TheorySkyNode < IVOA

<H1>Use case: ADQL/SkyNode for theory </H1>
<H2>Description</H2>
Astrophysicists doing simulations wish to publish their
results in a VO compatible manner, in this case they
wish to make their database of simulation catalogues
available for querying via the VO query language, 
publishing it as a SkyNode.
What is required is a specification that includes such 
datasets and a query language that allows the specifics
of theoetical datasets.
The datasets will include mock catalogues of observational objects
such as galaxies, stars, but also of "unibservable" objects such
as clusters extracted from N-body simulations.

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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/PrimaryActor][Principal actor]]</H2>
Theoretical physicist wishing to publish results of simulations 
producing mock catalogues.
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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/EndResult][End Result]]</H2>
A SkyNode for theory datasets and a VO query language that 
supports peculiarities of theory datasets. 
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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/OtherActors][Other actors]]</H2>
   * VOQL working group
   * database "wrapper"
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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/PreConditions][Pre-conditions]]</H2>

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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/FlowOfEvents][Flow of events]]</H2>
   * Simulaiton is run, mock catalogues are calculated
   * Mock catalogues are stored in relational database
   * A web service is written that exposes this database as an IVOA compatible skynode and supports querying by VO query language
   * Service is registered in IVOA compatible registry
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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/PostCondition][Post-condition]]</H2>
   * One can query registries to discover services wrapping theory databases
   * One can query these services for metadata according to VO standard protocol
   * One can query the database with VO standard query language

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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/BasicAssumptions][Basic assumptions]]</H2>

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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/AlternativeFlows][Alternative flows]]</H2>

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<H2>[[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/VO/KeyReferences][Key references]]</H2>
Examples of existing theory query services
   * [[http://galics.cosmologie.fr/main_frames.php?dir=database][GalICS]]
   * [[http://www.g-vo.org/mpasims/QueryManager][GAVO]]
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<H2>Requirements on IVOA working goups</H2>
   * VOQL: ADQL/SkyNode specifications must support databases containing simulation data
   * Registry must support metadata distinguishing theory sky nodes from mobservational ones

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Originally sent by *G. Lemson - 2 Oct 2005* <br>
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This topic: IVOA > TheorySkyNode
Topic revision: r1 - 2005-10-03 - GerardLemson