DALToolKit Spectra Hands on Session (ESAVO)

Advisors: Isa Barbarisi & Aurélien Stébé

Summary and Objective

The scope of this hands on session is to ingest and publish spectra according to the SSAP standard. Final users will be able to locally create their own database, ingest test FITS files and publish them making use of the software and the support we will provide. At the end of the day people who wish to work with their own data will be able to perform the necessary tasks to achieve such result. The session aims to support either people with few spectra who plan to create personal services and data center with large amount of data. Also people interested in receiving our complete support for ingestion and publication of their data on our server will be attended.

Hands on Session Main Steps

Environment set up & FITS files publication (1:30h)

• Introduction (context & motivations)
• Demo of existing services (session objective)
• Environment set up (Tomcat, MySQL... as necessary)
• Copy test FITS files under Tomcat to make them public

Server config & metadata ingestion & testing (1:30h)

• DALToolKit Server config - params/columns information, deployment
• Install DALToolKit Ingestor under Tomcat
• Metadata ingestion from FITS files to the database
• DALToolKit Server testing using VOSpec

Support for participants data (2:00h)

• Repeat the whole process using participants data with advisors support (ingestion from FITS file formats)

Software Required

• ESA Software bundle (34 Mo)

... and ...

• Common Software bundle

... or ...

• MySQL 4 or 5 or superior
• Tomcat 5.0 or superior
• Ant 1.6.5 or superior
• JDK 1.5 or superior

VO Standards Used

• SSAP v1.0
• VOTable v1.1

-- AurelienStebe - 15 Jun 2007