EuroVO-AIDA3rd WPMT meeting

16 November 2009, Telecon

WP1 comments

(MathiasDepretz - 18 Nov. 2009)

Milestones until the end of the project:

• M19 - November 2009: Fourth SAC meeting (Garching, Germany - 14 December 2009)
• M17 - October 2009: Second “Community feedback workshop (Strasbourg, France - postponed to 25-28 January 2010)
• M20 - March 2010: Final Technical Forum
• M21 - May 2010: IVOA Interoperability Meeting (Victoria, Canada - 17-21 May 2010)
• M22 - June 2010: Final Board meeting

Next Reports and deliverables:

• D2.6 : Report on the astronomical knowledge infrastructure disciplinary model (CNRS) – Initially scheduled on May 2009 and postponed by a few months to gather additional information on the evolution of IVOA in the transition phase to operations. Submission Date?
• D3.2 : Registry curation tools (ESA) - Initially scheduled on January 2009 and postponed to November 2009 (accepted by the EC during the 1st review). Important to provide the report ASAP.
• D2.8 : Second “Community feedback” Workshop (ESA) – January 2010
• D1.3 :Second contractual periodic report (CNRS + All) - February 2010
  • Period covered: 1st February 2009 to 31st January 2010
  • Report on activities undertaken during this period
  • Financial report on costs incurred during this period (online)

Please keep the Schedule of meetings updated or send me the necessary information.

WP2 comments

WP3 comments

WP4 comments

(A.Belikov, 16 Nov. 2009): OmegaCEN /RuG : GoogleSky applet with an ability to browse Astro-WISE data is realised

http://skymap.astro-wise.org/

WP5 comments

WP6 comments

(F. Genova, 16 nov. 2009) Three standards have just been accepted as Recommendations by the IVOA Exec, among which two relevant to WP6:

• Credential Delegation Protocol 1.0
• VOTable 1.2

WP7 comments

(F. Genova, 16 Nov. 2009) Three standards have just been accepted as Recommendations by the IVOA Exec, among which one relevant to WP7: SIAP V1

WP8 Comments

UHEI-activities: Lightpollution-Map is going well - the only problem is, that there are still not enough lightpollution data in the database. If we can get enough data, it will be no problem to finish this application. The RSS-feed is also going well and can be finished on short notice, if necessary. Otherwise it should be finished in the first quarter of 2010. "Twitterplanets" is under development and should be finished for the final reports. The only problem up to now seems to be to find an easy way for an automatic conversion of locations given in the twitter-profile into geografical coordinates. Using the API of Openstreet-Map should work but it is difficult to handle the ambiguity (same names for different locations, e.g. there iis an "Heidelberg" in Germany, USA, Southafrica, Australia, ...). If anyone has good ideas how to handle this, please tell me ;)-- FlorianFreistetter - 16 Nov 2009

(A.Belikov, 16 Nov. 2009) OmegaCEN is mapping Astro-WISE data model to existing ontological dictionary (IAU93). Present-day status - a description of each attribute of each Astro-WISE class with UCD and units. Example:

http://dbview.astro-wise.org/DbView?Queryselect=Q_dependencies&Querycat=QF_introspect&Objectselect=RawScience..&Formselect=RawScienceFrame

(cursor over attribute shows a description)

-- MathiasDepretz - 18 Nov 2009