WP6 Virtual Observatory Info-Workshop

Institute of Astronomy. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Sofia, Bulgaria. January 24 – 25, 2008

• Information on the Workshop can be found at: http://www.bgvo.org/VODAY2008/

• The poster of the Workshop can be downloaded here. The group photo can be found here

• Information on the tools to be used during the Hands-on sessions:
  • SAADA: http://amwdb.u-strasbg.fr/saada/
  • SAADA contact point: Laurent Michel: michel 'at' quasar 'dot' u-strasbg 'dot' fr
  • MEX: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/ESOWorkflowVODaySofia
  • MEX contact point: Mar Sierra: msierra 'at' eso 'dot' org
  • DALtoolkit: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/DALToolKitImages
  • DALtoolkit contact point: Aurelien Stebe: Aurelien 'dot' Stebe 'at' sciops 'dot' esa 'dot' int

List of presentations:

DCA presentations

• Purpose of the meeting (Enrique Solano, SVO) (PPT)
• The Virtual Observatory: (Jonathan Tedds, Astrogrid) (PDF)
• VO standards:(Carlos Rodrigo, SVO) (PDF)
• VO-tools (Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, ESO) (30'+10') (PPT)
• How to use the VO form IDL (Iliya Nickelt-Czycykovski, GAVO)
• VO-science (Paolo Padovani, ESO) (PPT)

VO-projects identified by participating Data Centres

• Bulgaria
  • Milcho Tsvetkov: BGVO- Wide-field Plate Database-present status (PDF)
  • Plamen Fiziev The Pink cluster PHYSON and BGVO
• Hungary
  • Andras Holl, P. Erdodi:
    • Electronic journals in science and in the VO with an example: the IBVS (PDF)
    • The Hungarian Virtual Observatory (PDF)
• Serbia
  • M. S. Dimitrijevic, V. Protic-Benishek: work on BELDATA data base on Belgrade Astronomical Observatory (PDF)
• Romania
  • P. Popescu, G. Bocsa, A. Nedelcu, L. Serbanescu, O. Badescu: Romanian Program and VO-link: Bucharest Plates and CCD Database (PPT)

Hands-on sessions: Publishing images in the VO

• MEX (Maria del Mar Sierra, ESO) (PPT)
• DALToolkit (Aurelien Stebe, ESA) (PPT)
• SAADA: Laurent Michel. Francoise Bonnarel, (CDS) Saada Presentation (PDF) Saada Tutorial (PDF) UCDandCharUtypes (PDF)

Summary

• Meeting conclusions (Enrique Solano, SVO) (PPT)