WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,1 WP2 Strategy, governance

Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,1

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011

WP2Strategy, governance and liaison



WP objectivesThe Work Package objectives are to ensure all the project high-level co-ordination

activities, and to explore long term sustainability, international co-operation and liaisons with other disciplines.

WP2-1 – Project overseeing– Defines the project programme– Oversees the project development and monitors the progress– Oversees the scientific aspects of the project

WP2-2 – European co-operation and articulation with the national level– Manages the participation of the Euro-VO members which are not partners in the

project– Manages the liaisons with the policy level (European Commission, Astronet,

national and intergovernmental agencies and the policy makers in the partner countries)

– Explores the extension of the astronomical VObs community to other European countries

WP2-3 – Liaisons with other disciplines– Liaises with other EC-funded projects in “neighbouring” disciplines to explore

possible co-operationsWP2-4 – Strategy definition

– Explores the different aspects of long term sustainability of the project



WP deliverables

D2 Project plan CNRS Month 1 Based on DoW

19 Apr. 2011

D8

>

D10

Recommendations on the route to a sustainable European Virtual Observatory

CNRS Month 12

>

Month 24

Postponed in amendment



WP2-1 Project overseing

• Overall leadership and planning– « Light » but effective management, as

explained in WP1– Activities followed the initial DoW, with some

adjustments discussed with the partners

• Scientific guidance of the project– SAC meeting organised on 10 February 2011– Previous SAC meeting June 2010 so M3

postponed from October 2010 to February 2011



WP2-2 European co-operation and articulation with the national level

• Participation in Board, in WP activities– No formal Board meetings, but consultation with and

active participation of ESA, GAVO, SVO

– SAC members from Euro-VO partners

– Invitations to participate in Hands-On meeting widely distributed and participants from non partner countries funded by the project

– Petr Skoda (Czech Republic) and several SVO participants funded by CNRS and ESO to participate in IVOA Naples meeting



WP2-3 Liaisons with other disciplines

• Participation of M. Allen in Europlanet Colloquium and of F. Genova, F. Pasian and C. Arviset in Aspera Workshop (Particle physics)

• Participation of VAMDC and HELIO/Europlanet community in EuroVO-ICE Technology Forums and IVOA Interops

• ASPIC proposal to Call 9 two slides provided by Andy



Interdisciplinary discussions• Technical and policy discussions held with

representatives of HELIO and Europlanet initiatives• Both commonalities and differences identified in

technical issues and science requirements• HELIO already implementing some EuroVO

technologies : VOTable, Registry• Identified likely areas of shared progress : data

discovery, tool interoperability

• Agreed intent to submit joint proposal



ASPIC proposal• Astronomy, Solar, and Planetary Infrastructure Co-

ordination• Goals :

–Maintain international leadership on the Global VO scene

–Set up concrete collaborations with neighbouring disciplines

–Progress towards a common data infrastructure in the long term

• Submitted to Nov 2010 to Data Infrastructures Call 9• Six partners representing Euro-VO, HELIO, and

Europlanet • Size : €5.7m over 4.5 years• Not successful, but intentions to collaborate remain



WP2-4 Strategy definition

• General landscape: High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data (2010) and FP8 preparatory meetings

• Specific landscape: Call 8 and Call 9• Call 9 better adapted for interdisciplinary aspects

(ASPIC)• Sustainability aspects assessed on a short time

scale for a Design Study proposal to Call 8: Euro-VO Design Study (EuroVO-DS)



Euro-VO DS (1)

• Follow-up project from the identification of the VO as an important infrastructure of astronomy by the Astronet ERA-NET Roadmap

• Goal : Formulate a conceptual design of a sustainable Euro-VO

• Close collaboration with Astronet which provides all the contact points with European national funding agencies (well beyong Euro-VO usual partners)



http://www.astronet-eu.org/

Interactive map showing the partners, associate and forum members



EuroVO-DS (2)

• Increase awareness among and gather requirements from the scientific community (users) and data provider communities

• Define the technical needs to maintain the VO framework• Requirements for sustainable Outreach towards education

and the general public • Assess and quantify all elements pertaining to

sustainability• Propose a governance and financial modelThe proposal failed but the analysis of what has to be done

remains



The European view

• Collaborative Global Infrastructure

• Should allow a high level of diversity

• « Horizontal »/ « vertical », top-down/bottom-up aspects

• Astronomy remains at the forefront

Documents

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,1 WP2 Strategy, governance