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VO – AIDA WP5 and INAF Plan VOVO –– AIDAAIDA WP5WP5 andand INAFINAF PlanPlan R. Smareglia , M. Ramella [email protected] , [email protected] 1 R. Smareglia – INAF-SI and INAF-OATs INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 2 R. Smareglia – INAF INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 : Software and on-line Documentation – D5.3 (Month 27) Release of : Software and on-line Documentation 3 R. Smareglia – INAF WP5-SA3 Service Activities for higher education and outreach 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 Earth/Sky (Win, online) • Celestia (Win/Linux, macros, online+offline) • XEphem (Linux, online+offline) • Cartes du Ciel (Win/Linux) Massimo Ramella, Strasbourg 17/3/2008 ThanksThanks forfor youryour attentionattention 19 INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 20 R. Smareglia – INAF INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 Main Actor: R. Smareglia 22 R. Smareglia – INAF INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 23 R. Smareglia – INAF INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 C++ – 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 24 R. Smareglia – INAF INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 25 R. Smareglia – INAF INAFINAF @@ VOVO--AIDAAIDA 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 26 R. Smareglia – INAF ThanksThanks forfor youryour attentionattention 27.
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