CoSADIE - Collaborative Sustainable Astronomical Data Infrastructure for Europe

WP2 Increasing awareness and gathering requirements from the user and provider communities

WP lead : Francisco Jiménez (INTA), with Markus Demleitner (UHEI) for activities towards data providers

WP Objectives

This Work Package aims at increasing awareness of the Euro-VO among the scientific (user) and data centre (provider) community, and at gathering their requirements to be taken into account in the Sustainability Study.

Description of Work

This Work Package is managed by the WP lead, INTA, assisted by a Working Group for each of the WP sub-tasks, the Science Working Group (Task 2.1) and the Data Centre Working Group (Task 2.2), respectively led by INTA and UHEI.

CoSADIE will organise them at the European level. This will then be used as template by the partners to organise similar activities towards their user and provider communities. All the events organised at European level will be open to participants from all European countries, including non-partner countries.

• Task 2.1: Activities towards the science community (INTA). The activities aim at disseminating knowledge about the VObs and at gathering feedback and requirements from the science community
  • The meetings of the Science Advisory Committee will be used to gather high level guidance on the project, scientific feedback and requirements
  • The organisation of one VO School at European level will be used to increase awareness about the Euro-VO capacities in the community and to gather requirements and feedback.
  • Support to groups with research lines which could benefit from the VObs methodology
  • Presentation of the Euro-VO and of CoSADIE in scientific conferences

• Task 2.2: Activities towards to data centre community (UHEI). The starting points are the Census of European data centres performed by the EuroVO-DCA project in 2008 and updated by EuroVO-AIDA in 2009/2010, with possible newcomers identified at the beginning of the project, and the report foreseen by Astronet on the current status of the data at the major European facilities
  • Data Centres will be polled for their feedback and requirements on the VObs framework, as input to the Technology sustainability study of WP3, and on their opinion and needs on Euro-VO governance and on the repartition of VO relevant tasks between the international, European and national levels
  • A European Data Centre Forum will be organised to demonstrate VObs tools aimed at supporting data centres in their VObs take-up, and to gather feedback and requirements from the whole European community of astronomical data centres. Complementary national meetings could also be organised by the CoSADIE partners towards their national community if needed.
  • Special attention will be given to the needs of the large, ESFRI projects, in particular E-ELT, CTA and SKA, and also of current large ground-based projects such as VLT, LBT, ALMA, LOFAR or GranTeCan and space programmes (e.g. Euclid),

Deliverables

• European VO School: 5-7 February 2013, Madrid
• Astronomical Data Center Forum 2013: 10-11 June 2013, Heidelberg
• Report on science requirements
• Report on data centre requirements

List of activities

• Task 2.1 Activities towards the science community. Increase awareness
  • Science Advisory Comittee meetings
  • Organization of VO schools
    • VIII SVO School. Madrid 2014 November 25-26.
    • VII SVO School. Teruel 2014, September 10.
    • VI SVO School. Valencia 2014 July 2-3.
    • V SVO School. Santander 2014 June 11-12.
    • Workshop on Virtual Observatory Tools and their applications Kraków, Poland 2014 June 16-18.
    • Second Workshop on tools for Virtual Observatories Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Argentina 2013 November 20-21 (M. Demleitner, F. Jiménez).
    • Participation in a School on Cosmic Radiation at high energy, Annecy, 16-20 September 2013. Tutorial
    • CoSADIE VO school 5-7 February 2013, Madrid
    • VO School. Brazil. 18-19 October 2012, Sao Paulo
    • VO Workshop, 4-6 December, Roma, Italy, organised by Vobs.it;OATs/INAF meeting site
  • Presentations in meetings
    • Awareness Conference "Hot topics in Astrophysics" Sofia, Bulgaria 2014 September 28 - October 1 (G. Iafrate)
    • European Planetary Science Congress Cascais, Portugal 2014 September 7-12 (M. Demleitner, presentation
    • Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society. Teruel 2014 September 8-12. X years of the Spanish Virtual Observatory (E. Solano).
    • Astroplate Workshop Prague 2014 March 18-21 (F. Rothmaier)
    • First Gutenberg Astrophysics Workshop & Winter school. Strasbourg 2014 January 13-15. (M. Allen).
    • International Workshop on Spectral Stellar Libraries. Lyon 2013 October 14-17. (E. Solano)
    • How can the Virtual Observatory help J-PAS? (E.Solano, INTA). 7th J-PAS Meeting. 30Sep - 4 Oct 2013. Teruel, Spain.meeting site
    • Awareness Conference "Hot topics in Astrophysics". Bucharest, September 24-28, 2013. (Giulia Iafrate).
    • Astronomische Gesellschaft 2013 meeting, 23-27 September, Tuebingen, Germany, VO session, GAVO Booth, Tutorials
    • "Scientific usage of the Virtual Observatory" (Utilisation scientifique de l'Observatoire Virtuel - F. Genova, CNRS). French Astrophysics Week 2013 - Annual meeting of the French Astronomical Society). 4-7 June 2013. Montpellier, France. The meeting programme can be found from the Society web page.
    • "CoRoT and the Virtual Observatory" (E. Solano, INTA). 11th COROT Week. 19-22 March 2013. La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. meeting site
    • Data management, the Virtual Observatory, and transient science; (A. Lawrence, UEDIN). Gravitational microlensing – 101 years from theory to practice. 10-13 February 2013, Doha, Quatar: meeting site
    • Gaia and the Virtual Observatory (E. Solano, INTA). III Scientific Meeting of the Gaia Spanish Network. Sitges, January 2013.Meeting site
    • Astronomische Gesellschaft 2012 meeting, 24-28 September, Hambourg, Germany, session "e-Science & Virtual Observatory" organised by Harry Enke and Joachim Wambsganss (UHEI) : meeting site, VO session
  • Support to scientific groups
    • Large consortia
      • DUNES
        • DUst around NEarby Stars. The survey observational results. Eiroa et al. 2013A&AA...555A..11E
      • RoPACS
      • • The first planet detected in the WTS: an inflated hot Jupiter in a 3.35 d orbit around a late F star. Cappetta et al.2012MNRAS.427.1877C
    • Other groups
      • Suarez et al.. Measuring mean densities of delta Scuti stars with asteroseismology. Theoretical properties of large separations using TOUCAN.
      • Proper motions of young stars in Chamaeleon. II. New kinematical candidate members of Chamaeleon I and II. López-Martí et al.2013arXiv1307.3414L
      • An in-depth study of HD 174966 with CoRoT photometry and HARPS spectroscopy. Large separation as a new observable for delta Sct stars.García-Hernández et al. 2013arXiv1307.2739G
      • Kepler observations of very low-mass stars. Martín et al. 2013A&A...555A.108M
      • A Virtual Observatory Census to Address Dwarfs Origins (AVOCADO). I. Science goals, sample selection, and analysis tools. Sánchez-Janssen et al. 2013A&AA...554A..20S
      • Proper motions of young stars in Chamaeleon. I. A Virtual Observatory study of spectroscopically confirmed members. López-Martí et al.2013A&A...551A..46L
      • Red supergiants around the obscured open cluster Stephenson 2. Negueruela et al. 2012A&A...547A..15N

• Task 2.1 Activities towards the science community. Gathering requirements

  • Feedback from VO schools

    • CoSADIE VO school 5-7 February 2013, Madrid

  • Other activities

    • Survey to estimate the current use of VO tools by the participants in the Euro-VO schools held since 2008 (Euro-VO AIDA).
    • Periodic check of astro-ph to identify papers published by European groups that could benefit from using VO tools in their science cases but that did not make use of such tools. The groups will be contacted and informed about the existence of CoSADIE, the European VO tools, and the on-line material available (the schools).
    • Periodic check of astro-ph to identify papers containing collections of observational and theoretical data. If these datasets are in tabular form, the authors will be encouraged to submit them to Vizier.

• Task 2.2 Activities towards the data centre community. Gathering requirements.

  • • Spanish VO workshop on data publishing in the VO, 8-9 April 2014, Madrid, Spain.
    • Data publication in the VO and the Table Access Protocol. France-VO. 2014 September 17.
    • Discussion with M. Wise, LOFAR, 26 January 2013, Strasbourg, France
    • Input from current and future large projects: Focus sessions on multi-dimensional data and time domain astronomy, Heidelberg IVOA Interoperability meeting, 12-17 May 201
    • Data Centre Forum: Concluding Discussion, Heidelberg, 10-11 June 2013
    • Data Centre Census, running since 19 February 2013