VIM: Federation of multiple resources for multiple sources - Roy Williams (session 1)

VIM assumes that an astronomer wants information about a specific set of 10 to 1000 positions (points in the sky). Proximity searches are performed with respect to archived catalogs, with image cutouts and quantitative spectral access. Features include: Installation in a laptop or a server, with persistent workbench storage for each customer; Simple ways to share results allen@avocado:~/Apps_Trieste> more talks

"The NVO Portal" - Tom McGlynn

Over the past year the NVO has developed a set of interlinked applications that work together as a portal to enable users to quickly discover, access and combine information from the virtual observatory. Portal services are distributed among NVO hosts and integrate both Web and CLI based interfaces. In addition to describing the portal capabilities, we discuss how portal elements communicate and collaborate to form a coherent system rather than discrete tools.

Saada 1.5: How to quickly build a database containing spectra, source lists and images, how to easily associate data each to other and how to publish them within the VO.

Value-Added Services for the Horizon GalMer Database - Igor Chilingarian, Paola Di Matteo, Francoise Combes, Anne-Laure Melchi or, Benoit Semelin

We present the Horizon GalMer database, containing results of simulations of galaxy interactions, realized by means of the Tree-SPH code. The database provides a prototypical implementation of the SNAP Data Model.

We have built a set of value-added services accessible online and in the VO including: (1) generation of column density maps, radial velocity and velocity dispersion maps, mass-weighted maps of age and metallicity of stars; (2) generation of high-resolution optical synthetic spectra of stellar populations in the interacting galaxies using PEGASE.HR stellar population models; (3) generation of multi-wavelength (far-UV to near-IR) broadband colour maps using PEGASE.2 stellar population models. The latter two services may include the dust extinction.

Providing these services makes our database a unique resource allowing direct comparison of simulated datasets with observations. We will describe a number of possible scientific applications of the GalMer database and associated services.

Aladin 5 - Pierre Fernique

A data and services portal at Paris Observatory - Jonathan Normand (session 1 or 2)

Paris Observatory owns many data but unfortunatly the way to get them is difficult. The interests of this internet portal are : - to provide an easy web access to all this data using only one query form based on VO protocols. - to provide services on data using Paris Observatory computation facilities (188 cores cluster).

As this is an internet portal there is no need to install software to use it. Anything can be done from the web interface without having to know the VO: get available data, launch services on selected data then get the results. The architecture of services follows the REST principles.

Plastic Firefox - Sebastien Derriere (not SAMP 1, possibly SAMP 2, not Apps 1,

The NVO Table Importer. John McCorquodale

Users of the Virtual Observatory complain about many things, including the difficulty of taking text-based tables for import into VO tools. The NVO Table Importer is a pure javascript application that takes a text representation of a table, asks straightforward questions of the user, and creates a VOTable, understanding sexagesimal coordinates, assigning datatypes to columns, allowing input of column names and UCDs. The Table Importer scales to very large tables, and allows direct copy/paste of source tables from PDF documents such as those from astro-ph or ApJ.

Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope and the VO, Jonathan Fay

Jim Gray and Alex Szalay envisioned using the Web as way to make astronomy data available to everyone. Microsoft's Research has introduced the WorldWide Telescope, dedicated to Jim Gray, to open up Astronomy data not just to scientist, but also to anyone who wants to study astronomy or experience the universe. As a tool for astronomy WWT will allow the integration of VO capabilities into a rich visualization environment. WWT Pro will go beyond the broad reach product provide a rich workflow and deep tools for researchers to use the VO facilities easily and visually.