Euro-VO DCA Workshop 2008

on how to publish data in the VO

23-27 June 2008 at ESO (Garching bei München, Germany)

Contents

Workshop Web site

Details on venue, accommodation, participants can be found on the workshop web site.

Preparation steps

• Software requirements for hands-on sessions
• Recommended reading

Hands-on sessions

• AstroGrid: Publishing catalogues with DSA
• CDS: Assigning metadata to your datasets (UCDs, units, utypes, characterization)
• ESO: Metadata extraction: from FITS files to databases with MEx
• CDS: Publishing data with Saada (images, spectra, catalogues)
• ESA: Publishing catalogues with DMMapper
• AstroGrid: Publishing time-based data
• ESA: Publishing data with DALToolKit (images, spectra, catalogues)

Other sessions

• Introductory talks part 1 - What is the VO? Science and examples
• Introductory talks part 2 - What powers the VO? IVOA standards and technical overview
• Theoretical data (SimDB, SimDAP, VisIVO Server, microphysics)
• One-on-One sessions
• Social Activity
• Showcase and review session

Workshop Registry

The registry that is to be used for the workshop is at http://vops1.hq.eso.org:8080/registry/

After the workshop

-- BrunoRino - 20 May 2008