INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator OV...

INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006

OV FranceFrench VO


France VO• Organizing French participation to the VO was

recognized as a priority in the last strategic planning exercise (La Colle sur Loup, February 2003)

• ‘Action Specifique Observatoire Virtuel France’ (France VO Specific Action) created by INSU in 2004 with support from CNES

• Role– Coordinate the French participation to the IVO– Contact point for European projects– Contact point with IT


Basic philosophy• People and money for developing projects come

from INSU, CNES, Programs (= sub-disciplines) and Specific Actions, laboratories

• AS OV takes care of the (thin) interoperability layer

• Astronomy, heliosperic/space plasma physics, planetology, astroparticles

• Bottom-up approach


F-VO data-bases, services and tools

• Observatory archives and value added services and tools in national/international niches linked to expertise on science topics or instruments

• Role of the CNRS National Programs: evaluation of and support to specialized services

• Role of laboratories: give priority and resources and maintain them on the medium term


Organisation• Run by a Scientific Council, a few experts and

representatives of Programs (which deal with astronomy sub-disciplines, e.g. galaxies, interstellar medium, cosmology, …, and also numerical modelling, …)

• A small amount of money, mainly travel to help collaborations and participation to IVOA meetings

• Bottom-up approach, main role is to trigger the creation of a national VO community


http://France-vo.org community tool (mostly in French)

http://france-vo.org/


AS OV Actions (1)

• Census of data centres (2004, 2006)• 2 AOs/year• “Thematic school” 7-9 November 2005

Discussion of VO use cases/projects in different sub-disciplines

• Presentations to Program meetings and SF2A


AS OV Actions (2)

• Support to travel to IVOA Interoperability meetings (a solid community of participants to the IVOA standard development, well beyond the core CDS team)

• Tutorials for developers• Support to travel to EuroVO Workshop


Tutorials• « VO standards and tools » for beginners

Strasbourg, 11-13 October 2004 Strasbourg, 30 January-2 February 2006 Strasbourg, January 2007• 2x20 participants, from nearly all French

astronomy laboratories• Talks/practical exercises on real examples


AS OV Actions (3)• Working Groups – possible topics for DCA WGs

if interest from other partners– Spectroscopic data– Theory– Workflow – use cases– GRID– Geodetics– Also interest in Fundamental data (at. And mol.

Physics), VO-3D


Data Centres (1)• 40+ answers to the census• CRAL; GRAAL; IAP; IAS; IPSL/SA; O.

Besançon; O. Bordeaux; O. Côte d’Azur/Cassiopée, Gemini; O. Grenoble (LAOG, LPG); OAMP/LAM; OMP/CESR, OP/GEPI, IMCCE, LERMA, LESIA, LUTH, SYRTE, O. Strasbourg

• Can be used for the preliminary census, consolidation on-going (general meeting 28-30 November 2006)


Data Centres (2)• A huge diversity in themes, size and organization

– is that a proper classification for DCA?– Data archives / science ready data– Added-value data bases and services– Standards and tools– Software suites– Theory– Thematic services

• Questions: IRAM; other disciplines (solar and heliosperic physics?, planets – EuroPlanet N7)


Most FrenchMost French astronomy laboratoriesastronomy laboratories are involved in the development of VO-oriented are involved in the development of VO-oriented services and toolsservices and tools

Answers to the 2006 census of OV actions in France were received from all Answers to the 2006 census of OV actions in France were received from all Observatories (Besançon, Bordeaux, Côte d’Azur, Lyon, Marseille-Provence, Midi–Observatories (Besançon, Bordeaux, Côte d’Azur, Lyon, Marseille-Provence, Midi–Pyrénées, Paris, Strasbourg), and GRAAL(Montpellier), IAP (Paris), IAS (Orsay)Pyrénées, Paris, Strasbourg), and GRAAL(Montpellier), IAP (Paris), IAS (Orsay)

A wide diversity of actions• Archives of observations/science-ready data• Value-added data bases and services• Tools (visualisation, image analysis, …)• Standards• Software suites• Numerical simulations/theoretical astronomy services• Thematic services

Many projects at different scales, some of them operational, some in development or in project

A new frame for ‘classical’ services such as the CDS, CDPP, MEDOC, BASS 2000, IMCCE, TERAPIX

The usage of IVOA standards ensures interoperability with services and tools from the other VO projects

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Data/added-value data from

Nançay Radio Telescope, OHP

GIRAFFE, EROS, CAI Atlases, Fabry-Perot data, VIMOS

COROT, FUSE, Planck, XMM

BASS 2000, MEDOC (Sun)

CDPP, CIME-G (space plasma physics/ionosphere)

Added-value services

CDS (SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin)

IMCCE (SkyBot, ephemeris and astrometry of Solar system objects)

Geodesy/Reference systems

Study of Planets (BDAP, comets,…)

Services and tools related to the analysis of spectral data: POLLUX, BASECOL/MOLAT (Atomic and Molecular data bases), CASSIS, DALIA, ‘Radiative transfer’

Specific services: Exoplanets, Hyperleda, Besançon double star data base, Be stars, Small bodies of the outer Solar System, CFHTLS galaxy clusters

Software suites

TERAPIX and other image processing tools

JMMC (interferometry)

MIGALE

Theory/Modelling

Besançon model

‘Numerical portal’ of Paris Observatory (PDR code, Titan,…)

HORIZON data bases and services

Among technical actions

Participation in the definition of IVOA standards

Workflow use cases

‘Intelligent resource discovery’

Image processing

Usage of the computational GRID

Outreach

Participation to ‘Hands on Universe’

In preparation: support documents for teaching

Adapted from the F-VOPoster in Prague


Participation to WPs (1)• In charge of WP1, WP2• Will participate to WP 3 and WP 3-2: tutors

to Workshops, technical visits• WP 4: an active community (O. Paris, O.

Lyon, O. Besançon) – H. Wozniak to TEGNot only cosmology simulations, also ‘atmospheres’, MIS (F. LePetit, M.L. Dubernet, LUTH)


Participation to WPs (2)• WP 5: some experience with GRID MDA project- Strasbourg, OCA: workflow

interacting with EGEE, GRID 5000; Lyon; Grenoble; GRID 5000 – contacts: A. Schaaff (Strasbourg), P. Valiron (Grenoble), H.Wozniak (Lyon)

• WP 6: long tradition of collaborations. Not a complete list at present. Interest from Konkoly, Ireland. Ready to help using CDS knowledge and contacts.

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