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WP5: SA - Higher education and outreach

Objectives: Share expertise and material between partner useful for:

• Teachers of 14-18 yrs old students (high school) • University and doctoral students (High educational level) • General public • Amateur astronomers

Main Actor and WP5TM: M. Ramella

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WP5: SA - Higher education and outreach

Deliverables:

– D5.1 (Month 4 (30 June)) List of Vo-Tools Identification of external outreach tools; Assessment of coordination with HOU (Hands-on University) with other EU- funded outreach act.

– D5.2 (Month 15) First Release of : and on-line Documentation

– D5.3 (Month 27) Release of : Software and on-line Documentation

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Aim:

• Identify VObs tools to be simplified for easy access by Target • Identify data subsets of interest of Target • Survey main existing astronomical outreach tools already available to Target – suggest VO compatibility

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach

Tools for high school teachers:

• Display processed images + info • Sky Maps (macro-programmable, local catalogs) • “Simple” virtual observations (Le Stelle Vanno a Scuola) • Display processed spectra • Mini-database

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach

Special needs of high school teachers:

• Documentation • Flexibility • Clear printed pages • Fast/light tools on a small database • +Off-line

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach

Tools for university students (and amateur astronomers):

• Display images and spectra (raw -> final) • Sky Maps (fast and light) • Virtual observations (e.g. Le Stelle Vanno a Scuola, Esploracosmo) • Large database

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach

Tools for the general public:

• Display final processed images • Sky Maps (fancy + light version) + interaction!!! • Mini-data base

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach

Professional tools:

•Aladin • Skycat •GAIA •ds9

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach

Anthology of exsisting Tools:

• www.sky-map.org (SDSS, browser online) • Google /Sky (Win, online) • (Win/, macros, online+offline) • XEphem (Linux, online+offline) • (Win/Linux)

Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008

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INAF efforts

WP1: Management WP2: Strategy, co-operation and dissemination WP3: SA - Support of deployment of IVOA protocols and standards WP4: SA - Support of provision of VObs-enabled services to the science comm. WP5: SA - Higher education and outreach WP6: JRA - Evolution of VObs interoperability standards WP7: JRA - Data Access protocols and Data Models WP8: JRA - Assessment of emerging technologies

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 WP7 WP8 Tot: Contrib. 2 6 6 - 12 6 - 12 44 Founded - 12 2 - 12 2 - 7 35

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INAF objectives (F. Pasian VO-DCA slides) • Integrate the currently-available archives (high-energy missions, TNG, GSC2 mirror, radio archives) within the Virtual Observatory framework

• Allow the design archives under development (LBT, VST, SRT) to be VObs-compliant

• Harmonise data retrieval and processing facilities for all archives, providing similar tools and functionalities

• Integrate archives of theoretical and simulated data, currently under development in the framework of a national Theory VObs project, so as to make them available within the VObs infrastructure

• Allow massive production of theoretical and simulated data, by providing access to parallel and distributed computing facilities, using the standard middleware currently in use for computational grids (e.g. EGEE) INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA

WP2: Strategy, co-operation and dissemination

• Strong collaboration with VO-DCA activity:

– Member of VObs.it • INAF Data Center: IA2 – TNG archive – ITVO archive – LBT archive (development for the whole LBT corporation)

– Italian Dissemination

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WP3: SA - Support of deployment of IVOA protocols and standards

• Our effort will be concentrate in collaboration with WP6 – INAF is full involved in • Theoretical VObs (DM, Registry, ..) • GRID interface with VObs

– Service activity to integrate into VObs additional Italian archives

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WP6: JRA - Evolution of VObs interop. standards

• Direct link to ITVO (Italian Theoretical VObs) project • VO – Tech & VO - DCA – increase the number of theoretical data stored inside the ITVO: – extend the creation on-the-fly profiles for red-shift ≠ 0, for Gadget files; – User manual : how to link services using Java or ++ – Improve the query services – Refine the GADGET cutout and randomize services; – Prototype: • VisIVO Server on grid; – Add a preview services on level 1 using VisIVO server; – Creation on the fly of maps via VisIVO server;

– produce a stable and useful service to the scientific community – Continuing in the co-operation inside the IVOA to develop the DM and the access protocol for theoretical data.

Main Actor: P. Manzato

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WP8: JRA - Assessment of emerging technologies

WP.8 - Semantics and Ontologies (INAF+CNRS)

- definition and usage of vocabularies - vocabularies in different VO contexts: from science to outreach (WP.5) - RDF/SKOS formatting, mapping between vocabularies - use vocabularies to tag and explore resources

- ontologies - prototyping the ontology on astronomical object types and measurements - application to practical use-cases (e.g.: consistency checks, ..)

Main Actor: A. Preite Martinez

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WP8: JRA - Assessment of emerging technologies

WP.8 - Data Maining (INAF) Building upon the expertise matured in the VO-Tech framework:

• Using an existing pipeline (2dPhot) we plan to port on the GRID a data processing pipeline (from raw images to catalogues) capable to run on (optical) survey data.

• Use the VONeural models to implement a user friendly and general purpose interface to perform data mining tasks on Massive data sets within a distributed (GRID-like) computing environment.

• This interface will largely draw on the resources made available through the VO- Tech project (in terms of interoperability). • The interface will be designed and documented with a large set of examples and templates in order to be used also as a “teaching tool”.

Main Actor: G. Longo

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