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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.