Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO WP6: Support to data centres from other

R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO

Support to Data Centres from other European Countries Third PCT meeting, 29 May 2008

WP6: Support to data centres from other WP6: Support to data centres from other

European CountriesEuropean Countries



WP6: goals

• Same objectives as WP3… – Dissemination of VObs knowledge.

– Support to Data Centres willing to join the VObs initiative.

• … but different “audience”– Data Centres from European countries not

participating in the project.



WP6: work methodology • Identification of potentially interested Data Centres.

– Previous knowledge + Census of European Data

Centres (e.g. Ukraine, Switzerland)

• From Centres with a positive response:

– Official letter of interest indicating:

• Clear, focused objectives • Specific needs

• Added value for the DCA project • Contact point



WP6: work methodology (II)• Support

– Technical Visits:

• To/from the Data Centre.

• Close-contact after the visit: periodic reports and feedback.

– Participation in DCA workshops and IVOA Interop. Meetings.

– Regional VObs info-workshops

• Sofia, Bulgaria. 2008, Jan 24-25th.

• Lisbon, Portugal, Oct 2008.



Portugal

• University of Lisbon/SIM (Laboratory of Systems,

Instrumentations and Modelling).

• Contact points: André Moitinho, Sonia Anton.



Portugal: VO Service I• San Pedro Martir Open Cluster Survey

• UBVRI imaging and photometry of 300 northern

open clusters.

• To be registered in June'08.



Portugal: VO Service II• CLASS

• Sample of 11000 radio

sources.

• Service will be registered

in August'08.



Portugal: VO Service III• Coimbra Solar Images Archive

• 30000 spectroheliograms covering 80

years.

• Supported in the VO-AIDA

framework.



• Attendance to workshops

– ESAC Grid Workshop (Nov’07): Sonia Anton.

• Others

– DCA letter of support for a proposal to the GRID Portuguese Programme.

• Next steps

– Garching DCA Workshop (Jun'08): Sonia Anton

– Presentation of the VObs service to the Portuguese stellar community --> DCA Info-day in Lisbon. Oct'08.

Portugal



Bulgaria• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

• Contact point: Milcho Tsvetkov



Bulgaria: VO services• Catalogue of wide-field plate archives• Descriptive information for 414 archives of photographic observations. • To be registered in Aug'08.

• Catalogue of wide-field plate archives• Descriptive information for 530000 observations from 114 archives. • To be registered in Nov'08.

• Archive of digitised plates• In the framework of AIDA



Bulgaria: Report of activities• VObs Info-Workshop: Sofia, 2008, Jan 24-25

– 40 participants (Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Romania) + 9 DCA

• Day-1:– DCA lectures on:

• The VObs: Why is it necessary?

• IVOA VObs standards: access protocols, formats, data models, registries,…

• VObs tools

• VObs Science

– Presentations from participating Data Centres



Bulgaria: Report of activities• VObs Info-Workshop: Sofia, 2008, Jan 24-25

– Day-2:

• Hands-on sessions on how to publish in the VObs.

– Guided by DCA tutors.

– Work on real data brought by the participants

from their Data Centres.

• Workshop summary and follow-up plans.

– Feedback questionnaire filled in by participants.



• More info at:• http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/Sofia_workshop_jan08



– Attendance to workshops & technical visits

• IVOA Interop. Meeting (May’07): Milcho Tsvetkov.

• Damyan Kalaglarsky visited Petra Boehm in Postdam

(Nov’07)

Bulgaria



Czech Republic

– Ondrejov Observatory

– Contact point: Petr Skoda



Report of activities: Czech Republic

• The project: “STELOND: Spectra archive for the Ondrejov

2-m telescope (the largest telescope in the Czech Rep.) .

• To be registered in Sep'08.



Report of activities: Czech Rep. (II)• Attendance to workshops & Technical visits

– Garching DCA Theory & Grid Workshop (Apr’08): Petr Skoda.

• Next steps– Technical visit (Jul'08): Philippe Prugniel to Ondrejov

– Interop. meeting (Oct'08): Petr Skoda



Report of activities: Hungary

• Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy

of Sciences

• Contact point: András Holl

• The project: “VObs-compliance of the

International Bulletin of Variable Stars”.



Report of activities: Hungary (II)

• VO tools: Aladin as a visualization tool for IBVS.



Report of activities: Hungary (II)

• VO tools .

– Aladin as a visualization tool for IBVS: finding charts



Hungary • Attendance to workshops & Technical visits

– Andras Holl: technical visit to CDS (Mar’08)

• Others

- Strong involvement in the development of a data model for light curves (in collab. With Spanish VO and France-VO).

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Support to Data Centres from other European Countries EuroVO-DCA Review, 10 January 2007

Other European countries• Romania:

– First contacts during the Sofia VO-Info Workshop.

– Two groups:

• Laurentiu I. Caramete. (Institute for Space Sciences. Bucharest)

– VO-tools for the Planck mission and astroparticle physics in general,

• Petre Popescu

– Database of photographic plates and CCDs (Astronomical Institute of the

Romanian Academy)

– Willing to organize themselves at national level

– Participation in the IVOA Interop (May’08) (Caramete).



Other European countries

• Serbia – First contacts during the Sofia VO-Info Workshop.

– Milan Dimitrijevic, Belgrade Astronom. Obs.

– BELDATA: Database containing Stark

broadening parameters.

– Participation in the IVOA Interop

(May’08) (Dimitrijevic)



Other European countries

• Lithuania:

– First contacts during the VO School in Vilnius (Oct’07).

– Sarunas Mikolaitis: participation in the Garching workshop

(Jun’08). Interested in GRID and stellar spectroscopy.

• Switzerland :

– Contacted through the DCA census

– VO-compliance of the INTEGRAL archive



Non-European countries

• VObs is a global endeavour and collaboration already

exists with many non-European countries.

• The DCA project is willing to strengthen its links with

these countries by providing a limited amount of support.



Non-European countries• Garching workshop (Jun’08):

– Chile / Jean Hardings Perl / Universidad de Chile

– China / Chenzou Cui (+1) / China-VO leader

– Russia / Olga Zhelenkova / SAO –RAS Archive.

– Armenia / Areg Mickaelian / Armenia-VO leader

– Mexico / Juan Pablo Papaqui

• Also first contacts with Ukraine through the DCA

Census.



Summary• Very successful cooperation with Data Centres from Portugal,

Bulgaria, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

• These teams have begun to build a strategy to include their knowledge and data holdings in the VObs.

• In some cases a national VObs-infrastructure is being created.

• The number of interested partners is growing (Switzerland, Ukraine, Lithuania,...)

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