contractor: INTA. 8/18 man-months devoted to support the WP6-related activities.
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.
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.
WP6 in three steps
Advertise
Identify
Support
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,…).
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.
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).
Initial list of Data Centres
• Konkoly Obs. / Budapest, Hungary
Andreas Holl’s e-mail to F. Genova in Nov05.
• Contact point OKOK
• Letter of interest OKOK
• Data- Catalogues: (stellar variability, sunspots)
- Images (plate collections, CCDs, robotic telescopes)
- Theory: stellar pulsation models
• Services- Time series analysis
• Publications: IBVS (Vo-compliant!), CoKon
Initial list of Data Centres• Astronomical Inst. / Czech Rep.
• Contact point OK (Petr Skoda)OK (Petr Skoda)
• Letter of interest NONO
Initial list of Data Centres
• Inst. fur Astronomie/Wien (Austria)
• Contact point NONO
• Letter of interest NONO
• Data ● Services - WEBDA - VALD: atomic data
database.
Who else?
• Dpt. of Astronomy.
Univ. of Athens., Greece
Who else?
• Russia & Armenia.
• Activities conducted through their respectives VOs.
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.
What about the very first steps?: Digitization
Valuable plate archives in Eastern countries are waiting for their digitization due to the lack of funds.
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
• Digitisation or creation of contents is not funded (primarily a responsibility of the Member States).
Who else?
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.
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