I am also deeply involved in the development of tools and standards related to the Virtual Observatory for astronomy.
Here is a list of topics I am currently involved in :
- Development of several new features in Aladin, a widely used Virtual Observatory portal
- Web 2.0 for data centres : an annotations service for CDS data, developed in the frame of the Euro-VO AIDA project
- Positional cross-identification of astronomical tables
- SimPlay (Simbad disPlay), a simple visualizer for Simbad data developed in Flex
- PLASTIC/SAMP, a messaging protocol allowing interoperability between astronomical desktop tools
- Technical coordinator at CDS level for the VOTech project
- Instrumental footprints:
- Design and implementation of a format for the description of instrumental footprints
- Developement of a footprint editor
Some prototype developments:
- A regionated version of up-to-date Simbad data, available as a KML file
- Thumbnails of 2,000,000 SIMBAD objects