Atomic data user-producer community

developments: the AstroAtom blog

Claudio Mendoza (IVIC, CeCalCULA) Efrain Gatuzz (IVIC)

Valentina Luridiana (IAC, Spain)

Manuel Bautista (WSU, USA)

VAMDC Annual Meeting

Vienna University, Vienna

21/02/12

AstroAtom was proposed by the

atomic user-producer community

Initiative proposed at the “Workshop on

uncertainties in atomic data and how they

propagate in chemical abundances”, IAC,

Tenerife, Spain (October 2010)

AstroAtom is supported by VAMDC as from

September 2011

Recommend Reinventing Discovery: the New

Era of Network Science, Michael Nielsen (2011)

AstroAtom intends to promote data

community interactions

The main idea behind AstroAtom is to

promote scientific discussion before formal

publication

Research Preprint Paper Conference

AstroAtom

Since January 2011, AstroAtom

has published more than 80 posts

Categories Number of posts

Atomic data applications 55

Atomic data production 33

Atomic data bases 10

People 3

Number of monthly visits

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Number of weekly visits

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Most AstroAtom visits come from

Google

Web site Number of entries

google.com 643

vamdc.eu 153

arxiv.org 57

vamdc.org 35

cecalc.ula.ve 19

Searches arrive at AstroAtom

looking for celebrity info

Search Number of

visits

Feynman 69

astroatom 59

grid computing 32

ken dere solar 30

dielectronic recombination 17

star spectroscopy analysis 10

atomic databases 10

There seems to be a lot of interest

in laboratory astrophysics

Recommendations

AstroAtom has been well received by the atomic

data user-producer community

We plan to contract a consulting firm to boost

AstroAtom performance

We encourage VAMDC to extend blogs to other

communities:

AstroMol

AstroChem

AstroLab

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