Individual Objects 3C295 and its cluster We investigated the properties of 3C295, a large FR2 radio galaxy located near the centre of a cluster. This makes use of ...

Monochromatic AB (Oke 1964) magnitudes are defined by magAB 2.5 x log(f ) 48.60 The constant is set so that AB is equal to the V magnitude for a source with ...

I was at the 2007 UK e Science All Hands meeting in September 2007. This meeting is intended to cover all the e Science work being done in the UK, but its scope has ...

Further Science Requirements from the AVO Paolo Padovani, ESO Abstract The AVO project provides two further ways to collect science requirements for the VOTech ...

Access control use cases This is part of the list of OntologyUseCases. Cases driving the access control work. NormanGray described a first draft of this at the DS5PlanningStage03 ...

Access to virtual data Anita Richards Simon Garrington, affiliation Abstract Astronomical data are often archived in forms which need further processing before ...

How to Adapt existing Archives to VO: The ISO and XMM Newton cases Christophe Arviset, affiliation Abstract Adapting existing archives to VO is an easy task if ...

AstroGrid contributions to DS3 in stage 4 AstroGrid plans the following contributions to DS3 for VOTech stage 4. Standards work Progress these IVOA standards at the ...

Agent architectures: Smarter software for astronomers Alasdair Allan, eSTAR Project, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. Abstract In the real world, people rarely ...

An Agent based Predictive Engine for Variable Star Observing Eric Saunders, affiliation Abstract We consider the problem of designing and implementing an autonomous ...

When are Agents good data miners? Tim Naylor, affiliation Abstract By exploiting the emerging VO architecture, agent technologies can offer interesting data mining ...

Aladin/IDL interoperability Thomas Boch, Laurent Cambrésy, Bernd Vollmer. Goals Some astronomers at CDS have expressed the need for an interface between Aladin and ...

5.4 VO enabling visualization software We describe in this section the motivations behind making Aladin PLASTIC compatible, the actual implementation of PLASTIC in ...

Development Page for Second Annual Report Final report votech 2nd annual report partA.doc: Second Annual Report Final Part A votech 2nd annual report partsBC ...

Anomaly Detector This is a web service for the The Auton Lab's fastem algorithm. What it does The Anomaly Detector constructs a model of your data, and based on that ...

NOTE: this approach has been abandoned in favour of VOTechForums. This is a trial to see if we can use the wiki for discussions rather than email or web based forum ...

See AstroRuntime NoelWinstanley 19 Jan 2006

AstroGrid The UK effort to develop a Virtual Observatory implementation. See http://wiki.astrogrid.org Includes components for storing, registering services, publishing ...

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Client Side Middleware for the virtual observatory Production Site: http://www.astrogrid.org/desktop/astro runtime Wiki Site: http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid ...

Component of AstroGrid Workbench which affords highly graphical display of catalog, image and spectrum searches See Demonstration Movie at http://www2.astrogrid.org ...

Astro VOEvent Packets Instruments OGLE http://www.estar.org.uk/wiki/index.php/OGLE SDSS http://www.estar.org.uk/wiki/index.php/SDSS GCN http ...

An Analysis of the AVO Science Reference Mission by MarkusDolensky SRM Scenarios from AVO SWG # SRM Scenario S1 Circumstellar disks: from pre Main ...

Bandwidth Test Notes Introduction In a distributed processing environment transferring data over the wire is sometimes unavoidable. Since network bandwidth is still ...

This page will summarize the presentations and discussions during the !BoF 3.3 held at ADASS XVI, Tucson, on october 17, 2006. Title Speaker(s) Presentation ...

VOTECH TAP/Board Telecon Dec 2006 This will be a combined TAP/Board meeting, conducted by telecon. Arrangements Date Monday Dec 11th 2006 Time 1000 (UK) / 1100 ...

VOTECH TAP/Board Telecon Apr 2007 This will be a combined TAP/Board meeting, conducted by telecon. It follows on from the DSRP meeting at ESO, March 12 15 Arrangements ...

VOTECH Board/TAP Telecon Nov 2007 This will be a Board meeting, conducted by telecon. Formal TAP business is expected to be concluded before the meeting, but TAP members ...

VOTECH Board : Key Documents and Meeting Papers Formal Board meetings 2004 Sept 2 3 Edinburgh : no formal papers : decisions embodied in contract 2005 Jun 28 Garching ...

Under construction This page summarizes CDS efforts to create and offer cross match tools and services Cross match in Aladin This is an overview of cross match in ...

CAMEA Introduction With the Characterization Editor tool one can load, visualize, edit, save and even create from scratch some XML Characterization data. It uses ...

Characterisation Library Download Current release The current release of Characterisation Library is 1.0.4, released on June 19th, 2008. Package Release Date ...

Characterisation Ontology Development I am using Protege 3.2 beta to develop an OWL DL ontology of the characterisation 1.0 schema. This ontology imports STC1.3.owl ...

A Column Oriented Data Explorer Clive Page, University of Leicester, UK Abstract Astronomical data mining will mostly involve tabular datasets; data exploration ...

Configure your Workbench's Registry See http://eurovotech.org/wfau/workbenchregistry/ JohnTaylor 24 Aug 2006

Requirements for a Cross Matching Tool Context The DS4 group suggests to initially focus on a cross matching tool resulting in an initial prototype service in ...

I am sorry that I had to miss the DS4 meeting in Leicester last week, but since I and a few others in AstroGrid have done a bit of work in this area before, here are ...

DS3 progress and science requirements Feb 2006 Progress ACR (AstroGrid Client Runtime) release. Once the AstroGrid workbench has been installed, the user can execute ...

DS3 Stage01 Plans Plans and actions for Stage01, due for delivery 30th June 2005 Activities CVS Repository Create a CVS repository for VOTech sources, intially using ...

DS3 Stage 2 Plan Work plan for DS3, Stage 2 based upon decisions taken at the VOTech TAP meeting in Trieste. The presentation from that meeting can be found here ...

DS3: Stage 3 Plan The DS3 Stage 3 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Sorrento meeting. Stage 3 Task List No Task Who ...

DS3: Stage 4 Plan The DS3 Stage 4 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Strasbourg meeting. Stage 4 Task List Reports No Task ...

DS3: Stage 5 Plan The DS3 Stage 5 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the ESO meeting. Stage 5 Task List Reports No Task Who ...

DS3: Stage 6 Plan The DS3 Stage 6 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Edinburgh meeting. Stage 6 Task List Reports No Task ...

DS3: Stage 7 Plan The DS3 Stage 6 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Strasbourg meeting. Stage 6 Task List Standards No Task ...

DS3 Planning Stage 01 The DS3 Stage01 Planning meeting has been held on Wed 23rd Feb 2005 in Leicester. Participants KeithNoddle, TonyLinde, ThomasBoch, AlasdairAllan ...

DS3 Planning Stage 02 Attendees .AndreSchaaff, .AndyLawrence, .BrunoRino, .EduardoGonzalez, .FrancescoPierfederici, .GarrySmith, .GiuseppeLongo, .GuyRixon, .KeithNoddle ...

ACR Functionality Receive CEA event notification infrastructure jabber forwarder api handle notifications, register listeners make extensible to ...

DS3 Stage 2 Review and Stage 3 Planning Attendees KeithNoddle Stage 2 Review Agenda The following will be approximately 20 minute slots: Title Speaker(s ...

DS3 Stage 3 Review and Stage 4 Planning Attendees GuyRixon AndreSchaaff PaulHarrison DaveMorris Stage 3 Review Agenda The following will be ...

DS3 Stage05 planning back to main meeting page Please contact KeithNoddle if you'd like to give a presentation DS3 Stage04 Reports and Demos Session on Tuesday ...

DS3 Stage06 planning back to main meeting page Please contact KeithNoddle if you'd like to give a presentation DS3 Reports of S5 work ( Monday, October 8th: 11 ...

DS3 Stage06 Status Reports and Stage07 Planning back to main meeting page Please contact KeithNoddle if you'd like to give a presentation DS3 Stage06 Reports ...

DS3 Stories These Stories are unassigned and awaiting inclusion in a Stage plan. Potential Stage 2 Plan This is based upon percieved importance at Planning Meetings ...

The report (.ps) on stage 1 activities is/will be available as part of the ADASS XV conference proceedings. MarkusDolensky 02 Nov 2005

DS4 Progress Report for February 2006 Progress Release of new version of Aladin including the current implementation of the 'Simple Footprint Protocol'. ...

DS4: Cycle 1 Plan The DS4 group chose to focus initially on a cross matching tool. The first iteration will result in a requirement document covering scientific needs ...

DS4: Stage 2 Plan This is the DS4 Stage 2 Plan as distilled from the presentations and discussion at the TAP 2 meeting. All deliverables are due by the end of stage ...

DS4: Stage 3 Plan This is the DS4 Stage 3 Plan as distilled from the presentations and discussion at the Sorrento meeting. Unless stated otherwise all deliverables ...

DS4: Stage 4 Plan Stage 4 Task List For cross DS issues as well as cross partner issues exceeding the scope of DS4 refer to this summary (.pdf). For more detailed ...

DS4: Stage 5 Plan Stage 5 Task List No Task Who History IVOA deliv. 01 User Tool Study Report ALL contd. ...

DS4: Stage 6 Plan This plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Edinburgh meeting, Oct 8 11, 2007. Task List Reports No Task Who ...

DS4: Stage 7 Plan AstroGrid Production software: VODesktop: first formal release and further development. Egg: "business objects" for scripting VO access ...

DS4 Planning Stage 01 The DS4 Stage01 Planning meeting has been held on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 in Leicester. Chair: Markus Dolensky Minutes: Paul Harrison Markus ...

DS4 Stage02 Planning Meeting back to Two Planning Meetings Attendees .AndreSchaaff, .AndyLawrence, .BobMann, .BriceGassmann, .BrunoRino, .EduardoGonzalez, Emma Taylor ...

DS4 Review and Demo Session back to main meeting page DS4 Stage 2 Progress and Demo Session on Monday Schedule was re arranged due to late arrivals. When ...

DS4 Stage 4 back to main meeting page DS4 Stage 3 Progress and Demo Session on Monday Time Speaker Title Presentation Progress Reports/Demos ...

DS4 Stage05 back to main meeting page DS4 Stage 4 Progress and Demo Session on Monday Time Speaker Title Presentation Progress Reports/Demos ...

DS4 Stage05 Review and Stage06 Planning Meeting (Back to StageSixPlanningMeetings for logistical info, etc) DS4 Session in VOTECH Review: Monday 13:30 14:30 ...

DS4 Stage06 Review and Stage07 Planning Meeting (Back to StageSevenPlanningMeetings for logistical info, etc) DS4 Stage06 Progress Review Session: Monday, March ...

First User Tools Prototype Release to DS2 This is the DS4 user tools prototype release 1 to DS2 (deliverable DS4 02). Follow the links to the respective download ...

Second User Tools Prototype Release to DS2 This is the DS4 user tools prototype release 2 to DS2 (deliverable DS4 03). Follow the links to the respective download ...

DS4 User Tools Study Report User Tool Study Report (.pdf)

DS5: Stage 1 Plan This page summarizes the initial working plan for Stage 01 (ending 2005, September 30) of the Intelligent ResourceDiscovery group (DS5), for approval ...

DS5: Stage 02 Plan This page summarizes the initial working plan for Stage 02 (ending 2006, March 31) of the Intelligent ResourceDiscovery group (DS5). The following ...

DS5: Stage 3 Plan This is the DS5 Stage 3 Plan as distilled from the presentations and discussion at the Sorrento meeting. Unless stated otherwise all deliverables ...

DS5 Stage 4 Plan AstroGrid commitments Access Control Ontology, NormanGray Technical Case Apply ontological reasoning to digital certificates for access control ...

DS5 Stage 5 Plan Roadmap The first deliverables for DS5, as stated in the ProjectContract are: DS5 02, due month 30 (september 2007): First Resource Discovery ...

DS5 Stage 6 plan This plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Edinburgh meeting, Oct 8 11, 2007. Task list Deliverables No Task Who ...

DS5: Stage 7 Plan KeithNoddle 08 Feb 2008

DS5 Planning Stage 01 The DS5 Stage01 Planning meeting has been held on Mon 21st Feb 2005 in Leicester. Participants Alasdair Allan, Elizabeth Auden, Thomas Boch ...

DS5 Planning Stage 02 Attendees .AndreSchaaff, .AnitaRichards, .BriceGassmann, .BrunoRino, .EduardoGonzalez, .FrancescoPierfederici, .FrancoisBonnarel, .KeithNoddle ...

DS5 Review and demo meeting Schedule and documents for DS5 meeting held in Sorrento, March 7, 2006. Report on progress during Stage02 (possibly followed by demos ...

DS5 Stage 4 back to main meeting page DS5 Stage 3 Progress and Demo Session on Monday Review of work done during march august 2006, and demos. Time Speaker ...

DS5 Stage05 planning back to main meeting page DS5 Stage04 Reports and Demos Session on Monday, march 12 Review of work done during september 2006 march 2007 ...

DS5 Stage06 planning back to main meeting page Please contact SebastienDerriere if you'd like to give a presentation DS5 Review : Resource Discovery ( Monday ...

DS5 Stage06 review and Stage07 planning Back to main meeting page Please contact SebastienDerriere if you'd like to give a presentation DS5 Stage 06 review and ...

DS6 Stage01 Report The following is a brief report of the acivities of the DS6 team within Stage01, first organised by institution and then mapped against the deliverables ...

DS6 Stage02 Report BobMann 21 Apr 2006

DS6 Gap Analysis As the VOTECH project approaches the start of its final year of operation, it is time to perform an informal Gap Analysis looking at what we said ...

DS6 Stage01 Plan (pre TAP draft) Activities Science requirements and validation This covers the collection of VO data exploration scenarios from sources like the ...

DS6 Stage02 Plan Listed below are the Stage02 activities of each of the DS6 teams. CDS Continued development of VisIVO/CDS interface: consolidation of coding ...

DS6 Stage03 Plan Listed below are the Stage03 activities of each of the DS6 teams. CDS Metadata standards and visualization DAL protocols: SIA extensions ...

DS6 Stage04 Plan Listed below are the Stage03 activities of each of the DS6 teams, as presented at the DS6 Planning session of the Stage04 Planning meeting in Strasbourg ...

DS6: Stage Five Plan Introduction The DS6 workplan for Stage05 focuses on filling in the gaps in the DS6StudyReport , continuing the development of specific software ...

DS6 Stage06 Plan Introduction For the main part, the DS6 plan for Stage06 centres on continuation of activities started in Stage05 (or before), but one notable exception ...

DS6: Stage 7 Plan Introduction For the main part, the DS6 plan for Stage07 centres on continuation of activities started in Stage06 (or before), but it also contains ...

DS6 Planning Stage 01 The DS6 Stage01 Planning meeting was held on Thu 24th Feb 2005 in Leicester. Participants TonyLinde, AlasdairAllan, ThomasBoch, BobMann, FrancoisBonnarel ...

DS6 Stage02 Planning Meeting Logsitical information relating to this event can be found here. Attendees .AndyLawrence, .AnitaRichards, .BobMann, .BrunoRino, .EduardoGonzalez ...

DS6 Stage03 Planning Meeting Logistical information about this meeting can be found here Programme Progress and Demo Session on Tuesday Time Title Speaker ...

DS6 Stage03 Report and Stage04 Planning Meeting Stage03 Report Session: Tuesday, September 5th Time Speaker Title Presentation 15.00 JohnTaylor ...

DS6 Stage04 Review and Stage05 Planning Meeting (Back to StageFivePlanningMeetings for logistical info, etc) DS6 Stage04 Progress Review Session: Tuesday, March ...

DS6 Stage05 Review and Stage06 Planning Meeting (Back to StageSixPlanningMeetings for logistical info, etc) DS6 Session in VOTECH Review: Monday 16:10 17:30 ...

DS6 Stage06 Review and Stage07 Planning Meeting (Back to StageSevenPlanningMeetings for logistical info, etc) DS6 Stage06 Progress Review Session: Tuesday, March ...

DS6 Stage01 Preliminary Meeting Royal Observatory Edinburgh 25 January 2005 Purpose The purpose of this meeting was to discuss general ideas for DS6 and to start ...

DS6 Progress End of Stage 03 Edinburgh Focus for stage03 was VO Enabling and plasticization of existing tools and scalable data mining. From DS6 Stage 03 Plans ...

DS6 Related Publications This page provides a place where the DS6 team can provide links to papers relating to DS6 work. Dimension reduction algorithms for data mining ...

VOTech DS6 Software This page aggregates links to software produced by the VOTech members for, or relevant to, DS6. Links should point to pages that at least: ...

Preliminary survey for DS6 Table of software kits/groups put forward for possible integration into the VO. If you have comments, or would like to add other elements ...

DS6 Study Report DS6 was originally due to deliver its Data Exploration Study Report at the end of December 2006. However, the VOTECH Board decided that it would ...

DCA: EuroVO Data Centre Alliance An alliance (led by CDS) of data (and application) centres throughout Europe. Each country will have one representative within the ...

DS6: Data Exploration Data Exploration Data Mining Visualization. Scope The aim of DS6 is to complete all technical preparatory work necessary to enable effective ...

Introduction The Data Extraction Tool is the next step after you have found relevant resources thanks to the Registry Query Tool. It helps one extracting tabular data ...

Description Logics Description Logics are among the best candidates as ontology languages. More specifically, languages like the Ontology Web Language (OWL) are based ...

Goals of DS1 (1) To oversee the project on behalf of all partners (2) To co ordinate financial and administrative matters (3) To deliver an external presence. Description ...

taken from Definitions Distance modulus Distance d Observed mag V Absolute mag Mv Extinction Av (V Mv) 5 log( d/10) d 10^(V Mv 5)/5) but with extinction d ...

Document Store This page will contain links to all the different document types written about the VOTech project. MeetingDocs: abstracts, presentations, notes ...

MEx: FITS keyword mapping (documentation) Rationale In order to search and find data of interest it is necessary to describe and catalog them in a homogeneous way ...

VO compliance and data exploration tools Contents: 1 AstroGrid and Virtual Observatories 1.1 Background Purpose This document discusses the implications of Virtual ...

Design Study Leaders DS Leader DS1 DS2 DS3 Keith Noddle DS4 Markus Dolensky DS5 Sebastien Derriere DS6 Bob ...

Integrating VisIVO and FLY into the AstroGrid infractructure This page is for notes on integrating VisIVO and FLY into AstroGrid. Running FLY on Lomond Progress ...

PLASTIC PLatform for AStronomy Tool Inter Communication: Architecture and Protocol Spec Version 0.2 Other Versions latest is 0.4 Under (re)construction. Architecture ...

Proposed Changes to the Plastic Spec Changes to the Plastic Spec Version 0.3 new hub methods List getMessageRegisteredIds( URI message ); String ...

Temporary home for stuff I've culled off the protocol page. PlasticProtocol Introduction PLASTIC is a platform to enable heterogeneous visualization tools to interoperate ...

Tool Interoperability Use Cases Introduction At the SC4DEVO meeting in Sydney it was noted that a fairly simple level of interoperability between visualisation tools ...

Notes and corrections to the report From GarrySmith: remove (or rationalise) the namespaces on the xml they just make things look cluttered Fix the Common ExecutionArchitecture ...

European Semantic Web Conference 2006 Budva, Montenegro June 11 15 2006 Introduction These are notes from the sessions I attended at ESWC'06 last week. For ...

ESWC2007 Norman was at the European Semantic Web Conference, 2007 The tutorials beforehand, and the workshops afterwards, turned out to be substantially more interesting ...

Accommodation in Edinburgh A short list of accommodation near the Royal Observatory Edinburgh is given here, while a slightly longer list is given below: Bed and ...

Eirik: a prototype data navigation tool Introduction Eirik is a prototype tool for data navigation, which grew from the compilation of a report on dimension reduction ...

Eirik: a how to Note: this page is a useful introduction, but has been superceded by this page. Please check out the docs/sources etc there first Intro ...

European Virtual Observatory http://euro vo.org The three arms of the EuroVO: DCA: DataCentreAlliance VOFC: FacilityCentre VOTC: TechnologyCentre ...

Workshop on VO Standards and Systems for Data Centres and Large Projects 27 June – 1 July 2005 ESO Headquarters, Munich, Germany See: http://euro vo.org/workshop2005 ...

Introduction eXist (http://exist.sourceforge.net) is an native OpenSource XML database entierly written in java. It has several functionalities: Automatic nodes ...

This page will hold details of the special Virtual Observatory issue of Experimental Astronomy that will include contributions to those who participated in the VOTechKickoff ...

Extending the CEA Paul Harrison, affiliation Abstract ... Heading 1 Put text here and refs (1) like this. References #PageRef01 1 ... #PageRef02 2 .. ...

This is a forum to discuss issues about DS6, Data Exploration within the VOTech project. To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name to ...

This forum area is for topics that don't fit under any other area. If you think there should be another area, email TonyLinde or KeithNoddle and we'll consider ...

This is a forum to discuss issues about DS3, Infrastructure within the VOTech project. To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name to ...

This is a forum to discuss the management of the VOTech project To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name to the list below ( note: the ...

This is a forum to discuss issues about DS5, Resource Discovery within the VOTech project. To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name ...

This is just somewhere to play around with the VOTech wiki forums. Sandbox Topics FtMyFirstTest FtTryAPoll

This is a forum to discuss science issues within the VOTech project To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name to the list below ( note ...

This is a forum to discuss issues about DS4, User Tools within the VOTech project. To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name to the ...

This is a forum to discuss issues about the VOTech project web presence. To create a new topic under this area, simply add a new wiki page name to the list below ...

VOFC: EuroVO Facility Centre Currently co funded by ESA and ESO, the VOFC will provide a "public face" to the EURO VO. Through outreach, support of VO enabled science ...

List of UTypes defined for the Footprint definition document What we changed: suppress the "Region" in stc:AstroCoordArea.Region. stc:AstroCoordArea. ...

Footprint Library Overview The Java footprint library supports the creation of footprint overlays composed of STC shapes embedded in a SIA or SSA query response VOTable ...

Materials for Formal Review The "mid term review" is being held in Edinburgh on Oct 8th, as part of the StageSixPlanningMeetings. Here we collect some key documents ...

Project Management Approach My session at the VOTechKickoff meeting was pretty feeble. I'll provide a more detailed view of our approach to the management of the project ...

Just somewhere to play around. The comments plugin is useful: TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004 first comment TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004 16:53:53 whee this is fun TonyLinde ...

What do you think of the wiki forums? Do you like them? TonyLinde yes They're great! AnitaRichards no ivoa type email based forums are much easier ...

Wiki based Forums I thought it would be useful if we could have a wiki based discussion area so that knowledge embedded within discussion threads is available to wiki ...

Grid enabled access to databases: current activities Fabio Pasian, affiliation Abstract Harmonisation of the VO infrastructure and user tools with the developments ...

A Grid enabled Theoretical Data Archive in the VO framework A Grid enabled Theoretical Data Archive in the VO framework U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio , A. Costa , C ...

Hypercell Visualization of Multivariate Data Ken Brodlie, affiliation A