Gilles Landais
Software engineer at the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory
(CDS team).
Responsible of the VizieR catalogue service technical infrastructure.
Current activities
- Recent activities in the VizieR service
- Search engine redesign (ElasticSearch)
- Expand the VizieR catalogue service with Associated data (spectra/images) indexation
- CTS certification of the VizieR catalogue service
- Improvement of the VizieR authors workflows (in cooperation with editors A&A, AAS and ADS)
- Support of the technicals aspects of VizieR: mirrors, database..
- IVOA activities
- Associated to write a Note on the use of DOI in Astronomy
- Associated to have a new DataModel dedicated for sources (Mango)
- Database activities
- Teach Python to the M2 of astrophysics (Strasbourg)
Previous activities
- Maintenance of the cluster used by VizieR and Aladin
- Taught a programming introduction to the LPATC formation
Some presentations
A short (and not exhaustive) list of my topics
- Database : PostgreSQL administration and developpement (see H3C)
- Data preservation and dissemination:
see my talk "Methodes developpees par le CDS" given at the rBDD (november, 2014). - IVOA standards : in particular the standards used in VizieR:
VOTable, Cone-search, TAP/ADQL/UWS, SIA, SSA, ObsCore & ObsTAP - DataModel (IVOA): ObsCore, MangoDM, ProvenanceDM
- Programming language : mainly C, Java, JavaScript, Python
Contact for any questions concerning the VizieR pipelines :
| Authors publications | Contact the CDS team |
| Logs Observations | Gilles Landais or Pierre Ocvik (astronomer in charge of the VizieR contents) |
| Large surveys | Thomas Boch or F-X Pineau |
My main services that I work on
- VizieR : Catalogue database
- TAPVizieR : TAP access to the VizieR table
- VizieR associated data : Search FITS spectra/images using OBSTAP
Contact
@ gilles.landais@astro.unistra.fr
(+33)3 68 85 24 48
(+33)3 68 85 24 48
Observatoire de Strasbourg
11, rue de l'Universite
67000 STRASBOURG - France
11, rue de l'Universite
67000 STRASBOURG - France
