Important dates
Purpose and goals
The ASTERICS project
is organising its second European Data Provider Forum and Training Event
at the
Zentrum für Astronomie at Heidelberg University, Germany.
This workshop is modelled after the
first ASTERICS Data Provider Forum and Training Event
held in 2016 — it will again convene researchers as well as technicians
on the topic of on-line publishing of astronomical data and related services.
It will offer an opportunity to identify common challenges and problems,
to exchange solutions, and to share perspectives.
ASTERICS
(Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster)
is an EU Horizon 2020 project that targets the common challenges
shared by several astronomy
ESFRI (European Strategy
Forum for Research Infrastructures) facilities,
namely CTA,
LOFAR /
SKA,
KM3Net,
EGO /
VIRGO /
ET,
EST,
and
E-ELT.
The event is part of
ASTERICS work package 4, DADI
(Data Access, Discovery and
Interoperability),
aiming to support broad accessibility and effective archiving in data
centres based on the Virtual Observatory framework.
Call for contributions
We invite contributions from the full range of astronomy data publishers,
including big institutions with large managed archives, medium and small
institutions, and also data producing projects.
Part of the workshop will be dedicated to ESFRI projects participating
in the ASTERICS WP4 project, together with the associate partners ESA and ESO.
The fields in which we would like to see a lively exchange include:
- current challenges in data publication
- publication tools, libraries, and techniques
- developments to facilitate data exploitation by astronomers
- use and adoption of Virtual Observatory standards.
While we are open regarding the format and extent of your contribution,
we suggest aiming for oral contributions of 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes of
discussion) each where possible.
Please hand in your contribution,
i. e., the title plus a short abstract,
via the registration
page.
A day before the workshop proper, in the afternoon of 26 June,
there will be a
course
for everybody interested in learning more about the fundamentals of
the VO, i. e., the interoperability framework that has been developed
(and is being developed still) by the IVOA, the
International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Apart from exploring selected VO applications, databases, and protocols, there
will be also a primer on how anybody can get involved in the IVOA community,
in order to help evolve the VO framework towards additional specific
requirements.
Back to back to the event, we will offer
consulting sessions on data publication
using
VO tools on 29 June.
Participants intending to publish data in the Virtual Observatory framework
are requested to note their interest with a brief description of the data
they want to publish during
registration.
Thus, contacts with experts in several
VO publishing toolkits (they are going to be present on 29 June)
will be offered to prospective data publishers even before the meeting,
increasing the focus of the hands-on sessions.
Organising committee
-
Mark Allen, CDS, Strasbourg, France
-
Catherine Boisson, OBSPM, Paris, France
-
Eric Chassande-Mottin, CNRS-APC, Paris, France
-
Ilaria Ermolli, INAF-OAR, Rome, Italy
-
Vladimir Kulikovskiy, CPPM, Marseille, France
-
Marco Molinaro, INAF-OATs, Trieste, Italy
-
Dave Morris, WFAU, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
-
Roberto Pizzo, ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
-
Carlos Rodrigo, CAB(INTA-CSIC) SVO, Madrid, Spain
-
Martino Romaniello, ESO, Munich, Germany
-
Joachim Wambsganß, GAVO, Heidelberg, Germany
Local organising committee
- Markus Nullmeier
- Margarida Castro Neves
- Eleonora Grauer
- Hendrik Heinl
For further enquiries, just write to
edp-forum-2018@g-vo.org
