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 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, Project, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. Abstract In the real world, people rarely interact ...

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 and http ...

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 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/wiki/Help/AstroRuntime See also: VODesktop http://www.astrogrid.org ...

Component of Desktop which affords highly graphical display of catalog, image and spectrum searches Implemented using prefuse visualization toolkit. See http://deployer ...

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 ...

nop An Analysis of the nop AVO Science Reference Mission by MarkusDolensky nop SRM Scenarios from nop AVO nop SWG # SRM Scenario S1 Circumstellar ...

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 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 Oct 2008 This is a physical meeting, held during the Stage 8 DSRP meeting in Cambridge. A combined Board TAP telecon will be held very shortly to agree ...

VOTECH Board/TAP Telecon Dec 2008 This will be a combined Board/TAP meeting, conducted by telecon. Formal TAP business is expected to be concluded in the first part ...

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 ...

Close Out Phase This page is for holding consolidated plans for the close out phase of the VOTECH project, from Jan to end May 2009. The top level goals for this ...

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 (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: Stage 8 Plan The DS3 Stage 8 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Cambridge meeting. Stage 8 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 Stage07 Status Reports and Stage08 Planning back to main meeting page Please contact KeithNoddle if you'd like to give a presentation DS3 Stage07 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: Stage 8 Plan Simplified DS4 Stage 8 plans. Note that many of these will continue into the AIDA project. CDS Complete SAMP implementation in Aladin ...

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 Stage Two Planning Meetings Attendees .AndreSchaaff, .AndyLawrence, .BobMann, .BriceGassmann, .BrunoRino, .EduardoGonzalez ...

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 ...

DS4 Stage07 Status Reports and Stage08 Planning back to main meeting page Please contact KeithNoddle if you'd like to give a presentation DS4 Stage07 Reports ...

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 This plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Strasbourg meeting, March 17th 20th 2008. Task list Tasks No Task ...

DS5: Stage 8 Plan The DS5 Stage 8 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Cambridge meeting. Stage 08 Task List Task description Number ...

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 ...

DS5 Stage07 Status Reports and Stage08 Planning back to main meeting page Please contact SebastienDerriere if you'd like to give a presentation DS5 Stage07 Reports ...

DS5 Study Report The Study Report on Resource Discovery is available here. AndyLawrence 26 Nov 2008

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 Final Study Report Plan This page captures the developing plans for the DS6 (final) Study Report. For the most part, this is just revision and updating of existing ...

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: Stage 8 Plan The DS6 Stage 8 Plan is based upon the presentations and discussions at the Cambridge meeting. Stage 08 Task List Software development in preparation ...

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 Stage07 Status Reports and Stage08 Planning back to main meeting page Please contact BobMann if you'd like to give a presentation DS6 session on Tuesday ...

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

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

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 nop AstroGrid and Virtual Observatories 1.1 Background Purpose This document discusses the implications of ...

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 meeting in Sydney it was noted that a fairly simple level of interoperability between visualisation tools could ...

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

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 nop OpenSource XML database entierly written in java. It has several functionalities: Automatic ...

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: nop 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 ...

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

Footprint Editor The footprint editor is available at : http://aladin.u strasbg.fr/footprint editor/ This simple web application allows easy creation of instrument ...

Footprint Library Overview The Java footprint library supports the creation of footprint overlays composed of 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 Abstract The talk will describe an approach to the visualization of multivariate data, by ...

The Initial Mass Function of massive stars Background The Initial Mass Function (IMF) of the bright end of the mass scale is a crucial parameter for determining the ...

Information from the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, 6 10 November 2005 see Links for web site and proceedings The notes below are mostly Tony ...

International Semantic Web Conference ISWC06, Athens Georgia, USA. The proceedings are Springer 4273 Both Norman and Elizabeth were at this meeting. The following ...

International Virtual Observatory Alliance Alliance of VObs projects: see http://ivoa.net Includes work on: VOSpace TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004

Topic under construction Improved cross match tool Typical usage Known limitations Download ThomasBoch 23 Feb 2006

Use Cases identified by INAF This is input to the TAP meeting #1, Leicester, March 8/9, 2005 collected by R. Smareglia and wikified by M. Dolensky; update R. Smareglia ...

Inference Engines tests We tested the capabilities and performances of various description logics reasoners. Conditions under which the tests were made : Test ...

DS3 : New Infrastructure brief intro Scope Quoting from the VOTech proposal: To design mature infrastructure components for EuroVO To assess key new ...

DS3 Study Report The DS3 Study Report will document how the EuroVO will be implemented based on the results of this and the other design studies. As a result, we will ...

CDS contribution to the Infrastructure DS Report Architecture Our big picture is that VObs compatibility should be achieved through the addition of a (thin?) interface ...

nop VOTech Project: Infrastructure Design Study Report (released April 2006) (see also InfrastructureDesignStudyReportCDS and InfrastructureDesignStudyReportESO ...

ESO contribution to DS3 Design Study Report DS3 Associated Work ESO has been involved in the following studies VOSpace Describing and calling Applications ...

Initial Mass Function IMF See SRM IMF for Massive Stars A simple expression to describe the distribution of stellar masses resulting from a particular star formation ...

Intelligent Access to Foreign Data Norman Gray, Starlink/University of Glasgow Abstract The obvious, and current, solution to the problem of exchanging data structures ...

Interoperability Standards Francoise Genova, Francois Bonnarel, Pierre Fernique, Andre Schaaff affiliation Abstract I will recall the main topics for development ...

Introduction to VOTech Andy Lawrence, affiliation Abstract I will summarise the aims of the VOTECH project, its place within the Euro VO vision, and will try to ...

of Astronomy, of Cambridge. Travel details on how to get the IoA can be found at TravelToIoA

List of books which might prove useful in ontology building, semantic resource discovery etc. Please add any you've found useful. Towards the Semantic Web edited ...

List of external sites which might prove useful to workers in this field. Tutorials Ontology 101 link: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology ...

International Semantic Web Conference 2006 Notes SPARQL and RDFstore Sesame http://www.openrdf.org/ free, open source rdfstore implementation with SPARQL ...

Questions to kick off the IVOA Applications Messaging discussion These notes private to JohnTaylor please do not edit (just yet). Questions General Who should ...

Pre plastic ideas Present VizTool Architecture: Future Architecture: rvs architecture: JohnTaylor 15 Mar 2006

KD Tree GarrySmith 15 Nov 2005 This page documents the KD Tree effort. More text coming soon. Applications / use cases We initially require one or two use cases ...

Ontologies Task oriented. Start by focusing on resource discovery rather than, eg data modelling. Find out what technologies exist. CDS already doing some ...

Summary of DS3 workshop at VOTech kick off meeting Single Sign On: Shibboleth PERMIS Shibboleth: Does it let us chain resources? Does is support the VO ...

It has not been created yet, but will be shortly at interest #64;eurovotechNOSPAM.org. TonyLinde 25 Nov 2004

MEx: FITS keyword mapping In order to search and find data of interest it is necessary to describe and catalog them in a homogeneous way. The MEx utility is supporting ...

This page is currently under heavy development. Documentation and download files will come shortly Download mapedit.zip: version 1.1 as shown in Mar 2008 ...

FITS keyword mapping Rationale Ingest the metadata present in FITS keywords into existing data models. Test case A few datasets were chosen to serve as test case ...

MarkAllen 04 Oct 2005 Mark Allen. VO TECH

AndreSchaaff 02 Mar 2006

Meeting Documents This page will contain or point to documents from meetings: abstracts, presentations, notes etc. List of Meetings with Own Wiki Pages These meetings ...

NVO implementation of VOSpace extended to database storage. TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004

nop MyProxy: synposis nop MyProxy is a protocol for obtaining the X.509 credentials needed to use grids and to use service following the IVOA authentication standard ...

AstroGrid implementation of VOSpace TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004

Using MySpace (via ACR) With I/O Bound Apps Introduction The authors assume that a VOSpace/VOStore interface will be implemented once the relevant IVOA specifications ...

US Virtual Observatory project: see http://us vo.org Includes: MyDB TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004

Redirect to here JohnTaylor 28 Jun 2006

A Neural approach to clustering and visualization in multiparametric spaces Giuseppe Longo, affiliation Abstract The talk will present some recent tools implemented ...

Creating Ontologies from UML Diagrams Elizabeth Auden, MSSL 17 October 2005 UML to XMI: Microsoft Visio Software needed Microsoft Visio 2003 Microsoft ...

Ontology of astronomical object types Introduction This page summarizes efforts on the construction of an ontology of astronomical object types. The starting point ...

Ontology of astronomical object types Use Cases This page details the considered use cases of the OntologyOfObjectTypes. Registry queries The idea is to make ...

Ontology Survey VoEventOntology development of a VOEvent ontology from VOEvent 0.90 VOEvent 1.0 StcOntology development of an STC ontology from STC 1 ...

Ontology Use cases Cases driving the ontology work being done in DS5 AccessControlUseCases OntologyOfObjectTypesUseCases VOEventUseCases NormanGray ...

PaperScope 1.0 Introduction PaperScope is a tool developed for graphically exploring the ADS (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/). It is designed to provide astronomers ...

Overview PaperScope is a proposed tool for navigating the ADS Database of Astronomical papers in a more user friendly way. Currently it has reached its 1.0 release ...

PaperScopeExample The content of this page has been moved to SourceForge, please go to http://paperscope.sourceforge.net/getting started.htm for the PaperScope walkthrough ...

Photometric Quasar Detection I'm working on software which will classify star like objects in the SDSS as either stars or quasars, based on colour data (u g,g m,r ...

AstroGrid Workbench/Plastic enabled webpage Notes on my attempts to build a Plastic Workbench enabled webpage. Testing Working Os Browser Java Tester ...

An interface describing how PlasticListeners can multiplex arbitrary messages to each other via a central "hub". See the PlasticProtocol. JohnTaylor 30 Oct 2005 ...

Some comments on the first PlasticProtocol design The current design At the moment I've got the PlasticHub interface extending the PlasticListener interface ...

Networks of hubs and endlessly circulating messages However we do it, there is the prospect of messages that circulate forever. For example, if Hub A registers with ...

An interface that visualisation tools should support if they wish to receive messages from a PlasticHub. See the PlasticProtocol. JohnTaylor 30 Oct 2005

The Plastic Manifesto The purpose of this page is to gather comments from people working on Plastic that we can assemble into some kind of manifesto/mission statement ...

Table of Contents Plastic Messages currently in use PLASTIC is designed to be extensible a tool need only implement the perform method of the PlasticListener ...

Plastic Homepage TBD Just a place holder for now... DsSixPlasticInterface PlasticThingsToDo PlasticHubShouldntExtendPlasticListener JohnTaylor 29 Oct 2005

Ideas for changes to the Plastic API ...or what I hate about Plastic 0.5 Please use this page to log suggestions for things you'd like to change in the current spec ...

Why are Plastic messages ivorns? I know that this is one of my pet hates (the over use of ivoa identifiers), but why are you using the ivo: URI scheme for these identifiers ...

Placeholder for Plastic related wiki pages PlasticManifesto PlasticRemould PlasticApplet IvoaAppsMessagingKickOff PlasticMessages Snapshots of interactions between ...

The Project Board consists of the representatives of the consortium partners: AndyLawrence: University of Edinburgh AstroGrid, Lead Investigator FabioPasian ...

Project Contract: Deliverables and Milestones The complete project plan can be found in ProjectPlan. Here we provide the key Reports provided by the Project, tabulate ...

Project Management Approach Tony Linde, VOTech Project Manager, University of Leicester Abstract I will outline how the VOTech project will be managed: the personnel ...

See also MeetingDocs Project Meetings and Telecons 2006 2007 Previous meetings VOTech Project Kick off meeting IoA Cambridge 2004 Nov 18 19 http://wiki ...

From the proposal... Project Summary A Design Study will be undertaken aimed at completing all technical preparatory work necessary for the construction of the ...

Main Partner Associated Organisations AstroGrid project University of Edinburgh University of Leicester University ...

VOTECH Project Plan This is a set of word documents detailing the agreed project plan. The plan was revised in December 2006, but the changes are minor, so the Revised ...

Some Protégé Advice The editor and its versions Protégé is in constant evolution. Furthermore, it is made of an editing core and a number of plugins on top of it ...

Protégé Conference 2005, Madrid (july 18 21) This page provides feedback from the Protégé conference: tutorials summaries, lecture notes, comments, links to new ...

Data Mining Algorithms This page desribes datamining algorithms that have been published to the VO by the DS6 team. Anomaly Detection The AnomalyDetection algorithm ...

Papers submitted and/or accepted to Journals Journal Name Issue (if pub'd) Author Paper Name links comments

Publishing Ideas and Arguments Tony Linde, University of Leicester Abstract looking at the nop ScholOnto project for ways that we might represent annotations or ...

Introduction The Registry Query Tool allows the user to find relevant VO resources from a registry thanks to UCDs, publishers and date of creation. A list of resources ...

Resource Messaging Discussion. This page is for discussion of the best approach to exchanging registry resources by PLASTIC message. I've identified 3 alternative ...

DS5 : Intelligent Resource Discovery DS5 is a design study with the following objectives: Assess technologies relevant to astronomical resource discovery ...

titlehere name, affiliation Abstract abstracthere Heading 1 Put text here and refs (1) like this. References #PageRef01 1 ... #PageRef02 2 ...

This page lists the Project Contract Deliverables for the Intelligent ResourceDiscovery (DS5). Resource Discovery Prototype 1 : software presentation, documentation ...

Resource Discovery Prototype 1 Introduction This page details VOTECH deliverable DS5 02, the first release of prototype softwares developed under Design Study 5 ...

Revised Project Plan This is one of the formal deliverables, and is now somewhat overdue. Following our recent Board discussions, I have kept it simple and written ...

SED Builder Architecture Chapter Links with DS4 User Tools of the DS3 Study Report Introduction In developing the ESO SED Builder, a fairly typical science application ...

SED Building J C. Malapert SED Prototype Purpose nop is an interface converting magnitude, from VEGA or ABSystem AB system, into flux. Its main goal is to compute ...

Progress towards SED tool, photometry conversion and template fitting Discussion at ESO 29 August 2006 Andreas Wicenec, Anita Richards, Jean Christophe Malapert ...

Simple Footprint Previewing Specification and Prototype Requirements Scope The scope of this document is to define requirements for displaying simple footprint information ...

Semantic Interoperability for e Research in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities I went along to a one day workshop at Imperial College, London, on 2006 March 30, organised ...

Science driven VOTech Tools (or "What we cannot afford not to do") Paolo Padovani, ESO Abstract I review the tools which had been suggested by the AVO Science ...

Requirements extracted from SRM See Science Reference Mission I have taken the lists below from the SRM document final version. Additions/corrections welcome. ...

VOTech Science Requirements Approach Nic Walton, affiliation Abstract This presentation will set forth current ideas for capturing science requirements to inform ...

The VOTC Science Team Scope The VOTC Science Team (VOTC ST) is the group which will assess how implementations being derived from the DS groups are relevant to ...

The informations on this page reflect the first experiments. For up to date information, please refer to the new tools. Scope and goal of SED construction Scope ...

Registry Query tool Data Extraction tool CAMEA Characterisation Library Specfind Comparison tool BriceGassmann 05 Mar 2007

Semantic Astronomy SeRQL Notes SeRQL Examples for Practical Semantic Astronomy Workshop Hack a thon Elizabeth Auden, AstroGrid / VOTech 11 February 2008 Semantic ...

Semantic Astronomy SeRQL Tutorial Practical Semantic Astronomy Workshop Hack a thon Elizabeth Auden, AstroGrid / VOTech 15 February 2008 Overview OpenRDF's Sesame ...

VObs Service to Service Security Guy Rixon, affiliation Abstract Requirements are summarized for authorization, authentication and accounting in the use of VO services ...

Overview of Shibboleth Alan Robiette, affiliation Abstract JISC has taken the decision to implement the Shibboleth technology, developed by the Internet2 organisation ...

Comments on SIA Version 1.0 This page summarises comments I have after working on implementing a SIA server python script for ESO and a SIA C client for stellarium ...

SIA and Transition from UCD to UCD 1 Mapping SIA (pseudo) UCDs UCD/SIA V1.0 UCD 1 VOX:Image Title meta.title INST ID ...

SRQL Simple Registry Query Language As XPath is too techie, and Adql unforgiving and still evolving, I'd like to suggest a user facing query language called SRQL. ...

Single sign on authentication and associated security features This is an index for materials concerning the VOTech investigations into single sign on (SSO). ...

Sky oriented resource discovery Patricio Ortiz, affiliation Abstract Registries will host thousands of entries of resources containing data for billions of celestial ...

Skype IDs A list of VOTech members who are available on Skype. See http://forum.eurovotech.org/viewtopic.php?p 133#133. Please feel free to add your name and ID here ...

Software Download Main download site A single repository for VOTech software was considered unnecessary and unsuitable for code which, in many instances, is adapted ...

The nop AstroGrid 'Solar Movie Maker' Application Elizabeth Auden, MSSL Silvia Dalla, University of Manchester Abstract AstroGrid's solar science case demonstrates ...

SolarSoft is a library of IDL routines for manipulating solar data. See http://surfwww.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/sswdoc/ssw index.html TonyLinde 25 Nov 2004

Solar User Appended VOEvent Catalogue SuaveCAT Elizabeth Auden 6 September 2005 MSSL Introduction Scientists researching solar activity with AstroGrid can search ...

Solar VOEvent Packets Instruments 35,170 solar VOEvent packets have been generated in order to test SPARQL queries based on the VOEvent1.1.owl and STC1.3.owl ontologies ...

Download Latest release 1.3 beta2 : Specfind Comparison Tool v1.3beta2.tar.gz Current stable release The current stable release of the Specfind Comparison tool is ...

SSA Ranking prototype installation and testing notes Purpose This package consists of an implementation of a scoring algorithm. The IVOA Simple Spectrum Access Protocol ...

Stage 08 The VOTech project is organised into seven, six monthly Stages followed by a 3 month wrap up Stage (this Stage). Stage 08 is from September 2008 December ...

Proposals for discussion during the Eigth VO TECH Design Study Report and Planning meeting Second nop Euro VO Technology Forum Proposed by FrancoiseGenova: Theory ...

Proposals KeithNoddle 25 Jul 2008

nop VO TECH Stage 08 Planning Meeting nop EuroVO AIDA Second Technology Forum Dates and general information The planning meeting for Stage 08 of nop VO TECH ...

Science Team Meeting at Stage Eight Science Team Attendees : Mark Allen, Eduardo Gonzalez Solares, Anita Richards, Nic Walton, Guiseppe Longo Attending : Paolo Padovani ...

Stage 05 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 05 is from April 2007 September 2007. Planning meetings Planning meetings for Stage 05 ...

Proposals Work with John Taylor to adapt his 'web page client AR' applet to enable saving data to MySpace directory from PHP web page. Good idea. See also the ...

Stage 05 Planning Meeting Dates The planning meeting for Stage 05 will take place March 12 15 (Mon Thu), 2007. (Deadline for room reservation was 14 Feb ...

Stage 04 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 04 is from April 2006 September 2006. Planning meetings Planning meetings for Stage 04 ...

Proposals A finalization session for the writing of an IVOA note dealing with "Simple FOV definitions using current VO Standards" corresponding to CDS/ESO common ...

Stage 04 Planning Meetings This page will contain travel and other details for the Stage 04 planning meetings. Dates The planning meetings for Stage 04 will take ...

Stage 01 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 01 is from January 2005 June 2005. Note: Stage 01 completion has been put back to end ...

Stage 01 Plan This plan is derived from all the DS plans: DS3Plan01 DS4Plan01 DS5Plan01 DS6Plan01 Goals The major goals of Stage ...

All the DS planning meetings will be held on consecutive days in Leicester, UK over 21 24 February 2005. The schedule is: DS5: DS5PlanningStage01 : 21st ...

Stage Plans Note : StageOne produced a consolidated plan, i.e. a merged list of tasks and goals. From StageTwo onwards, this was felt unnecessary since the plans for ...

Stage 07 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 07 is from April 2008 September 2008. Planning meetings Planning meetings for Stage 07 ...

Proposals ThomasBoch to discuss with PatriziaManzato and MarcoMolinaro about their feedback on Aladin ThomasBoch to discuss with MarkTaylor about nop VOExplorer and ...

Stage 07 Planning Meeting First nop Euro VO Technology Forum Dates and general information The planning meeting for Stage 07 will take place March 17th 20th ...

Stage 06 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 06 is from October 2007 March 2008. Planning meetings Planning meetings for Stage 06 will ...

Proposals Please add below your (wiki)name, the person you want to work with and what issues you'd like to address: AndreSchaaff and CyrilPestel, to discuss with DaveMorris ...

Stage 06 Planning Meeting Dates and Location The planning meeting for Stage 06 will take place October 8th 11th (Mon Thu), 2007, in the School of Physics, University ...

Stage 03 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 03 is from October 2005 March 2006. Planning meetings Planning meetings for Stage 03 will ...

This page contains full travel details for the Stage03 DSRP meeting (see StageThreePlanningMeetings) in Sorrento on 06 09 March 2006. Travelling to Sorrento The best ...

The third day of the Stage 03 DSRP meeting in Sorrento is termed a Hack a thon. This is an opportunity for all the techies involved in the VOTech project or the partner ...

Stage 03 Planning Meetings This page will contain travel and other details for the Stage 03 planning meetings. Dates The planning meetings for Stage 03 will take ...

Stage 02 The VOTech project is organised into six monthly Stages. Stage 02 is from October 2005 March 2006. Planning meetings Planning meetings for Stage 02 will ...

Stage 02 Planning Meetings This page will contain travel details for the Stage 02 planning meetings. Dates The planning meetings for Stage 02 will take place in September ...

Report on Schema Development relevant to UWS/CEA and Applications Introduction The Worker Service (UWS) definition may be split into two parts 1 The mechanics ...

Starlink Table/VOTable Handling Software Mark Taylor, Starlink UK (Bristol University) Abstract The Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library (STIL) is an open source ...

STC Ontology Development I am using Protege 3.0 to develop an OWL DL ontology of the STC 1.3 schema. The latest version of the ontology is STC1.3 II.owl, updated ...

Study On Existing Tools F. Pierfederici Disclaimer This list is still somewhat incomplete. Individual Studies This study covers six user tools, as defined in the ...

SuaveCAT Solar User Appended VOEvent CATalogue. A VOTech experiment combinging the use of AstroGrid DSA infrastructure to expose a searchable solar event catalogue ...

SuaveCAT Implementation Explorations with a VOEvent Ontology for a User Annotated Solar Catalogue Elizabeth Auden, VOTech 13 November 2005 Introduction Solar event ...

A Survey of Ontology Usage in Academic Sciences: Formal Ontologies Please also see SurveyInformalOntologies. Biology / Biomedicine GO, Gene Ontology “The goal of ...

A Survey of Ontology Usage in Academic Sciences: Informal Ontologies Please also see SurveyFormalOntologies. Biology / Biomedicine Phylogenies “The genesis and ...

Multi Waveband Image Tool (T1) F. Pierfederici A multi waveband image tool is either required (or highly desirable) by all of the ten Reference Mission Science Cases ...

Best Fitting (T2) F. Pierfederici Back Generic Fitting Packages Name Version Status Requirements Standalone Web Applet License VO Ready ...

SED Builder From Archival Data (T3) F. Pierfederici Back SED tools Name Version Status Requirements Standalone Web Applet License VO ...

Positional Cross Matcher (T4) F. Pierfederici Back Positional cross matching tools Name Version Status Requirements Standalone Web Applet ...

Access to Theoretical Data (T5) F. Pierfederici Back Access to theoretical data Name Version Status Requirements Standalone Web Applet License ...

Generic Source Extraction (T7) F. Pierfederici Back Source extractors Name Version Status Requirements Standalone Web Applet License ...

TAP Meeting Stage01: 8 9 March, 2005; Leicester, UK Agenda DAY 1: 08 March 10:00 COFFEE 10:30 Welcome, meeting outline Tony ...

TAP Meeting Stage02: 28 29 September, 2005; Trieste, I Agenda DAY 1: 28 September 13:30 COFFEE 14:00 Introduction DSRP proposal Tony .pdf, .xls ...

TAP Telecon: Stage03 The TAP meeting for Stage03 was held by telecon on 27 April at 09:30UTC. Attendees AndyLawrence (Board rep) AnitaRichards (standing ...

TAP Meetings and Telecons The first meetings/telecons are at TapMeetingStage01 : initial planning meeting to scope out first stage work (8 9 March, 2005) ...

Technical Advisory Panel Scope The Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) is the group which will take suggestions for work that VOTech might undertake from the Board ...

The Technical Management team are the people responsible for managing the project on a day to day basis. They are: Tony Linde: Project Manager Nic Walton ...

AVO: Lessons Learned in Technical Coordination Markus Dolensky, affiliation Abstract This is an experience report on the technical coordination in the AVO project ...

The day to day management of the project is in the hands of: Project Manager: TonyLinde Project Scientist: NicholasWalton Technical Manager: KeithNoddle ...

VOTC: nop EuroVO Technology Centre Responsible for development of infrastructure and tools for use in the International Virtual Observatory and deployment throughout ...

Here are a couple of screenshots illustrating possible interactions between TOPCAT and Aladin thanks to PLASTIC, as shown during the DSRP meeting at Sorrento, in March ...

The transmission curve is provided by Exposure Time Calculators. These curves take into account filter and telescope transmission as well as the quantum efficiency ...

How to get to the IoA Road to us by Road and further details at the of Cambridge geting to us pages. The institute of astronomy as localised on the map. An map shows ...

Tree Codes and their Application to Fast and Efficient Algorithms Bob Nichol, affiliation Abstract I will review multi resolution tree codes and their use in building ...

Exploratory study of Aladin usage of ACR API Scope The scope of this document is to report my experience with the Astrogrid Client Runtime (ACR) API. People unfamiliar ...

DS4 : New User Tools DS4 is a design study of VO compliant end user tools. It will be based on input from the EuroVO Facility Centre and the Scientific Community ...

VOEvent Ontology Use Cases 1 Find all solar flares of xray class B or higher 1 Find all solar flares or CMEs between dates X and Y 1 Find all CMEs occuring ...

Concept of Virtual Storage Space. As implemented by AstroGrid in MySpace and NVO in MyDB. VOSpace will likely be developed from a merging of these two concepts. ...

VOSpace Architecture Evaluation Abstract This report is an evaluation of the overall architecture and design aims of the VOSpace effort withing the IVOA in the light ...

VOSpec: A tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra Pedro Osuna, affiliation Abstract The VOSpec tool can superimpose spectra coming from VO compatible ...

This project: see WebHome. TonyLinde 24 Nov 2004

For discussion purposes, we will use the VOTech forum (http://forum.eurovotech.org) and associated (synchronised) mailing lists. For full details of how to use this ...

nop VOTech Kickoff Meeting The VOTech project kicked off with a meeting on Nov 18 19, 2004 at the IoA in Cambridge, UK . Aims The aims of the meeting are: ...

The VOTechKickoff meeting will allow persons interested in the development of Virtual Observatory technology to meet, discuss and suggest avenues which the VOTech ...

If you will be attending the VOTechKickoff meeting at the IoA in Cambridge, UK on Nov 18 19 2004, please add your details below (you will need to register with the ...

Submissions to nop VOTech Kickoff meeting 18 19 Nov, 2004, Cambridge, UK Note: presenters who intend to submit a paper to the issue of Experimental Astronomy ...

Please use this page to upload your presentation might be easier than trusting to email. Please compress (zip, gzip) the file first before uploading. You'll ...

Ontologies Sebastien Derriere, affiliation Abstract Ontologies and Semantic Web are very active research fields. Applications of the techniques and standards developed ...

The Vega spectrum used is based on nop HST observations, complemented by theoretical data at wavelengths longward of 4200 A. It is employed by the STSDAS synphot ...

By definition, Vega's magitudes are equal to zero in all bands: magVega(Obj) 2.5 x log( {fl(Obj) x Rl x dl} / {fl(Vega) x Rl x dl}) Which can also be expressed ...

Virtual Data Examples In this context Virtual Data means observed data which are processed in some way by the data provider in response to a request via a Virtual ...

The Possibilities of Virtual Storage Tony Linde, University of Leicester Project Manager, AstroGrid Project Manager, VOTech Abstract AstroGrid's MySpace ...

nop VisIVO : a VO enabled tool for Scientific Visualization and Data Analysis VisIVO: a VO enabled tool for Scientific Visualization and Data Analysis" nop VisIVO ...

Visualisation and processing of multiband images Francois Bonnarel Mireille Louys, affiliation Abstract We'll present our projects in the field of Multiband Image ...

Photometric systems used in nop VizieR This page summarizes the various photometric systems used in the frequently queried nop VizieR catalogues. As of 04 Oct 2007 ...

Matching VOEvent and Characterisation Files with SPARQL Science Case The IVOA has defined standards for VOEvent and Characterisation XML files. Both of these standards ...

VOEvent Ontology Development I am using Protege 3.0 to develop an OWL DL ontology of the VOEvent 0.90 schema. Links http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent ...

VOEvent Progress for Stage Four Planning Meeting ElizabethAuden 30 Aug 2006

VOEvent RDF Notes 24 January 2007 RDF Generation 1st attempts manual RDF generation from VOEvent xml packet copy / paste with W3C RDF validator http://www ...

SeRQL Notes VOEvent Sesame KnowledgeBase MSSL endpoint: http://msslxx.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/sesame Knowledge base: MySQL RDFS TestDB VOTECH 2 (or 3) All ...

VOEvent SPARQL Notes Quaestor: Getting started with SPARQL endpoint I installed Norman Gray's SPARQL endpoint, Quaestor. Intially used 0.3 and upgraded to 0.4 beta ...

Handover of GarrySmith's VOTechBroker work Edinburgh, 28/6/06 Agenda Intro Quick intro for Mark on the aims of VOTechBroker Sketch out the architecture ...

nop ExtraGalactic Case I : Clustering of clusters (of galaxies) Background The formation and evolution of clusters of galaxies is an important key to understand the ...

VOTC Science Team Planning Meeting Edinburgh: Weds 16 Sep 2005 NicholasWalton 08 Sep 2005

Requirements for investigating IMF of Massive Stars ESO 3 May 2006 AndreasWicenec MatteoGuainazzi AnitaRichards InitialMassFunction Stars form in clusters and we ...

Stage 4 VOTC Science Planning Meeting Present: NAW, AMSR, EGS, MG Location: IVOA stand at IAU Prague 17.00 18.00 Notes Review of Use Case development reviewing ...

Science Framework Document The current v1.0 .pdf file of the SFD is available NicholasWalton 30 Sep 2007

Time Domain Cases The inclusion of the time domain into Virtual Observatory (VO) applications is lagging with respect to the more mature treatment of the imaging and ...

VotcSTPlanningStage01 Telecon: 3 March 2005 @ 15.30 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 PIN as advised ...

AndreasWicenec 06 Sep 2006 AnitaRichards 04 Sep 2006 Meeting of VOTech Science Team at CDS 6 September 2006 Start 9.30 am, finish by 12.00 am See Science page ...

Votc Science Team Planning for Stage 07 KeithNoddle 08 Feb 2008

TBD KeithNoddle 25 Jul 2008

VotcSTPlanningstage02 Telecon: 26 Jul 2005 @ 09.00 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 PIN as advised ...

Votc Science Team Planning for Stage 03 Date: 8 March 2006 : 09.30 15.00 Present: NAW, AMSR, EGLEZ, Pepe Longo, Andrea Wicenc, Matteo Guainazzi, Mark Allan Notes ...

Votc Science Team Planning for Stage 05 Date: Weds 14 March 2007 : 09.30 11.30 Present: NAW, Anita Richards (tele), Eduardo Gonzalez Solares (tele), Pepe Longo, ...

Votc Science Team Planning for Stage 06 Date: Weds 10 Oct 2007 : 14.00 15.30 Present: TBD NAW, Anita Richards, Eduardo Gonzalez Solares (tele), Matteo Guainazzi ...

VO Technology Science Outreach @ Conferences Relevant Meetings Science meetings that either VOTC science team input should be given to advise the community ...

Galactic Case I : IMF in massive stars please note some links are to tools/data under development, not for unqualified broadcasting! Background The Initial Mass ...

Votc Science in Stage Two (Apr Sep 2006) The focus of Science in Stage Three will be completing working implementations against the science cases developed in Stage ...

Votc Science in Stage Two (Oct 2005 Mar 2006) Galactic Case I : IMF in massive stars please note some links are to tools/data under development, not for unqualified ...

VotcTele20050523 Telecon: 23 May 2005 @ 13.00 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 PIN as advised ...

VotcTele20050902 Stage 2 Planning telecon cont. Telecon: 2 Sep 2005 @ 09.00 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf ...

VotcTele20051208 Status update telecon Telecon: 8 Dec 2005 @ 14.00 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 ...

VotcTele20060208 Status update telecon Telecon: 8 Feb 2006 @ 14.00 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 ...

Telecon 20060315 Date/Time 14.00 GMT on 15 Mar 2006 Present: AMSR, NAW, MA, EGLEZ Science Issues for Stage 3: based on analysis of science cases, and Technical Plans ...

VotcTele20060403 Telecon 10.00 BST Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 PIN as advised by email Present ...

VotcTele20060504 Telecon 12.30 BST Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 PIN as advised by email Present ...

Stage 4 VOTC Science Planning Meeting Present: NAW, AMSR, EGS, GL, MGA Apologies: AW Location: Telecon 20061116 @ 15.15 16.15 GMT Notes Next Euro VO SAC 22 Nov ...

VotcTele20070110 Telecon 10.00 GMT Call 0871 271 2911 or 44 870 050 1623 for International callers Conf room 178892 PIN as advised by email Present ...

Highlights: ProjectPlan : overall plan ProjectContract : deliverable and milestones tracking ProjectContract : also has links to key project reports ...

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nop VOTech Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the VOTech web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can ...

TWiki's nop VOTech web /view/VOTech The nop VOTech web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World.

Java Web Start evaluation report Pierre Fernique June 2005 What is Web Start ? Java Web Start is a Sun tool for installating Java applications and updates. It is ...

Statistics for nop VOTech Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save ...

See also the verbose WebIndex.

TonyLinde 21 Nov 2004